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CJS Award Address (3A-A1)
Special Session
Chair: Paul McNicholas (University of Guelph)
Organizer: Denis Larocque (HEC Montréal)
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 101
8:45 - 9:45 Chong Gu and Ping Ma (Purdue University; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Nonparametric regression with cross-classified responses
 
CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics Address (3A-A2)
Special Session
Organizer and Chair: David Stephens (McGill University)
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 104
8:45 - 9:45 Changbao Wu (University of Waterloo), Semiparametric Fractional Imputation and Sparse and Efficient Replication Variance Estimation for Complex Surveys
 
Pierre Robillard Award Address (3A-A3)
Special Session
Organizer and Chair: Keumhee Carriere Chough (University of Alberta)
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 103
8:45 - 9:45 Bei Chen (McMaster University), Linearization Methods in Time Series Analysis
 
Confidentiality (3B-I1)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Mike Hidiroglou (Statistics Canada)
Organizer: Jean-Louis Tambay (Statistics Canada)
Session sponsored by the Survey Methods Section
 
Wednesday June 6 Alexander Hall, room 100
10:15 - 10:45 Anne-Sophie Charest (Université Laval), Differential Privacy for Synthetic Datasets
10:45 - 11:15 Éric Gagnon (Institut de la statistique du Québec), Statistical Disclosure Control of Remote Access Microdata Files
11:15 - 11:45 Julia Hoeninger (Federal Statistical Office, Germany), Morpheus -- Remote Access to Micro Data
 
Current Issues in the Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomization Trials (3B-I2)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Yutaka Yasui (University of Alberta)
Session sponsored by the Biostatistics Section
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 104
10:15 - 11:15 Allan Donner (University of Western Ontario), Current Issues in the Design and Analysis of Cluster Randomization Trials
11:15 - 11:45 Robert Platt, Discussant (McGill University)
 
Spatial and Environmental Statistics (3B-I3)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Theodoro Koulis (University of Manitoba)
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 103
10:15 - 10:45 Rob Deardon (University of Guelph), Computationally Efficient Forms of Individual-Level Models for Large-Scale Spatial Infectious Disease Systems
10:45 - 11:15 Subash Lele (University of Alberta), Zero Inflated Models, Detection Error and Conditional Likelihood Inference with Applications in Ecology
11:15 - 11:45 Jeffrey Picka (University of New Brunswick), Assessing the Fit of Models for Disordered Spatial Patterns
 
Stochastic Models and Applications (3B-I4)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Shui Feng (MacMaster University)
Session sponsored by the Probability Section
 
Wednesday June 6 Alexander Hall, room 200
10:15 - 10:45 Deli Li (Lakehead University), On Jiang's Asymptotic Distribution of the Largest Entry of a Sample Correlation Matrix
10:45 - 11:15 Mahmoud Zarepour (University of Ottawa), Some Asymptotic Theory in Nonparametric Bayesian Inference
11:15 - 11:45 Fang Xu (McMaster University), The Gamma-Dirichlet Structure and the Quasi Invariance Property
 
Teaching Statistical Consulting with a Mixture of Classroom and Practicum (3B-I5)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Kevin Thorpe (University of Toronto)
Session sponsored by the Statistical Education Committee
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 101
10:15 - 10:45 Tony Panzarella (University of Toronto), Lab Course in Biostatistics -- Providing Practical Experience for Future Consulting Biostatisticians
10:45 - 11:15 Tamara Arenovich (University of Toronto), Biostatistics Practicum -- A Supervisor's Perspective
11:15 - 11:45 David Soave (University of Toronto), Statistical Consulting with a Mixture of Classroom and Practicum -- A Student Perspective
 
Clustering and Classification (3B-C1)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Matías Salibián-Barrera (University of British Columbia)
 
