- Actuarial Science and Finance 1 (1D-C1)
- Advances in High-Dimensional Statistical Inference (1D-I1)
- BFF Inference and Beyond – Building a Unified Foundation for Statistical Inference (1D-I5)
- Big Data Analysis: Methodology and Applications (1E-I1)
- Biostatistics in Action 1 (1D-C2)
- Biostatistics: Dealing with Incomplete Data (1D-C3)
- Biostatistics: Genetics and Imaging Topics (1B-C1)
- Business and Industrial Applications (1D-I2)
- Case Study 1: Youth Employment and the 2008 Crisis (1C-D1)
- Case Study 2: Baseball Strategies (1C-D2)
- Combinatorial Probability (1B-I1)
- Complex Correlation Structures and Zero-Heavy Data (1E-C1)
- Environmetrics (1B-C2)
- Experimental Design, Simulation, and Reliability (1E-C2)
- Foundations and Nonparametrics (1D-C4)
- Getting to Know our Students in the Electronic Age: Did the Dog Really Eat the Homework? (1B-I2)
- Inaugural Session (1A-A1)
- Methodological developments that could impact the practice of statistics (1E-I2)
- Novel Assessment Methods in Undergraduate Education (1E-I3)
- Novel Statistical Methods for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (1D-I3)
- Overdispersion, Mixtures, and Related Topics (1B-C3)
- Recent Advances in Predictive Methods in Actuarial Science (1B-I3)
- Recent Developments in Small Area Estimation (1D-I4)
- Recursive Partitioning and Regression Trees (1B-I4)
- SSC Presidential Invited Address (1A-A2)
- Statistical Methods in Molecular Evolution (1E-I4)
- Statistical Science for Ocean Ecosystems (1E-C3)
- Statistics in Action: A Smörgåsbord (1E-C4)
- Statistics in Biosciences: Statistical Methods for Big Data from Health Science (1B-I5)
- Stochastic Processes and Applications (1E-I5)
- Time Series and Probability (1B-C4)
Inaugural Session (1A-A1) ![]() | |
Special Session | |
Monday June 15 (McCain - Ondaatje) | |
8:30 - 8:35 | Ed Susko (Local Arrangements Chair) |
8:35 - 8:45 | John Petkau (SSC President) |
SSC Presidential Invited Address (1A-A2) ![]() | |
Special Session | |
Organizer and Chair: John Petkau (University of British Columbia) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain - Ondaatje) | |
8:45 - 9:50 | Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University), Lifelines for Statistics (and Statisticians): Generalists, Specialists, or Your-lists? |
Combinatorial Probability (1B-I1) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Neal Madras (York University) | |
Session sponsored by the Probability Section | |
Monday June 15 (Rowe 1011) | |
10:20 - 10:50 | Jane Gao (University of Waterloo), From Computer Science to Statistical Physics: Solution Clustering in Random CSPs |
10:50 - 11:20 | Jeannette Janssen (Dalhousie University), Linear Embeddings of Large Graphs |
11:20 - 11:50 | Lerna Pehlivan (University of Washington), Random 312 Avoiding Permutations |
Getting to Know our Students in the Electronic Age: Did the Dog Really Eat the Homework? (1B-I2) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Chair: Gary Sneddon (Mount Saint Vincent University) Organizer: Michele Millar (Mount Saint Vincent University) | |
Session sponsored by the Statistics Education Section | |
Monday June 15 (Rowe 1028) | |
10:20 - 10:45 | Marjorie Bond (Monmouth College), A Qualitative Survey's Journey: From Conception to Publication |
10:45 - 11:10 | Danielle Cox (Acadia University), The Inside Scoop on Students - Experiences in the Classroom |
11:10 - 11:35 | Michelle Millar (Mount Saint Vincent University), Designing and Analyzing Student Surveys: Pitfalls and Rewards |
11:35 - 11:50 | Discussion |
Recent Advances in Predictive Methods in Actuarial Science (1B-I3) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Manuel Morales (Université de Montréal) | |
Session sponsored by the Actuarial Science Section | |
Monday June 15 (Mona Campbell 1108) | |
10:20 - 10:50 | Cary Tsai (Simon Fraser University), A Linear Relational Approach to Modelling Mortality Rates |
10:50 - 11:20 | Maciej Augustyniak (Université de Montréal), Estimating the Markov-Switching GARCH Model with a Deterministic Particle Filter |
11:20 - 11:50 | Anne Mackay (ETH Zurich), Predicting Best-Estimate Yield Curves in Incomplete Bond Markets |
Recursive Partitioning and Regression Trees (1B-I4) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Liqun Diao (University of Waterloo) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain - Scotiabank) | |
