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2007 Taipei Symposium
c/o Institute of 
Statistical Science,
Academia Sinica,
Taipei 11529,
Taiwan, R.O.C.

2007symp@stat.
sinica.edu.tw

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Advances in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (I)

Organizer: Gang Li (University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.)

Email: vli@ucla.edu

Chair: Gang Li (University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.)

Email: vli@ucla.edu

 

Speakers:

Tianxi Cai
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, U.S.A. 

Email: tcai@hsph.harvard.edu

Title: Predicting Future Responses with Possibly Mis-specified Models
Time:
June 25, 3:103:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

 

Gang Li
Department of Biostatistics School of Public Health ,University of California at Los Angels, U.S.A.
Email: vli@ucla.edu
Title: Joint Analysis of Longitudinal and Survival Data
Time:
June 25, 3:404:10 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Mark Segal

Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics University of California,

San Francisco, U.S.A.

Email: mark@biostat.ucsf.edu

Title: Constructing and Validating Sequence-Based Predictors
Time:
June 25, 4:104:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Mei-Cheng Wang

Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University, U.S.A.

Email: mcwang@jhsph.edu

Title: Analyzing Recurrent Marker Data with Informative Terminal Events
Time:
June 25, 4:405:10 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Advances in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (II)

Chair: Chun-Houh Chen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: cchen@stat.sinica.edu.tw

 

Juofan Chen

Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A

Email: jc2900@columbia.edu

Title: A Spatial Analysis of Disparities on the Community Capacity for Cancer Prevention

Time:  June 26, 3:103:30 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Man-Hua Chen

Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, U.S.A.

Email: manhua50@hotmail.com

Title: The Proportional Odds Model for Multivariate Interval-Censored Failure Time Data

Time: June 26, 3:303:50 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Po-Huang Chyou

Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, U.S.A.

Email: chyou.po-huang@mcrf.mfld.edu

Title: Patterns of Bias due to Differential Misclassification by Case-Control Status in a Case-Control Study

Time: June 26, 3:504:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Yi-Ting Hwang

Department of Statistics, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan

Email: hwangyt@mail.ntpu.edu.tw

Title: Novel Estimates of The number of True Null Hypotheses in Multiplicity Testing

Time: June 26, 4:104:30 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Bo-Jein Kuo

Biometry division, Department of Agronomy, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, R.O.C

Email: bjkuo@nchu.edu.tw

Title: The Minimum Relevant Genes Selected from Gene Expression Data Using Two-Stage Adaptive Genetic Algorithms

Time: June 26, 4:304:50 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Ying Wei

Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.

Email: yw2148@columbia.edu

Title: Robust Quantile Regression With Irregular Or Structured Covariate Space

Time: June 26, 4:505:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

 

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Advances in -omics: Statistical and Computational Approaches for High Throughput Data

Organizer: I-Ping Tu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: iping@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Chair:  Marc Coram (Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University, U.S.A.)

Email: mcoram@stanford.edu

 

Speakers:

Hongzhe Li

Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, U.S.A.

Email: hli@cceb.upenn.edu

Title: Statistical Methods for Network-based Analysis of Genomic Data
Time: June 27,
1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Hua Tang

Department of Genetics, Stanford University, U.S.A.

Email: huatang@fhcrc.org

Title: Reconstructing Genetic Ancestry Blocks in Admixed Individuals
Time: June 27,
1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Pei Wang

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, U.S.A.

Email: pwang@fhcrc.org

Title: Controlling for False Positive Findings of Trans-Hubs in e-QTL Mapping
Time: June 27,
2:102:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

 

George C. Tseng

Department of Biostatistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

Email: ctseng@pitt.edu

Title: Statistical Framework for Integrative Analysis of Multiple Gene Expression Profiles
Time: June 27,
2:403:00 p.m., AC Conference RM1

 

 

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Bayesian Analysis

Organizer: Tsai-Hung Fan (National Central University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: thfan@stat.ncu.edu.tw

Chair: Dong-Chu Sun (University of Missouri - Columbia, U.S.A.)

Email: sund@missouri.edu

 

Speakers:

Jose M. Bernardo

Department of Statistics, University of Valencia, Spain

Email: jose.m.bernardo@uv.es

Title: Objective Predictive Distributions
Time:
June 27, 8:509:20 a.m., AC Conference RM4

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Chong He
Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia, U.S.A.

Email: hezh@missouri.edu

Title: Bayesian Estimation in Small Areas when the Sampling Design
Strata Differ from the Study Sub-Domains

Time:
June 27, 9:209:50 a.m., AC Conference RM4

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Keying Ye

Department of Management Science and Statistics, University of Texas at San Antonio, U.S.A.

Email: Keying.Ye@utsa.edu

Title: Bayesian One- and Two-Stage Design for Generalized Linear Models
Time:
June 27, 9:5010:20 a.m., AC Conference RM4

 

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Bioinformatics-Inferring Gene Networks and Systems Biology

Organizer: Grace Shwu-Rong Shieh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: gshieh@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Chair: Grace Shwu-Rong Shieh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: gshieh@stat.sinica.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Wen-Hsiung Li

Department of Evolution & Ecology, University of Chicago, U.S.A.

