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July 17 | July 18 | July 20 | July 21

Monday, July 17, 2006


M1 - Sensitivity Analysis In Practice
10:15 AMM01.1- Sensitivity Analysis for Informatively Missing Data in Meta-Analysis
I. White
10:45 AMM01.2- Sensitivity Analysis of Randomized Trials with Coarsened Outcomes: A Case Study
D. Scharfstein
11:15 AMM01.3- Is Multiple Imputation Safe for Everyday Practice?
J. Carlin
11:45 AMM01- J. Carpenter, Discussant

M7 - Biological Process Models For Data In Space And Time
1:00 PMM07.1- Use of Monte Carlo Particle Filters to Fit and Compare Models for the Dynamics of Wild Animal Populations
L. Thomas
1:30 PMM07.2- Wildlife Population Modelling: Existing and New Methods
P. Besbeas
2:00 PMM07.3- Monitoring of Biological Processes in Time and Space
C. Demetrio
2:30 PMM7- P. Brown, Discussant

M13 - Statistics In Genomics And Proteomics
3:15 PMM13.1- Extracting Meaning from High-Dimensional Expression Data
J. Quackenbush
3:30 PMM13.2- Bayesian Analysis of Multifactorial Gene Expression Designs, and Identification of Gene Pathway Signatures
M. West
3:45 PMM13.3- Rank Aggregation of Putative microRNA Targets
S. Lin
4:15 PMM13- S. Datta, Discussant
4:00 PMM13.4- Some Issues Associated with Testing for Gene Differential Expression
G. McLachlan

Tuesday, July 18, 2006


T1 - Adjusting For Non-Compliance In Clinical Trials
8:00 AMT01.1- Semi-Parametric Structural Proportional Hazards Models for the Effect of Non-Compliance in an HIV Prevention Trial
E. Goetghebeur
8:30 AMT01.2- Estimation of Treatment Effects in Randomized Trials with Noncompliance and a Dichotomous Outcome
O. Bembom
9:00 AMT01.3- Looking for a Few Good Mediators: Causal Analyses of Multiple Mediation Factors in Randomized Trials with Structural Mean Models
T. Ten Have
9:30 AMT01- C. Frangakis, Discussant

T7 - Threshold Regression And First Hitting Time Models
10:15 AMT07.1- What Hides Behind the Data?
O. Aalen
10:45 AMT07.2- Threshold Regression in Medicine, Biology and Health: A Review of Concepts, Theory, Methods and Applications
G.A. Whitmore
11:15 AMT07.3- On a Class of Simple Lifetime Regression Models, Multiple Time Scales and First-Hitting Time Models
T. Duchesne
11:45 AMT07- D. Oakes, Discussant

T13 - New Development In Statistical Methods For Incomplete Data With Complex Observation Process
1:00 PMT13.1- Problems in Survival and Event History Analysis Arising from Intermittent Follow-up of Individuals
J. Lawless
1:25 PMT13.2- Gap Time Modeling
T. Scheike
1:50 PMT13.3- Interval Censoring: Identifiability and Related Topics
G. Gomez
2:15 PMT13.4- Regression Analysis of Failure Time Data with Informative Interval Censoring
Z. Zhang

T19 - Statistics In Dentistry: Where Complexities Meet Each Other
3:15 PMT19.1- Topics in Event History Analysis for Oral Health Research
T. Gerds
3:45 PMT19.2- Misclassification in Oral Health Studies
H. Kuechenhoff
4:15 PMT19.3- Applications of Multivariate Survival Analysis to Dental Research
S.-K. Chuang
4:45 AMT19- A. Kingmann and T. De Rouen, Discussants

Thursday, July 20, 2006


TH1 - Statistics In Veterinary Public Health
8:00 AMTH01.1- Use of Statistical Methods in Veterinary Medicine
I. Dohoo
8:30 AMTH01.2- Models for Cross Species Transmission of Infectious Diseases
P. Clarke
9:00 AMTH01.3- Diagnosing Disease Risk and Assessing the Properties of Diagnostic Measures for the Protection of Animal and Human Health: A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach to Diagnosis and to ROC Curve Estimation
A. Branscum
9:30 AMTH1- L. Kreienbrock, Discussant

TH7 - History And Evolution Of Resource Inventories In Forestry, Fisheries And Wildlife
10:15 AMTH07.1- Future Needs for Survey Methods of Fisheries Resources
S.J. Smith
10:45 AMTH07.2- A Review of Modern Statistical Methods for the Design and Analysis of Wildlife Studies
K.H. Pollock
11:15 AMTH07.3- A Century of Evolution in Extensive Forest Inventories
M. Köhl
11:45 AMTH07- S. Thompson, Discussant

TH13 Modelling of Covariance Structures in Longitudinal Studies
1:00 PMTH13.1- Modelling of Longitudinal Data: Model Selection and Goddness of Fit
V.A. Núñez-Antón
1:20 PMTH13.2- Covariance Selection and Estimation Via Penalized Likelihood
M. Pourahmadi
1:40 PMTH13.3- Modelling the Association between a Binary and a Continuous Longitudinal Process
M. Daniels
2:00 PMTH13- D. von Rosen, Discussant
2:20 PMTH13- T. Mathew, Discussant

TH19 - Validation Process Of Results In Biomedical Research Centres
3:15 PMTH19.1- Validation in Genomics
T. Hastie
3:45 PMTH19.2- Validation Procedure of the Sylvia Lawry Centre for MS Research: Methodological and Practical Aspects
U. Held
4:15 PMTH19.3- Assessment and Validation of Risk Prediction Models
M. Schumacher
4:45 PMTH19- J. Petkau, Discussant

Friday, July 21, 2006


F1 - Infectious Diseases: Analysis Of Data And Models
8:00 AMF01.1- Inferences When There Are Unobserved Cases
N. Becker
8:30 AMF01.2- The Role of Immunity: Understanding the Data
N. Nagelkerke
9:00 AMF01.3- Investigating Transmission Parameters of Communicable Diseases from Longitudinal Data: The Example of Pneumococcal Carriage in Schools
S. Gauchemez

F7 - Statistical Analysis Of Array-CGH Experiment Data
10:15 AMF07.1- Detection of Gene Copy Number Changes in CGH Microarrays Using a Spatially Correlated Mixture Model
P. Broët
10:35 AMF07.2- Understanding Genomic Aberrations through Array CGH Data
C. Myers
11:05 AMF07.3- Application of Copy Number Transitions Finder to the Analysis of the Tumor Copy Number Data and to Mapping Sequence Variations in Mice Using Bac Array CGH
J. Fridlyand
11:25 AMF07.4- Molecular Prognostic Predictor of Gastric Cancer Based on DNA Copy Number Change and Gene Expression
S. Lee
11:45 AMF07- J. Quakenbush, Discussant

F13 - Innovative Bayesian Computation For Biometrical Applications
1:00 PMF13.1- Some Comments on Approximate Bayesian Computation
S. Tavaré
1:20 PMF13.2- From Sources to Biomarkers: A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Human Exposure Modeling
N. Cressie
1:40 PMF13.3- Markov Chain Methods in Population Ecology
S. Brooks
2:00 PMF13- K. Mengersen and R. Boys, Discussants