- Actuarial Science and Finance 2 (2D-C1)
- Adaption and Approximation in Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2E-I1)
- Advanced Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques for High Dimensional Data Analysis (2B-I1)
- Advancements to State-Space Models for Fisheries Science (2B-I2)
- Biostatistics: New Inferential Strategies (2E-C1)
- Biostatistics: Applications (2B-C1)
- Biostatistics: Treatment Comparisons (2D-C2)
- Building a Research Career: From New Investigator to Present (2E-I2)
- Contributions of Professor Ian B. MacNeill to Statistical Theory, Methodology, Teaching and Practice (2B-I3)
- Design and Methodological Issues in Health Studies of Vulnerable Populations (2E-I3)
- Developing Curriculum Guidelines for Canadian Statistics Undergraduate Programs (2D-I1)
- Genomic Data Analysis, Modelling and Testing (2D-I2)
- Gold Medal Address (2A-A)
- Graduate Students in Actuarial Science (2B-I4)
- Inference and Prediction from Distributed Data (2E-I4)
- Long Memory Time Series (2D-I3)
- Methodological Advances: A Smörgåsbord (2B-C2)
- Methods in Survival Analysis Motivated by challenges in clinical data (2D-I4)
- Mixture models (2B-C3)
- Multivariate Data (2B-C4)
- On Some Applications of James-Stein Shrinkage Estimation (2D-I5)
- Poster Session (2C-P)
- Probability and Estimation (2E-C2)
- Recent Developments in Designs of Statistical Experiments. In honour of the 65th birthday of Professor Douglas P. Wiens (2B-I5)
- Regression Models (2E-C3)
- Risk Measures in Actuarial Science (2D-I6)
- Statistical Applications and Methods (2E-C4)
- Statistical Challenges in Large-Scale Inference (2E-I5)
- Statistical Computing and Visualization (2D-C3)
- Statistical Genetics (2D-C4)
- Statistical Inference and Applications 1 (2D-C5)
- Statistical Inference and Applications 2 (2E-C5)
- Survey Methodology 2 (2B-C5)
- Survey Methodology in a Big Data World (2E-I6)
Gold Medal Address (2A-A)![]() |
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Special Session | |
Chair: Christian Léger (Université de Montréal) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Welch - David Howes) | |
8:45 - 9:50 | Richard Lockhart (Simon Fraser University), Big Data, High Dimensions, Goodness-of-fit: Something of This Nature |
Advanced Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques for High Dimensional Data Analysis (2B-I1)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Abbas Khalili (McGill University) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Welch - David Howes) | |
10:20 - 10:50 | Ryan Tibshirani (Carnegie Mellon University), Recent Advances in Selective Inference |
10:50 - 11:20 | Anand N. Vidyshankar (George Mason University), Efficiency Considerations in Post Model Selection Inference |
11:20 - 11:50 | Yi Yang (McGill University), Variable Selection Deviation for High-dimensional Classification Methods |
Advancements to State-Space Models for Fisheries Science (2B-I2)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Chair: Rick Routledge (Simon Fraser University) Organizer: Joanna Mills-Flemming (Dalhousie University) |
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Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 242) | |
10:20 - 10:50 | William Aeberhard (Dalhousie University), Robust and Consistent Estimation of Fixed Parameters in General State-Space Models |
10:50 - 11:20 | David Campbell (Simon Fraser University), Nested Laplace Approximation Diagnostics and Fixes |
11:20 - 11:50 | Joanna Mills Flemming (Dalhousie University), Addressing Statistical Challenges in Fisheries Science |
Contributions of Professor Ian B. MacNeill to Statistical Theory, Methodology, Teaching and Practice (2B-I3)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Chair: Gary Umphrey (University of Guelph) Organizer: Krishna Jandhyala (Washington State University) |
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Tuesday May 31 (Academic South 217) | |
10:20 - 10:42 | Abdel El-Shaarawi (The American University in Cairo), Ian B. MacNeill and Environmetrics |
10:40 - 11:02 | Elena Naumova (Tufts University), Seasonality Analysis in Public Health Applications |
11:02 - 11:24 | Serge Provost (University of Western Ontario), On the q-Analogues of the Logistic and Generalized Extreme Value Distributions |
11:24 - 11:46 | Venkata Krishna Jandhyala (Washington State University), Contributions of Dr. MacNeill to Change-Point Methodology and its Environmental Applications |