10:20 - 10:50 | Michael LeBlanc (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center), Refinement Rules for Prognosis and Enhanced Treatment Effect Subgroups |
10:50 - 11:20 | Robert Strawderman (University of Rochester), Doubly Robust Survival Trees |
11:20 - 11:50 | Thomas Loughin (Simon Fraser University), Heteroscedastic Regression Trees for Joint Modeling of Means and Variances |
Statistics in Biosciences: Statistical Methods for Big Data from Health Science (1B-I5) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Grace Yi (University of Waterloo) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain - Ondaatje) | |
10:20 - 10:50 | Xihong Lin (Harvard University), The Generalized Higher Criticism for Testing SNP-set Effects in Genetic Association Studies |
10:50 - 11:20 | Hongzhe Li (University of Pennsylvania), Sparse Simultaneous Signal Detection and Its Applications in Genomics |
11:20 - 11:50 | Charmaine Dean & Mark Wolters (Western University & Fudan University), Parameter Estimation in Autologistic Regression Models for Detection of Smoke in Satellite Images |
Biostatistics: Genetics and Imaging Topics (1B-C1) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Zeny Feng (University of Guelph) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2102) | |
10:20 - 10:35 | Yunan Zhu (University of Alberta), Estimating Sparse Graphical Models |
10:35 - 10:50 | Yongliang Zhai (University of British Columbia), A Poissonian Model of Indel Rate Variation for Phylogenetic Tree Inference |
10:50 - 11:05 | Sean Jewell (University of British Columbia), Phylogenetic Inference by Divide and Conquer Sequential Monte Carlo (D\&C SMC) |
11:05 - 11:20 | Yun Cai (Dalhousie University), Supervised Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Analysis of Microbiome Data |
11:20 - 11:35 | Bo Chen (University of Toronto), Statistical Analysis of Sex Chromosome in Genome-wide Association Studies |
11:35 - 11:50 | Keelin Greenlaw (University of Victoria), Empirical Bayes Multivariate Group-Sparse Regression for Brain Imaging Genomics |
Environmetrics (1B-C2) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Matías Salibián-Barrera (University of British Columbia) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2170) | |
10:20 - 10:35 | David J Thomson (Queen's University), Experiments ``Fixing'' Ground-Level Ozone |
10:35 - 10:50 | Herbert Nkwimi Tchahou (Statistique Canada), Indicators of Database Quality for Wetlands in Canada: Example of Analysis of Environmental Data |
10:50 - 11:05 | Ofir Harari (Simon Fraser University), Design on Non-Convex Regions: Optimal Experiments for Spatial Process Prediction |
11:05 - 11:20 | Audrey-Anne Vallée (Université de Neuchâtel), Incorporating Spatial and Operational Constraints in the Sampling Designs for Forest Inventories |
11:20 - 11:35 | Camila Casquilho-Resende (University of British Columbia), Spatio-temporal Modelling of Temperature Fields in the Pacific Northwest |
11:35 - 11:50 | Peter Starszyk (University of Waterloo), Inferring Chemical Kinetics from Direct and Indirect Concentration Data |
Overdispersion, Mixtures, and Related Topics (1B-C3) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Alexandre Leblanc (University of Manitoba) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2184) | |
10:20 - 10:35 | Xingde Duan (University of New Brunswick), ``Multivariate Poisson mixed models with unstructured covariance structure'' |
10:35 - 10:50 | Mohammad Rajibul Islam Mian (University of Windsor), Estimation for Zero Inflated Overdispersed Generalized Linear Model with Missing Covariates as well as Response |
10:50 - 11:05 | William H. Aeberhard (Dalhousie University), Nonparametric Estimation of Mixing Distributions for Mixed Poisson Models |
11:05 - 11:20 | Christine Nguyen (Brock University), On Inference of a Mixture Pareto Distribution |
11:20 - 11:35 | Mohamed Amezziane (Central Michigan University), The Exact Distribution of a Certain Class of Nonparametric Multivariate Two-Sample Test Statistics |
Time Series and Probability (1B-C4) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (University of British Columbia) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2198) | |
