Session Schedule - Monday May 27
- Advances in High-Dimensional Data Analysis (1D-I1)
- Analysis of Survival and Clinical Trials Data (1D-C1)
- Bayesian Estimation and Inference (1B-C1)
- Biostatistics - Applications and Case Studies (1D-C2)
- Biostatistics - Theory and Methods I (1B-C2)
- Biostatistics - Theory and Methods II (1C-C1)
- Business and Industrial Statistics I (1C-C2)
- Case Study I: Exploring Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Environmental Noise in Toronto (1C-D1)
- Case Study II: Study of the Impact of Human Disturbances on Habitat Selection and on Calf Survival for Forest-Dwelling Caribou (1C-D2)
- Clustering and Classification (1B-C3)
- Dependence I: Correlation and Copulas (1D-C3)
- Dependence Models with Insurance Applications (1C-I1)
- Environmental Modeling: Applications and Case Studies (1C-C3)
- Estimation Methods (1D-C4)
- Experimental and Sampling Design (1D-C5)
- Financial Mathematics (1B-I1)
- Fitting Complex Models Using Automatic Differentation Model Builder (ADMB) (1C-I2)
- High-Dimensional Data Analysis for Brain Imaging (1C-I3)
- Identifiability: Pushing Data to the Limits (1C-I4)
- Inaugural Session (1A-A1)
- Moving Up in Academic Ranks: Challenges and Strategies for Statisticians Involved in Interdisciplinary Research (1C-I5)
- New Developments in Statistical Neuroscience (1B-I2)
- Poster Session (1C-P)
- Probability I (1C-C4)
- Recent Development on Computer Experiments (1B-I3)
- Recent Developments in R packages (1D-I2)
- Some Thoughts on How to be More Successful (1D-I3)
- SSC Presidential Invited Address (1A-A2)
- Statistics and Ecology (1D-I4)
- Statistics and the Environment (1B-V)
- Stochastic Processes Arising in Environmental Sciences (1D-I5)
- Survey Sampling and Applied Mathematics (1B-I4)
- Survey: Theory, Methods and Applications (1C-C5)
- Survival Analysis Methods and Applications (1C-I6)
- Variable Selection and Statistical Learning (1C-C6)
Inaugural Session (1A-A1)  | |
| Special Session | |
| Chair: Rhonda J. Rosychuk (University of Alberta) Organizer: Christian Léger (Université de Montréal) | |
| Monday May 27 (CCIS 1-430) | |
| 8:15 - 8:20 | Duane Szafron (Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (IT), University of Alberta / Vice-recteur et vice-président, l'Université de l'Alberta) |
| 8:20 - 8:25 | Christian Léger (SSC President / Président de la SSC) |
| 8:25 - 8:30 | Rhonda J. Rosychuk (SSC 2013 Local Arrangements Chair / Présidente du comité des arrangements locaux, SSC 2013) |
| SSC Presidential Invited Address (1A-A2) | |
| Special Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Christian Léger (Université de Montréal) | |
| Monday May 27 (CCIS 1-430) | |
| 8:30 - 9:45 | Sallie Keller (University of Waterloo), Celebrating the Challenges of Our Profession |
| Statistics and the Environment (1B-V) | |
| Introductory Overview Lecture | |
| Organizer and Chair: Debbie J. Dupuis (HEC Montréal) | |
| Monday May 27 (KATZ 1-080) | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Christopher Wikle (University of Missouri), Statistics and the Environment: Overview and Challenges |
| Financial Mathematics (1B-I1) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: Michael Kouritzin (University of Alberta) Organizer: Rafal Kulik (University of Ottawa) | |
| Session sponsored by the Probability Section | |
| Monday May 27 (ECHA L1-430) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Don McLeish (University of Waterloo), Martingales, Likelihood, and Monte Carlo Methods for Continuous Time Models in Finance |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Cody Hyndman (Concordia University), A Convolution Method for Numerical Solution of Backward Stochastic Differential Equations |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Tahir Choulli (University of Alberta), Stochastic Hellinger Distance: A Statistical Tool for a Financial Economics Problem |
| New Developments in Statistical Neuroscience (1B-I2) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Shoja'eddin Chenouri (University of Waterloo) | |
| Session sponsored by the Biostatistics Section | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 254) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Sam Behseta (California State University), Bayesian Modeling of Multiple Spike Trains |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Xi (Rossi) Luo (Brown University), A Point-Process Response Model for Optogenetic Experiments on Neural Circuits |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Reza Ramezan (University of Waterloo), The Skellam Process: A New Approach to Modelling Neural Spike Trains |
| Recent Development on Computer Experiments (1B-I3) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: Alexandre Leblanc (University of Manitoba) Organizer: Devon C. Lin (Queen's University) | |
| Monday May 27 (ECHA 1-498) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Dave Woods (University of Southampton), Bayesian Inference for Computationally Expensive Models with Application to the Estimation of Stem Cell Properties |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Jason Loeppky (University of British Columbia - Okanagan), Bayesian Prediction and Inference in Analysis of Computer Experiments |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Pritam Ranjan (Acadia University), A New Multi-Stage Sequential Design Approach for Estimating Quantiles of Simulator Outputs |