Recent Developments in Designs of Statistical Experiments. In honour of the 65th birthday of Professor Douglas P. Wiens (2B-I5)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Xiaojian Xu (Brock University) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 243) | |
10:20 - 10:50 | Holger Dette (Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum), Statistical Methodogly for Comparing Curves |
10:50 - 11:20 | Linglong Kong (University of Alberta), Robust Designs for Nonlinear Quantile Regression |
11:20 - 11:50 | Julie Zhou (University of Victoria), Computing Optimal Designs via Convex Optimization |
Biostatistics: Applications (2B-C1)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Eleanor Pullenayegum (The Hospital for Sick Children) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 255) | |
10:20 - 10:35 | Mohammad Ehsanul Karim (McGill University), Estimating Inverse Probability Weights using Super Learner when Weight-Model Specification is Unknown in a Marginal Structural Cox Model Context: An Application to Multiple Sclerosis |
10:35 - 10:50 | Alexander Levis (McGill University), Using Optimal Test Assembly Methods for Shortening Patient-Reported Outcome Measures: Development and Validation of the Cochin Hand Function Scale-6 |
10:50 - 11:05 | Lin Liu (University of California, San Diego), Statistical Issues in a Prognostic Model for Advanced Colorectal Neoplasia Recurrence |
11:05 - 11:20 | Alexandre Piché (McGill University), Nested Dirichlet Process: an Application to Censored Data |
11:20 - 11:35 | Razvan Romanescu (University of Guelph), Optimal Surveillance of Epidemics over Power Law Networks |
11:35 - 11:50 | Krishna Saha (Central CT State University), Estimating the Common Intraclass Correlation Coefficient for Clustered Binary Responses |
Methodological Advances: A Smörgåsbord (2B-C2)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Yves Berger (University of Southampton) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 256) | |
10:20 - 10:35 | Harlan Campbell (University of British Columbia), A Non-parametric Rank Based Test for Semicontinuous Longitudinal Data |
10:35 - 10:50 | Julan Al-Yassin (University of Windsor), The GLARMA Model for Zero-Inflated Poisson Counts |
10:50 - 11:05 | Fang He (University of Western Ontario), Carbon Dioxide Concentration Estimation |
11:05 - 11:20 | Yuhong Wei (McMaster University), Robust Mixture Modelling Based on Generalized Hyperbolic Distribution and its Limiting Case Multivariate Skew-t Distribution with Incomplete Data |
11:20 - 11:35 | Yoshihiro Taniguchi (University of Waterloo), Importance Sampling Techniques for Archimedean Copula Models |
11:35 - 11:50 | Michael Stephens (Simon Fraser University), Cochran's Test for Excessive Variability Used Sequentially with a Strange Result |
Mixture models (2B-C3)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Hugh Chipman (Acadia University) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 259) | |
10:20 - 10:35 | Martin Blostein (McMaster University), Robust High-Dimensional Modeling with the Contaminated Gaussian Distribution |
10:35 - 10:50 | Michael Patrick Brian Gallaugher (McMaster University), Extending Fractionally Supervised Classification to Non-Gaussian Mixture Models |
10:50 - 11:05 | Yang Tang (McMaster University), Model-Based Clustering of Categorical Data with Extreme Patterns |
11:05 - 11:20 | Utkarsh J. Dang (McMaster University), Power Exponential Mixtures and Skewed Extensions |
11:20 - 11:35 | Anjali Silva (University of Guelph), Mixture Model Selection for Cluster Analysis of RNA Sequencing Data |
Multivariate Data (2B-C4)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Lisa Lix (University of Manitoba) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 257) | |
10:20 - 10:35 | Brian Franczak (McMaster University), Discriminant Analysis via Parsimonious Multiple Scaled Mixtures |
10:35 - 10:50 | Haocheng Li (University of Calgary), Multivariate Longitudinal Data with Mixed Types of Measurements |
10:50 - 11:05 | Yubin (Éric) Li (University of Windsor), Estimation in Multivariate Regression with Measurement Error and Change-Points |
11:05 - 11:20 | Makosso-Kallyth Sun (McMaster University), Dimension Reduction of Histogram Data |
11:20 - 11:35 | Irene Vrbik (McGill University), Cluster Analysis of Genetic Sequence Data via the Gap Procedure |
11:35 - 11:50 | Yang Zhao (University of Regina), Classification and Factor Analysis for Big Data Inference: A Study of Gambling Behaviours and the Associate Factors |
