Session Schedule - Wednesday May 29
- Analysis of Longitudinal Data (3D-C1)
- Bootstrap and Change-Point Analysis with Applications (3B-I1)
- Business and Industrial Statistics II (3D-C2)
- CJS Award Address (3D-A1)
- Competing Risks and Disease Progression (3D-C3)
- CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics Address (3A-A)
- Dependence II (3B-C1)
- Estimation and Hypothesis Testing (3B-C2)
- Issues and Challenges Faced by New Researchers (3C-I1)
- Methods for Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Surveys (3B-I2)
- Mixture Models (3D-C4)
- Models Accounting for Measurement Error and Meta-Analysis (3B-C3)
- Pierre Robillard Award Address (3D-A2)
- Probability in Actuarial Science and Finance (3C-C1)
- Ranking and Selection in High-Dimensional Inference (3B-V)
- Recommender Systems (3B-I3)
- Resources of Energy and Environmental Issues (3C-I2)
- Screening and Diagnostic Tests (3D-C5)
- SSC Impact Award Address (3C-A)
- Statistical Methods for Modeling Biology and Ecology Processes (3C-I3)
- Statistics: Applications and Case Studies (3D-C6)
- Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) and Related Methods (3C-I4)
- Variable Selection, Clustering and Classification (3C-C2)
CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics Address (3A-A)  | |
| Special Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: David A. Stephens (McGill University) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (KATZ 1-080) | |
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Derek Bingham (Simon Fraser University), Prediction and Extrapolation Using Calibrated Computer Models |
| Ranking and Selection in High-Dimensional Inference (3B-V) | |
| Introductory Overview Lecture | |
| Organizer and Chair: Debbie J. Dupuis (HEC Montréal) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (KATZ 1-080) | |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Michael Newton (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Ranking and Selection in High-Dimensional Inference |
| Bootstrap and Change-Point Analysis with Applications (3B-I1) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Murray Burke (University of Calgary) | |
| Session sponsored by the Probability Section | |
| Wednesday May 29 (ECHA 2-150) | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Edit Gombay (University of Alberta), Change Detection for Binary Time Series |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Miklos Csorgo (Carleton University), Random Walking around the Bootstrap I |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Masoud Nasari (Carleton University), Random Walking around the Bootstrap II |
| Methods for Cross-Country and Cross-Cultural Surveys (3B-I2) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Christian Boudreau (University of Waterloo) | |
| Session sponsored by the Survey Methods Section | |
| Wednesday May 29 (ECHA L1-430) | |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Jean Dumais (Statistics Canada), Standardisation of Sampling Designs and Quality Assurance in International Comparative Studies |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Celia Huang (University of Waterloo), Cross-Country Comparisons in International Surveys: Examples Using Frequentist and Bayesian Approaches |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Beth-Ellen Pennell (University of Michigan), Toward Best Practice in Cross-National Data Collection: Development of Guidelines |
| Recommender Systems (3B-I3) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Xiaotong Shen (University of Minnesota) | |
| Session sponsored by the Business and Industrial Statistics Section | |
| Wednesday May 29 (ECHA 1-498) | |
| 10:00 - 10:45 | Mu Zhu (University of Waterloo), Content-Boosted Matrix Factorization Techniques for Recommender Systems |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Yunzhang Zhu (University of Minnesota), Partial Latent Models and Sparse Over-Complete Factorizations with Missing Values |
| Dependence II (3B-C1) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Johanna Nešlehová (McGill University) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 276) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Hela Romdhani (McGill University), Kendall's tau for hierarchical data |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Liqun Diao (University of Waterloo), A New Copula Model for Marked Point Processes |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Mélina Mailhot (Concordia University), Bivariate Value-at-Risk and Tail Value-at-Risk |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Wayne Oldford (University of Waterloo), Visual Hypothesis Tests of Independence |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Antonio Punzo (Università di Catania), Improving the Autodependogram Using the Kullback-Leibler Divergence |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Jules Joseph S. de Tibeiro (Université de Moncton), Optimal Quantization: An Information Theory Approach |
| Estimation and Hypothesis Testing (3B-C2) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Joan Hu (Simon Fraser University) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 228) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Mohamed Amezziane (DePaul University), The Limiting Distribution of a Class of Shrinkage Estimators and Related Inference |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Song Cai (University of British Columbia), Dual Empirical Likelihood Ratio Test under Semi-Parametric Density Ratio Models for Multiple Samples |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Shakhawat Hossain (University of Winnipeg), Shrinkage Estimation in Linear Regression with AR(m)-GARCH(p,q) Errors |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Yingli Qin (University of Waterloo), Hypothesis Testing for Large Dimensional Covariance Matrices |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Joel Sango (Université de Montréal), Modelization of Multivariate Cointegrated Time Series |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Ekaterina Tuzov (University of Manitoba), Exploring Functional CLT Confidence Intervals for a Population Mean in the Domain of Attraction of the Normal Law |
