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Gold Medal Address (2A-A)
Special Session
Organizer and Chair: Roman Viveros-Aguilera (McMaster University)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 104
8:45 - 9:45 Christian Genest (McGill University), How to Model Dependence if You Must
 
An Overview of Models and Methods for Spatio-temporal Data Analysis (2B-V)
Introductory Overview Lecture
Organizer and Chair: Alexandre Leblanc (University of Manitoba)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 104
10:15 - 11:45 Jim Zidek (University of British Columbia), An Overview of Models and Methods for Spatio-temporal Data Analysis
 
Applications of Statistics in Medicine (2B-I1)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Juli Atherton (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Session sponsored by the Committee on New Investigators
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 101
10:15 - 10:45 Jiguo Cao (Simon Fraser University), Estimating the Intensity of Ward Admission and its Effect on Emergency Department Access Block
10:45 - 11:15 Abbas Khalili (McGill University), The Use of Mixture of Linear Mixed Effect Models in identifying Clinical Characteristics of Systemic Sclerosis Disease
11:15 - 11:45 Mahmoud Torabi (University of Manitoba), Likelihood Inference in Spatio-Temporal Modeling
 
On Assessing Liking and Intensity in Sensory Science (2B-I2)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Paul McNicholas (University of Guelph)
Organizers: Paul McNicholas (University of Guelph) and Mu Zhu (University of Waterloo)
Session sponsored by the Business and Industrial Statistics Section
 
Tuesday June 5 Alexander Hall, room 200
10:15 - 10:35 Chris Findlay (Compusense Inc.), You Know What You Like, But What About Everyone Else? A Case Study on Incomplete Block Segmentation of White-Bread Consumers.
10:35 - 10:55 Ryan Browne (University of Guelph), Design and Analysis of Incomplete Block Designs
10:55 - 11:15 John Castura (Compusense Inc.), Sweet and Powerful: A Two-attribute Time Intensity Study of Fruit Liqueur
11:15 - 11:35 Moyi Li (University of Guelph), Analysis of Time Intensity Data: a Fruit Liqueur Study
 
Outlier-Robust Estimation in Survey Sampling (2B-I3)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Julie Trépanier (Statistics Canada)
Organizer: Jean-François Beaumont (Statistics Canada)
Session sponsored by the Survey Methods Section
 
Tuesday June 5 Alexander Hall, room 100
10:15 - 10:45 Malay Gosh (University of Florida), Outlier Adjusted Robust Bayes Estimators in Survey Sampling
10:45 - 11:15 David Haziza (Université de Montréal), A Unified Approach to Robust Estimation in Finite Population Sampling
11:15 - 11:45 Nikolas Tzavidis (University of Southampton, U.K.), Outlier Robust Small Domain Estimation for Business Surveys in the Netherlands
 
Trend Analysis of Time Series Data and Applications (2B-I4)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Debbie Dupuis (HEC Montréal)
Organizer: Ying Zhang (Acadia University)
Session sponsored by the Committee on Women in Statistics
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 103
10:15 - 10:45 Xin Gao (York University), Simultaneous Model Selection and Estimation for Mean and Association Structures with Clustered Binary Data
10:45 - 11:15 Yulia Gel (University of Waterloo), Nonparametric Tests to Detect Parametric Patterns in Time Series with ARCH Effects
11:15 - 11:45 Ying Zhang (Acadia University), A Generalized Jonckheere Test for Testing Trend in Repeated Measures in Randomized Blocks and Single Group Short Time Series
 
Biostatistics: Inference Methods (2B-C1)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Lisa Lix (University of Saskatchewan)
 
Tuesday June 5 MacNaughton Building, room 105
10:15 - 10:30 Lajmi Lakhal-Chaieb (Université Laval), Association Measures in the Presence of a Bivariate Cure Fraction
10:30 - 10:45 Jianan Peng (Acadia University), Simultaneous Inference for Low Dose Risk Estimation with Nonquantal Data in Benchmark Analysis
10:45 - 11:00 Wanhua Su (Grant MacEwan University), Precision-Recall Curve or ROC Curve?
11:00 - 11:15 Lihui Zhao (Northwestern University), Effectively Selecting a Target Population with Desired Treatment Benefit Using the Data from a Randomized Comparative Study
 