Email: whli@uchicago.edu

Title: Method for Identifying Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Yeast
Time:
June 25, 3:103:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

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John Quackenbush

Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University, U.S.A.

Email: johnq@jimmy.harvard.edu

Title: Extracting Biological Meaning from High-Dimensional Datasets
Time:
June 25, 3:404:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

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Hsin-Sheng Yuan

Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: syuan@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Title: Study of Coordinative Gene Expression at The Biological Process Level
Time:
June 25, 4:104:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

Ilene Chen

School of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia

Email: ilene@ee.usyd.edu.au

Title: Uncovering the Drug Targets of A Complex Disease of Interest Using Fixed Effect Logistic Regression
Time:
June 25, 4:405:00 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

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Business Statistics

Organizer: Dennis K. J. Lin (Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.)

Email: lin@chao.smeal.psu.edu

Chair: Dennis K. J. Lin (Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A.)

Email: lin@chao.smeal.psu.edu

 

Speakers:

Ray-Bing Chen

National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email : rbchen@nuk.edu.tw

Title: Minimal-point Designs for Second-order Response Surfaces

Time: June 26, 1:101:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

Fugee Tsung

Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong

Email: season@ust.hk

Title: Recent Advances in Statistical Quality Control
Time:
June 26, 1:402:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

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Shu Yamada

MBA Program in International Business, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Email: shu@mbaib.gsbs.tsukuba.ac.jp

Title: DOE in Recent Technology Development
Time:
June 26, 2:102:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

 

 

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Causal Inferences in the Presence of Confounding Factors

Organizer: Ouhong Wang (Amgen Inc., U.S.A.)

Email: owang@amgen.com

Chair: Ouhong Wang (Amgen Inc., U.S.A.)

Email: owang@amgen.com

 

Speakers:

Yongming Qu

Commercial Information Science, Eli Lilly and Company, U.S.A.

Email: quyo@lilly.com

Title: Estimating The Treatment Effect in The Nonrandomized Studies Using Propensity Score in The Presence of Missing Covariates
Time:
June 26, 1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM2

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Ouhong Wang

Amgen Inc., U.S.A.

Email: owang@amgen.com

Title: Exploring Relative Mortality and Epoetin Alfa (EPO) Dose Among Hemodialysis Patients

Time: June 26, 2:102:40 p.m., AC Conference RM2

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Change-Point Analysis and Applications

Organizer: Yi-Ching Yao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: yao@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Chair: Hari Iyer (Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, U.S.A.)

Email: hari@stat.colostate.edu

 

Speakers:

Cheng-Der Fuh

National Central University and Institute of Statistical Science, Academia
Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: stcheng@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Title: Optimal Change Point Detection In State Space Models
Time:
 June 27, 10:4011:10 a.m., HSS Conference RM1

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Alexander Tartakovsky

Department of Mathematics and Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences,
University of Southern California, U.S.A.

Email: tartakov@math.usc.edu

Title: An Asymptotically Optimal Change Detection Strategy Under
Nontraditional Global False Alarm Probability Constraint

Time: June 27, 11:1011:40 a.m., HSS Conference RM1

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Nancy Zhang

Department of Statistics, Stanford University, U.S.A.

Email: nzhang@stanford.edu

Title: A Multisample Change-Point Model for DNA Copy Number Analysis
Time:
June 27, 11:4012:10 a.m., HSS Conference RM1

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Clinical Trial Designs for Evaluating Treatment Effect in Subpopulations

Organizer: H.M. James Hung (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.)
and Sue-Jane Wang (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.)

Email: hsienming.hung@fda.hhs.gov  &  suejane.wang@fda.hhs.gov

Chair: H.M. James Hung (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.)

Email: hsienming.hung@fda.hhs.gov

 

Speakers:

Chin-Fu Hsiao

National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: chinfu@nhri.org.tw

Title: Use of Prior Information for Bayesian Evaluation of Bridging Studies
Time: June 27,
8
:509:20 a.m., AC Conference RM3

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H.M. James Hung

Office of Biostatistics, OTS/CDER, Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.

Email: hsienming.hung@fda.hhs.gov

Title: Statistical Frameworks of Clinical Trial Design for Evaluating Treatment Effect in Subpopulations
Time: June 27,
9:209:50 a.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Satoshi Morita

Program in Health and Community Medicine, Nagoya University Graduate

School of Medicine, Japan

Email: smorita@med.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Title: Case Study of a Clinical Trial for A Molecular Targeting Anti-Cancer Drug
Time: June 27, 9
:5010:20 a.m., AC Conference RM3

 

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Discussion Paper of Statistica Sinica

Organizer: Michelle Liou (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)
and
Xuming He
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.)

Email: mliou@stat.sinica.edu.tw & x-he@uiuc.edu

Chair: Xiao-Li Meng (Harvard University, U.S.A.)

