TH1 - Statistics In Veterinary Public Health |
| 8:00 AM | TH01.1- Use of Statistical Methods in Veterinary Medicine
I. Dohoo - Invited Session |
| 8:30 AM | TH01.2- Models for Cross Species Transmission of Infectious Diseases
P. Clarke - Invited Session |
| 9:00 AM | TH01.3- 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 - Invited Session |
TH2 - Surrogate Endpoints: Wishful thinking or Reality? |
| 8:00 AM | TH02.1- A Simple Meta-Analysis for a Binary Surrogate Endpoint Using Data from Each Randomization Group
S.G. Baker - Topic Contributed Session |
| 8:15 AM | TH02.2- Validation of Surrogate Endpoints Using Meta-Analyses of Individual Patient Data
M. Buyse - Topic Contributed Session |
| 8:30 AM | TH02.3- Practical Experience with Meta-Analysis to Evaluate Surrogate Endpoints
M.D. Hughes - Topic Contributed Session |
| 8:45 AM | TH02.4- Surrogate Marker Validation: An Information Theory Perspective
A. Alonso - Topic Contributed Session |
| 9:00 AM | TH02.5- Surrogate Markers - A perspective from Regulatory Issues
A. Chakravarty - Topic Contributed Session |
| 9:15 AM | TH02.6- Surrogate Endpoint Validation: Statistical Elegance Versus Clinical Relevance
D.J. Sargent - Topic Contributed Session |
TH3 - Model Uncertainty And Diagnostics |
| 8:00 AM | TH03.1- Bias of Dimension Estimator Using Penalized Likelihood Methods
P. Salzman - Contributed Session |
| 8:15 AM | TH03.2- Bayesian Model Comparison Using the Posterior Deviance
C. Liu - Contributed Session |
| 8:30 AM | TH03.3- Interest of the Interacting Particle Filter for Updating Dynamic Crop Model Prediction
C. Naud - Contributed Session |
| 8:45 AM | TH03.4- Full and Conditional Likelihood Approaches to Inference in the Presence of Selection Bias
J. Bowden - Contributed Session |
| 9:00 AM | TH03.5- Semiparametric Models and Sensitivity Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Non-Random Dropouts
D. Todem - Contributed Session |
| 9:15 AM | TH03.6- Correcting for Model Uncertainty when using Fractional Polynomials to Estimate a Safe Level of Exposure
C. Faes - Contributed Session |
| 9:30 AM | TH03.7- Effects of Noise in Performance Comparisons of Designs for Model Identification and Discrimination
Y. Luan - Contributed Session |
TH4 - Multiple Testing |
| 8:00 AM | TH04.1- Simultaneous Inference for Ratios of Coefficients in the General Linear Model
G. Dilba - Contributed Session |
| 8:15 AM | TH04.2- Powerful Short-Cut Procedures for Gatekeeping Strategies
G. Hommel - Contributed Session |
| 8:30 AM | TH04.3- The Calculation of Singular Multivariate Normal Distribution Functions
T. Miwa - Contributed Session |
| 8:45 AM | TH04.4- DNA-Motif Identification under Various Kinds of Order Restriction Using Multiple Contrasts
X. Mi - Contributed Session |
| 9:00 AM | TH04.5- Making One-Sided Inferences in Two-Sided Multiple Significance Testing: Do We, Need We, Control the Family-Wise-Error Rate?