Hazard Models and Censored Data (2B-C2)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Pierre-Jérôme Bergeron (University of Ottawa)
 
Tuesday June 5 MacNaughton Building, room 113
10:15 - 10:30 Xin Xin (University of Guelph), Ties Between Event Times and Jump Times in the Cox Model
10:30 - 10:45 Tharshanna Nadarajah (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Penalized Empirical Likelihood Based Variable Selection for Cox's Proportional Hazards Model
10:45 - 11:00 Katrina Tomanelli (University of Windsor), Improved Estimation of Aalen's Additive Hazards Model
11:00 - 11:15 Pordeli Pooneh (University of Calgary), Estimation in Partially Linear Single-index Additive Hazards Regression with Current Status data
11:15 - 11:30 Xuewen Lu (University of Calgary), Variable Selection for Censored Partially Linear Single-Index Models
 
Hypothesis Testing and R Statistical Software (2B-C3)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Erica Moodie (McGill University)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 105
10:15 - 10:30 Marta Padilla (University of Ottawa), Empirical Bayes Method Corrected for Small Number of Tests
10:30 - 10:45 Min Chen (University of Waterloo), Empirical Likelihood Method for Pretest-Posttest Studies
10:45 - 11:00 G. Arthur Mihram (Princeton, NJ), Confronting Quinn: Our Regression and Hypothesis-testing Methodologies in Modern Science
11:00 - 11:15 Eric Cai (University of Toronto), A Pathological Monte Carlo Simulation of the Power Function of the Pearson Correlation Test
11:15 - 11:30 Adrian Waddell (University of Waterloo), Extending RnavGraph to Use the R Plotting Facility
11:30 - 11:45 Duncan Murdoch (University of Western Ontario), tables: An R Package to Produce Tables
 
Model and Variable Selection (2B-C4)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Patrice Mathieu (Statistics Canada)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 102
10:15 - 10:30 Denis Talbot (Université du Québec à Montréal), Bayesian Adjustement for Confounding : A Look at its Theoretical Basis
10:30 - 10:45 Shinpei Imori (Hiroshima University, Japan), Theoretical Comparisons with AIC and TIC
10:45 - 11:00 Ahmed Farahat (University of Waterloo), An Efficient Greedy Method for Unsupervised Variable Selection
11:00 - 11:15 Christian Léger (Université de Montréal), A Law of the Single Logarithm for Weighted Sums of Arrays Applied to Bootstrap Model Selection in Regression
11:15 - 11:30 Hirokazu Yanagihara (Hiroshima University, Japan), A Consistency Property of AIC for Multivariate Linear Models when the Dimension and the Sample Size are Large
11:30 - 11:45 Mariko Yamamura (Hiroshima University, Japan), Variable Selection by $C_p$ Statistic in Multiple Responses Regression with Fewer Sample Size than the Dimension
 
Theory and Applications of Copulas (2B-C5)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Johanna Nešlehová (McGill University)
 
Tuesday June 5 Thornbrough Building, room 1307
10:15 - 10:30 Elif Fidan Acar (McGill University), Statistical Testing for Conditional Copulas
10:30 - 10:45 Tounkara Fode (Université Laval), A Copula-based Estimator for the Intracluster Correlation Coefficient
10:45 - 11:00 Héla Romdhani (Université Laval), Measuring and Testing the Intraclass Dependence for Non-normally Distributed Clustered Data
11:00 - 11:15 Bin Dong (NCIC Clinical Trials Group, Queen's University), Copula Estimation for Censored Data via Empirical Likelihood: NCIC CTG MA.27 and MA.14 Endocrine Breast Cancer Trials
11:15 - 11:30 Beilei Wu (University of Calgary), Flexible Random Effects Copula Models for Clustered Mixed Outcomes -- Application in Toxicology
 