| Survey Sampling and Applied Mathematics (1B-I4) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: J.N.K. Rao (Carleton University) Organizers: Susana Rubin Bleuer (Statistics Canada) and Ioana Schiopu Kratina (University of Ottawa) | |
| Session sponsored by the Survey Methods Section | |
| Monday May 27 (ECHA L1-140) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Susana Rubin Bleuer (Statistics Canada), Micro-strata |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Lenka Mach (Statistics Canada), Sample Coordination Using Methods Based on Linear Programming |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Changbao Wu (University of Waterloo), Bayesian Pseudo-EL Approach Using Survey Data: Overview and Application to Regression Analysis |
| Bayesian Estimation and Inference (1B-C1) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Paul Gustafson (University of British Columbia) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 228) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Avik Halder (Queen's University), Example of Bayesian Semi-Parametric Inference for the Frailty Model Using Lévy Process Prior |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Khader Khadraoui (Université Laval), Bayesian Estimation with M-splines of the Spectral Measure of an Extreme-value Distribution |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Luai Al Labadi (UAE University), A Bayesian Nonparametric Goodness of Fit Test for Right Censored Data Based on Approximate Samples from the Beta-Stacy Process |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Saman Muthukumarana (University of Manitoba), Bayesian Analysis and Model Assessment of Binary Item Response Data |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Mohammed Obeidat (University of Saskatchewan), Bayesian Estimation of Time Series of Counts |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Farhad Shokoohi (University of Manitoba), Bayesian Small Area Estimation Using P-Spline and Time Series Models |
| Biostatistics - Theory and Methods I (1B-C2) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Jinko Graham (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 206) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Abdelaziz Alsubie (Acadia University), Simultaneous Inference for Low Dose Risk Estimation with Quantal Data in Benchmark Analysis |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Caitlin Daly (McMaster University), A Novel Statistical Method for Transference of Paediatric Reference Intervals Using Hospital-Based Data |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Depeng Jiang (University of Manitoba), Latent Class Joint Model for Longitudinal and Time-to-Event Data |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Kun Liang (University of Waterloo), Normalization of ChIP-seq Data with Control |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Pooneh Pordeli (University of Calgary), Polynomial Spline Estimation for Partially Linear Single-Index Transformation Models with Current Status Data |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Yujie Zhong (University of Waterloo), Analysis of Current Status Family Data Subject to Ascertainment Bias |
| Clustering and Classification (1B-C3) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Hugh Chipman (Acadia University) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 176) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Reshu Agarwal (Acadia University), mBACT: A New Classifier for Satellite Images |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Khatoon Alobaidan (Acadia University), A Measure of Compactness for Hierarchical Clustering |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Sanjeena Dang (University of Guelph), Cluster-Weighted Factor Analyzers |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Thierry Chekouo Tekougang (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center), Variable Selection With Overlapping Clustering |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Cristina Tortora (University of Guelph), Probabilistic and Distance Based Factor Clustering: A Review |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Irene Vrbik (University of Guelph), Fractionally-Supervised Classification |
| Dependence Models with Insurance Applications (1C-I1) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Gordon Willmot (University of Waterloo) | |
| Session sponsored by the Actuarial Science Section | |
| Monday May 27 (ECHA L1-430) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Jun Cai (University of Waterloo), Dependence Notions Through Arrangement Increasing Joint Survival Functions with Applications to Optimal Allocation Problems |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Christian Genest (McGill University), Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling of Automobile Insurance Claim Reserves |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Étienne Marceau (Université Laval), Recent Developments on Aggregation of Dependent Risks |