M. Hudson - Contributed Session |
| 9:15 AM | TH04.6- Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Assessment of Steady State
G. Jiang - Contributed Session |
TH5 - Epidemiological Research I |
| 8:00 AM | TH05.1- A Bayesian Analysis of the Citrus Canker Epidemic in Urban Miami
L.E. Jamieson - Contributed Session |
| 8:15 AM | TH05.2- Application of Critical Ratios in the Determination of Health Condition Index
H.G. Williams - Contributed Session |
| 8:30 AM | TH05.3- A Discussion of Upper Limit of Human Life Distribution Based on Analysis of Data on Oldest-Old Survivors
N. Hanayama - Contributed Session |
| 8:45 AM | TH05.4- The Influence of Geographic Accessibility on the Use of Video Lottery Terminals (VLTS)
K.A. Brown - Contributed Session |
| 9:00 AM | TH05.5- Mapping Child's Health Inequalities in Nigeria: Contextual Influence of Child's Place of Residence
N-B. Kandala - Contributed Session |
| 9:15 AM | TH05.6- A Hybrid Approach to Evaluation of BRCA Mutations Prevalence for Ashkenazi Jewish Women
I. Novikov - Contributed Session |
| 9:30 AM | TH05.7- Challenges in the Analysis of a Randomised Trial of a School-Based Toothbrushing Program for the Prevention of Dental Caries
D. Battistutta - Contributed Session |
TH6 - Methods For Longitudinal Data |
| 8:00 AM | TH06.1- Joint Analysis of Multiple Longitudinal Outcomes: Application of a Latent Cluster Model
H. Putter - Contributed Session |
| 8:15 AM | TH06.2- Continual Reassessment Method for Longitudinal Binary Data
X. Paoletti - Contributed Session |
| 8:30 AM | TH06.3- Conditional Generalized Estimating Equations for the Analysis of Clustered and Longitudinal Data
S. Goetgeluk - Contributed Session |
| 8:45 AM | TH06.4- Detecting Trends in Noisy Data Series: Application to the Detection of PSA Failure, Defined as Three Consecutive PSA Rises in Men Treated for Prostate Cancer
C.A. Bellera - Contributed Session |
| 9:00 AM | TH06.5- Constructing Autoregressive Models using Mixture Copula Transition Distributions
G. Escarela - Contributed Session |
| 9:15 AM | TH06.6- Analysis of Spatially Correlated Longitudinal Data
R. Ma - Contributed Session |
| 9:30 AM | TH06.7- A Tree-growing Algorithm for the Analysis of Growth Curves
A. Ciampi - Contributed Session |
TH7 - History And Evolution Of Resource Inventories In Forestry, Fisheries And Wildlife |
| 10:15 AM | TH07.1- Future Needs for Survey Methods of Fisheries Resources
S.J. Smith - Invited Session |
| 10:45 AM | TH07.2- A Review of Modern Statistical Methods for the Design and Analysis of Wildlife Studies
K.H. Pollock - Invited Session |
| 11:15 AM | TH07.3- A Century of Evolution in Extensive Forest Inventories
M. Köhl - Invited Session |
| 11:45 AM | S. Thompson, Discussant - Invited Session |
TH8 - Conflict Of Interest in Biostatistical Work |
| 10:15 AM | TH08.1- M.S. Lauer, Panelist - Contributed Session |
| 10:45 AM | TH08.2- S. Le Cressie, Panelist - Contributed Session |
| 11:15 AM | TH08.3- S.S. Ellenberg, Panelist - Contributed Session |
| 11:45 AM | TH08.4- N. Keiding, Panelist - Contributed Session |
12:15
(Noon) | TH08.5- S. Lindborg, Panelist - Contributed Session |
TH9 - Markov And Semi-Markov Models |
| 10:15 AM | TH09.1- Informative Examinations in Longitudinal Data: A Markov Model Formulation with Application to Hepatitis C Disease Progression
M.J. Sweeting - Contributed Session |
| 10:30 AM | TH09.2- Exploring the State Sequence Space for Hidden Markov and Semi-Markov Chains
Y. Guédon - Contributed Session |
| 10:45 AM | TH09.3- The Analysis of Local Recurrence and Distant Metastases in Early-Stage Breast Cancer Using a Mixture Markov Model
W.-T. Hwang - Contributed Session |
| 11:00 AM | TH09.4- Choice between Semi-Parametric Markov and Non-Markov Multi-state Models from Coarsened Observations: Application to Dementia
D. Commenges - Contributed Session |
| 11:15 AM | TH09.5- A Semi-Markov Model with Interval Censoring and Non-Proportional Hazards
Y. Foucher - Contributed Session |
| 11:30 AM | TH09.6- A Semi-Markov Model for Biting Time Series
R.P. Littlejohn - Contributed Session |