| Models Accounting for Measurement Error and Meta-Analysis (3B-C3) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Duncan Murdoch (University of Western Ontario) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 206) | |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Mireya Diaz (Henry Ford Hospital), Performance of Multivariate Logistic Regression for Meta-Analysis of Diagnostic Accuracy |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Maria Esther Perez Trejo (McGill University), Statistical Modeling of Outcomes Subject to Measurement Error Induced by Double Clustering via a Bayesian Hierarchical Model |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Ying Yan (University of Waterloo), Corrected Profile Likelihood for Cox Model with Covariate Measurement Error |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Qiaohao Zhu (Alberta Health, Government of Alberta), Detecting and Correcting Publication Bias in Meta-Analysis: A Maximum Likelihood Approach |
| SSC Impact Award Address (3C-A) | |
| Special Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Georgia Roberts (Statistics Canada) | |
| Session in honour of the 2012 SSC Impact Award winner, David Binder | |
| Wednesday May 29 (KATZ 1-080) | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | John Eltinge (Bureau of Labour Statistics), Variance Function Models for Complex Sample Surveys |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | J.N.K. Rao (Carleton University), Weighted Estimating Equations Approach to Inference from Complex Survey Data: Impact of David Binder |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Mary Thompson (University of Waterloo), Measuring Causal Effects With Surveys |
| Issues and Challenges Faced by New Researchers (3C-I1) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Cecilia Cotton (University of Waterloo) | |
| The transition from graduate school to postdoctoral fellow to assistant
professor is both challenging and rewarding. The purpose of this panel
discussion is to discuss various issues of primary importance to new
researchers such as: the job interview process, writing grant proposals,
teaching, publishing research, building a research program, service,
collaborations, work-life balance and others. Panel participants will
briefly discuss their personal experiences and then offer insights and
advice in a moderated open discussion format.
Session sponsored by the Committee on New Investigators | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 254) | |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Shoja'eddin Chenouri (University of Waterloo) |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Katherine Davies (University of Manitoba) |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Richard Lockhart (Simon Fraser University) |
| Resources of Energy and Environmental Issues (3C-I2) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Pritam Ranjan (Acadia University) | |
| Session sponsored by the Business and Industrial Statistics Section | |
| Wednesday May 29 (ECHA 1-498) | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Derek Bingham (Simon Fraser University), Monotone Computer Model Emulation |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Vera Bulaevskaya (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Statistical Methods for Wind Power Forecasting |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Richard Karsten (Acadia University), Quantifying the Uncertainty in Predicting Tidal Power Resources |
| Statistical Methods for Modeling Biology and Ecology Processes (3C-I3) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Chair: Llwellyn Armstrong (Ducks Unlimited Canada) Organizer: Ying Zhang (Acadia University) | |
| Session sponsored by the Committee on Women in Statistics | |
| Wednesday May 29 (ECHA 2-150) | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Lihui Liu (University of Alberta), Statistical Analysis of Serial Dilution Assays Using Estimating Functions and Data Cloning |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Ying Zhang (Acadia University), Modelling Age-Specific Harvest Data |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Liwen Zou (Memorial University), Incorporating Human Disease Data into Models of Molecular Evolution |
| Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) and Related Methods (3C-I4) | |
| Invited Paper Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Mireille Schnitzer (McGill University) | |
| Session sponsored by the Biostatistics Section | |
| Wednesday May 29 (ECHA L1-430) | |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Susan Gruber (Harvard School of Public Health), Triple-Robust Targeted Minimum Loss-Based Estimation |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Ori Stitelman (Media6Degrees), The Challenges of Estimating the Causal Effect of Online Display Advertising |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Mark van der Laan (University of California, Berkeley), Targeted Minimum Loss-Based Estimation |
| Probability in Actuarial Science and Finance (3C-C1) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Don McLeish (University of Waterloo) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 228) | |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Alexander Melnikov (University of Alberta), Orthogonal Polynomials and their Applications in Financial and Actuarial Modeling |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Shanoja Naik (University of Waterloo), The Fractional Diffusion Equation and a New Distribution with Heavy Tails |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Ruodu Wang (University of Waterloo), Completely Mixable Distributions |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Taehan Bae (University of Regina), Valuing Retail Credit Tranches under Conditional Dependence |
| Variable Selection, Clustering and Classification (3C-C2) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Jean-François Plante (HEC Montréal) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 206) | |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Folly Adjogou (Université de Montréal), Functional Model-Based Clustering for Longitudinal Data |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Anne-Sophie Charest (Université Laval), Imputation for Nonresponse via Clustering of High-Dimensional Categorical Variables |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Kevin Keen (University of British Columbia), Bumping Bagged Classification Trees and Random Forests |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Maciak Matus (University of Alberta), Change in Behaviour with Lasso Methods |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Paula Murray (University of Guelph), Model-Based Clustering Using Mixtures of Skew-t Factor Analyzers |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Monica H.T. Wong (University of Guelph), Parsimonious Biclustering of Gene Expression Data with Applications in Nutrigenomics |