| Fitting Complex Models Using Automatic Differentation Model Builder (ADMB) (1C-I2) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: Joanna Mills Flemming (Dalhousie University) Organizer: Noel Cadigan (Memorial University) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 206) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Mollie Brooks (University of Florida), Predicting Temporally Autocorrelated Pond Depths with Irregular Time Series Data |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Noel Cadigan (Memorial University), Improved Estimation and Forecasts of Fish Stock Maturities Using Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Anders Nielsen (Danish Technical University), Introduction to AD Model Builder and State--Space Fish Stock Assessment Model |
| High-Dimensional Data Analysis for Brain Imaging (1C-I3) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Farouk Nathoo (University of Victoria) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 176) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Mirza Faisal Beg (Simon Fraser University), Computational Morphometric Biomarkers for Discrimination of Dementias |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Timothy D. Johnson (University of Michigan), A GPU Implementation of a Spatial GLMM: Assessing Spatially Varying Coefficients of Multiple Sclerosis Lesions |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Mary Lesperance (University of Victoria), Comparing Variational Bayes with Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian Computation in Neuroimaging |
| Identifiability: Pushing Data to the Limits (1C-I4) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Luke Bornn (Harvard University) | |
| Monday May 27 (ECHA 1-498) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Paul Gustafson (University of British Columbia), Bayesian Inference in Partially Identified Models: Exploring the Limits of Limited Data |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Wes Johnson (UC Irvine), Bayesian Semiparametric (Identifiable) Regression Modeling for ROC Analysis, Absent a Gold Standard |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Stephen Walker (University of Kent), Identifiability Issues with Mixtures of Normal Distributions and the Mixture of Dirichlet Process Model |
| Moving Up in Academic Ranks: Challenges and Strategies for Statisticians Involved in Interdisciplinary Research (1C-I5) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Wendy Lou (University of Toronto) | |
| Statistical researchers in interdisciplinary environments face special challenges at performance evaluation, promotion, and tenure application. The extra effort needed to highlight creative/original statistical contributions to interdisciplinary research can be discouraging. Other issues include: (i) Reduced productivity while training oneself/students in new disciplines; (ii) Lack of appreciation for non-statistical journals or non-traditional research output; (iii) Conflicting expectations under joint appointments; (iv) Higher service demands including grant reviews and consulting. The panel will discuss strategies for showcasing successfully one’s interdisciplinary research contributions. The panelists will share their perspectives, including several administrative viewpoints, gathered from various research institutions in Canada and the US. | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 254) | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Joel A. Dubin (University of Waterloo) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Terry Hyslop (Thomas Jefferson University & Kimmel Cancer Center) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Karen A. Kopciuk (Alberta Health Services - Cancer Care & University of Calgary) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | A. John Petkau (University of British Columbia) |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Lehana Thabane (McMaster University) |
| Survival Analysis Methods and Applications (1C-I6) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Wenqing He (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Monday May 27 (ECHA L1-140) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Richard Cook (University of Waterloo), Assessment of Treatment Effects Following Intermediate Events in Cancer Trials |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Yi Li (University of Michigan), Ultrahigh Dimensional Time Course Feature Selection |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Ronghui (Lily) Xu (University of California, San Diego), Explained Variation in Correlated Survival Data |