| 11:45 AM | TH09.7- A Semi-Markov Model for the Natural History of Human Papillomavirus Infection
M. Plummer - Contributed Session |
TH10 - Methods For Correlated Data |
| 10:15 AM | TH10.1- Checking Statistical Independence
W.R. Pestman - Contributed Session |
| 10:30 AM | TH10.2- A Weighted Multivariate Sign Test for Cluster Correlated Data
D. Larocque - Contributed Session |
| 10:45 AM | TH10.3- Differential Evolution Markov Chain for Bayesian Analysis of Nonlinear Mixed Effects Models
C.J.F. Ter Braak - Contributed Session |
| 11:00 AM | TH10.4- Sample Size Calculation Accounting for Attrition in Cluster Randomized Trials
M. Taljaard - Contributed Session |
| 11:15 AM | TH10.5- Improved Estimation Procedures for Intraclass Correlation Parameters
E. Ahmed - Contributed Session |
| 11:30 AM | TH10.6- Bootstrap-Based Inference for Cox' Proportional Hazards Analyses of Clusterd Cencored Survival Data
Y.L. Xiao - Contributed Session |
| 11:45 AM | TH10.7- On an Efficient Model to Forecast Sensex Data
Su. Pal - Contributed Session |
TH11 - Latent Variable Methods In Health Research |
| 10:15 AM | TH11.1- Flexible Latent Variable Models for Teratology
J. Braeken - Contributed Session |
| 10:30 AM | TH11.2- Modelling Multivariate Cancer Rates with a Latent Structure Mixture Model
T. Bailey - Contributed Session |
| 10:45 AM | TH11.3- A Latent Markov Model for Describing the Time Evolution of Multivariate Health Status Index: Application to Delirium
A. Dyachenko - Contributed Session |
| 11:00 AM | TH11.4- A Comparison Among Indices of Perceived Health Status Based on Latent Class Clustering Models
G. Cavrini - Contributed Session |
| 11:15 AM | TH11.5- A Latent Class Model for Identifying Distinct Clinical Courses of an Illness: Application to Delirium
H. Xu - Contributed Session |
| 11:30 AM | TH11.6- Latent Class Multilevel Modelling of Ordinal Dental Data
M.S. Gilthorpe - Contributed Session |
| 11:45 AM | TH11.7- An Empirical Study of the Classification of Weight Patterns: Latent Class Approach
N. Karaagaoglu - Contributed Session |
TH12 - Quantitative Methods In Genetics |
| 10:15 AM | TH12.1- Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci under the Multivariate-t Model
J. Peng - Contributed Session |
| 10:30 AM | TH12.2- Powerful Nonparametric Sib-Pair Linkage Methods for Quantitative Traits
Y.J. Hong - Contributed Session |
| 10:45 AM | TH12.3- Score Test for Linkage in Generalized Linear Models
J.J.P. Lebrec - Contributed Session |
| 11:00 AM | TH12.4- A New Type of Stochastic Dependence Revealed in Gene Expression Data
A. Yakovlev - Contributed Session |
| 11:15 AM | TH12.5- Finding Transcription Factor Binding Site : Markov Chain Monte Carlo Convergence
D. Nur - Contributed Session |
| 11:30 AM | TH12.6- Improved Codominant Scoring of AFLP, Based on Collision Probabilities
G. Gort - Contributed Session |
TH13 Modelling of Covariance Structures in Longitudinal Studies |
| 1:00 PM | TH13.1- Modelling of Longitudinal Data: Model Selection and Goddness of Fit
V.A. Núñez-Antón - Invited Session |
| 1:20 PM | TH13.2- Covariance Selection and Estimation Via Penalized Likelihood
M. Pourahmadi - Invited Session |
| 1:40 PM | TH13.3- Modelling the Association between a Binary and a Continuous Longitudinal Process
M. Daniels - Invited Session |
| 2:00 PM | D. von Rosen, Discussant - Invited Session |
| 2:20 PM | T. Mathews, Discussant - Invited Session |
TH14 - Biometric Journal Showcase Session |
| 1:00 PM | TH14.1- Subset Clustering of Binary Sequences with an Application to Genomic Abnormality Data
P.D. Hoff - Topic Contributed Session |
| 1:30 PM | TH14.2- Stochastic Search Gene Suggestion: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Gene Mapping
M.D. Swartz - Topic Contributed Session |
| 2:00 PM | TH14.3- Model Selection in Change-Point Like Problems via A Modified Bayes Information Criterion: Applications to Array CGH and Gene Mapping
D. Siegmund - Topic Contributed Session |
| 2:30 PM | J. Whittaker, Discussant - Contributed Session |
TH15 - Environmental Research |