10:20 - 10:35 | Abdollah Safari (Simon Fraser University), Estimators of Regression Coefficients in Models for Time Series of Counts |
10:35 - 10:50 | Jinjun Tong (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Estimation and Filtering of State Space Model with GEV marginals and Exponential Levy-type Stable Errors |
10:50 - 11:05 | Trevor Thomson (University of Winnipeg), Efficient Estimation for Time Series Following Generalized Linear Models |
11:05 - 11:20 | Haosui Duanmu (University of Toronto), Nonstandard Analysis and its Application to Markov Chain Convergence Problem |
11:20 - 11:35 | Jinyoung Yang (University of Toronto), Automatically Tuned General-Purpose MCMC via New Adaptive Diagnostics |
11:35 - 11:50 | Sudhakar Achath (University of Saskatchewan), Imprecise Probabilities for Measuring Tracking Error Risk |
Case Study 1: Youth Employment and the 2008 Crisis (1C-D1) ![]() | |
Case Study | |
Organizer and Chair: Georges Monette (York University) | |
(Posters displayed 12:00-17:30. Presenters in attendance 13:30-15:30) | |
Monday June 15 (Student Union Building - McInness) | |
12:00 - 17:30 | Asma Bahamyirou, Alexei Nordell-Markovits, Eric Tsala & Teng Ke Xiong (Université de Sherbrooke) |
12:00 - 17:30 | Menglu Che, Sile Tao & Wei Tu (University of Alberta) |
12:00 - 17:30 | Bo Chen, Reihaneh Entezari & Tadeu Ferreira (University of Toronto) |
12:00 - 17:30 | Philippe Gagnon, Antoine Baudouin, Félix Carrier & Rafael Sobrino-CANCELLED (HEC Montréal) |
12:00 - 17:30 | Bowen Gao, Chendi Liao, Genming He, Jia Jing, Megan Kan & Qian Yang (University of Toronto) |
12:00 - 17:30 | Kamal Rai, Laura Lin, Joanne Xu, Danny Lu & Zixin Nie (University of Waterloo) |
12:00 - 17:30 | Gabrielle Simoneau & Pablo Gonzalez Ginestet (McGill University) |
12:00 - 17:30 | Abhishek Varu, Pratheep Kunwar, Yuvraj Pannu, Sudipta Saha, Bowei Xiao, Hiroaki Iijima, Janarthan Baral, Mohsen Soltanifar & Maheshan Indralingam (University of Toronto) |
Case Study 2: Baseball Strategies (1C-D2) ![]() | |
Case Study | |
Organizer and Chair: Georges Monette (York University) | |
(Posters displayed 12:00-17:30. Presenters in attendance 13:30-15:30) | |
Monday June 15 (Student Union Building - McInness) | |
12:00 - 17:30 | Junior Chuang, David Dai, Katherine Daignault, Bingqing Shen, Kelly Sunderland, Mai Xu & Jie Zhu (University of Toronto) |
12:00 - 17:30 | Chendi Liao, Genming He, Jia Jing & Wenqi Fan (University of Toronto) |
12:00 - 17:30 | Sergio Vicente, Isabelle Lefebvre & Steve Ferreira (Université de Montréal) |
Advances in High-Dimensional Statistical Inference (1D-I1) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Yingli Qin (University of Waterloo) | |
Monday June 15 (Rowe 1028) | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Gourab Mukherjee (University of Southern California), Adaptive Inventory Management Strategies for a Large Scale Newsvendor |
14:00 - 14:30 | Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore), Partial Correlation Screening for Estimating Large Precision Matrices, with Applications to Classification |
14:30 - 15:00 | Abbas Khalili (McGill University), Post-Model Selection Inference for Finite Mixture of Regression (FMR) Models |
Business and Industrial Applications (1D-I2) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Paul McNicholas (McMaster University) | |
Session sponsored by the Business and Industrial Statistics Section | |
Monday June 15 (McCain - Scotiabank) | |
13:30 - 14:15 | Shirley Mills (Carleton University), Privacy Preserving Classification for Partitioned Data |
14:15 - 15:00 | Stefan Steiner (University of Waterloo), Regulating the Bias-Variance Tradeoff in Analysis of Survey Data over Time with Application to a Customer Loyalty Survey |
Novel Statistical Methods for Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (1D-I3) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Lisa Lix (University of Manitoba) | |
Session sponsored by the Biostatistics Section | |
Monday June 15 (McCain - Ondaatje) | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Myriam Blanchin (University of Nantes), Assessing Change in Longitudinal PROMs Studies: Using IRT Polytomous Models to Detect and Adjust for Response Shift |
14:00 - 14:30 | Eleanor Pullenayegum (University of Toronto), Handling Health Utility Data: the Example of the EQ-5D |