| CJS Award Address (3D-A1) | |
| Special Session | |
| Chair: David A. Stephens (McGill University) Organizer: Denis Larocque (HEC Montréal) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 254) | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Jing Qin (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), Information Borrowing Methods for Covariate-Adjusted ROC Curve |
| Pierre Robillard Award Address (3D-A2) | |
| Special Session | |
| Organizer and Chair: Johanna Nešlehová (McGill University) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (KATZ 1-080) | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Luke Bornn (Harvard University), Nonstationary Modeling Through Dimension Expansion |
| Analysis of Longitudinal Data (3D-C1) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Joel Dubin (University of Waterloo) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 276) | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Cyntha Struthers (University of Waterloo), A Multivariate Diffusion Model for AIDS Data |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Mireille Schnitzer (Harvard School of Public Health), Determining the Predictors for Negative HIV Outcomes under a Suppressive ART Regime |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Eleanor M Pullenayegum (McMaster University), Analysis of Longitudinal Data Subject to Irregular Follow-Up: Diagnosing and Correcting for Small-Sample Bias in Inverse-Intensity Weighted Estimating Equations |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Jemila Hamid (McMaster University), Residuals in the Growth Curve Model and their Application in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data |
| Business and Industrial Statistics II (3D-C2) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Fernando Camacho (Damos) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 221) | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Amber Corkum (Acadia University), Confidence Interval Construction for Short Time Series with Applications in Administrative Health Databases |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Veeresh Gadag (Memorial University), On Tests for Multiple Contaminants in Shocks Model and Labelled Slippage Models |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Tom Loughin (Simon Fraser University Surrey), Joint Model Selection for Location and Dispersion Effects in Un-Replicated Factorial Experiments |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Xiang Yan (Brock University), On Confidence Intervals of High Quantiles |
| Competing Risks and Disease Progression (3D-C3) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Thierry Duchesne (Université Laval) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 228) | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Yun-Hee Choi (Western University), On Combining Population-Based and Clinic-Based Time-to-Event Family Data in Disease Risk Estimation |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Utkarsh Dang (University of Guelph), Cluster-Weighted Modeling for Time-to-Event Data |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Yan Yan Wu (Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital), An Accurate Method for Testing Genetic Heterogeneity in Families from Studies of Rare Genetic Variants |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Ying Wu (University of Waterloo), Selection of Genetic Risk Factors for Times of Disease Progression Subject to Interval-censoring |
| Mixture Models (3D-C4) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Anne-Sophie Charest (Université Laval) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 213) | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Katherine Morris (University of Guelph), Non-Gaussian Clustering and Dimension Reduction |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Jeffrey L. Andrews (University of Guelph), Robust Latent Variable Mixture Models for Clustering Data of Mixed Type |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Mohammad Jafari Jozani (University of Manitoba), Mixture Model Analysis of Partially Rank Ordered Set Samples: Estimating the Age-Groups of Fish from Length-Frequency Data |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Tasnima Abedin (University of Calgary), A Study on Two-Sample Mixture Model |
| Screening and Diagnostic Tests (3D-C5) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Cecilia Cotton (University of Waterloo) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 206) | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Amay Cheam (University of Guelph), Modelling Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) Curve Using Gaussian Mixture |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | James Hanley (McGill University), Statistical Animations in Understanding Mortality Reductions Due to Cancer Screening |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Khokan C. Sikdar (University of Alberta), Diagnostic Intervals of Colorectal Cancer in Alberta: A Population-Based Study |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Wanhua Su (Grant MacEwan University), Average Precision Analysis for Screening and Diagnostic Tests |
| Statistics: Applications and Case Studies (3D-C6) | |
| Contributed Paper Session | |
| Chair: Ying Zhang (Acadia University) | |
| Wednesday May 29 (EdSouth 265) | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | David Ross Brillinger (University of California Berkeley), Aligning Some Nicholson Sheep-Blowfly Data Sets with System Input |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Theodoro Koulis (University of Manitoba), A Bayesian Stochastic Model for Batting Performance Evaluation in One-Day Cricket |
| 15:30 - 15:45 | Tulsi Paudel (University of Guelph), Iterative Model Building Using Regression Diagnostics and Mean Shift Parameters in Logistic Regression for the Analysis of a Large Hotel Rating Data Set |
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Mark Reesor (University of Western Ontario), Risk Analysis of the Smith Manoeuvre for Re-advanceable Canadian Mortgages |