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Sessions - Friday, July 21, 2006



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

F2 - Microarray Data III
8:00 AMF02.1- Analysis of Microarray Data: A Mixed-model Finite-mixture Approach
P.C. Thomson - Contributed Session
8:15 AMF02.2- Kinetics Analysis of Microarray Data Using Semiparametric Mixed Models
C. Robert-Granie - Contributed Session
8:30 AMF02.3- A Comparison of Parametric and Nonparametric Methods of Normalising Microarray Data
M.R. Khondoker - Contributed Session
8:45 AMF02.4- Variance Component Estimation in Microarray Experiments Involving Pooling
C.M. Thompson - Contributed Session
9:00 AMF02.5- An Adaptive Empirical Bayesian Thresholding Procedure for Analysing Microarray Data
R.E. Walls - Contributed Session
9:15 AMF02.6- Gene Clustering as a Method to Improve Prediction of Missing Values in Microarrays
G. Feten - Contributed Session
9:30 AMF02.7- Sample Size Planning for Developing Classifiers Using High Dimensional DNA Microarray Data
K.K. Dobbin - Contributed Session

F3 - Robustness, Sensitivity And Influence
8:00 AMF03.1- Robust Estimation in Multinomial Logit Models
E. Oral - Contributed Session
8:15 AMF03.2- Influence Function for Phylogenetic Trees
A. Bar-Hen - Contributed Session
8:30 AMF03.3- Efficient and Robust Pre-Processing Methods for Handling Multiple Observations per Cell in a Two-way Table
N. Malo - Contributed Session
8:45 AMF03.4- Halfplane Location Depth in Statistical Shape Analysis
S. Katina - Contributed Session
9:00 AMF03.5- The Power of Kappa
A. Blance - Contributed Session
9:15 AMF03.6- Extend Minimum Density Power Divergence Estimates to Discrete Data Problems
C. Yu - Contributed Session
9:30 AMF03.7- Sensitivity Analysis of Progression-free Survival with Dependent Censoring
P.K. Ruan - Contributed Session

F4 - Health Policy And Health Services
8:00 AMF04.1- Accounting for the Sampling Variability of the Ranking of Mortality Ratios
A. Perez - Contributed Session
8:15 AMF04.2- Development of a Diagnostic Tool for a Childhood Psychological Disorder using Multivariate Statistical Analysis
D. Young - Contributed Session
8:30 AMF04.3- A Completely Different Approach to Sample Size Planning
M.R. Segal - Contributed Session
8:45 AMF04.4- Assessing Migrants'and Refugees' Access to Reproductive Health Services in Botswana
N.O. Ama - Contributed Session
9:00 AMF04.5- Total Quality Test to Overcome Worker Inadequacies: An Application in an Italian Hospital
C. Scarinzi - Contributed Session
9:15 AMF04.6- The Use of Multiple Imputation to Predict Mortality by Acute Myocardial Infarction
A.A. Tahami Monfared - Contributed Session
9:30 AMF04.7- Assessing Populations Choice for Social Network Size Estimation in Scale-up Methodology
P. Berchialla - Contributed Session

F5 - Joint Longitudinal And Survival Models
8:00 AMF05.1- Nonlinear Latent Class Model for Joint Modeling of Multivariate Longitudinal Data and Time-to-Event Data
H. Jacqmin-Gadda - Contributed Session
8:15 AMF05.2- Bayesian Analysis for Joint Modelling of Longitudinal Data and Survival Events in Mean-Covariance Model
Y. Bao - Contributed Session
8:30 AMF05.3- Joint Modelling of Recurring and Terminating Events: Application to Cancer
V. Rondeau - Contributed Session
8:45 AMF05.4- Practical Considerations in Spline Proportional Hazards Modelling with Time-Dependent Covariates
A. Kawaguchi - Contributed Session
9:00 AMF05.5- The Effect of Follow-Up Frequency in Data with Informative Dropout
R.B. Geskus - Contributed Session
9:15 AMF05.6- Mark-Specific Proportional Hazards Modeling
Y. Sun - Contributed Session
9:30 AMF05.7- A Joint Longitudinal and Survival Model for Flexibly Incorporating Nonproportional Hazards
D.L. Gillen - Contributed Session