Survey Methodology 2 (2B-C5)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Mahmoud Torabi (University of Manitoba) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 258) | |
10:20 - 10:35 | Hyukjun (Jay) Gweon (University of Waterloo), New Approaches to Automated Occupation Coding Using Statistical Learning |
10:35 - 10:50 | Ibrahima Ousmane Ida (Laval University), Balanced Sampling by Using the Cube Method and the Rejective Algorithm |
10:50 - 11:05 | Isabelle Lefebvre (Université de Montréal), Simplified Variance Estimation for Complex Designs |
11:05 - 11:20 | Thuva Vanniyasingam (McMaster University), Determining the Impact of Different Design Features on Relative Design Efficiency in Discrete Choice Experiments |
11:20 - 11:35 | Wei Lin (University of Toronto), Analysis of an Embedded Experiment in a Survey |
Graduate Students in Actuarial Science (2B-I4)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Andrei Badescu (University of Toronto) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 246) | |
10:35 - 10:50 | Dongchen Li (University of Waterloo), On Minimizing Drawdown Risks of Lifetime Investments |
10:50 - 11:05 | Haiyan Liu (University of Waterloo), Asymptotic Equivalence of Risk Measures under Dependence Uncertainty |
11:05 - 11:20 | Jingong Zhang (University of Waterloo), Optimal Hedging with Basis Risk under Mean-Variance Criteria |
11:20 - 11:35 | Ruixi Zhang (Western University), On a Renewal Risk Process under a Dividend Barrier Strategy |
11:35 - 11:50 | Mohamed Amine Lkabous (Université du Québec à Montréal), Parisian ruin for a refracted Lévy process |
Poster Session (2C-P)![]() |
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Contributed Poster Session | |
(Posters displayed 12:00-17:30. Presenters in attendance 13:30-15:30) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle Corridor) | |
12:00 - 17:30 | Huda Al-Wahsh (University of Windsor), Scan Statistics in Cox's Model with Frailty |
12:00 - 17:30 | Justin Angevaare (University of Guelph), Phylodynamic Individual Level Models: Strategies for Simulation and Inference |
12:00 - 17:30 | Faisal Atakora (University of Manitoba), Construction of Optimal Foldover Designs with the General Minimum Lower-Order Confounding |
12:00 - 17:30 | Andrea Benedetti (McGill University), Evaluation of Estimation Techniques for Smoothing via Generalized Linear Mixed Models |
12:00 - 17:30 | Shelley B. Bull (University of Toronto), Bootstrap Resampling in Genetic Association Analysis of Low-Frequency Variants |
12:00 - 17:30 | Bo Chen (McGill University), Quantifying Heterogeneity in Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis with Binary Outcomes |
12:00 - 17:30 | Jonathan Earl (McMaster University), Ranking and Tanking: GLMs for Football |
12:00 - 17:30 | Yuanhao Lai (Western University), Computing Numerical Distribution Functions for Periodicity Tests in Microarray Time Series |
12:00 - 17:30 | Sean McGrath (McGill University), Meta Analysis of Medians |
12:00 - 17:30 | Paul Nguyen (Public Health Ontario), Spatial Cluster Detection for Ontario Public Health Research |
12:00 - 17:30 | Nidhi Patel (McMaster University), Longitudinal Clustering via Mixtures of Multivariate Power Exponential Distributions |
12:00 - 17:30 | Reuben Pereira (University of Toronto), Comparing Spatial Models for Mapping Larynx Cancer: A Simulation Study |
12:00 - 17:30 | Gregory Pond (McMaster University), A Biostatistics Training Initiative for Cancer Research |
12:00 - 17:30 | Anna Theresa Santiago (University of Toronto), Application of Dimension Reduction to Acquired Brain Injury Assessment |
12:00 - 17:30 | Samira Soleymani (Western University), Simulating with Box-Cox transformations |
12:00 - 17:30 | Mohsen Soltanifar (University of Toronto), Factors Associated to Brain Reaction Time: A Higher Ordered Complete Random Block Design Study |
12:00 - 17:30 | Aaron Springford (Queen's University), Predicting Long-Term Missing Ground-Level Ozone Using Precursor, Solar and Climate Data |
12:00 - 17:30 | Ian Waudby-Smith (Cancer Care Ontario; University of Waterloo), Multi-state Models for Chronic Kidney Disease Prevalence Projections in Ontario |
12:00 - 17:30 | Da Zhong (Dexen) Xi (Western University), Joint Modeling of Duration and Burn Area of Lightning Caused Forest Fires |
12:00 - 17:30 | Xu Xuan Zhang (McMaster University), Non-Gaussian Mixture Model Averaging for Clustering |