| 1:00 PM | TH15.1- Determination of the Main Atmospheric Factor for the Explanation of Ozone Concentrations
K.G. Tsakiri - Contributed Session |
| 1:15 PM | TH15.2- The Impact of Meteorological Conditions on the Incidence of Respiratory Infections with Fever
I. Karagiannis - Contributed Session |
| 1:30 PM | TH15.3- Effect of Noise Pollution on Physical and Mental Health of Shopkeepers in Varanasi City
M. Pandey - Contributed Session |
| 1:45 PM | TH15.4- Risk Factor Variable Selection and Importance Ranking in the Context of Well Pollution
E. Acar - Contributed Session |
| 2:00 PM | TH15.5- Canonical Correlation Analysis Applied to Environmental Data
L. Bellanger - Contributed Session |
| 2:15 PM | TH15.6- Comparative Studies of Models for the Assessment of Environmental Pollution: A Case Study of the Bonny Estuary in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
E.C. Nduka - Contributed Session |
| 2:30 PM | TH15.7- Physical and Chemical Characterisation of Soils in the Natural Habitat of Irvingia Gabonensis (Aubry Lecomte ex O'Rorke) in the Humid Forest Zone of Cameroon
E.K. Asaah - Contributed Session |
TH16 - Infectious Diseases |
| 1:00 PM | TH16.1- Stochastic Epidemic Models for Estimating Transmission Rates of Pathogens
A.N. Pettitt - Contributed Session |
| 1:15 PM | TH16.2- An Optimal Isolation Policy for Stochastic Epidemic
J.V. Arali - Contributed Session |
| 1:30 PM | TH16.3- Epidemiologic Study of Animal Populations by Capture-Recapture : FIV in Domestic Cats
L. Rouan - Contributed Session |
| 1:45 PM | TH16.4- Residual Effects of Proton Pump Inhibitors on the Risk of Community Acquired Clostridium difficile
J.A. Delaney - Contributed Session |
| 2:00 PM | TH16.5- Flexible Bivariate Models for Serological Data
N. Hens - Contributed Session |
| 2:15 PM | TH16.6- Use of Stochastic Computer Simulation and Maximum Likelihood Methods to Estimate Sexual Transmissibility of Human Papillomavirus Infection
A.N. Burchell - Contributed Session |
| 2:30 PM | TH16.7- CVMM: An Agent-Based Model for Comparing and Evaluating Vaccination Strategies
C. Hicks - Contributed Session |
TH17 - Bioinformatics |
| 1:00 PM | TH17.1- Bioinformatic Analysis of Allergens
K.E. Basford - Contributed Session |
| 1:15 PM | TH17.2- Increasing Classifier Accuracy by Exploiting Background Variable Information using LPLS
S. Sæbø - Contributed Session |
| 1:30 PM | TH17.3- On the Design of Gene Expression Studies Involving Biological and Technical Replication
P.S. Bennett - Contributed Session |
| 1:45 PM | TH17.4- Family-based Association Screening Algorithms in Longitudinal Pharmacogenetics Studies for Asthma
K. Van Steen - Contributed Session |
| 2:00 PM | TH17.5- Regularized General Linear Regression for Genome Wide Association Analyses
S. Wagenpfeil - Contributed Session |
| 2:15 PM | TH17.6- Statistical Analysis of Dendritic Branching in Hippocampal Neurons
R. Jornsten - Contributed Session |
| 2:30 PM | TH17.7- Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Combining Genomic Data
S.T. Jensen - Contributed Session |
TH18 - Clinical Trials III |
| 1:00 PM | TH18.1- Estimation of the Causal Effect of Treatment Received and of Treatment Assignment in Randomized Time-To-Event Studies with All-Or-None Compliance
I.L. Hudson - Contributed Session |
| 1:15 PM | TH18.2- Adjusting for Rescue Medication
D.R. Bristol - Contributed Session |
| 1:30 PM | TH18.3- Regaining Power Lost by Non-compliance
T. Becque - Contributed Session |
| 1:45 PM | TH18.4- A Natural History Study to Compare Treatments
A. Cnaan - Contributed Session |
| 2:00 PM | TH18.5- A New Approach to Assessing Agreement between Quantitative Measurements Using Replicated Observations
M. Haber - Contributed Session |
| 2:15 PM | TH18.6- Evaluation of Logistic-Normal Binomial Model as an Alternative to Binomial Model in Analysing Clustered Clinical Data
S. Samita - Contributed Session |
TH19 - Validation Process Of Results In Biomedical Research Centres |
| 3:15 PM | TH19.1- Validation in Genomics
T. Hastie - Invited Session |
| 3:45 PM | TH19.2- Validation Procedure of the Sylvia Lawry Centre for MS Research: Methodological and Practical Aspects