Email: meng@stat.harvard.edu

 

Speaker:

Mendel Fygenson
Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, U.S.A.
Email: mfygenson@marshall.usc.edu
Title:
Modeling and Predicting Extrapolated Probabilities with Outlooks

 

Discussants:

Cheng-Der Fuh

National Central University and Institute of Statistical Science, Academia
Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C
Email: stcheng@stat.sinica.edu.tw

                    

Chao Agnes Hsiung

National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, R.O.C
Email :
hsiung@nhri.org.tw

                    

Peter McCullagh
Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, U.S.A.
Email: pmcc@galton.uchicago.edu


Steve Portnoy
Department of Statistics, University of Illinois, U.S.A.
Email: sportnoy@uiuc.edu
 

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Experimental Design

Organizer: Shao-Wei Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: swcheng@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Chair: Shao-Wei Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: swcheng@stat.sinica.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Mong-Na Lo Huang

Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat-Sen University,

Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: lomn@math.nsysu.edu.tw

Title: Exact D-optimal Designs for Mixture Models

Time:  June 27, 1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4

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Dennis K.J. Lin

Department of Supply Chain adn Information Systems Pennsylvania

State University, U.S.A.

Email: lin@chao.smeal.psu.edu

Title: A Construction Method for Orthogonal Latin Hypercube Designs

Time: June 27, 1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM4

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Pi-Wen Tsai

Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan Normal University,

Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: pwtsai@math.ntnu.edu.tw

Title: Optimal Two-Level Blocked and Split-Plot Designs

Time: June 27, 2:102:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

Chao-Ping Ting

Department of Statistics, National Chengchi University Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: cpting@nccu.edu.tw

Title: D-Optimal Fractional Factorial Designs for Location Main Effects with Two Dispersion Factors

Time: June 27, 2:402:55 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

Sandra Esperanza Melo Martínez

Department of Agronomy, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Email: semelom@unal.edu.co

Title: Cells Means Model to Design Balanced Factorials with Factors Nested and Mixed

Time: June 27, 2:553:10 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

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Financial Statistics (I)

Organizer: Cheng-Der Fuh (National Central University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: stcheng@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Chair: Inchi Hu (Hong Kong University of Sciences & Technology, Hong Kong)

Email: imichu@ust.hk

 

Speakers:

John A D Aston

Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Email: jaston@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Title: Regime Variability and Related Distributions in Markov Switching Models
Time:
 June 27, 8:509:20 a.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

Shih-Kuei Lin

Department of Finance, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Email:
square@nuk.edu.tw

Title: The Valuation of Catastrophe Equity Puts in Jump Risks
Time:
June 27, 9:209:50 a.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

Yazhen Wang

Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, U.S.A.

Email: yzwang@stat.uconn.edu

Title: Heterogeneous Autoregressive Realized Volatility Model
Time:
June 27, 9:5010:20 a.m., HSS Conference RM2

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Financial Statistics (II)

Chair: Nan-Jung Hsu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: njhsu@stat.nthu.edu.tw

 

Shih-Feng Huang

Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: huangsf@math.nsysu.edu.tw

Title: A SFIR Approach to Financial Derivative Valuation
Time:
June 27, 10:4011:00 a.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

Yungchung Lin

Department of Statistics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

Email: 92354502@nccu.edu.tw

Title: Tail Approximation of Asymmetric Factor for Portfolio Credit Risk
Time:
June 27, 11:0011:20 a.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

Peiming Wang

Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

Email: pmwang@aut.ac.nz

Title: A Bivariate Approach to The Analysis of Acquisition And
Merger FDI, Relative Wealth And Relative Access to Bank Credit

Time:
June 27, 11:2011:40 a.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

Zhengjun Zhang

Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Email: zjz@stat.wisc.edu

Title: Extreme Co-movements and Extreme Impacts in High Frequency Data in Finance
Time:
June 27, 11:40 a.m.12:00 noon, HSS Conference RM2

 

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Finite Markov Chain Imbedding and Its Applications in Biology

Organizer: James C. Fu (University of Manitoba, Canada)

Email: james_fu@umanitoba.ca

Chair: Xikui Wang (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, Canada)

Email: xikui_wang@umanitoba.ca

 

Speakers:

Yung-Ming Eddie Chang

Department of Mathematics, National Taitung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: eddchang@nttu.edu.tw

Title: Large Deviation Approximation for Runs and Patterns
Time: June 27,
8
:509:20 a.m., AC Conference RM1

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Lung-An Li

Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: lali@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Title: The Estimation in Finite Markov Chain Imbedding Approach
Time:
June 27, 9:209:50 a.m., AC Conference RM1

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W. Y. Wendy Lou

Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada

Email: wendy.lou@utoronto.ca

Title: Some Applications of FMCI
Time:
June 27, 9:5010:20 a.m., AC Conference RM1

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Government Statistics (政府統計)

 

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High Dimensional Data Analysis

Organizer: Anthony Yung Cheung Kuk (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Email: stakuka@nus.edu.sg

Chair: Chenlei Leng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Email: stalc@nus.edu.sg

 

Speakers:

Thomas Lee

Department of Statistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong and
Department of Statistics, Colorado State University, U.S.A.