14:30 - 15:00 | Tolulope Sajobi (University of Calgary), On Discrimination in Multivariate Non-Normal Repeated Measures Data |
Recent Developments in Small Area Estimation (1D-I4) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Mahmoud Torabi (University of Manitoba) | |
Session sponsored by the Survey Methods Section | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2170) | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Malay Ghosh (University of Florida), Prediction in Heteroscedastic Nested Error Regression Models with Random Dispersions |
14:00 - 14:30 | Jiming Jiang (University of California, Davis), Benchmarking the Observed Best Predictor |
14:30 - 15:00 | Gauri Datta (University of Georgia), Small Area Estimation for Normal Mixture Models |
BFF Inference and Beyond – Building a Unified Foundation for Statistical Inference (1D-I5) ![]() | |
Chair: Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University) Organizers: Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University) and Min-ge Xie (Rutgers University) | |
Session sponsored by the ICSA – Canada Chapter | |
Monday June 15 (Rowe 1011) | |
13:30 - 14:00 | Nancy Reid (University of Toronto), On some Principles of Statistical Inference |
14:00 - 14:30 | Jenny Shi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), A fiducial approach to the estimation of covariance matrix |
14:30 - 15:00 | Ming-ge Xie (Rutgers University), Confidence Distribution (CD) and a Unifying Framework for Statistical Inferences |
Actuarial Science and Finance 1 (1D-C1) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Michelle Xia (Northern Illinois University) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2184) | |
13:30 - 13:45 | Toby Kenney (Dalhousie University), Credibility Classification with Missing Data |
13:45 - 14:00 | Etienne Marceau (Université Laval), Discrete-Time Risk Models, with Exchangeable Archimedean Copulas |
14:00 - 14:15 | Alexander Melnikov (University of Alberta), Financial Markets with Long-range Dependence: Partial Hedging and Statistical Study |
14:15 - 14:30 | Lealand Morin (Capital One), Keeping Diffusion Processes within Bounds: Using Information between Observations |
14:30 - 14:45 | David Saunders (University of Waterloo), Lower Tail Independence of Hitting Times of Two-Dimensional Diffusion Processes |
Biostatistics in Action 1 (1D-C2) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Celia Greenwood (McGill University) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2198) | |
13:30 - 13:45 | Junior Chuang (University of Toronto), Impact of Ultra-Fine Particles on Childhood Development of Lung Functions, Results from Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study |
13:45 - 14:00 | Mohammad Ehsanul Karim (University of British Columbia), Comparison of Statistical Approaches Dealing with Immortal Time Bias in Drug Effectiveness Studies |
14:00 - 14:15 | Alisha Albert-Green (University of Western Ontario), A General Framework for the Joint Modelling of Multivariate Zero-Inflated Spatial Processes |
14:15 - 14:30 | Wei Hao (David) Dai (University of Toronto), Composite Indices for High-Dimensional Questionnaire Data |
14:30 - 14:45 | Xuan Li (York University), A Method for Clustering Hemagglutinin Influenza Protein Sequences |
14:45 - 15:00 | Ahalya Sivathayalan (Carleton University), Empirical Comparisons of the Signal-to-Noise Crossover Dose and the Benchmark Dose |
Biostatistics: Dealing with Incomplete Data (1D-C3) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Joel Dubin (University of Waterloo) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2116) | |
13:30 - 13:45 | Liqun Diao (University of Waterloo), Vine Copula Models for Recurrent Exacerbations in Chronic Disease |
13:45 - 14:00 | Yayuan Zhu (University of Waterloo), Analysis of Complex Event Outcome Data from Disease Clinics |
14:00 - 14:15 | Michael McIsaac (Queen's University), Designing Studies with Incomplete Data: An Adaptive Approach to Optimal Response-Dependent Mean Score Sampling |
14:15 - 14:30 | Chithran Vasudevan (Memorial University), Censored Quantile Regression with the Effective Usage of Auxiliary Information |
14:30 - 14:45 | Ying Wu (University of Waterloo), Assessing the Accuracy of Predictive Models with Interval-censored Data |