U. Held - Invited Session |
| 4:15 PM | TH19.3- Assessment and Validation of Risk Prediction Models
M. Schumacher - Invited Session |
| 4:45 PM | J. Petkau, Discussant - Invited Session |
TH20 - Model Selection And Goodness-Of-Fit Tests For Longitudinal Data |
| 3:15 PM | TH20.1- Quadratic Inference Functions for Varying Coefficient Models with Longitudinal Data
R. Li - Topic Contributed Session |
| 3:40 PM | TH20.2- Modeling Incomplete Functional Data Using Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Models
J.S. Morris - Topic Contributed Session |
| 4:05 PM | TH20.3- Robust and Influence Analysis in Linear Mixed-Effects Models
P.X.-K. Song - Topic Contributed Session |
| 4:30 PM | TH20.4- Accounting for Correlation Structure in Marginal Semiparametric Kernel Regression
N. Wang - Topic Contributed Session |
TH21 - Capture/Recapture Methods |
| 3:15 PM | TH21.1- The Combined Analysis of Multisite Mark-Recapture-Recovery and Census Data
R.S. Borysiewicz - Contributed Session |
| 3:30 PM | TH21.2- Marginal Capture-Recapture Modelling
E.L. Turner - Contributed Session |
| 3:45 PM | TH21.3- On the Bayesian Estimation of a Closed Population Size in the Presence of Heterogeneity and Model Uncertainty
R. King - Contributed Session |
| 4:00 PM | TH21.4- A Migration Model with Tag Loss
L. Cowen - Contributed Session |
| 4:15 PM | TH21.5- Local Weather Covariates for Wild Animal Survival
D.I. Brown - Contributed Session |
| 4:30 PM | TH21.6- A New Approach to Modelling Case-history Data with Missing Individual Covariates
B.J.T. Morgan - Contributed Session |
| 4:45 PM | TH21.7- Estimation of Births Deaths and Immigration from Mark-Recapture Data
R.B. O'Hara - Contributed Session |
TH22 - Survival Analysis III |
| 3:15 PM | TH22.1- Penalized Likelihood Approach in a Mixture Cure Model
P. Joly - Contributed Session |
| 3:30 PM | TH22.2- Density and Hazard Rate Estimation for Censored Data Using Gamma Kernels
T. Bouezmarni - Contributed Session |
| 3:45 PM | TH22.3- Nonparametric Regression Analysis of Restricted Means and Quantiles in the Presence of Right Censored Data
K.D. Rudser - Contributed Session |
| 4:00 PM | TH22.4- An Analysis of Clustered Survival Data Using a Nonparametric Bayesian Hierarchical Model with a Dirichlet Process Prior
S.O.M. Manda - Contributed Session |
| 4:15 PM | TH22.5- A Random Time Interval Approach for Analysing the Impact of a Possible Intermediate on a Terminal Event
J. Beyersmann - Contributed Session |
| 4:30 PM | TH22.6- Multi-Split Tree-Based Method in Survival Analysis
T. Shimokawa - Contributed Session |
| 4:45 PM | TH22.7- Multi-state Models and Predictive Survival Process
M.L. Calle - Contributed Session |
TH23 - Adaptive And Sequential Methods |
| 3:15 PM | TH23.1- Confidence Intervals and Point Estimates Following an Adaptive Group Sequential Test
C.R. Mehta - Contributed Session |
| 3:30 PM | TH23.2- New Allocation Rule for Repeated Measurement Designs
Y. Liang - Contributed Session |
| 3:45 PM | TH23.3- Implementing Two-Stage Tests
M. Vandemeulebroecke - Contributed Session |
| 4:00 PM | TH23.4- Proof of Concept Trials
A.L. Gould - Contributed Session |
| 4:15 PM | TH23.5- Sequential Determination of Sample Size for Robust Linear Regression: Application to Microarray Experimental Design
L. Briollais - Contributed Session |
| 4:30 PM | TH23.6- Sequential Testing of Hypotheses within the Same Stage of a Multi-Stage Phase II Design
S. Poulopoulou - Contributed Session |
| 4:45 PM | TH23.7- Design Extensions of Experiments With Normally Distributed Outcome and Unknown Variance
H.-H. Müller - Contributed Session |
TH24 - Microarray Data II |
| 3:15 PM | TH24.1- Normalization and Mixed-model Analysis of Novel Multi-species Microarrays to Measure the Evolution of Gene Expression in Primates
A. Oshlack - Contributed Session |
| 3:30 PM | TH24.2- Microarray Analysis Detecting Small Changes in Gene Expression Shows Involvement of Bone Remodeling in Osteoarthritis
A. Tsykin - Contributed Session |
| 3:45 PM | TH24.3- Prediction of Cancer Outcome with Microarrays: How Good Can it Get?