Email: tlee@stat.colostate.edu

Title: Generalized Fiducial Inference for Sparse High Dimensional Systems
with Application to Wavelet Regression

Time:  June 25, 1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4

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Chenlei Leng

Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Email: stalc@nus.edu.sg

Title: Unified LASSO Estimation via Least Squares Approximation
Time:
 June 25, 1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

Steven (Shuangge) Ma 

Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, U.S.A.

Email: shuangge.ma@yale.edu

Title: Dimension Reduction in Survival Analysis: with Applications in Microarrays
Time:
 June 25, 2:102:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

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Lifetime Data Analysis (I)

Organizer: Mei-Ling Ting Lee (The Ohio State University, U.S.A.)

Email: meilinglee@sph.osu.edu

Chair: Chuhsing Hsiao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: ckhsiao@ntu.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Shu-Hui Chang

Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, National Taiwan University,

Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: shuhui@ntu.edu.tw

Title: Analysis of Truncated Lifetime Data
Time:
June 25, 1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Ming-Yen Cheng

Department of Mathematics, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: cheng@math.ntu.edu.tw

Title: A Semiparametric Model with Application to Analysis of Lifetime Data
Time:
June 25, 1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Xiaoqiong Joan Hu

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University, Canada

Email: joanh@stat.sfu.ca

Title: Some Statistical Issues in Evaluating Hospital Utilization: Lifetime Data Analysis and Beyond
Time:
June 25, 2:102:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

 

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Lifetime Data Analysis (II)

Chair: Philip E. Cheng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: pcheng@stat.sinica.edu.tw

 

Prasanta Basak

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Penn State, Altoona Altoona, U.S.A.

Email: fkv@psu.edu

Title: Prediction Methods in Progressively Censored Data
Time:
June 27, 8:509:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Dianliang Deng

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina, Regina, Canada

Email: deng@math.uregina.ca

Title: On Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimations of Multivariate Distribution Function Based on Interval-Censored Data
Time: 
June 27, 9:109:30 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Hongwei Zhao

University of Rochester, Rochester, U.S.A.

Email: Hongwei_Zhao@urmc.rochester.edu

Title: On the Equivalence of Some Medical Cost Estimators with Censored Data
Time: 
June 27, 9:309:50 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Philip E. Cheng
Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Email: pcheng@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Title: Testing Association: A Two-Step Test or The Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel Test

Time: June 27, 9:5010:20 a.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

 

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Model Selection-Ten Years of LASSO and New Approaches

Organizer: Wenjiang Fu (Michigan State University, U.S.A.)

Email: fuw@msu.edu

Chair: Wenjiang Fu (Michigan State University, U.S.A.)

Email: fuw@msu.edu

 

Speakers:

Chunming Zhang

Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.

Email: cmzhang@stat.wisc.edu

Title: Spatially Adaptive Functional Linear Regression with Functional Smooth LASSO
Time:
  June 26, 1:101:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Wenjiang Fu

Department of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, U.S.A.

Email: fuw@msu.edu

Title: On LASSO and Bioinformatics
Time:
  June 26, 1:402:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

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New Development in Diagnostic Medicine and Health Services

Organizer: Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou (University of  Washington, U.S.A.
and VA Seattle Medical Center, U.S.A.
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Email: azhou@u.washington.edu

Chair: Chen-Tuo Liao (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: ctliao@ntu.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Ying Qing Chen  

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and University of Washington, U.S.A.

Email: yqchen@scharp.org

Title: Additive Expectancy Regression
Time:
 June 26, 1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Yueh-Yun Chi 

Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington U.S.A.

Email: yychi@u.washington.edu

Title: ROC Surfaces in the Presence of Verification Bias
Time:
 June 26, 1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM3

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Gengsheng Jeff Qin
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, U.S.A.

Email: matgjq@langate.gsu.edu

Title: Empirical Likelihood-based Confidence Intervals for the Partial Area Under the ROC Curve
Time:
 June 26, 2:102:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

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New Statistical Methods for Multivariate Dependency and Cluster

Organizer: Keming Yu (Brunel University, U.K.)

Email: Keming.Yu@brunel.ac.uk

Chair: Keming Yu (Brunel University, U.K.)

Email: Keming.Yu@brunel.ac.uk

 

Speakers:

Yuanhua Feng

Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, The Maxwell Institute for
Mathematical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University,  United Kingdom

Email: Y.Feng@hw.ac.uk

Title: Semiparametric Modelling of Local and Conditional Correlations

Time: June 27, 10:4011:10 a.m., AC Conference RM2

 

Baibing Li

The Business School, Loughborough University, United Kingdom

Email: B.Li2@lboro.ac.uk

Title: The Clustering-Function-Based Method: Formulation, Computation and Applications

Time: June 27, 11:1011:40 a.m., AC Conference RM2

 

Keming Yu

The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, U.K.

