Poster

Information about the Poster Guidelines and Poster Specifications


Timing and Location of Poster Sessions

If you are participating in the Poster Sessions, you will be assigned to either Group 1 Monday-Tuesday or Group 2 Thursday-Friday. Please check the 2016 IBC mobile app for your poster board assignment. All Poster Sessions will be held on the Level 2 Pre-Function area.

Group 1 – Posters Pre-Function Area (Level 2) Tear-down date:
Set-up Date: Monday, 11 July Tuesday, 12 July
Set-up Time: 07:00 – 10:00 17:30 – 20:00
Standby Presentation Date: Tuesday, 12 July
Standby Presentation Time: 13:00 – 14:00
Group 2 – Posters Pre-Function Area (Level 2) Tear-down date:
Set-up Date: Thursday, 14 July Friday, 15 July
Set-up Time: 07:00 – 09:00 12:30 – 15:00
Standby Presentation Date: Thursday, 14 July
Standby Presentation Time: 13:00 – 14:00

NOTICE OF CHANGES WITHIN THE PROGRAM

Several changes have occurred since the final program with to print. Therefore, the best way to stay up to date with poster board changes, speaker updates and session times is to download the 2016 IBC mobile app. Click here to download the mobile app now!

Analysis of multivariate longitudinal data with latent variables

Presenter: Song, Xinyuan

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model

Institution: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Country: Hong Kong

Email: xysong@sta.cuhk.edu.hk

Competing risks with dependent observations.

Presenter: van der Pas, Stephanie

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Survival data analysis

Institution: Leiden University

Country: Netherlands

Email: svdpas@math.leidenuniv.nl

Implementing Temporal Graphs of Sequential Patient History Data as Engineered Features for Predicting Patient Readmission

Presenter: Yerex, Robert

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Medical research | Predictive modelling | Survival data analysis

Institution: UVA Medical System

Country: United States

Email: robert.yerex@virginia.edu

A REVIEW OF THE DIAGNOSTIC FUNCTIONALITY OF NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS FITTED IN FOUR STATISTICAL PACKAGES

Presenter: Zheng, Han

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling

Institution: University of Southampton

Country: United Kingdom

Email: hz9g13@soton.ac.uk

A New Versatile Statistic for Genome-Wide Association Studies

Presenter: Perduca, Vittorio

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Microarrays and omics data | Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity | Genetics

Institution: UPD, Université Sorbonne Paris Cité

Country: France

Email: vittorio.perduca@parisdescartes.fr

Accounting for loss to follow-up bias

Presenter: Gondara, Lovedeep

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Survival data analysis | Epidemiology | Clinical trials

Institution: British Columbia Cancer Agency; University of Illinois Springfield

Country: Canada

Email: lgond2@uis.edu

Simultaneous inference for multiple outcomes using separate and joint models

Presenter: Jensen, Signe

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity | Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model

Institution: University of Copenhagen

Country: Denmark

Email: smj@plen.ku.dk

New Repeated Measures Design and Sample Size for Randomized Controlled Trials

Presenter: Tango, Toshiro

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Clinical trials

Institution: Center for Medical Statistics; Teikyo University

Country: Japan

Email: tango@medstat.jp

Signal detection in ERP data using decorrelation methods

Presenter: Causeur, David

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Imaging and signal data | Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity

Institution: Agrocampus; Irmar UMR 6625 CNRS

Country: France

Email: david.causeur@agrocampus-ouest.fr

Relative Risk Estimation Considering an Uncertainty of Centering Value in a Non-linear Regression Model

Presenter: Lee, WhanHee

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Environmental research | Regression modelling | Epidemiology

Institution: Seoul National University

Country: Korea (the Republic of)

Email: jleehwan33@gmail.com

Intelligent modelling for survival data with informative censoring

Presenter: Biedermann, Stefanie

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Survival data analysis | Missing and incomplete data | Medical research

Institution: University of Southampton

Country: United Kingdom

Email: s.biedermann@soton.ac.uk

Comparison of population-specific and 1000G imputation reference panels using 2,244 deeply sequenced genomes from the Estonian Biobank

Presenter: Kals, Mart

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Genetics

Institution: University of Tartu; University of Tartu

Country: Estonia

Email: mart.kals@ut.ee

Improving ridge regression in omics study by group regularization

Presenter: Novianti, Putri

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Predictive modelling | Microarrays and omics data | Regression modelling

Institution: VU University medical center; VU University medical center

Country: Netherlands

Email: p.novianti@vumc.nl

A Hardy-Weinberg Goodness-of-fit test in the Presence of Covariates

Presenter: Boehringer, Stefan

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Genetics

Institution: Leiden University Medical Center

Country: Netherlands

Email: s.boehringer@lumc.nl

Optimal Scaling in Survival Analysis with Ordinal Data

Presenter: Willems, Sanne

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Survival data analysis | Categorical data analysis

Institution: Leiden University

Country: Netherlands

Email: s.j.w.willems@math.leidenuniv.nl

Using historical control data from a single study in an adaptive clinical trial design with a binary outcome

Presenter: Bennett, Maxine

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Bayesian methods | Clinical trials

Institution: MRC Biostatistics Unit

Country: United Kingdom

Email: maxine.bennett@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk

Joint modeling of mixed discrete and continuous outcomes with incomplete observations: a copula approach

Presenter: Ren, Mingchen

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data

Institution: University of Calgary

Country: Canada

Email: mingchenren1992@gmail.com

Competing Risk Models for evaluating the percistency of the prescribed drugs

Presenter: tanaka, sachiko

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacoepidemiology | Survival data analysis

Institution: Shiga Medical University

Country: Japan

Email: sachikot@belle.shiga-med.ac.jp

Covariate-Adjusted Response-Adaptive Designs for Weibull Distributed Survival Responses

Presenter: Mukherjee, Ayon

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Survival data analysis | Clinical trials