F6 - Functional Data Analysis
8:00 AMF06.1- Application of Functional Data Analysis to Assess How Visual Cues Affect Flight Speed in the Honeybee
A. Cowling - Contributed Session
8:15 AMF06.2- Gaussian Process Functional Regression Modelling for Batch Data
J.Q. Shi - Contributed Session
8:30 AMF06.3- Diagnostics and Model Building for Dynamic Systems
D. Campbell - Contributed Session
8:45 AMF06.4- Statistical Inference for A Predator-Prey Dynamical System
J. Cao - Contributed Session
9:00 AMF06.5- Diagnostics and Model Building in Differential Equations
G. Hooker - Contributed Session
9:15 AMF06.6- Functional Data Analysis of Haemoglobin Control in Dialysis Patients
R.M. West - Contributed Session
9:30 AMF06.7- Rolled-upness
J.T. Wood - Contributed Session

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 - Invited Session
10:35 AMF07.2- Understanding Genomic Aberrations through Array CGH Data
C. Myers - Invited Session
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 - Invited Session
11:25 AMF07.4- Molecular Prognostic Predictor of Gastric Cancer Based on DNA Copy Number Change and Gene Expression
S. Lee - Invited Session
11:45 AMJ. Quackenbush, Discussant - Invited Session

F8 - Clinical Trials II
10:15 AMF08.1- Customization of Probabilistic Baseline Covariate Adaptive Randomizations for Clinical Trials
E.R. Miller - Contributed Session
10:30 AMF08.2- Interim Analysis for Trials Designed Using the Expected Value of Information
A.R. Willan - Contributed Session
10:45 AMF08.3- An Adaptive Approach to Designing Longitudinal Clinical Trials
W. Yuan - Contributed Session
11:00 AMF08.4- Optimal Adaptive Designs in Phase-II Trials
A. Banerjee - Contributed Session
11:15 AMF08.5- Testing for Secondary Endpoint when Primary Endpoint Wins in Clinical Trial either Terminated or Extended
H.M.J. Hung - Contributed Session
11:15 AMF08.6- Sample Size Re-calculation Based on the Observed Treatment Difference at an Interim Look
K. Uemura - Contributed Session
11:30 AMF08.7- Estimation after the Group Sequential Design of a Phase 2 Biomarker Study
Z. Feng - Contributed Session

F9 - Meta-Analysis II
10:15 AMF09.1- Bayesian Meta-analysis Models for Genetic Associations
K. Mengersen - Contributed Session
10:30 AMF09.2- Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test ROC Curve Data
T. Stijnen - Contributed Session
10:45 AMF09.3- Adjusting for Clustering in Meta-analyses of Individually-Randomized Trials
G.P.S. Kwong - Contributed Session
11:00 AMF09.4- Reporting Bias in Systematic Reviews: A Bayesian Meta-analysis of 50 Years of Ruptured Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
L.A.L.W. Jayasekara - Contributed Session
11:15 AMF09.5- Meta-analysis of Clinical Trials with Homogeneity of Variances of Treatment Effects
A. Hajivandi - Contributed Session
11:30 AMF09.6- Evaluating the Quality of Clinical Trials in Primary Treatment of Brain Tumors
L. Thabane - Contributed Session
11:45 AMF09.7- A Method for Estimating the Agreement in Primary Study Selection between Systematic Reviews
J.M. Bland - Contributed Session