Email: Keming.Yu@brunel.ac.uk

Title: Local Copula Quantile Regression

Time: June 27, 11:40 a.m.-12:10 p.m., AC Conference RM2

 

 

 


Non-Inferiority Clinical Testing

Organizer: Yi Tsong (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.)

Email: yi.tsong@fda.hhs.gov

Chair: Yi Tsong (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.)

Email: yi.tsong@fda.hhs.gov

 

Speakers:

Gordon Lan

Johnson & Johnson PRD, U.S.A.

Email: glan@prdus.jnj.com

Title: Clinical Trial Design to Access Rare Adverse Events
Time:
June 25, 1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Jen-Pei Liu

Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: jpliu@ntu.edu.tw

Title: An Exact Non-inferiority Test for Diagnostics Accuracy Based
on the Paired Partial Areas under ROC Curves

Time:
June 25, 1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM3

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Yi Tsong

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.

Email: yi.tsong@fda.hhs.gov

Title: Testing Superiority And Non-Inferiority Hypotheses In Active Controlled Clinical Trials
Time:
June 25, 2:102:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

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Nonparametric and Semiparametric Models

Organizer: Li-Shan Huang  (University of Rochester, U.S.A.)

Email: lhuang@bst.rochester.edu

Chair: Chien-Tai Lin (Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: chien@math.tku.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Aurore Delaigle

Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, UK

Email: Aurore.Delaigle@bristol.ac.uk

Title: On Optimal Smoothing Parameter Choice in Deconvolution Problems
Time:
June 25, 3:103:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4

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Li-Shan Huang  
Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, U.S.A.

Email: lhuang@bst.rochester.edu

Title: Estimation, Analysis of Variance, and F-Tests for Partial Linear Models
Time:
June 25, 3:404:10 p.m., AC Conference RM4

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Naisyin Wang

Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, U.S.A.

Email: nwang@stat.tamu.edu

Title: Analysis of Hierarchical Data Using Semiparametric Models
Time:
June 25, 4:104:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

Chin-Shang Li

Department of Biostatistics St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, U.S.A.

Email: chinshang.li@stjude.org

Title: Smoothing Covariate Effects in Zero-Inflated Poisson Models with Its Applications
Time:
June 25, 4:405:00 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

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Nonparametric Longitudinal and Functional Data Analysis

Organizer: Jeng-Min Chiou (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: jmchiou@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Chair: Jeng-Min Chiou (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: jmchiou@stat.sinica.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Pai-Ling Li

Department of Statistics, Tamkang University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: 129354@mail.tku.edu.tw

Title: Functional Clustering and Identifying Substructures of Longitudinal Data
Time:
June 27, 10:4011:10 a.m., AC Conference RM4

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Jane-Ling Wang

Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, U.S.A.

Email: wang@wald.ucdavis.edu

Title: Challenging Issues in Joint Modelling of Longitudinal and Survival Data
Time:
June 27, 11:1011:40 a.m., AC Conference RM4

 

Jin-Ting Zhang

Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of
Singapore, Singapore

Email: stazjt@nus.edu.sg
Title: Two-Sample Test for Equal Mean Functions for Functional Data
Time:
June 27, 11:40 a.m.12:10 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

 

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Pharmaceutical Safety

Organizer: Yu-Te Wu (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.)

Email: YU-TE.WU@fda.hhs.gov

Chair: Yu-Te Wu (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.)

Email: YU-TE.WU@fda.hhs.gov

 

Speakers:

Min-Hui Chen

Center for Drug Evaluation, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: mhchen@cde.org.tw

Title: Drug-Induced Liver Injury: Clinical Summary and Premarketing Evaluation

Time: June 27, 10:4011:10 a.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Zili Li

Merck Phamaceuticals, U.S.A.

Email: zili_li@merck.com

Title: Use of Data Pooling in Drug Risk Assessment at US FDA - A Clinical Perspective
Time:
June 27, 11:1011:40 a.m., AC Conference RM3

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Yu-Te Wu

Food and Drug  Administration, U.S.A.

Email: YU-TE.WU@fda.hhs.gov

Title: Detecting Rare Adverse Events in Post-Marketing Safety Studies: Statistical Considerations
Time:
June 27, 11:40 a.m.12:10 p.m., AC Conference RM3

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Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis (I)

Organizer: Henghsiu Tsai (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: htsai@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Chair: Henghsiu Tsai (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: htsai@stat.sinica.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Kung-Sik Chan
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Iowa, U.S.A. 

Email: kchan@stat.uiowa.edu

Title: A New Look At Model Diagnostics, With Applications To Time Series Analysis
Time:
 June 26, 1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Tohru Ozaki

The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan
and Department of Statistical Sciences, Graduate University of

Advances Studies, Tokyo, Japan

Email: ozaki@ism.ac.jp

Title: Recent Surge of Time Series Methods in Brain Science
-Causal modeling & Heteroscedasticity-

Time:
 June 26, 1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Ruey S. Tsay

Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago, U.S.A.