Institution: Queen Mary, University of London

Country: United Kingdom

Email: atg.dcb@gmail.com

Treatment selection for patients with ovarian cancer

Presenter: Tajik, Parvin

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Clinical trials | Medical research | Predictive modelling

Institution: Academic Medical Center - University of Amsterdam; Academic Medical Center - University of Amsterdam

Country: Netherlands

Email: p.tajik@amc.uva.nl

Building a high-dimensional Cox regression model for predicting treatment outcome in a randomized controlled trial

Presenter: Ternès, Nils

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Microarrays and omics data | Predictive modelling | Clinical trials

Institution: Université Paris-Saclay, Univ. Paris-Sud, UVSQ, CESP, INSERM ; Gustave Roussy

Country: France

Email: nils.ternes@gustaveroussy.fr

TREE-BASED METHODS IN PREDICTION OF INCIDENT PROSTATE CANCER CASES BASED ON DNA METHYLATION PATTERNS

Presenter: Kasela, Silva

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Genetics | Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: University of Tartu; University of Tartu

Country: Estonia

Email: silva.kasela@ut.ee

Variability Bands and Permutation Envelops for the Mean Residual Life function

Presenter: Jalali, Amirhossein

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Survival data analysis

Institution: NUI Galway

Country: Ireland

Email: A.JALALI2@nuigalway.ie

Mediator analysis: perceived stress as a mediator between psychosocial job conditions and symptoms of burnout

Presenter: Gustavsson, Sara

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Causal inference | Regression modelling | Medical research

Institution: University of Gothenburg

Country: Sweden

Email: sara.gustavsson@gu.se

Whole Genome Regression using Data from Heterogeneous Populations by Modeling Interactions Veturi Y1 and de los Campos G2, 3 1Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham 2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State Un

Presenter: Veturi, Yogasudha

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Bayesian methods | Genetics | Other biometrical related topics

Institution: University of Alabama at Birmingham

Country: United States

Email: sveturi@uab.edu

Scalar-on-Image Regression via Soft-Thresholded Gaussian Processes

Presenter: Staicu, Ana-Maria

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Imaging and signal data

Institution: North Carolina State University

Country: United States

Email: spark13@ncsu.edu

Joint modelling of remission and longitudinal quality-of-life measures in psoriatic arthritis; a multi-state modelling approach

Presenter: Turner, Alexandra

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Survival data analysis | Medical research

Institution: MRC Biostatistics Unit

Country: United Kingdom

Email: alexandra.turner@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk

Trust and Understanding as Key Concepts Underlying Both Incomplete Data Analysis and Ethics in Statistics More Broadly

Presenter: Belin, Thomas

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data

Institution: UCLA

Country: United States

Email: tbelin@ucla.edu

Reference based sensitivity analysis for clinical trials with missing data: some theory and examples

Presenter: Carpenter, James

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data | Clinical trials

Institution: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; MRC Clinical Trials Unit, London

Country: United Kingdom

Email: james.carpenter@lshtm.ac.uk

Correlated variable selection by hierarchical clustering and group-lasso

Presenter: Grimonprez, Quentin

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling

Institution: Inria Lille - Nord Europe

Country: France

Email: quentin.grimonprez@inria.fr

Bayesian D–Optimal Designs for Finney Models Montip Tiensuwan1,2,* and Pattaraporn Tusto1,2 1Department of Mathematics, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand 2Center of Excellence in Mathematics, CHE, Si Ayutthaya Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand *Corr

Presenter: TIENSUWAN, MONTIP

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Bayesian methods | Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Country: Thailand

Email: montip.tie@mahidol.ac.th

INVESTIGATION OF THE MEAN SQUARE ERROR AND TOTAL VARIANCE OF MULTIPLE IMPUTATION ESTIMATES

Presenter: Nwakuya, Maureen

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data

Institution: University of Port Harcourt

Country: Nigeria

Email: tobenwakuya@gmail.com

Addition of arbitrary constants in log transformation of variables with zero values may result in poor fitting statistical models. An approach to determine a value that optimizes the model fit is proposed.

Presenter: EKWARU, JOHN PAUL

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Epidemiology | Medical research

Institution: University of Alberta

Country: Canada

Email: ekwaru@ualberta.ca

A generalised additive mixed model (GAMM) analysis of longitudinal agricultural data

Presenter: van Koten, Chikako

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Agriculture

Institution: AgResearch

Country: New Zealand

Email: Chikako.vanKoten@agresearch.co.nz

Developing Graphical user interface for Bayesian statistics applied to Mixed Treatment Comparison on R Commander

Presenter: Correia, Marcelo

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Computer intensive methods and software development | Clinical trials | Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia; Rio de Janeiro State University

Country: Brazil

Email: mgoulart.inc@gmail.com

An application of weighted kappa in nursing research.

Presenter: Mesa, Ines

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Medical research | Validity and reliability of measurements

Institution: University of Southampton

Country: United Kingdom

Email: I.Mesa-Eguiagaray@soton.ac.uk

BMI trajectory and association of BMI and telomere length in older adults

Presenter: Wu, Yanyan

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Genetics | Epidemiology | Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model

Institution: University of Hawaii at Manoa

Country: United States

Email: yywu@hawaii.edu

On the stratified test of cross tables based on finite mixture models

Presenter: Shimokawa, Asanao

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Categorical data analysis | Other biometrical related topics | Epidemiology

Institution: Tokyo University of Science

Country: Japan

Email: shimokawa@rs.tus.ac.jp

Bayesian hierarchical modeling for adjusting measurement error in Area Under the ROC Curve (AUC) estimation for longitudinal study using Instrumental Variables

Presenter: Iijima, Hiroaki

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Bayesian methods

Institution: Hokkaido University Hospital

Country: Japan

Email: hiroaki.iijima@huhp.hokudai.ac.jp

Population pharmacokinetics and pharmacogenetics of alcohol in Japanese: Use of parameter estimates from other studies as a prior information