14:45 - 15:00 | Christopher A. Gravel (Carleton University), A Validation Sampling Approach for Unbiased Estimation in Misclassified Right Censored Continuous Time Survival Data |
Foundations and Nonparametrics (1D-C4) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Mireille Schnitzer (Université de Montréal) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2102) | |
13:30 - 13:45 | Asma Bahamyirou (Université de Sherbrooke), On the Discrepancy between Bayes Credibility and Frequentist Probability of Coverage |
13:45 - 14:00 | Weili Li (Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto), Extending the Evidential Paradigm to Accommodate Composite Hypotheses |
14:00 - 14:15 | Félix Camirand Lemyre (Université de Sherbrooke), Conditional Distributions from Top to Bottom. |
14:15 - 14:30 | Mikelis Bickis (University of Saskatchewan), Overthrowing the $\Omega$ Delusion and Making Probability Pointless |
14:30 - 14:45 | Alexandre Leblanc (University of Manitoba), Local Polynomial Regression: A Bernstein Polynomial Perspective |
14:45 - 15:00 | Mohamed Belalia (Université de Sherbrooke), Bernstein Conditional Density Estimation with Application to Conditional Distribution and Regression Functions |
Big Data Analysis: Methodology and Applications (1E-I1) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: S. Ejaz Ahmed (Brock University) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain - Scotiabank) | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Hao Chai (Yale University), Identifying Gene-Environment Interactions using a Robust Penalization Approach |
16:00 - 16:30 | Farouk Nathoo (University of Victoria), A High-Dimensional State-Space Model for the Joint Analysis of EEG and MEG Data |
16:30 - 17:00 | Anand Vidyashankar (George Mason University), Robust Inference for Conditionally Specified Models via Divergences |
Methodological developments that could impact the practice of statistics (1E-I2) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Fernando Camacho (Damos Inc.) | |
Session sponsored by the Accreditation Committee | |
Monday June 15 (McCain - Ondaatje) | |
15:30 - 16:15 | Richard Cook (University of Waterloo), Adaptive Clinical Trials: Statistical Methods and Practical Considerations. |
16:15 - 17:00 | Lehana Thabane (McMaster University), Issues in Vaccine Trials: Recent Debate, Methodological Challenges and the Ethics |
Novel Assessment Methods in Undergraduate Education (1E-I3) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Chair: Alison Gibbs (University of Toronto) Organizer: Bruce Dunham (University of British Columbia) | |
Session sponsored by the Statistics Education Section | |
Monday June 15 (Rowe 1011) | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Susan Kinniburgh (Camosun College), Outcomes of an Introductory Statistics Course Using WeBWorK Online Assessment |
16:00 - 16:30 | Bruce Dunham (University of British Columbia), Using Two-Stage Examinations in Undergraduate Courses |
16:30 - 17:00 | Douglas Whitaker (University of Florida), LOCUS: Assessing Conceptual Understanding of Statistics |
Statistical Methods in Molecular Evolution (1E-I4) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Liangliang Wang (Simon Fraser University) | |
Monday June 15 (Rowe 1028) | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Cécile Ané (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Statistical Methods to Detect Reticulate Evolution |
16:00 - 16:30 | Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (University of British Columbia), Inferring the Phylogeny of Cancer Cells |
16:30 - 17:00 | Forrest Crawford (Yale University), Estimation for General Birth-Death Processes in Molecular Evolution |
Stochastic Processes and Applications (1E-I5) ![]() | |
Invited Paper Session | |
Organizer and Chair: Gail Ivanoff (University of Ottawa) | |
Session sponsored by the Probability Section | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2170) | |
15:30 - 16:00 | Gennady Shaikhet (Carleton University), Asymptotically Tight Bounds for Sensor Allocation Problems on the Real Line |
16:00 - 16:30 | Aaron Smith (University of Ottawa), Mixing Time of the Constrained Ising Process on the Lattice at Low Density |
16:30 - 17:00 | Louis-Pierre Arguin (Université de Montréal), Probabilistic Approach for the Maxima of the Riemann Zeta Function on the Critical Line |
