- An Introduction to Relative Survival Analysis (2C-I1)
- Design and Methodological Issues in Environmental Diseases (2C-I2)
- Effective Use of Laboratory Sessions in Undergraduate Statistics Teaching (2B-I1)
- Environmental and Ecological Quality Assessment (2D-I1)
- Environmental Sampling and Monitoring (2C-I3)
- Functional Data Analysis (2B-I2)
- Gold Medal Address (2A-A)
- Isobel Loutit Invited Address (2D-A)
- Machine Learning and Data Analytics (2B-I3)
- Methods to Correct Measures of Effect for Bias Due to Exposure Measurement Error (2B-V)
- Modelling the Spread of Infectious Diseases (2B-C1)
- Probability II (2C-C1)
- Promoting Statistical Literacy - CensusAtSchool and Beyond (2D-I2)
- Recurrent Event Analysis (2D-I3)
- Robust Estimation (2B-C2)
- Skew Elliptical Distributions: The State of the Art (2C-I4)
- Statistical Learning (2C-I5)
- Statistical Modeling (2B-C3)
- Statistical Theory and Applications I (2B-C4)
- Statistical Theory and Applications II (2C-C2)
- Statistics in Business and Finance (2C-I6)
- Stochastic Models in Insurance (2B-I4)
- Stochastic Models with Applications to Environmental Problems (2D-I4)
Gold Medal Address (2A-A)  | |
| Special Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Bovas Abraham (University of Waterloo) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (CCIS 1-430) | |
| 8:45 - 9:45 | Rob Tibshirani (Stanford University), The Lasso: A Review and Some Recent Developments |
| Methods to Correct Measures of Effect for Bias Due to Exposure Measurement Error (2B-V) | |
| Introductory Overview Lecture | |
| Organizer and Chair: Debbie J. Dupuis (HEC Montréal) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (KATZ 1-080) | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Donna Spiegelman (Harvard School of Public Health), Methods to Correct Measures of Effect for Bias Due to Exposure Measurement Error |
| Effective Use of Laboratory Sessions in Undergraduate Statistics Teaching (2B-I1) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Kevin E. Thorpe (University of Toronto) | |
| Session sponsored by the Statistical Education Committee | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA 1-190) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | W. John Braun (University of Western Ontario), Naive Analysis of Variance |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Bruce Dunham (University of British Columbia), Using Group-Based Lab Activities in Undergraduate Statistics Teaching |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Jim Stallard (University of Calgary), The Use of Small-Group Activities in a Post-Calculus, Mathematical Statistics Course |
| Functional Data Analysis (2B-I2) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: Duncan Murdoch (University of Western Ontario) Organizer: Jiguo (Jack) Cao (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA 1-498) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | David Campbell (Simon Fraser University), Inferring Nonlinear Differential Equation Models from Non-Parameteric Functional Estimators |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Giles Hooker (Cornell University), Selecting the Domain of Integration in a Functional Linear Model |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | James O. Ramsay (McGill University), Representing and Quantifying Complexity in Functional Observations and Parameters |
| Machine Learning and Data Analytics (2B-I3) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Ali Ghodsi (University of Waterloo) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (EdSouth 254) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Abbas Khalili (McGill University), Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Models in High-Dimensional Classification Problems |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Csaba Szepesvari (University of Alberta), A Randomized Mirror Descent Algorithm for Large Scale Multiple Kernel Learning |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Andras Gyorgy (University of Alberta), Universal Prediction in Changing Environments |
| Stochastic Models in Insurance (2B-I4) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Sheldon Lin (University of Toronto) | |
| Session sponsored by the Actuarial Science Section | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA L1-430) | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Xiaowen Zhou (Concordia University), Lévy Risk Processes |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Christiane Lemieux (University of Waterloo), Adaptive Premium Policies in Risk Theory |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Taehan Bae (University of Regina), Pricing a Motor Insurance Loss Rate Swaption |
| Modelling the Spread of Infectious Diseases (2B-C1) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Patrick Brown (University of Toronto) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (EdSouth 228) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Hsing-Ming Chang (University of Alberta), Simulation Study for a Spatial Scan Test Based on Compound Poisson Model |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Rob Deardon (University of Guelph), Parameterizing Individual-Level Models of Infectious Disease Spread Using Sampling-Based Likelihood Approximations |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Ashok Krishnamurthy (Mount Royal University), Tracking Infectious Disease Epidemics Using Bayesian Data Assimilation |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Mahmoud Torabi (University of Manitoba), Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Disease Mapping |
| Robust Estimation (2B-C2) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Julie Zhou (University of Victoria) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA L1-220) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Sepideh Farsinezhad (McGill University), Doubly Robust G-Estimation for Time Varying Outcome via the Kalman Filter |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Gun Ho Jang (Ontario Institute for Cancer Research), Copy Number Variation Detection with Estimated Parameters Using Robust Distribution |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Alexandre Leblanc (University of Manitoba), The Projection Median: A Multivariate Robust Adaptive Weighted Average |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Olli Saarela (McGill University), Can There be Bayesian Double Robustness? |