Developing Curriculum Guidelines for Canadian Statistics Undergraduate Programs (2D-I1)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Bethany White (University of Western Ontario) | |
A working group formed at the 2015 "Advancing Innovation and Scholarship in Statistics Education in Canada" workshop is developing a set of recommendations along the lines of the ASA-endorsed US recommendations (http://www.amstat.org/education/curriculumguidelines.cfm). The goal is to create guidelines that Canadian departments can use to inform curriculum decisions. To initiate discussion, we will provide an overview of the development process and share the draft guidelines. Then, attendees and working group members will revise and refine them together. Copies of the draft guidelines will be circulated during the session. Advance copies are available from Bethany White (bwhite@stats.uwo.ca).
Working Group: Karen Buro (MacEwan), Sotirios Damouras (Toronto-Scarborough), Alison Gibbs (Toronto), John Petkau (British Columbia), John Sheriff (Lethbridge), Jim Stallard (Calgary), and Bethany White (Western). |
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Tuesday May 31 (Academic South 217) | |
13:30 - 14:15 | Bethany White (The University of Western Ontario) |
14:15 - 15:00 | Jim Stallard (University of Calgary) |
Genomic Data Analysis, Modelling and Testing (2D-I2)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Brad McNeney (Simon Fraser University) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Welch - David Howes) | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Ali Karimnezhad (University of Ottawa), Robust Bayesian Multiple Hypothesis Testing with Application to Genetic Association Data |
14:00 - 14:30 | David A. Stephens (McGill University), Hidden Markov Models for Identifying Differentially Methylated Regions |
14:30 - 15:00 | Elena Szefer (Simon Fraser University & The EMMES Corporation), A Multivariate Imaging Genomics Application in Alzheimer's Disease |
Long Memory Time Series (2D-I3)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Bovas Abraham (University of Waterloo) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 242) | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Clifford M. Hurvich (New York University), The Slow Convergence of OLS Estimators of Alpha, Beta, and Portfolio Weights Under Long-Memory Stochastic Volatility |
14:00 - 14:30 | Valderio Reisen (University of Espirito Santo), Long-memory Processes. Robust Spectral Estimators Based on Frequency Domain |
14:30 - 15:00 | Aera Thavaneswaren (University of Manitoba), Nonlinear and Long Memory Count Time Series Models and Inference Using Estimating Functions |
Methods in Survival Analysis Motivated by challenges in clinical data (2D-I4)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Lisa Le (UHN Research) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 247) | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Audrey Boruvka (University of Michigan), Analysis of Clinical Trial Endpoints under Dual Censoring |
14:00 - 14:30 | Melania Pintilie (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre), Power for a Case-cohort Study in the Presence of Competing Risks |
14:30 - 15:00 | Eleanor Pullenayegum (The Hospital for Sick Children), Using Recurrent Event Models to Handle Longitudinal Data Subject to Irregular Follow-Up |
On Some Applications of James-Stein Shrinkage Estimation (2D-I5)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Melody Ghahramani (University of Winnipeg) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 246) | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Syed Ejaz Ahmed (Brock University), Shrinkage Strategy: From the Margin to the Centre of Universe |
14:00 - 14:30 | Shakhawat Hossain (University of Winnipeg), Shrinkage Estimation for Generalized Linear Mixed Models |
14:30 - 15:00 | Bahadır Yüzbaşi (Inonu University), Pretest, Shrinkage, Positive Shrinkage Ridge Estimators in Linear Regression Models |
Risk Measures in Actuarial Science (2D-I6)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Jun Cai (University of Waterloo) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 256) | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Edward Furman (York University), A New Risk Measure for Heavy Tailed Risks |
14:00 - 14:30 | Mélina Mailhot (Concordia University), Multivariate TVaR Risk Decomposition Techniques |
14:30 - 15:00 | Ruodu Wang (University of Waterloo), Risk Aversion in Monetary Risk Measures |