Presenter: Nemoto, Asuka

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacoepidemiology

Institution: Teikyo University

Country: Japan

Email: anemoto@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp

Loss Functions and Optimal Rankings for County Health Indices

Presenter: Gangnon, Ronald

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Bayesian methods | Epidemiology | none

Institution: University of Wisconsin

Country: United States

Email: ronald@biostat.wisc.edu

Generalization of genome-wide association results from European to Hispanic/Latino populations using directional r-values

Presenter: Sofer, Tamar

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity | Genetics

Institution: University of Washington

Country: United States

Email: tsofer@uw.edu

Multiple imputation and inverse probability weighting for regression models using restricted mean survival time under covariate missing

Presenter: Inoue, Eisuke

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data | Survival data analysis

Institution: National Center for Child Health and Development

Country: Japan

Email: inoue-ei@ncchd.go.jp

A NEW LONGITUDINAL TIME-VARYING MEASUREMENT ERROR MODEL WITH APPLICATION TO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENTS IN A LARGE BIOMARKER VALIDATION STUDY

Presenter: Kipnis, Victor

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Validity and reliability of measurements

Institution: National Cancer Institute

Country: United States

Email: kipnisv@mail.nih.gov

Two-Phase Designs for Joint Quantitative-Trait-Dependent and GWAS-SNP-Dependent Sampling in post-GWAS regional sequencing

Presenter: Espin-Garcia, Osvaldo

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data | Genetics | Epidemiology

Institution: Mount Sinai Hospital; University of Toronto

Country: Canada

Email: osvaldo.espingarcia@mail.utoronto.ca

Comparison of methods for measurement error correction: Regression calibration, multiple imputation and Bayesian methods

Presenter: Gray, Christen

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data

Institution: LSHTM

Country: United Kingdom

Email: cmgray@alum.mit.edu

Bias in the estimated treatment effect in randomised trials having interim analyses and potential early stopping for futility.

Presenter: Walter, Stephen

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Clinical trials | Other biometrical related topics

Institution: McMaster University

Country: Canada

Email: walter@mcmaster.ca

Reduction of Bruzzi's formula to a multivariable method removes instability in the estimation of population attributable fraction for health outcomes.

Presenter: Tuson, Matthew

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Validity and reliability of measurements | Epidemiology | Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: The University of Western Australia

Country: Australia

Email: matthew.tuson@uwa.edu.au

Weighted Estimation for Clusters of Unequal Size

Presenter: Hermans, Lisa

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Missing and incomplete data

Institution: Universiteit Hasselt

Country: Belgium

Email: lisa.hermans@uhasselt.be

Non-linear mixed model implementation in InfoStat and Interface to nlme library

Presenter: Casanoves, Fernando

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Predictive modelling

Institution: CATIE

Country: Costa Rica

Email: casanoves@catie.ac.cr

The Effect of World Trade Center Exposure on the Timing of Aerodigestive Diagnoses in New York City Firefighters: 2001-2011

Presenter: Hall, Charles

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Epidemiology | Survival data analysis

Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Country: United States

Email: charles.hall@einstein.yu.edu

Diagnostics tools in the multivariate negative binomial regression model

Presenter: Fabio, Lizandra

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling

Institution: University of Toronto; Federal University of Bahia

Country: Canada

Email: lizandrafabio@gmail.com

Gene Expression Signature-based Prognostic Risk Score with Network Structure

Presenter: Kawaguchi, Atsushi

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Predictive modelling | Microarrays and omics data | Biological networks

Institution: Saga University

Country: Japan

Email: akawa@cc.saga-u.ac.jp

Spatial distribution of Taiwan air pollution-an application of spatial quantile regression

Presenter: Chang, Ya-Mei

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Environmental research | Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis

Institution: Tamkang University

Country: Taiwan

Email: yamei628@gmail.com

Correlated Reversible Multi-state Models with Random Effects

Presenter: O'Keeffe, Aidan

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Survival data analysis

Institution: University College London

Country: United Kingdom

Email: a.o'keeffe@ucl.ac.uk

Characterization of Radiologically Based Emphysema Using a Spatial Point Process Framework

Presenter: Vestal, Brian

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Imaging and signal data | Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis | Bayesian methods

Institution: University of Colorado Denver

Country: United States

Email: brian.vestal@ucdenver.edu

Comparison of sequential clinical trial designs with time-to-event outcomes in small populations

Presenter: Yokota, Isao

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Clinical trials | Survival data analysis

Institution: Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine

Country: Japan

Email: iyokota@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp

Number of Seeds Dispersed by the Gorse: A Case Study

Presenter: ALONSO MALAVER, CARLOS

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Ecological research | Environmental research

Institution: UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE COLOMBIA

Country: Colombia

Email: cealonsom@unal.edu.co

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION AFTER MODEL SELECTION IN THE MULTIVARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION

Presenter: Meir, Amit

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity

Institution: University of Washington

Country: United States

Email: amitmeir@uw.edu

Estimating features of repeated measures trajectories

Presenter: Simpkin, Andrew

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Functional data analysis | Epidemiology

Institution: University of Bristol

Country: United Kingdom

Email: andrew.simpkin@bristol.ac.uk

FastMapping: a tool to automate spatial variability mapping

Presenter: Córdoba, Mariano

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Computer intensive methods and software development | Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis

Institution: National University of Córdoba

Country: Argentina

Email: marianoacba@agro.unc.edu.ar

Using the local Moran index to remove errors from crop yield maps

Presenter: Balzarini, Monica

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Agriculture | Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis

Institution: National University of Córdoba

Country: Argentina

Email: mbalzari@gmail.com

Estimating within-person effects in longitudinal data measured with error, with application to physical activity and sleep

Presenter: Midthune, Douglas

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Epidemiology

Institution: National Cancer Institute (USA)