| Statistical Modeling (2B-C3) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Laura Cowen (University of Victoria) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (EdSouth 206) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Rashid Ahmed (University of Waterloo), Methods for Missing Data in Discrete Hierarchical Models |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Eshetu G. Atenafu (University Health Network, University of Toronto), Multistate Markov Models for Joint Modeling |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Narges Nazeri Rad (University of Waterloo), Multi-State Models of Intermittently Observed Processes with Internal Covariates |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Arindam RoyChoudhury (Columbia University), A Composite Likelihood Method for Estimating Phylogenetic Tree from Dependent Loci |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Tyler Williamson (Queen's University), Log-Binomial Models: Concavity and Estimation |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Ximing Xu (Dalhousie University), State-Space Modelling of Fish Stock Maturities |
| Statistical Theory and Applications I (2B-C4) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Richard Lockhart (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (EdSouth 276) | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Martin Lysy (University of Waterloo), Stochastic Simulation of a Nanoscale Experiment |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Maria Elena Rivera Mancia (McGill University), Bayesian Methods in the Study of Extremes |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Jeffrey Picka (University of New Brunswick), Doubt, Science, and Statistics |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Susan Zhe Sheng (University of Western Ontario), Univariate and Bivariate Polynomially Adjusted Saddlepoint Density |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Nana Xing (University of Calgary), Application of Maximum Lq-Likelihood Method |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Alwell Oyet (Memorial University), Estimation of a Lag 2 Dynamic Model with Measurement Error in Covariates |
| An Introduction to Relative Survival Analysis (2C-I1) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Russell Steele (McGill University) | |
| Session sponsored by the Biostatistics Section | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA 1-190) | |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Noori Akhtar-Danesh (McMaster University), An Introduction to Relative Survival Analysis |
| Design and Methodological Issues in Environmental Diseases (2C-I2) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Lehana Thabane (McMaster University) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (EdSouth 254) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Judy-Anne Chapman (Queen’s University), Personal Environment: Design and Analysis of Breast Cancer Trials |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Afisi Ismaila (GlaxoSmithKline & McMaster University), Design and Analyses Issues in Asthma and COPD Clinical Trials |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Tim Ramsay (University of Ottawa), Temporal Variability in Urinary Concentrations of Triclosan among Pregnant Women in Canada |
| Environmental Sampling and Monitoring (2C-I3) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: Martin Lysy (University of Waterloo) Organizer: Yulia R. Gel (University of Waterloo) | |
| Session sponsored by the Survey Methods Section | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA L1-430) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Sylvia Esterby (University of British Columbia - Okanagan), Issues in the Extraction of Information from Water Quality Monitoring Data |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Brian Gray and Vyacheslav Lyubchich (US Geological Survey / University of Waterloo), Regression Estimation of Trends in Temperature when Time and Date of Sampling are Haphazard |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Carolyn Huston (CSIRO), Where? When? How? Why? Choosing a Sampling Strategy to Support a Bayesian/Complex Model |
| Skew Elliptical Distributions: The State of the Art (2C-I4) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: Christian Genest (McGill University) Organizer: C. J. Adcock (Sheffield University) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA 1-498) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | C. J. Adcock (Sheffield University), The Multivariate Extended Normal-Gamma Distribution |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Adelchi Azzalini (Università di Padova), Perturbation of Symmetry in Non-Standard Settings |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Marc G. Genton (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Semiparametric Efficient and Robust Estimation of the Center of an Unknown Symmetric Population under Arbitrary Sample Selection Bias |
| Statistical Learning (2C-I5) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: Rob Tibshirani (Stanford University) Organizer: Ryan Tibshirani (Carnegie Mellon University) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (EdSouth 276) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Jacob Bien (Cornell University), A Lasso for Hierarchical Interactions |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Julian Wolfson (University of Minnesota), Risk Prediction from Electronic Health Record Data: A Naive Bayes Approach |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Ryan Tibshirani (Carnegie Mellon University), Fast Stagewise Algorithms for Approximate Regularization Paths |
| Statistics in Business and Finance (2C-I6) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Mark Reesor (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Session sponsored by the Business and Industrial Statistics Section | |
| Tuesday May 28 (EdSouth 206) | |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Adam Metzler (Wilfrid Laurier University), Modeling Stochastic, State-Dependent Correlations |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Jesse Coull (ATB Financial), Credit Risk and Stress Testing |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Yuri Lawryshyn (University of Toronto), Applied Research Program with Financial Institutions |