Isobel Loutit Invited Address (2C-A)
Special Session
Organizer and Chair: Boxin Tang (Simon Fraser University)
Session sponsored by the Business and Industrial Statistics Section
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 103
13:15 - 14:45 Roger Hoerl (GE Global Research), The Next Frontier in Business and Industrial Statistics: Attacking Complex, Unstructured Problems
 
Absolute Penalty Estimation and Variable Selection (2C-I1)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Ejaz Ahmed (Brock University)
 
Tuesday June 5 MacNaughton Building, room 105
13:15 - 13:45 Yang Feng (Columbia University), A Nonparametric Optimal Decision Rule in High Dimensional Space
13:45 - 14:15 M. Shakhawat Hossain (University of Winnipeg), Shrinkage and Penalty Estimators in Generalized Linear Models
14:15 - 14:45 Paul McNicholas (University of Guelph), A Modified BIC for Mixture Model Selection
 
New Statistical Design and Analysis for Epidemiological Investigations (2C-I2)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Yutaka Yasui (University of Alberta)
Session sponsored by the Biostatistics Section
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 101
13:15 - 13:45 Masoud Asgharian (McGill University), Prevalent Cohort Design and Analysis: A Case Study
13:45 - 14:15 Juxin Liu (University of Saskatchewan), Interactions and Average Predictive Comparison
14:15 - 14:45 Jose Miguel Martinez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain), Improving Multilevel Analyses: the Integrated Epidemiologic Design and its Extension
 
Session in Honour of Jon N.K. Rao's 75th Birthday (2C-I3)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Louis-Paul Rivest (Université Laval)
Organizer: David Haziza (Université de Montréal)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 104
13:15 - 13:45 Mike Hidiroglou (Statistics Canada), Confidence Intervals for Unit and Area Level Small Area Estimators
13:45 - 14:15 Jae-Kwang Kim (Iowa State University), Fractional Imputation for Regression Analysis Combining Two Independent Surveys
14:15 - 14:45 Mary Thompson (University of Waterloo), Bootstrap Methods in Complex Surveys
 
Statistical Analysis of Network Graph Data (2C-I4)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Shojaeddin Chenouri (University of Waterloo)
 
Tuesday June 5 Alexander Hall, room 100
13:15 - 13:45 Chris Groendyke (Robert Morris University), A Network-Based Analysis of the 1861 Hagelloch Measles Data
13:45 - 14:15 Patrick Perry (New York University, Stern), A Parametric View of Some Nonparametric Network Algorithms
14:15 - 14:45 Ali Shojaie (University of Washington), Estimation of Network Granger Causal Models with Inherent Group Structures
 
Stochastic Methods in Finance (2C-I5)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Cody Hyndman (Concordia University)
Session sponsored by the Probability Section
 
Tuesday June 5 Alexander Hall, room 200
13:15 - 13:45 Alexandru Badescu (University of Calgary), Hedging GARCH Options with Generalized Innovations
13:45 - 14:15 Sebastian Jaimungal (University of Toronto), Risk Measures and Fine Tuning of High Frequency Trading Strategies
14:15 - 14:45 Adam Metzler (University of Western Ontario), Information, Ambiguity and the Cost of Contingent Capital
 
Models Accounting for Measurement Error (2C-C1)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Michelle Qian Zhou (Harvard School of Public Health)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 102
13:15 - 13:30 Ying Yan (University of Waterloo), Methods for Additive Hazards Models with Covariate Measurement Error
13:30 - 13:45 Xue Yao (University of Saskatchewan), Multiple Imputation to Correct Measurement Error: Application to Chronic Disease Case Ascertainment in Administrative Databases
13:45 - 14:00 Taraneh Abarin (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Gene-Environment Interaction Studies with Measurement Error
14:00 - 14:15 Wei Liu (York University), Simultaneous Inference for Semiparametric Nonlinear Mixed-effects Models with Covariate Measurement Errors and Missing Responses
14:15 - 14:30 Anne Michele Millar (Mount Saint Vincent University), Measuring Students' Attitudes to Statistics in the Presence of Regression-to-the-Mean
 
