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July 17 | July 18 | July 20 | July 21

Monday, July 17, 2006


M2 - Developments In Spatial And Syndromic Health Surveillance
10:15 AMM02.1- Reliable Public Health Surveillance
M. Frisén
10:40 AMM02.2- Metrics for Evaluating Early Detection Methods
K. Kleinman
11:05 AMM02.3- Detection of Unusual Events Using Extreme Theory
Y. Le Strat
11:30 AMM02.4- Semiparametric Smoothing for Disease Map Surveillance
H. Zhou

M8 - Handling Covariates Measured With Error
1:00 PMM08.1- Advances in Measurement Error Methodology Related to Nutrition
L.S. Freedman
1:30 PMM08.2- Survival Analysis with Mismeasured Covariates
Y. Li
2:00 PMM08.3- Correcting for Measurement Error in Compliance-adjusted Analyses of Randomized Clinical Trials
S. Vansteelandt
2:30 PMM08- M. Davidian, Discussant

M14 - Diagnostic And Screening Tests
3:15 PMM14.1- ROC Methodology: An Overview of the Last 50 Years
J.A. Hanley
3:30 PMM14.2- Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Test Performance
P. Macaskill
3:45 PMM14.3- Statistical Test Evaluation in the Absence of a Gold Standard
A. Hadgu
4:00 PMM14.4- Evaluation of a Diagnostic Test: Fundamentals
O.S. Miettinen
4:15 PMM14- C. Begg, Discussant

Tuesday, July 18, 2006


T2 - Genomic Data Analysis In Pharmaceutical Research
8:00 AMT02.1- Short Biological Introduction to Microarray Data
H.W.H. Göhlmann
8:20 AMT02.2- A Method to Boost Power of Small Sample Microarray Experiments by Borrowing Strength across Genes
D. Amaratunga
8:40 AMT02.3- Testing and Evaluation of Gene Expression Data as Surrogate Biomarkers in Pre-clinical Experiments
Z. Shkedy
9:00 AMT02.4- Interpreting Microarray Experiments Using Functional Genomics
N. Raghavan
9:20 AMT02.5- Examples of the Use of Haplotyping in Clinical Trials
B. Fijal

T8 - Recent Advances In Functional And Longitudinal Data Analysis
10:15 AMT08.1- Bayesian Hierarchical Spatially Correlated Functional Data Analysis with Application to Colon Carcinogenesis
V. Baladandayuthpani
10:45 AMT08.2- Quadratic Inference Functions for Mixed Effects Models in Longitudinal Data Analysis
A. Qu
11:15 AMT08.3- Modeling Functional/Longitudinal Dynamic Systems with Applications to Long-Term HIV Dynamics
H. Wu

T14 - JABES Journal Showcase Session
1:00 PMT14.1- Population-Averaged Nonlinear Regression Models for Epidemiologic Exposure Studies of Volatile Organic Compounds
B. Johnson
1:25 PMT14.2- Is McMC Always Better? An Evaluation on a Genetics Application
N.A. Sheehan
1:50 PMT14.3- Bayesian Graphical Models: Applications to Quantitative Modelling, Inference and Prediction in Aquatic and Fisheries Ecology
E. Rivot
2:30 PMT14- B.J.T. Morgan, Discussant

T20 - Functional Data Analysis
3:15 PMT20.1- Introduction to the Modelling of Dynamic Processes
J.O. Ramsay
3:40 PMT20.2- Functional Data Analysis in Evolutionary Biology
N.E. Heckman
4:05 PMT20.3- Concurvity Bias: A Warning Bell for FDA?
T. Ramsay
4:30 PMT20.4- Penalized Solutions to Functional Regression Problems
J. Harezlak

Thursday, July 20, 2006


TH2 - Surrogate Endpoints: Wishful thinking or Reality?
8:00 AMTH02.1- A Simple Meta-Analysis for a Binary Surrogate Endpoint Using Data from Each Randomization Group
S.G. Baker
8:15 AMTH02.2- Validation of Surrogate Endpoints Using Meta-Analyses of Individual Patient Data
M. Buyse
8:30 AMTH02.3- Practical Experience with Meta-Analysis to Evaluate Surrogate Endpoints
M.D. Hughes
8:45 AMTH02.4- Surrogate Marker Validation: An Information Theory Perspective
A. Alonso
9:00 AMTH02.5- Surrogate Markers - A perspective from Regulatory Issues
A. Chakravarty
9:15 AMTH02.6- Surrogate Endpoint Validation: Statistical Elegance Versus Clinical Relevance
D.J. Sargent

TH8 - Conflict Of Interest in Biostatistical Work
10:15 AM TH08.1 - M.S. Lauer, Panelist
10:45 AM TH08.2 - S. Le Cressie, Panelist
11:15 AM TH08.3 - S.S. Ellenberg, Panelist
11:45 AM TH08.4 - N. Keiding, Panelist
12:15 AM TH08.5 - S. Lindborg, Panelist

TH14 - Biometric Journal Showcase Session
1:00 PMTH14.1- Subset Clustering of Binary Sequences with an Application to Genomic Abnormality Data
P.D. Hoff
1:30 PMTH14.2- Stochastic Search Gene Suggestion: A Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Gene Mapping
M.D. Swartz
2:00 PMTH14.3- Model Selection in Change-Point Like Problems via A Modified Bayes Information Criterion: Applications to Array CGH and Gene Mapping
D. Siegmund
2:30 PMTH14- J. Whittaker, Discussant

TH20 - Model Selection And Goodness-Of-Fit Tests For Longitudinal Data
3:15 PMTH20.1- Quadratic Inference Functions for Varying Coefficient Models with Longitudinal Data
R. Li
3:40 PMTH20.2- Modeling Incomplete Functional Data Using Wavelet-Based Functional Mixed Models
J.S. Morris
4:05 PMTH20.3- Robust and Influence Analysis in Linear Mixed-Effects Models
P.X.-K. Song
4:30 PMTH20.4- Accounting for Correlation Structure in Marginal Semiparametric Kernel Regression
N. Wang

Friday, July 21, 2006


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