S. Michiels - Contributed Session |
| 4:00 PM | TH24.4- Sampling Genes or Sampling Patients? Strategies for Finding Differentially Expressed Gene Sets
J.J. Goeman - Contributed Session |
| 4:15 PM | TH24.5- A Powerful Strategy for Detecting Differentially Expressed Genes
B. Moerkerke - Contributed Session |
| 4:30 PM | TH24.6- A Knowledge-Based Extension of SAM to Indentify Biological Pathways Associated with a Phenotype
Y. Yasui - Contributed Session |
| 4:45 PM | TH24.7- A New Method for the Detection of Breakpoints and Gene Copy Number Changes in Array CGH Data
M.G. Schimek - Contributed Session |
THP1 - Methods for Categorical Data |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP1.301- Mantel-Haenszel Projection Method Estimators for Sparse K2xJ(J>2) Tables
S. Hattori - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP1.302- Power Calculations for Zero-Inflated Models
J.M. Williamson - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP1.303- Baseline Category Logit Model for Turkish Suicide Data
M. Bahcecitapar - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP1.304- Biadditive Polynomial Models for Two Way Tables: An Application to Genotype by Environment Interaction
A. Barhdadi - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP1.305- Semi-parametric Estimation for the Dispersion Parameter in the Analysis of Over or Under Dispersed Count Data
K.K. Saha - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP1.306- Analysis of Ordered Discrete-response Questions
D.W. Smith - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP1.307- Statistical Methods to Analyse Ordinal Categorical Data Arising from the Clinical Trial of Drugs from the Pharmaceutical Industry
N. Shariff - Poster Session |
THP2 - Causal Inference |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP2.308- Statistical Test for Strong Ignorable Condition through Instrumental Variable
Z. Cai - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP2.309- Marginal Structural Mean Models for Optimal Dynamic-Regimes
L.C. Orellana - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP2.310- Bounds on Causal Effects under Assumptions of Bias Due to Confounding
Y. Chiba - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP2.311- Statistical Modeling and Estimation of Causal Effects in Continuous Time
J.J. Lok - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP2.312- New Method for Calculating Causal Relationships
I. Barukcic - Poster Session |
THP3 - Clustering And Classification |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.313- Methodological Contribution to Control Heteroscedasticity in Discriminant Analysis Studies
R. Glèlè Kakaï - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.314- Random Forests and Decision Trees Classifiers : Effects of Data Quality on the Learning Curve
Y. Brostaux - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.315- Dependence of Classifiers Fusion Accuracy on Diversity of Classifiers in the Analyses of Medical Data
M. Cwiklinska-Jurkowska - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.316- Competition or Companionship between Statistical Methods and Neural Networks
N. Fallah - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.317- Factor and Discriminant Analysis for Revealing of Informative Characteristics of Rats Behavior with Different Behavioral Models
E.V. Verbitskaya - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.318- The Analysis of Pixel Intensity (Myocardial Signal Density) Data: The Quantification of Myocardial Perfusion by Imaging Methods
W.F. McCarthy - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.319- Cheese Chanco Typification in Textural Aspects: An Instrumental Approach. Case of the X Region, Chile (1)
I. Molina - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.320- Seeking Homogeneity in Statistical Variables Using Cluster Analysis
O. Williams - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.321- Similarity Measures for Compositional Data with Duality between Principal Components and Principal Coordinates Analysis