F10 - Measurement Error
10:15 AMF10.1- Adjusting for Multivariate Measurement Error in Meta-Analyses
A. Wood - Contributed Session
10:30 AMF10.2- A Measure for the Reliability of a Rating Scale Based on Longitudinal Clinical Trial Data
A. Laenen - Contributed Session
10:45 AMF10.3- Using Aggregate-level Data to Calibrate Error-Prone Variables, with Application to Measuring Diet
D.C. Greenwood - Contributed Session
11:00 AMF10.4- A Bayesian Method for Mixture of Shared Measurement Error Model in Relation to Disease Risk and Exposure to Radioactive Fallout from Nevada Test Site
X. Sheng - Contributed Session
11:15 AMF10.5- Validation of Surrogate Endpoints in the Presence of Measurement Error
N. Benda - Contributed Session
11:30 AMF10.6- Estimating and Testing Interactions in Linear Regression Models when Explanatory Variables are Subject to Classical Measurement Error
H. Murad - Contributed Session
11:45 AMF10.7- Type I Error in the McNemar's Test Applied to the Lab-Driven Medical Diagnosis in the Presence of Multiple Measurement Errors and Detection Limit
L.A. Hubicki - Contributed Session

F11 - Categorical Data
10:15 AMF11.1- Combining Multiple Sources of Information to Better Estimate Covariate Effects on the Probability of a Rare Event
P.M. Dixon - Contributed Session
10:30 AMF11.2- Semiparametric Bayesian Analysis of Misclassified Binary Data
A. Jara - Contributed Session
10:45 AMF11.3- A Score Test for Overdispersion Based on the Generalized Poisson Model
Z. Yang - Contributed Session
11:00 AMF11.4- Choice of the Scores for Testing the Association in Ordered RxC Contingency Tables with Open-Ended Categories
S. Aktas - Contributed Session
11:15 AMF11.5- Distributions for Sums of Exchangeable Bernoulli Random Variables
D. Zelterman - Contributed Session
11:30 AMF11.6- Estimation of Additive Risk Regression Models for Binary Data
S. Natarajan - Contributed Session
11:45 AMF11.7- Comparative Assessment of Statistical Tools for Handling Categorical Response Variables from Farmer Participatory Trials
P.G.O. Weke - Contributed Session

F12 - Multivariate Survival Analysis
10:15 AMF12.1- An Old-New Family of Multivariate Distributions for Left Truncated and Right Censored Data
S.T. Gross - Contributed Session
10:30 AMF12.2- Expected Cumulative Incidence in the Presence of Competing Risks
R. Giorgi - Contributed Session
10:45 AMF12.3- Sensitivity Analysis in Case Series with Two Correlated Recurrent Outcomes
M. Hocine - Contributed Session
11:00 AMF12.4- Estimation of the Marginal Causal Effects of Initial and Salvage Treatments for Recurrent Diseases
X. Huang - Contributed Session
11:15 AMF12.5- Estimation in a Model of Recurrent Events in the Presence of a Terminal Event and Independent Censoring
S. Geffray - Contributed Session
11:30 AMF12.6- An IPCW Estimator for Ordered Failure Times Subject to a Common Censoring Process
C. Serrat - Contributed Session
11:45 AMF12.7- Dependence Evaluation for Multilevel Models in Survival Data
A.C. Pedroso-De-Lima - Contributed Session

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

F14 - A Practicum On Interval Censoring
1:00 PMF14.1- Introduction to Interval Censoring
R. Chappell - Topic Contributed Session
1:30 PMF14.2- Nonparametric and Semiparametric Analysis of Interval-censored Data
J. Sun - Topic Contributed Session
2:00 PMF14.3- Fitting Multi-state Models with Interval Censored Data
R.J. Cook - Topic Contributed Session
2:30 PMF14.4- Why Bother with Nonparametric Estimators?
J. Fine - Topic Contributed Session