Country: United States

Email: midthund@mail.nih.gov

Generalized error rates for subgroup analyses

Presenter: Bretz, Frank

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity

Institution: Novartis

Country: Switzerland

Email: frank.bretz@novartis.com

Multivariate Analysis in the Genomic time: Back to the Future

Presenter: de Andrade, Mariza

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Genetics | Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: Mayo Clinic

Country: United States

Email: mandrade@mayo.edu

Comparison of algorithms to detect clusters of multivariate genetic data

Presenter: Balzarini, Monica

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Genetics | Agriculture | Bioinformatics

Institution: National University of Córdoba; CONICET

Country: Argentina

Email: mbalzari@gmail.com

Finding population structures by iterative independent component analysis in genome-wide association studies

Presenter: Park, Mira

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Microarrays and omics data | Bioinformatics | none

Institution: Eulji University

Country: Korea (the Republic of)

Email: mira@eulji.ac.kr

Estimating parameters of epidemiological model via Simulated Tempering Without Normalizing Constants

Presenter: Jonoska Stojkova, Biljana

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Bayesian methods | Epidemiology

Institution: Simon Fraser University

Country: Canada

Email: bjonoska@sfu.ca

A generalized Akaike’s information criterion for multiple imputation

Presenter: Noma, Hisashi

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data

Institution: The Institute of Statistical Mathematics

Country: Japan

Email: noma@ism.ac.jp

Semiparametric Varying-Coefficient Regression for Analysis of Recurrent Event Data

Presenter: Li, Yang

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model

Institution: UNC-Charlotte

Country: United States

Email: Y.Li@uncc.edu

A Comparative Study of Algorithms for Discovering Causal Genotype-Phenotype Networks by Using Genetic Variant Information

Presenter: Soler, Júlia

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Causal inference | Genetics | Bioinformatics

Institution: University of São Paulo

Country: Brazil

Email: pavan@ime.usp.br

Local Influence Diagnostics for Incomplete Overdispersed Longitudinal Counts.

Presenter: Rakhmawati, Trias

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data | Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Clinical trials

Institution: Universiteit Hasselt

Country: Belgium

Email: triaswahyuni.rakhmawati@uhasselt.be

Clinical prediction rule for 30 days death in heart failure

Presenter: Quintana, Jose

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Epidemiology | Predictive modelling | Medical research

Institution: Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios y Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC)

Country: Spain

Email: josemaria.quintanalopez@osakidetza.eus

Dynamic Prediction of Risk of Liver-Related Outcomes in Chronic Hepatitis C using Routinely Collected Data

Presenter: Brown, Marshall

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Medical research | Predictive modelling | Survival data analysis

Institution: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Country: United States

Email: mdbrown@fhcrc.org

The study of phase I/II oncology trials for longitudinal data

Presenter: Yada, Shinjo

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Clinical trials

Institution: A2 Healthcare Corporation; Tokyo University of Science

Country: Japan

Email: yada-s@a2healthcare.com

Factors Affecting Children Ever Born (CEB) in Botswana: Application of Poisson Regression Model

Presenter: Sediadie, Thapelo

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling | none

Institution: University of Botswana

Country: Botswana

Email: tmsediadie2010@gmail.com

Effect of smoking cessation early in pregnancy on adverse perinatal outcomes: a retrospective cohort study of 57220 births in UK

Presenter: Yuen, Ho Ming

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Epidemiology | Medical research

Institution: University of Southampton

Country: United Kingdom

Email: hmy@southampton.ac.uk

Logistic Regression Model for Representing the Relationship Between Maternal Child Health Status and Socio Cultural Indicators

Presenter: Kuntoro, Kuntoro

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Medical research | none

Institution: Airlangga University

Country: Indonesia

Email: kuntoro2@yahoo.com

Sensitivity analysis for publication bias in meta-analysis of diagnostic studies

Presenter: Hattori, Satoshi

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data | Other biometrical related topics

Institution: Kurume University

Country: Japan

Email: hattori_satoshi@med.kurume-u.ac.jp

Estimating Brain Functional Connectivity Based on Extremes

Presenter: Meskaldji, Djalel-Eddine

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Medical research | Imaging and signal data | Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis

Institution: EPFL; EPFL; University of Geneva

Country: Switzerland

Email: djalel.meskaldji@epfl.ch

Modeling spatially correlated survival data in hip fracture among residents from the long term care facilities in BC, Canada

Presenter: Rostami, Mehdi

Category: Application Areas Medical research Statistical Topics Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis

Subcategory: In public health settings, epidemiologists and health professionals are interested in studying the spatial variation in survival data to reveal the underlying factors, which, in turn, assist them in identifying regions requiring spatialattention. Ignoring the correlations within clusters or between clusters may lead to incorrect standard errors of the estimates of parameters of interest. In the present study, we investigated the spatial random effect model for modeling geographically clustered survival data in hip fracture among residents from the long term care facilities in BC, Canada. Our main objective is to explain the pattern of hip fracture using important demographic, socioeconomic and clinical factors, while accounting for possible spatial correlation in the hazard among the geographic areas. We investigate the goodness-of-fit of our chosen model in bayesian frame work. We also investigate the impact of misspecifying the correlation structure of the random effect terms on estimating the effects of risk factors through simulation studies.