Actuarial Science and Finance 2 (2D-C1)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Cary Tsai (Simon Fraser University) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 255) | |
13:30 - 13:45 | Peter Adamic (Laurentian University), LOESS Density Estimation for Multivariate Survival Data Subject to Censoring and Masking |
13:45 - 14:00 | Taehan Bae (University of Regina), A Backward Construction and Simulation of Correlated Poisson Processes |
14:00 - 14:15 | Yizhou Fang (University of Waterloo), Stochastic Volatility Modeling With Non-linear Filtering |
14:15 - 14:30 | Rahim M Khorasany (Western University), Monte Carlo Valuation of Multiple Exercise Options: A Structured Regression Approach |
14:30 - 14:45 | Etienne Marceau (Université Laval), A Note on Extreme Negative Dependence |
14:45 - 15:00 | Natalia Nolde (University of British Columbia), Elicitability and Backtesting |
Biostatistics: Treatment Comparisons (2D-C2)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Gyanendra Pokharel (University of Calgary) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 254) | |
13:30 - 13:45 | Siu Hung Cheung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Adaptive Treatment Allocation for Non-inferiority Trials with Multiple Experimental Treatments |
13:45 - 14:00 | James Hanley (McGill University), Fitting a Model of the Mortality Reductions Produced by One/Several Rounds of Cancer Screening: Time and Sample Size Considerations |
14:00 - 14:15 | Taddele Cherinet Kibret (McMaster University), Bayesian Network Meta-analysis (NMA) using MCMC and Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA): A Comparative Study |
14:15 - 14:30 | Shun Fu Lee (Population Health Research Institute), Adjusted $I^2$ Statistic and its Confidence Intervals |
14:30 - 14:45 | Tong-Yu Lu (China Jiliang University), Covariates-Adjusted Comparison of Treatments with Ordinal Responses |
14:45 - 15:00 | Binod Neupane (McMaster University), Performance of Bayesian Network Meta-analysis for Sparse Data |
Statistical Computing and Visualization (2D-C3)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Martin Lysy (University of Waterloo) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 257) | |
13:30 - 13:45 | Simon Bonner (University of Western Ontario), Mark-recapture, Misidentification, and Markov Bases |
13:45 - 14:00 | Philippe Gagnon (Université de Montréal), Weak Convergence and Automation of the Reversible Jump Algorithm |
14:00 - 14:15 | Yun Ling (University of Waterloo), Superfast Gaussian Likelihood Solver and Application |
14:15 - 14:30 | Wayne Oldford (University of Waterloo), Loon – the Interactive R Visualization Toolkit for Exploration |
14:30 - 14:45 | Yukun Zhang (Yukun Zhang), PAactivPAL: An R Package for Statistical Analysis on Physical Activity Data |
14:45 - 15:00 | Andrej Blejec (National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia), Presentation of Statistical Concepts with Animated Graphics and Simulations in R |
Statistical Genetics (2D-C4)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: David Campbell (Simon Fraser University) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 259) | |
13:30 - 13:45 | Bo Chen (University of Toronto), Bayesian Model Averaging Method for X Chromosome Inactivation Problem |
13:45 - 14:00 | Lu Cheng (University of Waterloo), Epistasis Detection by Reducing Disease Model Space using Clustering |
14:00 - 14:15 | Gun Ho Jang (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research), Locally Constant Signal Segmentation using a Relative Belief Inference |
14:15 - 14:30 | Mateen Shaikh (McMaster University), The Beta Negative Binomial Distribution for the Analysis of Microbiome Data |
14:30 - 14:45 | Jihyung Shin (Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto), On the Analysis of Low-Frequency Genetic Variants in the Presence of Quantitative Covariates Using Prospective and Retrospective Penalized Logistic Regression Models |
Statistical Inference and Applications 1 (2D-C5)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Jeffrey Rosenthal (University of Toronto) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 258) | |
13:30 - 13:45 | Mikelis Bickis (University of Saskatchewan), Statistical Relativity |
13:45 - 14:00 | Edit Gombay (University of Alberta), Change Detection Algorithms |
14:00 - 14:15 | Kevin Mongeon (Brock University), The Process of Winning and Losing Sporting Contests |
14:15 - 14:30 | Shaun Zheng Sun (University of the Fraser Valley), Improved Tests for Independence in Ordinal Contingency Tables |