N. Winzer - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.322- Multivariate Analysis Methods in Systems Biology
E. Kurali - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.323- Biometry of Chromosomal Variability of the Diploid Cytotypes in the Genus Triticum L. in Iran
N. Kharazian - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.324- Bayesian Unsupervised Structural Classification of Proteins
P. Marttinen - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.325- Using Numerical Taxonomy for Phylogenetic Studies of Trigonella Species in Iran
M. Zakeri - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.326- Classifying Genotypes using Molecular Markers: A Biplot Methodology Approach
J.R. Demey - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP3.327- The Meta-Analysis of Functional MRI Data Using Model-Based Clustering
J. Neumann - Poster Session |
THP4 - Epidemiological Methods |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP4.328- Quantifying Confounding by Indication Bias Due to Missing Information: A Simulation Study
L. Levesque - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP4.329- Case Series Analyses of Censoring Events
H.J. Whitaker - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP4.330- Design and Analysis of Case-crossover Study with Multiple Events
B. Zhang - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP4.331- Dynamic Factor Model to Identify Common Trends in Road Traffic Accidents in Asian Countries
S.D. Dharmaratne - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP4.332- Application of Mixed Poisson Processes to Cancer Data
S. Midorikawa - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP4.333- Generalization of Greenwood's Formula for Standard Error of the Age-adjusted Relative Survival Ratio
A. Pokhrel - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP4.334- Survivorship Instantaneous Log-Odds Ratio from Empirical Functions
J.A. Jung - Poster Session |
THP5 - Experimental Design |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP5.335- Comparisons between Group Sequential and Adaptive Designs in a Real Example
S.-F. Hsu Schmitz - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP5.336- A Conceptual Basis for a New Approach to the Planning and Statistical Analysis of Experiments
J.G.C. da Silva - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP5.337- Some Notes on BIB Designs with Repeated Blocks and Different Cardinalities
T.A. Oliveira - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP5.338- Experimental Design for Study of Synergism
S.A. Shemet - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP5.339- DA - Maximin Marginal Designs for Generalized Linear Mixed Models
F.E.S. Tan - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP5.340- Comparing the Techniques for Sample Size Calculations in Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test: A Simulation Study
S Y. Sanisoglu - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP5.341- Crossover Experiments Protected against Subject Dropout
R.K. Lodwick - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP5.342- Harmonizing Statistical Design Concepts in Diverse Areas of Experimentation
B.L. Adeleke - Poster Session |
THP6 - Model Selection, Diagnostics, Robustness And Sensitivity |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP6.343- Influence Diagnostics in Elliptical Linear Mixed Models
G.A. Paula - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP6.344- A Further Note on the Goodness of Fit Tests for the Generalized Poisson Distribution Based on the Empirical Moment Generating Function
S.D. Francis - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP6.345- Inference for Practical Problems Using Design-based Prediction- A New Approach
E.J. Stanek III - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP6.346- A General Goodness-of-Fit Test for Markov and Hidden Markov Models
A.C. Titman - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP6.347- Analysis of the SF-36: The Beta-Binomial Distribution Approach