Email: ruey.tsay@chicagogsb.edu

Title: High-Dimensional Multivariate Volatility Models
Time:
 June 26, 2:102:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

 

 

 

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Recent Advances in Time Series Analysis (II)

Chair: Rouh-Jane Chou (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: chou@stat.nthu.edu.tw

 

Henghsiu Tsai

Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: htsai@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Title: Quasi-maximum Likelihood Estimation of Seasonal Long-memory Limiting Aggregate Processes
Time:
 June 27, 1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Shao-Ting Lo

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Email: d927002@oz.nthu.edu.tw

Title: Dimension Reduction in Time Series Regression Model
Time:
June 27, 1:402:00 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Kin Foon Kevin Wong

Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan

Email: wong@ism.ac.jp

Title: State Space GARCH Model and its Applications
Time:
June 27, 2:002:20 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Ladjouze Salim

USTHB, Algiers, Algeria

Email: sladjouze@gmail.com

Title: On Nonparametric Estimation of Time Series with Missing Data
Time:
June 27, 2:202:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

 

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Recent Development in Clinical Trial

Organizer:  Ivan S. F. Chan (Merck Research Laboratories, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. )

and Chin-Fu Hsiao (National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email:   ivan_chan@merck.com and chinfu@nhri.org.tw

Chair: Ivan S. F. Chan (Merck Research Laboratories, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. )

Email: ivan_chan@merck.com

 

Speakers:

Mei-Chiung Shih

Health Research and Policy-Biostatistics, Stanford University, U.S.A.

Email:  meichiun@stanford.edu

Title: Designed Extension of Survival Studies:  Application to Clinical Trials with Unrecognized Heterogeneity

Time:  June 26, 10:1010:40 a.m., AC Conference RM3
 

Weichung Joe Shih

University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, USA

Email: shihwj@umdnj.edu

Title: Estimating Survival Curve With Unlinked Entry and Failure Times

Time:  June 26, 10:40 11:10 a.m., AC Conference RM3


Hsiao Hui Tsou

National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: tsouhh@nhri.org.tw

Title: Mixed Non-inferiority Margin and Statistical Tests in Active Controlled Trials

Time:  June 26, 11:1011:40 a.m., AC Conference RM3

 

J. Jack Lee

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

Email:  jjlee@mdanderson.org

Title: Adaptive Randomization for Personalized Medicine in Cancer Clinical Trials

Time:   June 26, 11:4011:55 a.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Xiaoping Xiong

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Email:  xiaoping.xiong@stjude.org

Title: Sequential Conditional Probability Ratio Test: An Ideal Design for Clinical Trials?

Time:   June 26, 11:5512:10 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

 


Recent Developments in Nonlinear Time Series

Organizer: Wai Keung Li (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Email: hrntlwk@hku.hk

Chair: Wai Keung Li (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Email: hrntlwk@hku.hk

 

Speakers:

Shiqing Ling

Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Email: maling@ust.hk

Title: Some Recent Results on Double AR Models
Time:
 June 26, 3:103:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Heung Wong

Department of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Email: mathwong@polyu.edu.hk

Title: Diagnostic Checking Cointegrated Multivariate Time Series Models
Time:
 June 26, 3:404:10 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Wai Keung Li

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Email: hrntlwk@hkucc.hku.hk
Title: Testing for Threshold Moving Average with Conditional Heteroscedasticity
Time:
June 26, 4:104:40 p.m., AC Conference RM1

 

Shen-Chien Chen

Department of statistics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan

Email: sam601019@yahoo.com.tw

Title: Approximate Confidence Sets for a Threshold Autoregressive Process
Time:
  June 26, 4:405:00 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Reliability and Lifetime Inference

Organizer: Sheng-Tsaing Tseng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: sttseng@stat.nthu.edu.tw

Chair: Sheng-Tsaing Tseng (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: sttseng@stat.nthu.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Shung-Lin Jeng

Department of Statistics, Tunghai University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: sljeng@thu.edu.tw

Title: Some Degradation Measurements and Models in Nano Reliability
Time:
  June 25, 3:103:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Loon-Ching Tang

Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, National Singapore University, Singapore.

Email: isetlc@nus.edu.sg
Title: A Sequential Bayesian Approach for Analyzing ALT Data
Time:
  June 25, 3:404:10 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Sheng-Tsaing Tseng

Institute of Statistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: sttseng@stat.nthu.edu.tw

Title: Model Discriminations in Degradation Analysis

Time:  June 25, 4:104:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Indrani Basak

Penn State Altoona, Altoona, U.S.A.

Email: i8b@psu.edu
Title: Inference on Three-parameter Gamma Distribution Based on Progressively Censored Data
Time:
  June 25, 4:404:55 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Chih-Hsiang Ho

Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

Email: chih-hsiang.ho@unlv.edu
Title: ARIMA Models for Forecasting Poisson Process Observations: Reliability and Quality Control
Time:
  June 25, 4:555:10 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

 

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Spatial and Environmental Statistics

Organizer: Hsin-Cheng Huang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: hchuang@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Chair: Hsin-Cheng Huang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: hchuang@stat.sinica.edu.tw

 

 

Speakers:

Hao Zhang

Department of Statistics, Washington State University, U.S.A.