| Biostatistics - Theory and Methods II (1C-C1) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Mireille Schnitzer (Harvard School of Public Health) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 265) | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Sayantee Jana (McMaster University), A Moderated Trace Test for the Growth Curve Model and Its Application for Gene-Filtering in Time-Course Microarray Data |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Stefan Konigorski (University of Toronto), A Censored Regression Method to Adjust for Medication Effects in Genetic Analysis of a Quantitative Trait When the Treatment Received Depends on the Trait |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Chel Hee Lee (University of Saskatchewan), Zero-Truncated Poisson Imprecise Probability Model for Quantifying Prior Ignorance |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Zhihui (Amy) Liu (McGill University), Measuring the Yearly Mortality Reductions Due to a Cancer Screening Program: A Round-by-Round Approach |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Maryam Zolghadr (University of Gothenburg), Optimal Design of Dilution Experiments under Volume Constraints |
| Business and Industrial Statistics I (1C-C2) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Jason Loeppky (University of British Columbia) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 221) | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Yumi Kondo (University of British Columbia), Bayesian Nonparametric Subset Selection Procedures with Weibull Components |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Mark Krzeminski (Brock University), Optimal Designs for Accelerated Life Tests with Multiple Stress Factors |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Blake MacDonald (Acadia University), GPfit: An R Package for Fitting Gaussian Process Models to Simulator Data |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Nathaniel Payne (Simon Fraser University), Development of a Structural Wood Adhesive Testing Standard Using a Nested Generalized Linear Mixed Model |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Jimmy Poon (Simon Fraser University), A Spatial Cross-Sectional Credibility Model with Dependence Among Risks |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Neil Spencer (Acadia University), Isomorphism Check for Two-Level Star-Based Factorial Designs with Randomization Restrictions |
| Environmental Modeling: Applications and Case Studies (1C-C3) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Jean-François Angers (Université de Montréal) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 164) | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Alisha Albert-Green (University of Western Ontario), Visualization Tools for Assessing the Markov Property: Sojourn Times in the Ontario Fire Weather Index |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Wesley Burr (Queen's University), Temperature and Mortality: a Canadian Perspective |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Laura Cowen (University of Victoria), A Comparison of Abundance Estimates Obtained from Extended Batch Marking and Jolly-Seber Type Experiments |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Wenkai (Kevin) Ma (University of Western Ontario), A Simulation Model for Wind-Driven Fire-Spotting |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Shan Qiao (University of Saskatchewan), Estimating the Effects of Air Pollutants on Recurrent Hospital Admission for Respiratory Diseases |
| Probability I (1C-C4) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Gail Ivanoff (University of Ottawa) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 276) | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Ibrahim Abdelrazeq (University of Ottawa), Inference for Discretely Observed Levy-Driven Ornstein-Uhlenbeck Processes |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Farid Elktaibi (University of Ottawa), Asymptotics for Linear Processes and Change-Point Detection |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Craig Kainulainen (Lakehead University), Average Distance Results in Geometric Figures and Compact Connected Spaces |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Deli Li (Lakehead University), On the Central Limit Theorem along Subsequences of Sums of I.I.D. Random Variables |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Weiwei Liu (University of Western Ontario), Asymptotic Theory for GARCH-in-Mean Processes |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Samira Sadeghi (University of Alberta), On The Almost Sure Rates of Convergence of Linear Algorithms with Slowly Decreasing Gain |
| Survey: Theory, Methods and Applications (1C-C5) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Changbao Wu (University of Waterloo) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 228) | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Min Chen (University of Waterloo), Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Method for Pretest-Posttest Studies Using Survey Data |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Gauri Sankar Datta (University of Georgia, U.S. Bureau of the Census), A Weighted Likelihood Approach to Model-Based Small Area Estimation with Unit-Level Data |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Darren Gray (Statistics Canada), A Multi-Constraint Sample Allocation for Detailed National Estimates Made Trickier by Provincial Buy-Ins |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Pierre-Olivier Julien (Statistique Canada), Negative Sample Coordination: An Overview of Some Methods |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Christian Olivier Nambeu (Statistique Canada), Calibration Using Estimated Constraints |