Institution: University of Saskatchewan

Country: Canada

Email: mehdi.rostami@usask.ca

EVALUATION OF MEASUREMENT ERROR BY EFFECT WHEATHER CONDICIONS ON PREDICT VARIABLE OF SUGAR CANE STEM NUMBER

Presenter: Ortiz, Nelida

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Agriculture | Other biometrical related topics

Institution: Tucuman University

Country: Argentina

Email: nelidadelvalle.ortiz@yahoo.com

A stage-wise procedure for assessing multifactorial RNA-Seq experiments

Presenter: Van den Berge, Koen

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Microarrays and omics data | Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity | Bioinformatics

Institution: Ghent University

Country: Belgium

Email: koen.vdberge@gmail.com

EVALUATION OF MEASUREMENT ERROR ON PREDICT VARIABLE OF SUGAR CANE STEMS POPULATION

Presenter: Ortiz, Nelida

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Agriculture

Institution: National Tucumán University

Country: Argentina

Email: nelidadelvalle.ortiz@yahoo.com

The timescales of the relationship between a response and exposures by EMD regression

Presenter: Masselot, Pierre

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Epidemiology

Institution: Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS)

Country: Canada

Email: pierre-lucas.masselot@ete.inrs.ca

Positive Responses Augmented by Zeros in Experiments with Incomplete Block Design

Presenter: Motta, Mariana

Category: Statistical Topics Regression modelling

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THE VALIDATION OF A SURROGATE ENDPOINT IN A COMPLEX TREATMENT SETTING

Presenter: Galimberti, Stefania

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Medical research | Other biometrical related topics

Institution: University of Milano-Bicocca

Country: Italy

Email: stefania.galimberti@unimib.it

GROUP SEQUENTIAL MONITORING BASED ON THE WEIGHTED LOG-RANK TEST STATISTIC WITH THE G?,? CLASS OF WEIGHTS IN CANCER VACCINE STUDIES

Presenter: Hasegawa, Takahiro

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Survival data analysis | Clinical trials

Institution: Shionogi & Co., Ltd.

Country: Japan

Email: takahiro.hasegawa@shionogi.co.jp

Adapting shrinkage-based censored regression methods to calibrate diagnostic rules on high-resolution mass spectrometry data subject to limit of detection

Presenter: Kakourou, Alexia

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Microarrays and omics data

Institution: Leiden University Medical Centre

Country: Netherlands

Email: a.a.kakourou@lumc.nl

A Smooth Test of Goodness-of-fit for the Weibull Distribution: An application to an HIV retention data

Presenter: Odhiambo, Collins

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Infectious diseases and control

Institution: Strathmore University

Country: Kenya

Email: codhiambo@strathmore.edu

Evaluation of the linear mixed model in the presence of an increasing proportion of singletons.

Presenter: Bruyndonckx, Robin

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Validity and reliability of measurements | Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model

Institution: Hasselt University; Antwerp University

Country: Belgium

Email: robin.bruyndonckx@uhasselt.be

Simultaneous Bayesian analysis of contingency tables in genetic association studies

Presenter: Dickhaus, Thorsten

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity | Genetics

Institution: University of Bremen

Country: Germany

Email: dickhaus@uni-bremen.de

Statistical issues and study design considerations for biomarker development and validation for precision medicine

Presenter: Jin, Yuying

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Clinical trials | Bioinformatics

Institution: FDA/CDRH

Country: United States

Email: Yuying.Jin@fda.hhs.gov

Sample size calculations for group randomized trials with unequal group sizes through Monte Carlo simulations

Presenter: Lee, Ji-Hyun

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Epidemiology | Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center

Country: United States

Email: jihyunlee@salud.unm.edu

Stable Adaptive Model Selection

Presenter: Fu, Luella

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Predictive modelling

Institution: University of Southern California

Country: United States

Email: luellafu@usc.edu

IMPROVED ESTIMATION IN THE PROBABILISTIC INDEX MODEL

Presenter: Amorim, Gustavo

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling

Institution: Ghent University

Country: Belgium

Email: gustavo.guimaraesdecastroamorim@ugent.be

Application of Factor Analysis in the Development of an Abbreviated Questionnaire: Case Study from Neurology

Presenter: Mandrekar, Jay

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Medical research | Epidemiology

Institution: Mayo Clinic

Country: United States

Email: mandrekar.jay@mayo.edu

New concept of non-inferiority test from the point of effectiveness when longitudinal data may be missing

Presenter: Nishikawa, Masako

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Clinical trials | Missing and incomplete data | Survival data analysis

Institution: The Jikei University School of Medicine

Country: Japan

Email: mnishikawa@jikei.ac.jp

Multivariate Heritability Test in Extended–Pedigree Data

Presenter: Soler, Júlia

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Genetics

Institution: Universidade de São Paulo - USP

Country: Brazil

Email: pavan@ime.usp.br

Individual and Disseminated Package Effects in a HIV Prevention Network-Randomized Trial

Presenter: Buchanan, Ashley

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Causal inference | Epidemiology | Infectious diseases and control

Institution: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Country: United States

Email: stabu@channing.harvard.edu

Nonparametric Regression with Heteroscedastic Normal Measurement Error

Presenter: McIntyre, Julie

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Validity and reliability of measurements | Regression modelling | Epidemiology

Institution: University of Alaska Fairbanks

Country: United States

Email: jpmcintyre@alaska.edu

The analysis of field trial experiments using mixed models and 2D P-splines.

Presenter: Boer, Martin

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis | Agriculture

Institution: Wageningen University and Research

Country: Netherlands

Email: martin.boer@wur.nl

A Moment-Type Goodness-of-Fit Test of Multinomial Logistic Regression Model in Case-Control Studies

Presenter: Chen, Li-Ching

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Categorical data analysis | Epidemiology

Institution: Tamkang University

Country: Taiwan

Email: 122259@mail.tku.edu.tw

Penalized likelihood parameter estimation for additive hazard models with interval censored data

Presenter: Rathnayake, Kasun

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Survival data analysis

Institution: Macquarie University

Country: Australia

Email: kasunrathnayake.uop@gmail.com

ANALYZING HUMAN GENOME DEPENDENCE STRUCTURE IN STRATIFIED POPULATION

Presenter: Fernandes, Francisco

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Genetics

Institution: University of Sao Paulo

Country: Brazil

Email: fjafernandes@uol.com.br

Incidence and predictors of Tuberculosis among adults starting Antiretroviral Therapy based on 2013 WHO guidelines at Joint Clinical Research Centre

Presenter: Ssenyonga, Ronald

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Survival data analysis

Institution: Makerere University

Country: Uganda

Email: senyoronnie@yahoo.com

Integrative Analysis to Select Genes Regulated by Methylation in a Cancer Colon Stud