Email: zhanghao@wsu.edu

Title: Infill Asymptotics in Spatial Statistics
Time:
 June 27, 1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM2

 

Jun Zhu

Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A.

Email: jzhu@stat.wisc.edu

Title: Resampling  Methods for Spatial Regression Models Under A Class of
Stochastic Designs

Time:
 June 27, 1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM2

 

Jassy Molitor

Imperial College London, UK

Email: jassy.molitor@imperial.ac.uk

Title: Low Birthweight and Water Disinfection Byproducts: A Multiple-Bias Modelling Approach
Time:
 June 27, 2:102:30 p.m., AC Conference RM2

 

John Molitor

Imperial College London, UK

Email: john.molitor@imperial.ac.uk

Title: Assessing Uncertainty in Spatial Exposure Models for Air Pollution Health Effects Assessment
Time:
 June 27, 2:302:50 p.m., AC Conference RM2

 

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Statistical Computing and Machine Learning

Organizer: Ray-Bing Chen (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: rbchen@nuk.edu.tw

Chair: Ray-Bing Chen (National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: rbchen@nuk.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Ting-Li Chen

Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: tlchen@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Title: Modeling Image Prior and its Application on Image Denoising
Time:
 June 26, 3:103:40 p.m., AC Conference RM2

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Weichung Wang

Department of Applied Mathematics, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: wwang@nuk.edu.tw

Title: A Basis-based Response Surface Method for Computer Experiment Optimization
Time:
 June 26, 3:404:10 p.m., AC Conference RM2

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Jiann-Ming Wu

Department of Applied Mathematics, National Dong Hwa University,
Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: jmwu@mail.ndhu.edu.tw

Title: Learning Natural Elastic Nets for Deformable Griding on Microarray Images
Time:
 June 26, 4:104:40 p.m., AC Conference RM2

 

Nan Lin

Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Email: nlin@math.wustl.edu

Title: Aggregating Estimating Equations by Approximation
Time:
 June 26, 4:404:55 p.m., AC Conference RM2

 

Jonny B. Pornel

Department of Education Regional Office VI, Iloilo City, Philippines

Email: jonnybpornel@yahoo.com

Title: Effect of Stimuli Arrangement on Learning as Predicted by PML
Time:
 June 26, 4:555:10 p.m., AC Conference RM2

 

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Statistical Genetics

Organizer: Chen-Hung Kao (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: chkao@stat.sinica.edu.tw

Chair: Jun Zhu (Zhejiang University, P.R. China)

Email: chkao@stat.sinica.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Tzu-Ming Chu

SAS Institute, Carry, U.S.A.

Email: tzu-ming.chu@sas.com

Title: Inter- and intr-platform reproducibility of gene expresion measurements - the MicroArray Quality Control (MAQC) project
Time:
June 27, 10:4011:10 a.m., AC Conference RM1

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Shizhong Xu

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, U.S.A.

Email: xu@genetics.ucr.edu

Title: A Selective Shrinkage Method for Mapping Multiple Quantitative Trait Loci
Time:
June 27, 11:1011:40 a.m., AC Conference RM1

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Jun Zhu

Institute of Bioinformatics, Zhejiang University, P.R. China

Email: jzhu@zju.edu.cn

Title: Mapping the Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits in Experimental Populations
Time:
..June 27, 11:40 a.m.12:10 p.m., AC Conference RM1

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Statistical Inference

Organizer: Chen-Hai Andy Tsao (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: chtsao@mail.ndhu.edu.tw

Chair: Chen-Hai Andy Tsao (National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: chtsao@mail.ndhu.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Inchi Hu  

Department of Information and Systems Management, Hong Kong University of Sciences & Technology, Hong Kong

Email: imichu@ust.hk

Title: Coupling Spline Models and Stochastic Approximation
Time:
  June 26, 3:103:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

C. Andy Tsao

Department of Applied Mathematics, National Dong Hwa University,
Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: chtsao@mail.ndhu.edu.tw

Title: A Sample Perspective of Boosting Convergence
Time:
 June 26, 3:404:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Jie Chen

University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA

Email: Jie.Chen@umb.edu

Title: Two-Dimensional Variable Window Discrete Scan Statistics

Time:  June 26, 4:104:30 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Jian Qing Shi

School of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Newcastle, UK

Email: j.q.shi@ncl.ac.uk

Title: Curve Prediction and Clustering with Mixtures of Gaussian Process Functional Regression Models
Time:
  June 26, 4:304:50 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

I-Shiang Tzeng

Department of Statistics, National Chengchi University

Email: g1354502@nccu.edu.tw

Title: Some Aspects of Multivariate Generalized Gamma Random Variables
Time:
 June 26, 4:505:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

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Statistical Issues in Evaluation of Vaccine and Biologics Products

Organizer: Henry S. Hsu (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.)