| Variable Selection and Statistical Learning (1C-C6) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: John Koval (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 177) | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Nasrin Afzal (University of Calgary), Variable Selection in a Partially Linear Additive Hazard Model with the Elastic Net Penalty |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Brian Franczak (University of Guelph), Clustering and Classification of Asymmetric Data |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Longlong Huang (University of Calgary), Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Based Variable Selection for Accelerated Failure Time Model |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Zi Zhen Liu (University of Western Ontario), The Adaptive Positive LASSO Procedure for Modelling ARCH Processes |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Jabed Hossain Tomal (University of British Columbia), Ensembling Classification Models Based on Phalanxes of Variables with Applications in Drug Discovery |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Yukun Zhang (University of Calgary), Coordinate Descent Methods for the Birnbaum-Saunders Regression Model with High-Dimensional Survival Data |
| Case Study I: Exploring Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity of Environmental Noise in Toronto (1C-D1) | |
| Case Study | |
| Chair: Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb (Université Laval) Organizer: Lennon Li (Public Health Ontario & University of Toronto) | |
| Monday May 27 (Second floor atrium, Katz Group Centre) | |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Shiva Ashta, Doug Cohen, Kelvin Hung & Jin Hyung Lee (University of Toronto) |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Janie Coulombe, Kenza Sallier & Audrey-Anne Vallée (Université de Montréal) |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Nicholas Fishbane, Seong-Hwan Jun, Yunlong Nie & Camila Casquilho Resende (University of British Columbia) |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Charlotte Haley, Evi Lansimaki, Joshua Pohlkamp-Hartt, David Riegert & Aaron Springford (Queen's University) |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Daming Lin, Shiyi Chen, Zihang Lu, Stefan Konigorski & Anastasia Teterina (University of Toronto) |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Adrian Waddell & Qianyi Huang (University of Waterloo) |
| Case Study II: Study of the Impact of Human Disturbances on Habitat Selection and on Calf Survival for Forest-Dwelling Caribou (1C-D2) | |
| Case Study | |
| Chair: Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb (Université Laval) Organizer: Thierry Duchesne (Université Laval) | |
| Monday May 27 (Second floor atrium, Katz Group Centre) | |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Mohamad Elmasri, Marie-Pier Cote & Ievgenii Grebennikov (McGill University) |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Ruth Joy & Zheng Sun (Simon Fraser University) |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Anastasia Teterina, Priscila Pequeno & Zihang Lu (University of Toronto) |
| Poster Session (1C-P) | |
| Contributed Poster Session | |
| Monday May 27 (Main floor atrium, Katz Group Centre) | |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Taryn Athey (University of Guelph), Using Frequency Matrices for a Cross-Taxa Analysis of Errors in DNA Barcodes |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Maggie Chu (University of Western Ontario), Cluster Analysis of Time-Course RNA-seq Data: Evaluation of Initialization |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Bolanle Dansu (University of Manitoba), Statistical Inference for Discriminant Function Coefficients in Doubly Multivariate Data |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Spectrum Han (University of Western Ontario), Models for Crown Fire Rate of Spread |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Zhiyong Jin (University of Manitoba), A Fast Numerical Algorithm for Boundary Crossing Probabilities for Jump Diffusion Processes |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Yang Liu (University of British Columbia), Lower Quantile Estimation via Subjectively Censored Weibull MLE with Bootstrap Threshold Selection |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Nickchi Payman (University of Tehran), A Bidirectional Hidden Markov Model Together with External Hints for Gene Prediction |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Adam Rahman (Western University), Sweavetest - Automatic Multiple Choice Test Analysis |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Tianji Shi (University of British Columbia), Tension Proofloading on Fingerjointed Lumber: Benefits and Optimization |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Zheng Sun (Simon Fraser University), Testing Fit for Latent Variables |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Yang Tang (University of Guelph), Common Factors For Clustering Data of Mixed Type |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Jinkun Xiao (University of Western Ontario), Improved Portmanteau Diagnostic Check for ARFIMA Time Series Models |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Lu Xin (University of Waterloo), Continuous-Time Stochastic Blockmodels for Transactional Networks |