Nonparametric Methods (2C-C2)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Elif Fidan Acar (McGill University)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 105
13:15 - 13:30 Muhammad Islam (Grant MacEwan University), Comparing Distributions Using Data Driven Statistics
13:30 - 13:45 Thierry Duchesne (Université Laval), Estimation of the Conditional Survival Function Under Dependent Censoring
13:45 - 14:00 Mehrdad Gangeh (University of Waterloo), Kernelized Supervised Dictionary Learning
14:00 - 14:15 Mohammad Nourmohammadi (University of Manitoba), Nonparametric Confidence Intervals of Quantiles of a Finite Population using Randomized Nomination Sampling
 
Spatial Statistics (2C-C3)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Douglas Woolford (Wilfrid Laurier University)
 
Tuesday June 5 Thornbrough Building, room 1307
13:15 - 13:30 Olaf Berke (University of Guelph), The 350th Anniversary of Statistical Epidemiology: A Spatial Re-analysis of John Graunt's London Plague Data
13:30 - 13:45 Masud Rana (University of Saskatchewan), Monitoring and Understanding Atmospheric CFC Decline with the Spatial-Longitudinal Bent-Cable Model
13:45 - 14:00 Jonathan Lee (University of Western Ontario), Large-scale Spatial Simulation and Computation Using Parallel Computing
14:00 - 14:15 Alisha Albert-Green (Princess Margaret Hospital), A Nonparametric Framework for Quantifying Temporal Trends in the Seasonality of Forest Fire Risk
14:15 - 14:30 Devan Becker (Wilfrid Laurier University), Exploring the Lifetime of Forest Fires
 
Studying Gene Expression/Association (2C-C4)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Shelley Bull (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute)
 
Tuesday June 5 MacNaughton Building, room 113
13:15 - 13:30 Farnoosh Abbas Aghababazadeh (University of Ottawa), Statistical Methods to Analyze Genome-Wide Association Data
13:30 - 13:45 Gun Ho Jang (University of Pennsylvania), A Statistical Model for Copy Number Polymorphism Calling Using Haplotypes
13:45 - 14:00 Ahmed Hossain (McMaster University), A Flexible Nonparametric Approach for Identifying Correlated Differentially Expressed Genes in Microarray Experiments
14:00 - 14:15 Thierry Chekouo Tekougang (Université de Montréal), The Gibbs-plaid Biclustering Model
14:15 - 14:30 Maggie Chu (University of Western Ontario), Model-Based Clustering of Time-Course RNA-seq Data
14:30 - 14:45 Martin Leclerc (Université Laval), Estimation of Dependence Between Lifetimes in the Presence of Selection Bias: the Case of Breast Cancer
 
Poster Session II (2C-P)
Contributed Poster Session
 
Tuesday June 5 Science Complex Atrium
13:15 - 15:15 Justin Angevaare (University of Guelph), The Utility of Catch Per Unit Effort Variance
13:15 - 15:15 Shaheena Bashir (University Health Network, Toronto), Joint Tests of Effect Size in Multivariate Meta-Analysis
13:15 - 15:15 Victoria Borg Debono (McMaster University), The Quality of Reporting of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) in Postoperative Pain Management
13:15 - 15:15 Zhengfei Chen (University of Toronto), Riemann Manifold HMCMC for Log-Gaussian Cox Processes
13:15 - 15:15 Jing Ding (Acadia University), Population Assessments by Using Age-at-harvest Data and Catch Effort
13:15 - 15:15 Jayde Eustace (Memorial University of Newfoundland), A Gumbel State Space Model for Extreme-value Data
13:15 - 15:15 Remya M. John (McMaster University), Statistical Analysis of RNA-Seq Data: A Comparison of Three R Packages
13:15 - 15:15 Xiaoqing Niu (University of Alberta), Testing Homogeneity in Normal Scale Mixture Models
13:15 - 15:15 Matthew Rueffer (University of Guelph), Spatial and Temporal Modelling of Change in Marine Harvests
13:15 - 15:15 Kathleen Ryan (University of Guelph), Depth Distribution of Larval Lake Whitefish (Coregonus clupeaformis) in a Great Lakes Embayment
13:15 - 15:15 Olga Shestakovska (Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University and Hamilton Health Sciences), Large Hazard Ratios Do Not Always Mean High Predictive Accuracy: A Simulation Study
13:15 - 15:15 Monica Sirski (University of Manitoba), On the Statistical Analysis of Functional Data Arising from Designed Experiments
13:15 - 15:15 Gary Sneddon (Mount Saint Vincent University), Panel Data Models and Electoral Success of Ex-Cabinet Ministers
13:15 - 15:15 Mary Thiess (Fisheries and Oceans Canada), Time Series Analysis: Assessing the ``pink salmon'' effect
13:15 - 15:15 Monica H.T. Wong (University of Guelph), Cluster Analyses to Assess Weight Loss Maintenance: An Application of Clustering in Nutrigenomics
13:15 - 15:15 Haiyan Yang (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Joint Modelling of Genetic Linkage and Association
13:15 - 15:15 Li Hua Yue (University of Western Ontario), Logistic Prediction on Prostate Cancer Status Using Imaging Data
13:15 - 15:15 Wei Yuhong (University of Guelph), Mixture-model Averaging
 