Presenter: Sanchez-Pla, Alex

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Microarrays and omics data | Bioinformatics

Institution: Universitat de Barcelona; Vall d'Hebron Research Institute

Country: Spain

Email: asanchez@ub.edu

Estimation of the Optimal Surrogate Using SuperLearner and TMLE with Application to Two Randomized Dengue Vaccine Efficacy Trials

Presenter: Price, Brenda

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Predictive modelling

Institution: University of Washington

Country: United States

Email: brendalewisprice@gmail.com

Bayesian Adaptive Ranges for Clinical Biomarkers

Presenter: Roshan Sangachin, Davood

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Bayesian methods | Clinical trials | Medical research

Institution: National University of Ireland, Galway

Country: Ireland

Email: d.roshansangachin1@nuigalway.ie

Student Locally-Linear Mapping (SLLiM) for robust non linear regression in high dimension

Presenter: Perthame, Emeline

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Predictive modelling

Institution: INRIA Grenoble, France

Country: France

Email: emeline.perthame@inria.fr

Superiority of Jackknife method over the Standard method in the estimation of the standard error for complex survey sample design: A case study of Botswana Household Income and Expenditure Survey

Presenter: Sediadie, Thapelo

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Validity and reliability of measurements

Institution: University of Botswana

Country: Botswana

Email: tmsediadie2010@gmail.com

Power analysis for longitudinal studies with time dependent predictors

Presenter: Wang, Cuiling

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Epidemiology | Missing and incomplete data

Institution: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Country: United States

Email: cuiling.wang@einstein.yu.edu

A comparison of two binary diagnostic tests with consideration to the background of mixed patients who with or without definitive diagnosis

Presenter: Murotani, Kenta

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Other biometrical related topics

Institution: Aichi Medical University

Country: Japan

Email: kmurotani@aichi-med-u.ac.jp

Nutritional Status of Under- five Children in Hawassa Zuria District, Southern Ethiopia

Presenter: Debeko, Dereje

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: Hawassa University

Country: Ethiopia

Email: dalbrayii@gmail.com

Grouping Case Fatality of Accident Victims Using Multivariate Statistical Approach

Presenter: UMEH, EDITH

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Survival data analysis

Institution: NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY

Country: Nigeria

Email: EDITUS2002@YAHOO.COM

A cluster randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of a lifestyle education program for adolescents

Presenter: Yamaoka, Kazue

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Clinical trials

Institution: Teikyo University

Country: Japan

Email: kazue@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp

Risk scores for predicting the incidence of type 2 diabetes in China: the Kailuan prospective study

Presenter: Wang, Anxin

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Epidemiology

Institution: Capital Medical University; Capital Medical University

Country: China

Email: anxin0907@163.com

A system of fractional ordinary differential equations to model tumor growth

Presenter: Mancera, Paulo

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: PPG, Biometria

Country: Brazil

Email: pmancera@ibb.unesp.br

A Chi-Squared Approach To Obtaining Missing Values On Egg Production.

Presenter: OGOKE, UCHENNA

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data

Institution: UNIVERSITY OF PORTHARCOURT, NIGERIA

Country: Nigeria

Email: uchedubem@yahoo.com

Using Gene Genealogies to Understand the Patterns of Case-Control Association

Presenter: Karunarathna, Charith

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Genetics

Institution: Simon Fraser University

Country: Canada

Email: ckarunar@sfu.ca

Modeling of Imbalanced Survival Data Using Different Survival Ensemble Techniques

Presenter: SHAH, SYED JAWAD ALI

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Survival data analysis | Medical research

Institution: University of Peshawar, Pakistan; Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

Country: Pakistan

Email: jawadalishah@hotmail.com

Inference for mediation proportion in generalized linear models

Presenter: Nevo, Daniel

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Epidemiology | Regression modelling

Institution: Harvard University

Country: United States

Email: nhdne@channing.harvard.edu

ESTIMATION OF OPTIMUM SAMPLE SIZE AND NUMBER OF REPLICATIONS IN A SPLIT-PLOT DESIGN

Presenter: Oladugba, Abimibola

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Agriculture

Institution: University of Nigeria, Nsukka

Country: Nigeria

Email: bolvic2003@yahoo.com

Effects on the covariance selection in the Goat research

Presenter: JUNG, YOONSUNG

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Agriculture

Institution: Prairie View A&M University

Country: United States

Email: yojung@pvamu.edu

Levels of and Differentials in current use of Contraceptives among Women of Reproductive Age in Nigeria

Presenter: MBACHU, HOPE

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Medical research | Regression modelling

Institution: IMO STATE UNIVERSITY OWERRI IMO STATE NIGERIA

Country: Nigeria

Email: ifyjoe100@yahoo.com

A comparison of multiple testing methods for effective strategies in genome-wide association studies

Presenter: Otani, Takahiro

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity

Institution: The Institute of Statistical Mathematics; Japan Science and Technology Agency

Country: Japan

Email: otani@ism.ac.jp

Comparison of Methodologies to Estimate Covariate Effect on Survival Time Data: A Simulation Based Approach

Presenter: Khan, Mohammad Kaviul

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Survival data analysis

Institution: University of Toronto

Country: Canada

Email: kaviul.khan@mail.utoronto.ca

High Risk of Cerebrovascular Disease Mortality among Hiroshima Female Atomic Bomb Survivors Exposed at Young AGE: A Cohort Study, 1970-2010 Junji MATSUBA1,2), Keiko OTANI3), Kenichi SATOH3), Hideshi KAWAKAMI3) and Megu Ohtaki3) 1) Graduate School of Biome

Presenter: Matsuba, Junji

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Radioactivity and radiation exposure

Institution: Teikyo University of Science; Hiroshima University

Country: Japan

Email: junji.matsuba@gmail.com

Imputation of measures of blood sugar level (HbA1c and glucose) used as time-dependent covariates in a Cox model for time to event