14:30 - 14:45 | Gary J. Umphrey (University of Guelph), Aesthetics and Measurement: The Measurement of Aesthetics and the Aesthetics of Measurement |
14:45 - 15:00 | Xikui Wang (University of Manitoba), Dynamic Risk Measures and Agricultural Insurance |
Adaption and Approximation in Markov Chain Monte Carlo (2E-I1)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Aaron Smith (University of Ottawa) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 242) | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Mylène Bédard (Université de Montréal), Hierarchical Models: Local Proposal Variances for the RWM-within-Gibbs |
16:00 - 16:30 | Daniel Jerison (Cornell University), Honest MCMC Convergence Guarantees |
16:30 - 17:00 | Matti Vihola (University of Jyväskylä), Unbiased Estimators and Multilevel Monte Carlo |
Building a Research Career: From New Investigator to Present (2E-I2)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Martin Lysy (University of Waterloo) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Welch - David Howes) | |
15:30 - 16:00 | James Ramsay (McGill University), The Art of the Awkward Question (and Some Psychology, Too) |
16:00 - 16:30 | Jeffrey Rosenthal (University of Toronto), Lessons From a Twisted Career Path |
16:30 - 17:00 | Mary Thompson (University of Waterloo), Early Career Research Back Then and Now |
Design and Methodological Issues in Health Studies of Vulnerable Populations (2E-I3)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Chair: John Petkau (University of British Columbia) Organizer: Lehana Thabane (McMaster University) |
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Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 247) | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Lisa Lix (Ottawa University of Manitoba), Methodological Challenges in Aboriginal Health Research |
16:00 - 16:30 | Robert W. Platt (McGill University), Randomized Trials in Obstetric Populations |
16:30 - 17:00 | Lehana Thabane (McMaster University), Planning for the Twilight Years: Why We Need More Statisticians Involved in Trials in the Elderly Living in Long-Term Care Settings |
Inference and Prediction from Distributed Data (2E-I4)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Jean-Francois Plante (HEC Montreal) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 258) | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Doina Caragea (Kansas State University), Learning Domain Adaptation Classifiers from Multiple Distributed Sources |
16:00 - 16:30 | George Ostrouchov (Oak Ridge National Laboratory & University of Tennessee), Statistical Computing with R on Distributed and Multicore Platforms |
16:30 - 17:00 | Ruibin Xi (Peking University), Statistical Aggregation for Big Data Analysis |
Statistical Challenges in Large-Scale Inference (2E-I5)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Kun Liang (University of Waterloo) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 246) | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Chunming Zhang (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Single-Index Modulated Multiple Testing |
16:00 - 16:30 | Wenguang Sun (University of Southern California), CARS: Covariate Assisted Ranking and Screening for Large-Scale Two-Sample Inference |
16:30 - 17:00 | Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University), Assessing Replicability Across High-Dimensional Studies |
Survey Methodology in a Big Data World (2E-I6)![]() |
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Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Nancy Reid (University of Toronto) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Academic South 217) | |
15:30 - 16:15 | Anne de Moliner (Université de Montréal), Estimating a Mean Electricity Consumption Curve in the Presence of Missing Data Using Survey Sampling Techniques |
16:15 - 17:00 | John Eltinge (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics), Characterization, Modeling and Management of Data Quality, Risk and Cost in the Integration of Surveys with Alternative Data Sources |
Biostatistics: New Inferential Strategies (2E-C1)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Karen Kopciuk (University of Calgary) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 255) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Christopher Gravel (McGill University), Inverse Probability Weighted Estimation in Confounded Binary Data with Outcome Misclassification |