Nonparametric Bayes Methods (2D-I1)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Saman Muthukumarana (University of Manitoba)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 103
15:15 - 15:45 Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (University of British Columbia), The Gamma-Exponential Process
15:45 - 16:15 Simon Guillotte (Université du Québec à Montréal), A Sieves Model for Copulas
16:15 - 16:45 Tim Swartz (Simon Fraser University), Stylometric Analyses using Dirichlet Process Mixture Models
 
Recent Advances in Analysis of Survival Data from Cross Sectional Sampling (2D-I2)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Masoud Asgharian (McGill University)
Session sponsored by the Biostatistics Section
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 101
15:15 - 15:35 Pierre-Jérôme Bergeron (University of Ottawa), Nonparametric Estimation of the Survival Function for Prevalent and Incident Cases under Stationary Incidence
15:35 - 15:55 Marco Carone (University of California, Berkeley), Quantifying the Impact of Disease on Lifetime Under Cross-sectional Sampling
15:55 - 16:15 Ashkan Ertefaei (University of Michigan), Double Bias
16:15 - 16:35 Taki R. Shinohara (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Alternating Event Processes during Lifetimes: Population Dynamics and Statistical Inference
 
Teaching and Learning Statistics with Technology (2D-I3)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Saumen Mandal (University of Manitoba)
Organizers: Saumen Mandal and Zeneida Mateo (University of Manitoba)
Session sponsored by the Statistical Education Committee
 
Tuesday June 5 Alexander Hall, room 200
15:15 - 15:45 Bruce Dunham (University of British Columbia), Using On-Line Simulation Tools to Promote Student Understanding of Sampling Distributions.
15:45 - 16:15 Bethany White (University of Western Ontario), Harnessing the Power of Technology to Get Students Talking about Statistics
16:15 - 16:45 Roger Woodard (North Carolina State University), A Large Course Redesign of Introductory Statistics: You Don't Need 65 Other People with You to Learn a Definition
 
The Census of Population in Canada: Looking Back at 2011 and Into the Future (2D-I4)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Don McLeish (University of Waterloo)
Organizer: Julie Trépanier (Statistics Canada)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 104
15:15 - 15:45 Patrice Mathieu (Statistics Canada), Data Collection for the 2011 Census and National Household Survey
15:45 - 16:15 Normand Laniel (Statistics Canada), The Estimation Methodology for the 2011 Census of Population and the National Household Survey
16:15 - 16:45 Julie Trépanier (Statistics Canada), The 2016 Census Strategy Project
 
Theory and Applications of Self-Normalized Processes (2D-I5)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Hao Yu (University of Western Ontario)
Organizer: Yuliya Martsynyuk (University of Manitoba)
Session sponsored by the Probability Section
 