Presenter: Murad, Havi

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data | Survival data analysis

Institution: Gertner Institute

Country: Israel

Email: HaviM@gertner.health.gov.il

DIFFERENT APPROACHES OF THE BETA-BINOMIAL REGRESSION MODEL TO ANALYZE HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE DATA: A COMPARISON STUDY

Presenter: AROSTEGUI, INMACULADA

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Medical research | Regression modelling

Institution: University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU; Basque Center for Applied Mathematics - BCAM; Red de Investigación en Servicios Sanitarios en Enfermedades Crónicas - REDISSEC

Country: Spain

Email: inmaculada.arostegui@ehu.eus

The number of strata in propensity score stratification for a binary outcome

Presenter: Neuhaeuser, Markus

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Epidemiology | Medical research | Other biometrical related topics

Institution: RheinAhrCampus

Country: Germany

Email: neuhaeuser@rheinahrcampus.de

Adaptive seamless design for development of biosimilars

Presenter: Uozumi, Ryuji

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Clinical trials | Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity | Medical research

Institution: Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine; Tokyo University of Science

Country: Japan

Email: uozumi@kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Creation and validation of an algorithm to temporally align polysomnography and actigraphy sleep data

Presenter: Trevenen, Michelle

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Other biometrical related topics | Medical research

Institution: University of Western Australia

Country: Australia

Email: michelle.trevenen@uwa.edu.au

Wavelet-based Classification Applied to fMRI Pedro A. Morettin University of São Paulo, Brazil

Presenter: Morettin, Pedro

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis

Institution: University of São Paulo

Country: Brazil

Email: pam@ime.usp.br

A beta regression model with multiplicative measurement errors

Presenter: Carrasco, Jalmar

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling

Institution: University of Toronto ; Federal University of Bahia

Country: Canada

Email: carrascojalmar@gmail.com

Joint modelling of survival data and longitudinal data, with left-censoring, measurement error, and missing data, with application to HIV vaccine efficacy study.

Presenter: Yu, Tingting

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Clinical trials

Institution: University of British Columbia

Country: Canada

Email: tingting.yu@stat.ubc.ca

Confidence interval for the effective dose of bioassay models with random effects

Presenter: Urbano, Mariana

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Agriculture | Regression modelling

Institution: Londrina State University

Country: Brazil

Email: mariana.ragasi@gmail.com

Sample size estimation using negative binomial distribution for determining the risk of adverse drug reaction in the post-marketing study.

Presenter: Ito, Yoichi

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacoepidemiology

Institution: Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine

Country: Japan

Email: ito-ym@med.hokudai.ac.jp

Predictors of readmission at 30 days after a hospital admission by heart failure

Presenter: Quintana, Jose

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Medical research | Predictive modelling | Regression modelling

Institution: Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo; REDISSEC

Country: Spain

Email: josemaria.quintanalopez@osakidetza.eus

ACCELERATED LIFE TESTING WITH INTERVAL CENSORED DATA

Presenter: Oliveira, Fernando Luiz

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Survival data analysis

Institution: Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Country: Brazil

Email: fernandoluizest@gmail.com

Dietary patterns and their associations with risk factors for cardiovascular disease in alternate shift work, Brazil.

Presenter: Oliveira, Fernando Luiz

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Medical research

Institution: Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto

Country: Brazil

Email: fernandoluizest@gmail.com

Comparison of approaches for analysing associations between skewed variables in a small sample

Presenter: Coombs, Ngaire

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Other biometrical related topics | Medical research | Epidemiology

Institution: University of Southampton

Country: United Kingdom

Email: n.coombs@soton.ac.uk

Estimating the effects of exposure in a case-cohort design of Hokkaido Cohort Study when some binary outcomes of interests are known to be missing

Presenter: IZUMI, SHIZUE

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data

Institution: Oita University; Shiga University

Country: Japan

Email: shizue@oita-u.ac.jp

A comparison of methods for testing equality of predictive values in small-size clinical trials

Presenter: Takahashi, Kanae

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Clinical trials

Institution: Osaka University Hospital

Country: Japan

Email: kanae.takahashi@dmi.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Generalized linear mixed vector autoregressions incorporating spatial as well as temporal dynamics for the bovine brucellosis in Colombia

Presenter: Melo, Oscar

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis | Epidemiology | Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model

Institution: Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Country: Colombia

Email: oomelom@unal.edu.co

CHILDHOOD GROWTH MODELLING FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: A SIMULATION STUDY

Presenter: Bharat, Chrianna

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Medical research

Institution: University of Western Australia

Country: Australia

Email: chrianna.bharat@uwa.edu.au

An analytical approach to decomposition of aggregate energy intensity in agriculture

Presenter: Golaszewski, Janusz

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Agriculture

Institution: University of Warmia and Mazury

Country: Poland

Email: januszg@uwm.edu.pl

Selection of candidate genes using CUR Matrix decomposition approach

Presenter: Demey-Zambrano, Johanna

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Genetics | Medical research | Microarrays and omics data

Institution: UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA

Country: Spain

Email: johanna.demey@gmail.com

Developing a program to foster professionalism for biostatisticians

Presenter: Sato, Keiko

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Other biometrical related topics

Institution: Kyoto University

Country: Japan

Email: satou.keiko.8s@kyoto-u.ac.jp

Robust factorial designs by using compound criteria

Presenter: Idalino, Rita de Cássia

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Environmental research | Other biometrical related application areas | Biological networks

Institution: UNESP ; UFPI

Country: Brazil

Email: ritalima@ibb.unesp.br

The trend of Mood disorder by gender

Presenter: NDUKA, ETHELBERT

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Medical research

Institution: UNIVERSITY OF PORTHARCOURT, NIGERIA

Country: Nigeria

Email: etelnduka@yahoo.com

Validation of the short form Mexican-Spanish version of the Support Person Unmet Needs Survey.