Wednesday June 6 MacNaughton Building, room 105
10:15 - 10:30 Malika Charrad (Université Laval), An Examination of Indices for Determining the Number of Clusters : the Nb.Clusters Package
10:30 - 10:45 Thuvaraha Vanniyasingam (McMaster University), Using the Minimum P-Value Method to Predict the Occurrence of Cardiovascular Complications Within 30 Days of Vascular Surgery
10:45 - 11:00 Tolulope Sajobi (University of Saskatchewan), Robust Measures of Variable Importance for Two Independent Groups
11:00 - 11:15 Jabed Hossain Tomal (University of British Columbia), Ensembling Descriptor Sets to Rank Activity of Compounds in QSAR Studies
11:15 - 11:30 Daniel Gillis (University of Guelph), Signal Processing for Species Identification
 
Mixed Effects Models (3B-C2)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Georges Monette (York University)
 
Wednesday June 6 MacNaughton Building, room 113
10:15 - 10:30 Vahid Partovi Nia (École Polytechnique de Montréal), Testing Variance Components in Linear Mixed Effects Models
10:30 - 10:45 Yan Yan Wu (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute), Third-Order Method For the Test of Variance Components in Linear Mixed Model
10:45 - 11:00 Eleanor M. Pullenayegum (McMaster University), Methodology for Scoring the EQ-5D
11:00 - 11:15 Weiqiang Wang (University of Guelph), Modeling the Uncertainty of Susceptible and Non-susceptible Multiple Outcomes
11:15 - 11:30 Haocheng Li (University of Waterloo), A Variable Selection Method for Random Effects Models
11:30 - 11:45 Jesse D. Raffa (University of Waterloo), Multivariate Longitudinal Data Analysis Using Hidden Markov Models
 
Models with Binary Responses (3B-C3)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: John Koval (University of Western Ontario)
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 102
10:15 - 10:30 Alan Ker (University of Guelph), Semiparametric Estimation of the Link Function in Binary-Choice Single-Index Models
10:30 - 10:45 François Larochelle (Research and Development Canada, Department of National Defence), A Complementary Perspective on the Use of ROC Curve to Assess Logistic Regression Models
10:45 - 11:00 Jinhui Ma (McMaster University), Comparison of Marginal and Cluster-Specific Models in Analysis of Cluster Randomized Trials with Missing Binary Outcomes
11:00 - 11:15 Bingrui Sun (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Correlations Versus Odds Ratios Based Inferences in Bivariate Binary Models
11:15 - 11:30 Rong Chu (McMaster University), Methodological Issues on Prognostic Imbalance in Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) Evaluating A Binary Outcome
11:30 - 11:45 Rafiqul Chowdhury (University of Western Ontario), A Prediction Model to Identify Elderly Who Get Hospitalized -- An Application Using Longitudinal Data
 
Spectral Methods in Time series (3B-C4)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Rafal Kulik (University of Ottawa)
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 105
10:15 - 10:30 Charlotte L. Haley (Queen's University), Jackknifed Error for Multitaper Estimates of Autocovariance in Time Series
10:30 - 10:45 Aaron Springford (Queen's University), Identification of Time Series Outliers Applied to Schumann Resonance Data
10:45 - 11:00 David J. Thomson (Queen's University), Incautious Use of Robust Spectrum Estimation Procedures
11:00 - 11:15 David Riegert (Queen's University), Is There Structure in High-Frequency Variation of Great Lakes Water Levels?
 
Survey Methods Section Presidential Invited Address: Empirical Likelihood in Survey Sampling (3C-A)
Special Session
Organizer and Chair: David Haziza (Université de Montréal)
Session sponsored by the Survey Methods Section
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 104
13:15 - 14:45 Changbao Wu (University of Waterloo), Empirical Likelihood in Survey Sampling
 
Causality and Graphical Markov Models in High Dimensions (3C-I1)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Ayesha Ali (University of Guelph)
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 101
13:15 - 13:45 Frederick Eberhardt (Washington University, St. Louis), Causal Discovery from Experiments
13:45 - 14:15 Helene Massam (York University), Bayes Factors and the Geometry of Discrete Loglinear Models
14:15 - 14:45 Erica Moodie (McGill University), Q-learning for Estimating Optimal Dynamic Treatment Rules from Observational Data
 
Copula Models (3C-I2)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Jean-François Plante (HEC Montréal)
Organizer: Johanna Nešlehová (McGill University)
 