Tuesday June 5 Alexander Hall, room 100
15:15 - 15:45 Yuliya Martsynyuk (University of Manitoba), Invariance Principles for a Multivariate Student Process in the Generalized Domain of Attraction of the Multivariate Normal Law
15:45 - 16:15 Masoud Nasari (Carleton University), Another Look at Bootstrapping the Student t-Statistic
16:15 - 16:45 Miklós Csörgő (Carleton University), Weak Invariance Principles and Strong Limit Laws for Self-Normalized Processes
 
Business and Industrial Statistics and Quality Control (2D-C1)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Roman Viveros-Aguilera (McMaster University)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 105
15:15 - 15:30 Davtalab Olyaie Mostafa (Tarbiat Moallem University, Iran), Efficiency in Stochastic Data Envelopment Analysis
15:30 - 15:45 Gemai Chen (University of Calgary), Discovery Models --- A Least Squares Approach With Applications
15:45 - 16:00 Amir Hosein Homaie Shandizi (École Polytechnique de Montréal), A Test for Attribute Gauge R\&R
16:00 - 16:15 Jayasankar Vatathoor (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Robust Control Charts for Multivariate Individual Observations
16:15 - 16:30 Ick Huh (McMaster University), The MEWMA with Two Unequal Smoothing Parameters
 
Financial Applications (2D-C2)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Michael Evans (University of Toronto)
 
Tuesday June 5 Rozanski Hall, room 102
15:15 - 15:30 René Ferland (Université du Québec à Montréal), Mean-Variance Efficiency in a Market with Regime-Switching Zero-Coupons
15:30 - 15:45 François Watier (Université du Québec à Montréal), Goal Achieving Probabilities of Optimal Cone-Constrained Mean-variance Portfolios
15:45 - 16:00 Taehan Bae (University of Regina), Sum of Bernoulli Mixtures: Beyond Conditional Independence
16:00 - 16:15 Zhenyu Cui (University of Waterloo), Nearly Exact Option Price Simulation using Characteristic Functions
16:15 - 16:30 Brian M. Hartman (University of Connecticut), Model Selection and Averaging in Regime-Switching Models of Various Types
16:30 - 16:45 Chengguo Weng (University of Waterloo), Constant Proportion Portfolio Insurance under Regime Switching Lévy Exponential Process
 
Mixture Models, Clustering and Classification (2D-C3)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Abbas Khalili (McGill University)
 
Tuesday June 5 MacNaughton Building, room 105
15:15 - 15:30 Liam Callaghan (University of Guelph), Modelling Plant-Pollinator Interactions with Mixtures of Linkage Rules
15:30 - 15:45 Armin Hatefi (University of Manitoba), Fisher Information in Ranked Set Samples from Finite Mixture Models
15:45 - 16:00 Pooyan Khajehpour Tadavani (University of Waterloo), Partitioning High Dimensional Data to Low Dimensional and Localized Subspaces
16:00 - 16:15 Irene Vrbik (University of Guelph), Clustering and Classification with Parsimonious Skew-t Mixture Models
16:15 - 16:30 Brian Franczak (University of Guelph), The ParSAL Family of Mixture Models
16:30 - 16:45 Rachel O'Reilly (University of Guelph), Cross-Validation for Mixture Model Selection
 
Modelling the Spread of Infectious Diseases (2D-C4)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Patrick Brown (Cancer Care Ontario)
 
Tuesday June 5 MacNaughton Building, room 113
15:15 - 15:30 Lin Zhang (University of Guelph), Comparing Bayesian Statistical Models of Infectious Disease Outbreaks via Probability Scoring
15:30 - 15:45 Lilia Leticia Ramirez Ramirez (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM)), Simulation of Infectious Disease Spread as a Tool to Evaluate Control Measures During an Epidemic Outbreak
15:45 - 16:00 Nadia Bifolchi (University of Guelph), Spatial Approximations of Network-based Individual Level Infectious Disease Models
16:00 - 16:15 Lorna Deeth (University of Guelph), Variations of the Deviance Information Criterion for Infectious Disease Models
16:15 - 16:30 Chen Zhang (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Estimation and Forecasting of a Lag 2 Dynamic Model for Infectious Diseases
16:30 - 16:45 Rajat Malik (University of Guelph), Modeling the Spread of Influenza within Households in Hong Kong