Presenter: Aguirre-Hernandez, Rebeca

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Epidemiology

Institution: Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

Country: Mexico

Email: rebeca.aguirrehdez@yahoo.com.mx

Multivariate classification of accumulation curves. Application in sugarcane

Presenter: Balzarini, Monica

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Agriculture

Institution: National University of Córdoba; CONICET

Country: Argentina

Email: mbalzari@gmail.com

A NEW METHOD TO ADJUST P-VALUES IN MULTIPLE ASSOCIATION TESTING WITH CORRELATED DATA

Presenter: Balzarini, Monica

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Genetics | Agriculture

Institution: National University of Córdoba; CONICET

Country: Argentina

Email: mbalzari@gmail.com

Verification of efficiency of likelihood ratio test with chi-square statistical approach in nonlinear models

Presenter: Veloso, Romulo

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Agriculture | Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: Universidade Estadual de Montes Claros

Country: Brazil

Email: romulo.veloso@unimontes.br

An efficient adaptive sample size determination via working sequential designs for confirmatory clinical trials

Presenter: Kashiwabara, Kosuke

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Clinical trials | Multiple testing and adjustments for multiplicity

Institution: The University of Tokyo

Country: Japan

Email: kashiwabara-tky@umin.ac.jp

Optimal designs for regression models using the second-order least squares estimator

Presenter: Yin, Yue

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Computer intensive methods and software development

Institution: University of Victoria

Country: Canada

Email: yinyue@uvic.ca

Applying multistate model to examine the co-existence of frailty and depression and the consequent mortality in Elderly

Presenter: Chang, Hsing-Yi

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Epidemiology

Institution: NHRI

Country: Taiwan

Email: hsingyi@nhri.org.tw

A BAYESIAN META-ANALYTIC APPROACH FOR SAFETY SIGNAL DETECTION IN RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS

Presenter: Odani, Motoi

Category: Application Areas | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Clinical trials | Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacoepidemiology | Medical research

Institution: Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Kyoto University School of Public Health

Country: Japan

Email: m.odani@ono.co.jp

Identifying management and environmental variables that influence recruitment success of Eucalyptus species

Presenter: Muller, Warren

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Environmental research

Institution: CSIRO

Country: Australia

Email: warren.stats@internode.on.net

Integrating factorial treatment structures within multivariate analyses: An application in lipidomics

Presenter: Hassall, Kirsty

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Application Areas

Subcategory: Microarrays and omics data | Agriculture | Bioinformatics

Institution: Rothamsted Research

Country: United Kingdom

Email: kirsty.hassall@rothamsted.ac.uk

Tuning window length in Singular spectrum analysis for emergency telephone consultation of cold and ice region of Japan

Presenter: NISHIMOTO, NAOKI

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Bioinformatics | Imaging and signal data

Institution: Kagawa University Hospital

Country: Japan

Email: nnishimoto@med.kagawa-u.ac.jp

Statistical Relationships between the Bivariate Gaussian Model and its Corresponding Models with Variable Replicates and Variable Means in Linear Regression Analysis

Presenter: Cesana, Bruno

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Validity and reliability of measurements | Medical research

Institution: University of Brescia

Country: Italy

Email: brnmrcesana@gmail.com

Fast Spatial Ancestry of Human Populations of Africa: An Update to OriGen

Presenter: Ranola, John Michael

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Genetics | Spatial and spatio-temporal data analysis

Institution: University of Washington

Country: United States

Email: ranolaj@uw.edu

Neural network committee and linear regression to predict the nitrogen-corrected metabolizable energy of poultry feedstuffs

Presenter: de Lima, Renato

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Agriculture | Regression modelling | Computer intensive methods and software development

Institution: Federal University of Lavras

Country: Brazil

Email: rrlima@dex.ufla.br

Poissson-Bernoulli regression for count variables

Presenter: Miller, Curtis

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas

Subcategory: Regression modelling | Other biometrical related application areas

Institution: University of New Mexico

Country: United States

Email: cmille02@unm.edu

PARAMETER ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION FOR TIME-DEPENDENT CONCENTRATION RESPONSE CURVES FOR CYTOTOXICITY ASSESSMENT

Presenter: Anton, Cristina

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Toxicology and pharmacology | Regression modelling | Missing and incomplete data

Institution: Macewan

Country: Canada

Email: popescuc@macewan.ca

Ignorability and unbalanced longitudinal data

Presenter: Farewell, Daniel

Category: Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data | Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model | Causal inference

Institution: Cardiff University

Country: United Kingdom

Email: farewelld@cf.ac.uk

An assessment of the impact of missing values on the performance of different statistical methods for analysis of binary repeated measures on subjects nested within clusters

Presenter: MASAOUD, Elmabrok

Category: Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Epidemiology | Longitudinal data analysis / mixed effects model

Institution: University of Ottawa; University of Prince Edward Island; Zawiya University

Country: Canada

Email: emasaoud@uottawa.ca

A Dirichlet Process Mixture Model for Non-Ignorable Dropout

Presenter: Moore, Camille

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data | Epidemiology | Bayesian methods

Institution: National Jewish Health; Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver

Country: United States

Email: camille.moore@ucdenver.edu

Cluster dropout in cluster randomized trials: Bayesian methods for sensitivity analyses

Presenter: Crespi, Catherine

Category: Statistical Topics | Application Areas | Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Missing and incomplete data | Clinical trials | Bayesian methods

Institution: University of California Los Angeles

Country: United States

Email: ccrespi@ucla.edu

Comparison of causal inference approaches for estimating the effect of exposure to inhaled corticosteroids on mean birth weight and gestational age

Presenter: Bahamyirou, Asma

Category: Application Areas

Subcategory: Epidemiology

Institution: Université de Montréal

Country: Canada

Email: asma.bahamyirou@umontreal.ca

Mixture Model selection for Three-mode Three-way data

Presenter: Hunt, Lynette

Category: Statistical Topics

Subcategory: Predictive modelling

Institution: University of Waikato

Country: New Zealand

Email: lah@waikato.ac.nz