Wednesday June 6 Alexander Hall, room 200
13:15 - 13:45 Louis-Paul Rivest (Université Laval), Applications of Exchangeable Copula Models
13:45 - 14:15 Johanna Nešlehová (McGill University), On the Multi-linear Empirical Copula Process
14:15 - 14:45 Bruno Rémillard (HEC Montréal), Testing Hypotheses for the Copula of Dynamic Models
 
Design and Analysis of Experiments in Modern Agriculture (3C-I3)
Invited Paper Session
Organizer and Chair: Tom Loughin (Simon Fraser University)
Session sponsored by the Business and Industrial Statistics Section
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 103
13:15 - 13:45 Chris Brien (University of South Australia), Principles in the Design of Multiphase Experiments with a Later Laboratory Phase: Orthogonal Designs
13:45 - 14:15 George Milliken (Kansas State University), Basic Designs of Experiments for Comparing Precision Agriculture Treatments on Research and Commercial Fields
14:15 - 14:45 Ken McRae, Discussant (Agriculture and Agrifood Canada)
 
Robustness for Complex Data (3C-I4)
Invited Paper Session
Chair: Sanjoy Sinha (Carleton University)
Organizer: Joanna Mills Flemming (Dalhousie University)
 
Wednesday June 6 Alexander Hall, room 100
13:15 - 13:45 Chris Field (Dalhousie University), Robustness Issues in Molecular Evolution
13:45 - 14:15 Matías Salibián-Barrera (University of British Columbia), On Robust Functional Principal Components
14:15 - 14:45 Sanjoy Sinha, Discussant (Carleton University)
 
Financial Applications and Heavy-Tailed Distributions (3C-C1)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: François Watier (Université du Québec à Montréal)
 
Wednesday June 6 Rozanski Hall, room 102
13:15 - 13:30 Vincenzo Coia (Brock University), On Estimation of Heavy Tailed Distributions
13:30 - 13:45 David Edward Wilson (University of Waterloo), Estimating the Meixner Process
13:45 - 14:00 Zhaoxia (Jeana) Ren (University of Waterloo), Estimation of the Jump Frequency in Jump-Diffusion Models
14:00 - 14:15 Nader Nematollahi (Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran and University of Manitoba), Estimation of Premium and Prediction of Claim Size under Scale Invariant Squared Error Loss Function
14:15 - 14:30 Franck Adekambi (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa), Ruin Probability in Health Care Insurance Pricing with Constant Force of Interest
 
Functional Data, Principal Components and Clustering (3C-C2)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Giles Hooker (Cornell University)
 
Wednesday June 6 MacNaughton Building, room 113
13:15 - 13:30 James Ramsay (McGill University), Multivariate and Functional Principal Components without Eigenanalysis
13:30 - 13:45 Folly Adjogou (Université de Montréal), Functional Model-based Clustering for Longitudinal Data
13:45 - 14:00 Yunqi Ji (McGill University), Model Based Clustering of Longitudinal Data: Application to Modeling Disease Course
14:00 - 14:15 Sanjeena Dang (University of Guelph), Variational Approximations for Flexible Mixture Model-Based Clustering
 
Methods for Genetic Association (3C-C3)
Contributed Paper Session
Chair: Angelo Canty (McMaster University)
 
Wednesday June 6 MacNaughton Building, room 105
13:15 - 13:30 Antonio Ciampi (McGill University), The Role of Statistical Learning Methods in Genetic Association Studies
13:30 - 13:45 Binod Neupane (McMaster University), Multivariate Meta-Analysis in Genetic Association Studies
13:45 - 14:00 Julia Taleban (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute), Bootstrap Bias-reduction in Genetic Association Analysis of Time-to-event Outcomes
14:00 - 14:15 Andriy Derkach (University of Toronto), Combining Linear and Quadratic Tests for Rare Variants Provides a Robust Test Across Genetic Models
14:15 - 14:30 Zhijian Chen (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute), Sequential Two-Phase Stratified Designs for Regional Sequencing Following Genome-Wide Association Study: A Bayesian Approach
14:30 - 14:45 Zeynep Baskurt (University of Toronto), A Composite Likelihood Approach Using the Evidential Paradigm to Analyze Genetic Association in Pedigrees