15:45 - 16:00 | Qiuguang Sang (University of New Brunswick), Bayesian Compound Poisson Mixed Models for Longitudinal Semi-Continuous Data with Non-Ignorable Missingness |
16:00 - 16:15 | Farhad Shokoohi (McGill University), Feature Selection in High-Dimensional Heterogeneous Time-to-Event Data; A Study on Ovarian Cancer |
16:15 - 16:30 | Meng Zhao (McGill University), Application of the Trend-Renewal Process to Recurrent Sports Injury |
Probability and Estimation (2E-C2)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Fernando Camacho (Damos Inc.) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 257) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Shanoja Naik (University of Regina), On Convolution of Inverse Gaussian and Gamma Distribution and Auto Regressive Model |
15:45 - 16:00 | Steve Puglia (Brock University), D-optimal Design of Linear Measurement Error Models |
16:00 - 16:15 | Jean Vaillancourt (École Nationale d'Administration Publique), Loser Takes All! |
16:15 - 16:30 | Myron Hlynka (University of Windsor), Probabilistic Laplace Transform Inversion |
16:30 - 16:45 | Chel Hee Lee (University of Saskatchewan), Geometrical View of Imprecise Prior for Imprecise Inference |
16:45 - 17:00 | Deli Li (Lakehead University), A Note on the Symmetrization Procedures for the Laws of Large Numbers |
Regression Models (2E-C3)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Juli Atherton (UQAM) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 254) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Mohamed Amezziane (Central Michigan University), Variable Selection via Individual Shrinkage of Regression Coefficients |
15:45 - 16:00 | Mai Ghannam (University of Windsor), Some Stein Rules Methods in Tensor Regression Models with High and Ultrahigh Dimensional Data |
16:00 - 16:15 | Bashir Khan (Saint Mary's University), Estimation in a Regression Model with Autocorrelated Errors |
16:15 - 16:30 | Shahedul Khan (University of Saskatchewan), Exponentiated Weibull Regression Model for Time-to-Event Data |
16:45 - 17:00 | Ka Ho Wu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Error Model Fitting in Benchmarking |
Statistical Applications and Methods (2E-C4)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Duncan Murdoch (University of Western Ontario) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 256) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Baktiar Hasan (European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC), Brussels, Belgium), Adaptive Study Design: Dealing with Differential Treatment Effect across Subgroups, a Case Study from an EORTC-ETOP Randomized, Phase III Trial in Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) |
15:45 - 16:00 | Michael McIsaac (Queen's University), Overcoming Missing Data in Physical Activity Studies Involving Accelerometers |
16:00 - 16:15 | Khokan C. Sikdar (University of Calgary), Shifting Epidemiologic Paradigm from Population-level to Individual-level: Cardiovascular Mortality and Morbidity in Hypertensive Patients |
16:15 - 16:30 | Jenna Sykes (St. Michael's Hospital), A Standardized Approach to Estimating Survival Statistics for Population-Based Registry Cohorts |
16:30 - 16:45 | Ernest Dankwa (Memorial University), Bayesian Approach to a Linear Regression model with Measurement Error in Covariate |
16:45 - 17:00 | Yisub Kye (York University), Economic Capital Analysis within a Portfolio of Dependent and Heavy-tailed Risks |
Statistical Inference and Applications 2 (2E-C5)![]() |
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Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Ali Karimnezhad (University of Ottawa) | |
Tuesday May 31 (Thistle 259) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Jules de Tibeiro (Université de Moncton), Different Constrained Ordination Methods for Contingency Table with External Information |
15:45 - 16:00 | Othmane Kortbi (UAE University), On Predictive Density Estimation with Constraints under Kullback-Leibler Loss |
16:00 - 16:15 | Chantal Larose (State University of New York at New Paltz), An Entropy-Based Method for Choosing a Number of Classes for Incomplete Data LCA |
16:15 - 16:30 | Tiago Magalhães (University of São Paulo), A Wald-type Test in Proper Dispersion Models |
16:30 - 16:45 | Fahimeh Moradi (University of Ottawa), Bayesian Parameter Learning in Diagnostic Networks |
16:45 - 17:00 | Chen Xu (University of Ottawa), Prediction-Based Termination Rule for Greedy Learning with Massive Data |