| Probability II (2C-C1) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Hao Yu (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (EdSouth 228) | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Hassan Omidi Firouzi (Université de Montréal), Capital Allocation Problem for a New Ruin-Based Coherent Risk Measure |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Clarence D. Kalitsi (Brock University), Approximate Sampling Distributions of the Parameter Estimators in the AR(1)-Model |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Jingya Li (University of Western Ontario), Valuation of Contingent Capital Bonds in First-Passage Structural Models |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Vahed Maroufy (University of Waterloo), Computational Aspects of Inference in Local Mixture Models |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Harsha Perera (Simon Fraser University), Declaration Guidelines in Test Cricket |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Jose Garrido (Concordia University), The Finite-Time Gerber-Shiu Function as a Risk Measure |
| Statistical Theory and Applications II (2C-C2) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Mary Lesperance (University of Victoria) | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA L1-220) | |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Oksana Chkrebtii (Simon Fraser University), Transdimensional ABC for Inferring Introduction and Spread Rates of Invasive Species |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Camila de Souza (University of British Columbia), Switching Nonparametric Regression Models |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Shirin Golchi (Simon Fraser University), A Decision Theoretic Approach for Hypothesis Testing in Particle Physics |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Jonathan Lee (University of Western Ontario), Parallelization of Single Chain MCMC with Applications in Spatial Statistics |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Joseph Francois Tagne Tatsinkou (Université de Montréal), Smooth Test of Goodness-of-Fit of Normality for the Errors of an ARMA Process with Unknown Mean |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Kasra Yousefi (Simon Fraser University), Advanced Putting Metrics in Golf |
| Isobel Loutit Invited Address (2D-A) | |
| Special Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Executive committee of BISS & Mu Zhu (University of Waterloo) | |
| Session sponsored by the Business and Industrial Statistics Section | |
| Tuesday May 28 (KATZ 1-080) | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Yehuda Koren (Google Research), Challenges in Recommender Systems: Science, Art and Pragmatics |
| Environmental and Ecological Quality Assessment (2D-I1) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Abdel H. El-Shaarawi (American University in Cairo and the National Water Research Institute) | |
| Session sponsored by the Survey Methods Section | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA L1-430) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Chris Field (Dalhousie University), Estimating Bird Abundance: Approaches and Issues |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Jonah Keim (Matrix Solutions), Statistical Analysis of Camera Trap Data to Study the Effect of Human Activity on Resource Use Patterns by Wildlife: Spatial Recurrent Event Process and Inference |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Steve Thompson (Simon Fraser University), Dynamic Spatial and Network Sampling |
| Promoting Statistical Literacy - CensusAtSchool and Beyond (2D-I2) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: John Brewster (University of Manitoba) | |
| CensusAtSchool (C@S) is an international project that promotes and
develops statistical literacy in school-aged children. An international
panel will demonstrate how, in different countries, C@S has benefited
students and teachers, fostered relationships between statisticians and
teachers, been used as a springboard for other statistical education
activities and been used to assist in the study of other important
topics (related to the environment, for example). In 2012, SSC assumed
responsibility for the Canadian node of C@S and the discussion at this
session should help to establish future directions for C@S Canada. You
will also be shown how you can become involved!
Session sponsored by the Statistical Education Committee | |
| Tuesday May 28 (EdSouth 254) | |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Alison Gibbs (University of Toronto) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Angela McCanny (Algonquin College, formerly Statistics Canada) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Roxy Peck (California Polytechnic State University) |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Chris Wild (University of Auckland) |
| Recurrent Event Analysis (2D-I3) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Pierre-Jérôme Bergeron (University of Ottawa) | |
| Session sponsored by the Biostatistics Section | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA 1-190) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Cecilia Cotton (University of Waterloo), Causal Inference with Recurrent Events |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Jerry Lawless (University of Waterloo), Deconstructing Event History Data |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Russell Steele (McGill University), Comparing Approaches for Causal Inference for Recurrent Injury Data |
| Stochastic Models with Applications to Environmental Problems (2D-I4) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Hao Yu (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Session sponsored by the Probability Section | |
| Tuesday May 28 (ECHA 1-498) | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Priscilla Greenwood (University of British Columbia), Dynamics of Gamma Bursts in Local Field Potentials |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Yuliya Martsynyuk (University of Manitoba), Consistent Estimators without Identifiability Conditions in Linear Functional and Structural Errors-in-Variables Models |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Natalia Stepanova (Carleton University), Adaptive Variable Selection in Nonparametric Sparse Regression |