| 13:30 - 15:30 | Lin Xue (University of Manitoba), Longitudinal Analysis of Development and Well-Being of Canadian Children and Youth |
| Advances in High-Dimensional Data Analysis (1D-I1) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: Xiaojian Xu (Brock University) Organizer: Sanjoy Sinha (Carleton University) | |
| Monday May 27 (ECHA L1-140) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Christina Kendziorski (University of Wisconsin - Madison), EBSeq: An Empirical Bayesian Approach for Inference in RNA-seq Experiments |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Abdus Sattar (Case Western Reserve University), Prediction of Genome-Wide Promoters and Enhancers Using a Flexible Semiparametric Mixed Effects Model |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Sanjoy Sinha (Carleton University), Robust Methods for Selecting Differential miRNAs in Breast Cancer |
| Recent Developments in R packages (1D-I2) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Duncan Murdoch (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 176) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Peter Solymos (University of Alberta), Complex Models in Ecology: Challenges and Solutions |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Michael Friendly & Matthew Sigal (York University), Recent Advances in Visualization for Multivariate Linear Models |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Paul Gilbert (retired), 2piQA: Crowd-Sourcing R Package Quality Assessment |
| Some Thoughts on How to be More Successful (1D-I3) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Dena Schanzer (Public Health Agency of Canada) | |
| In 2004, the SSC formally established the SSC Accreditation Program for professional statisticians who practice in Canada. Our 1st Accreditation
sponsored session aims to engage our accredited members who apply
statistical methods to solve real-world problems as well as our students
and those who teach them in a discussion of soft skills for a successful
career in the practice of statistics. Based on his 32-year career in
industry and extensive involvement in professional societies, the
speaker will provide a variety of career learnings and recommendations
on how to be more successful in one’s career. The many benefits and
advantages of professional society involvement will be presented, and
the recent emphasis of the American Statistical Association on
non-technical skills will be highlighted.
Session sponsored by the Accreditation Committee | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 254) | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Bob Starbuck |
| Statistics and Ecology (1D-I4) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Louis-Paul Rivest (Université Laval) | |
| Monday May 27 (ECHA 1-498) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Joanna Mills Flemming (Dalhousie University), Modelling and Prediction for Clustered Count Data with Excess Zeros |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Subhash Lele (University of Alberta), Population Viability Analysis in the Presence of Observation Error: Consequences and Statistical Inference |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Thierry Duchesne (Université Laval), Statistical Analysis of Animal Movement |
| Stochastic Processes Arising in Environmental Sciences (1D-I5) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Barbara Szyszkowicz (Carleton University) | |
| Session sponsored by the Probability Section | |
| Monday May 27 (ECHA L1-430) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Don Dawson (Carleton University), Some Probabilistic Objects Motivated by Evolutionary Biology and Ecology |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Gail Ivanoff (University of Ottawa), Renewal Processes in Two Dimensions |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Reg Kulperger (University of Western Ontario), Trend Analysis of Water Yields in Northern Catchments |
| Analysis of Survival and Clinical Trials Data (1D-C1) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Richard Cook (University of Waterloo) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 228) | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Jeff Bakal (University of Alberta), Refining the Analysis of Composite Endpoints in Clinical Trials |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Pierre-Jérôme Bergeron (University of Ottawa), Analyzing Length-Biased Survival Data Using the R Package lbiassurv |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Keyue Ding (Queen's University), Discovery of Pre-Post-Treatment Predictive Biomarker |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Adel Elghafghuf (University of Prince Edward Island), A Cross-Classification and Multiple Membership Model Applied to Time-to-Event Data |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Gabriel Escarela (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana - Iztapalapa), Regression Analysis of Competing Risks with Missing Covariate Data |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Michael McIsaac (University of Waterloo), Misspecified Models in Analyses of Incomplete Clinical Trial Data |