I. Arostegui - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP6.348- Model Selection and Conditional Inference for the Extreme Value Distributions with Applications to Rainfall Data
E. Diaz-Francés - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP6.349- Robust M-procedures in the General Multivariate Nonlinear Model
C.F. Henriquez-Roldan - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP6.350- A Lepage-Type Test for Generalised Secant Hyperbolic Distribution
O.Y. Kravchuk - Poster Session |
THP7 - Advances In Regression Methods |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP7.351- The Logistic Regression Model and the Quasi-complete Separation Condition
E.A. Colosimo - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP7.352- A Statistical Stepwise Algorithm for Fitting Three-Layer Feed-Forward Neural Networks with Dichotomous Outcomes: A Non-parametric Approach Based on Comparing Areas under Correlated Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Curves
S.M. Sadat-Hashemi - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP7.353- Generating Different Data Sets for Generalized Linear Regression Models with the Same Estimates
S.S. Zocchi - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP7.354- Asymptotic Performance of Cross-Validation Methods in Linear Regression
A.K. Uludag - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP7.355- Better Inference for Logistic Regression in Sparse Data
S.B. Bull - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP7.356- Regression Methods to Modeling Populational Health Based on Leisure Opportunities
M.A. Mascarenhas - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP7.357- LS-PLS Regression: Combining Categorical Design Variables with Blocks of Spectroscopic Measurements
B.-H. Mevik - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP7.358- Bootstrap and Jackknife Regression Parameter Estimations under the Different Replications and Sample Size Conditions
S. Sahinler - Poster Session |
THP8 - Spatial Modelling |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP8.359- A Marked Point Process Perspective in Fitting Spatial Point Process Models
Y. Guan - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP8.360- Coregionalization Analysis with a Drift: Theoretical and Simulation Results, and Illustration by a Forest Ecology Example
B. Pelletier - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP8.361- Smoothing Models for Facilitating the Detection of Hot Spots
K. Charland - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP8.362- A Generalization of Papadakis' Method for Adjustment of Genetic Data to Environmental Effects
P. Baradat - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP8.363- Exploratory Statistical Techniques for Analysing Spatial Point Patterns. Application to the Incidence of Cancer in a Community
D. Enachescu - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP8.364- Investigating Spatial Similarities in the Epidemiology of Childhood Leukemia and Diabetes in Yorkshire, UK, using Shared Component and Proportional Mortality Models with Temporal Effects
R.G. Feltbower - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP8.365- Transforming Zip Code Areal Data to a Uniform Grid Structure: The Case of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in California
R. Lipton - Poster Session |
THP9 - Survival Analysis |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP9.366- Bayesian Survival Modeling of the Time-Dependent Effect of a Time-Dependent Covariate
S. Haneuse - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP9.367- Comparison of Techniques to Handle Interval Censored Data
E. Strapasson - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP9.368- Analysis of Repeated Multiple Events in a Follow-up Study
T. Yanagawa - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP9.369- Correcting for Misclassification in Interval-Censored Data
M.J. Garcia-Zattera - Poster Session |
| 12:00 (Noon) | THP9.370- Regression Analysis of Mean Quality-Adjusted Lifetime with Censored Data
H. Wang - Poster Session |