Complex Correlation Structures and Zero-Heavy Data (1E-C1) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Ying Zhang (Acadia University) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2198) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Tiago Pellegrini (University of New Brunswick), Tweedie Mixed Models for Spatial Areal Data |
15:45 - 16:00 | Shijia Wang (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Inference About Regression Parameters Using Highly Stratified Survey Count Data with Overdispersion and Repeated Measurements |
16:00 - 16:15 | Tariqul Hasan (University of New Brunswick), Simultaneous Modelling of Clustered Marginal Counts and Multinomial Proportions with Zero-Inflation with Application to Analysis of Osteoporotic Fractures Data |
16:15 - 16:30 | Chunlin Wang (University of Waterloo), Semiparametric Inferences on the Means of Groups with Excess Zero Observations |
16:30 - 16:45 | Erin Lundy (Western University), Joint Models for Multivariate Longitudinal Zero-Heavy Count Data Analysis |
16:45 - 17:00 | Haocheng Li (University of Calgary), Joint Modeling Methods for Functional Data Mixed with Zero-and-One Inflated Continuous Proportions and Skewed Continuous Measurements |
Experimental Design, Simulation, and Reliability (1E-C2) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Stefan Steiner (University of Waterloo) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2116) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Hugh Chipman (Acadia University), Simulation Studies for Statistical Procedures: Why Can't We Practice What We Preach? |
15:45 - 16:00 | Fatimah Al Ahmad (Acadia University), Assessing the Accuracy of BART Credible Intervals for Prediction |
16:00 - 16:15 | Nathaniel Stevens (University of Waterloo), Quantifying Agreement Between Two Methods of Measurement |
16:15 - 16:30 | Candemir Cigsar (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Carryover Effects in Repairable Systems |
16:30 - 16:45 | Hensley Hubert Mariathas (Memorial University of Newfoundland), The Effect of Heterogeneity on the Assessment of Imperfect Repairs |
16:45 - 17:00 | Po Yang (University of Manitoba), Response Surface Methodology using Split-Plot Definitive Screening Designs |
Statistical Science for Ocean Ecosystems (1E-C3) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Duncan Murdoch (Western University) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2184) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Joanna Mills Flemming (Dalhousie University), Statistical Methods for Assessing Impacts of Overfishing |
15:45 - 16:00 | Stuart Carson (Dalhousie University), Spatio-Temporal Statistical Modelling for Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) Abundance on the Scotian Shelf using Sample Survey Data |
16:00 - 16:15 | Noel Cadigan (Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland), A Spatio-Temporal Stock Assessment Model for Snow Crab in Newfoundland and Labrador |
16:15 - 16:30 | Lin Qin (University of Waterloo), Detecting Sea Water Migration in Canadian Arctic Fish |
16:30 - 16:45 | Daniel Dinsdale (University of British Columbia), Stochastic Modelling of Marine Mammal Tag Data |
16:45 - 17:00 | Connie Stewart (University of New Brunswick Saint John), Measuring Distance between Compositional Data Containing Zeros |
Statistics in Action: A Smörgåsbord (1E-C4) ![]() | |
Contributed Paper Session | |
Chair: Wendy Lou (University of Toronto) | |
Monday June 15 (McCain 2102) | |
15:30 - 15:45 | Yizhou Fang (University of Waterloo), Fast and Flexible Non-linear Modeling of Financial Assets |
15:45 - 16:00 | Philippa Swartz (Simon Fraser University), The Quality of Pitches in Major League Baseball |
16:00 - 16:15 | Michael Guerzhoy (University of Toronto), Hierarchical Bayesian Models for Uncertainty-Quantified Ranking of Restaurant Chains by Food Safety Compliance |
16:15 - 16:30 | Anita Brobbey (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Analysis of Ordered Categorical Data from Designed Experiments |
16:30 - 16:45 | Thuva Vanniyasingam (McMaster University), Determining Individual-Specific Terminal Half-Life Estimates and Optimal Sampling Time Points for Patients with Hemophilia B Administered rFIXfc |
16:45 - 17:00 | Charles Bordet (Université Laval), A Stochastic Pella Tomlinson Model and its Maximum Sustainable Yield |