| Biostatistics - Applications and Case Studies (1D-C2) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Wendy Lou (University of Toronto) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 265) | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Tanja Hoegg (University of British Columbia - Okanagan), Breast Cancer in British Columbia - Identification of High Risk Women Based on Breast Cancer Risk Modelling |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Mohammad Ehsanul Karim (University of British Columbia), A Simulation Study of Methods Used to Reduce Variability in the Inverse Probability of Treatment Weights for Marginal Structural Cox Models |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Prosanta Mondal (University of Saskatchewan), Predictors for Nursing Home Placement (NHP) and Mortality Among Intellectually Disabled Adults With and Without Down Syndrome (DS): Application of Competing Risks Models |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Yawen Xu (York University), Multiple-Platform Data Integration Method with Application to Combined Analysis of Microarray and Proteomic Data |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Xuechen Zhang (University of Alberta), Power Comparison of Discrete Data Methods with Repeated Measurement Data in Small Sample |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Nicholas Mitsakakis (Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment Collaborative), Methodological Challenges in Mapping a Disease Specific Psychometric Instrument to a Disease Specific Utility Instrument |
| Dependence I: Correlation and Copulas (1D-C3) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Bruno Rémillard (HEC Montréal) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 221) | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Ayi Ajavon (Université de Montréal), Copulas Extensions for Non Continuous Random Variables |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Niroshan Withanage (University of Calgary), Joint Modeling of Hierarchically Clustered Non-Gaussian Continuous Outcomes via the Gaussian Copula |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Yanling Cai (University of British Columbia), Breaking the Same Board Twice: the Magic of Statistics! |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Zihang Lu (University of Toronto), The Bias for Sub-Hazard Ratio when the Event Times are Correlated |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Chafik Bouhaddioui (UAE University), Statistical Inference in Infinite-Order Cointegrated Vector Autoregressive Processes under Uncorrelated but Dependent Errors |
| Estimation Methods (1D-C4) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Jose Garrido (Concordia University) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 177) | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Golshid Chatrchi (Carleton University), Robust Estimation of Variance Components in Small Area Estimation |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Christopher A. Gravel (Carleton University), Analysis of Electronic Health Records for Active Pharmacovigilance with Misclassification of the Study Variable |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Caren Hasler (Université de Neuchâtel), Balanced $k$-nearest Neighbor Imputation |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Feng He (University of Waterloo), Analysis of Progressive Multi-State Models with Misclassified States |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Huijing Wang (Simon Fraser University), Analysis of Counts with Two Latent Classes |
| Experimental and Sampling Design (1D-C5) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Derek Bingham (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Monday May 27 (EdSouth 206) | |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Yin Li (University of Alberta), Multiple-Objective Response-Adaptive Repeated Measurement Designs in Clinical Trials for Binary Responses |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Michael A Rotondi (York University), A Confidence Interval Approach to Sample Size Estimation for Interobserver Agreement Studies with Multiple Raters and Outcomes |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Chris Wild (University of Auckland), Likelihood-Based Analysis of Longitudinal Data from Outcome-Dependent Sampling Designs |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Yanqing Yi (Memorial University of Newfoundland), The Most Powerful Test and the Optimal Design of Response Adaptive Clinical Trials |