F15 - Epidemiological Research II
1:00 PMF15.1- A Model-based Approach to Reconstructing the Incidence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) and Estimating the Survival Function with Doubly Censored AIDS Data in Iran
N. Shakeri - Contributed Session
1:15 PMF15.2- Applying Bootstrap in Multilevel Modelling of Cardiovascular Disease
L. Li - Contributed Session
1:30 PMF15.3- Role of Islet-Cell Antibodies as Time-Dependent Covariates in the Development of Type 1 Diabetes in Nondiabetic Relatives of Type 1 Diabetic Patients
S. Yu - Contributed Session
1:45 PMF15.4- Hierarchical Logistic Regression in a Multicentric Study of Multiple Dietary Effects on a Disease Outcome: A Fully Bayesian Approach
G. Roli - Contributed Session
2:00 PMF15.5- Methodological Issues to Evaluate the Short-term Health Effects of Weather Conditions: the PHEWE Project
A. Biggeri - Contributed Session
2:15 PMF15.6- Statistical Approaches to Environmental Epidemiology of High Risk Areas. The Sardinia Region (Italy) Report
D. Catelan - Contributed Session
2:30 PMF15.7- A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of a Continuing Education Programme to Increase General Practioner Provision of Smoking Cessation Interventions
B.C. Pereira - Contributed Session

F16 - Diagnostic And Screening Tests II
1:00 PMF16.1- Simultaneous Comparisons of Accuracy, Sensitivity, and Specificity in Diagnostic Trials: Closed Test Procedures with A Priori Ordered Hypotheses
J. Kaufmann - Contributed Session
1:15 PMF16.2- Combining Diagnostic Tests by Using Multivariate Logistic Regression for Optimal Classification and Application: Application to Chronic Hepatitis B Data
M. Özkan - Contributed Session
1:30 PMF16.3- Comparing Diagnostic Tests: Test of Hypothesis Using Likelihood Ratios
A. Barak - Contributed Session
1:45 PMF16.4- Use of Information Theory when Disease State has Three Categories
U. Arslan - Contributed Session
2:00 PMF16.5- Diagnostic Performance of Breast Cancer Screening Tests in the Absence of a Gold Standard
M. Colak - Contributed Session
2:15 PMF16.6- Prevalence Estimators in Two-Phase Studies
G. Vilagut - Contributed Session
2:30 PMF16.7- Establishing an Equivalence/Noninferiority Test in a Two-Outcome Situation
E.T. Jolayemi - Contributed Session

F17 - Population Genetics
1:00 PMF17.1- A Penalized Likelihood Framework for Haplotype Probability Estimation
P.H.C. Eilers - Contributed Session
1:15 PMF17.2- Composite Likelihood in Fine Genetic Mapping
F. Larribe - Contributed Session
1:30 PMF17.3- Identification of the Genetic Model when Using Trend Tests for Case-Control Studies of Genetic Markers
L.A. Hothorn - Contributed Session
1:45 PMF17.4- Identification of the Gene-Gene Interactions in the Presence of Missing Data : Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction Approach
T. Park - Contributed Session
2:00 PMF17.5- Genetic Dissection of a Complex Trait: Binary End-points Versus Multivariate Phenotypes
S. Ghosh - Contributed Session
2:15 PMF17.6- Sequence-Level Simulations with Gene Conversion, Recombination Hotspots and Selection
D.J. Balding - Contributed Session
2:30 PMF17.7- Confidence Interval of Allelic Odds Ratios under the Hardy-Weinberg Disequilibrium
Y. Sato - Contributed Session

F18 - Clustering And Classification
1:00 PMF18.1- A Method for Identifying Subtypes of Parkinson's Disease Based on UPDRS Measurements
P. Guimaraes - Contributed Session
1:15 PMF18.2- Persistent Disturbing Behavior: Clustering Longitudinal Profiles
L. Bruckers - Contributed Session
1:30 PMF18.3- Graphical Models in Medical Research: An Example of Classification
G. Eslava - Contributed Session
1:45 PMF18.4- On Comparing the Clustering of Regression Models Method with K-means Clustering
L.X. Qin - Contributed Session
2:00 PMF18.5- Potts Model Clustering
A. Murua - Contributed Session
2:15 PMF18.6- Performance Evaluation of Normal Distribution-Based Classification Procedures
A.O. Adebanji - Contributed Session
2:30 PMF18.7- EEG Correlates of Highly Cognitive Mental Tasks for Closed-set Biometric Authentication
P. Ramkumar - Contributed Session