Email: henry.hsu@fda.hhs.gov

Chair: Henry S. Hsu (Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.)

Email: henry.hsu@fda.hhs.gov

 

Speakers:

Ivan Chan

Merck Research Laboratories, U.S.A.

Email:  ivan_chan@merck.com

Title: Statistical Issues and Challenges in Evaluating New Vaccines

Time: June 25, 1:101:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

Henry S. Hsu

Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.
E-mail: henry.hsu@fda.hhs.gov
Title:
Statistical Issues in the Evaluation of Biologics Products

Time: June 25, 1:402:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

Tie-Hua Ng

Food and Drug Administration, U.S.A.
Email: tiehua.ng@fda.hhs.gov
Title: Statistical Issues in the Evaluation of Blood Products

Time: June 25, 2:102:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM2

 

 

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Statistical Methods for Design and Analysis of Genetic Studies
(In Memory of Professor Ching Chun Li)

Organizer: Zhaohai Li (George Washington University, U.S.A.)

Email: zli@gwu.edu

Chair: Zhaohai Li (George Washington University, U.S.A.)

Email: zli@gwu.edu

 

Speakers:

Zhaohai Li

Department of Statistics, George Washington University, U.S.A.
Email:
zli@gwu.edu

Title: Excessive False Positive Rate Caused by Population Stratification and Disease Rate Heterogeneity in Case-Control Association Studies
Time:
 June 26, 10:2010:50 a.m., HSS Conference RM2

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Jurg Ott 

Laboratory of Statistical Genetics, Rockefeller University, U.S.A. & Beijing

Genomics Institute at Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China

Email: ott@rockefeller.edu

Title: Design and Analysis of Genetic Mapping Studies
Time:
 June 26, 10:5011:20 a.m., HSS Conference RM2

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Xiaofeng Zhu

Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, U.S.A.
Email:
xzhu1@darwin.EPBI.CWRU.edu

Title: A Unified Association Analysis Approach for Family and Unrelated Samples Correcting for Stratification
Time:
 June 26, 11:2011:50 a.m., HSS Conference RM2

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Statistical Methods in Genomic Research

Organizer: Chao A. Hsiung (National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: hsiung@nhri.org.tw

Chair: Chao A. Hsiung (National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: hsiung@nhri.org.tw

 

Speakers:

I-Shou Chang

Institute of Cancer Research and Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics,

National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: ischang@nhri.org.tw

Title: Profiling Time Course Expression of Virus Genes
Time:
 June 26, 3:103:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

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Shili Lin

Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, U.S.A.

Email: shili@stat.ohio-state.edu

Title: Modeling and Analysis of SAGE Cerebellum Libraries
Time:
 June 26, 3404:10 p.m., AC Conference RM3

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Pak-Chung Sham

Genome Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Email: pcsham@hkucc.hku.hk

Title: Estimation of Global And Local Genomic Sharing Using Genome-Wide SNP Data
Time:
 June 26, 4:104:40 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

Eugene Lin

Vita Genomics, Inc., Taipei, Taiwan

Email: eugene.lin@vitagenomics.com

Title: A Bayesian Method for Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions in Pharmacogenomics
Time:
 June 26, 4:405:00 p.m., AC Conference RM3

 

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Statistical Methods in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data (I)

Organizer: Chin-Tsang Chiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: chiangct@math.ntu.edu.tw

Chair: Chin-Tsang Chiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: chiangct@math.ntu.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Wolfgang Karl Härdle

Center for Applied Statistics and Economics Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Spandauer Sträß 1, 10178 Berlin, Germany

Email: haerdle@wiwi.hu-berlin.de

Title: Time Series Modelling with Semiparametric Factor Dynamics
Time:
 June 25, 1:101:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Satoshi Hattori

The Biostatistics Center, Kurume University, Japan

Email: hattori_satoshi@med.kurume-u.ac.jp

Title: Semiparametric Inference for Irregularly-Spaced Repeated Measurements
Time:
 June 25, 1:402:10 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

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Chiung-Yu Huang
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A.

Email: huangchi@niaid.nih.gov

Title: Semiparametric Analysis for Recurrent Event Data with Informative Censoring
Time: 
 June 25, 2:102:40 p.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

 

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Statistical Methods in the Analysis of Longitudinal Data (II)

Chair: Pen-Hwang Liau (National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: phliau@nknucc.nknu.edu.tw

 

Oi-man Kwok
Texas A&M University, USA

Email: omkwok@neo.tamu.edu

Title: Using Modification Indices to Detect Turning Points in Longitudinal Data: A Monte Carlo Study
Time:
June 27, 9:109:30 a.m., AC Conference RM2

 

Li-Yin Lee
University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

Email: liyinlee@wisc.edu

Title: Nonparametric Models for Multivariate Panel Count Data
Time:
June 27, 9:309:50 a.m., AC Conference RM2

 

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Statistical Methods with Incomplete Data

Organizer: Tiee-Jian Wu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: tjwu@stat.ncku.edu.tw

Chair: Tiee-Jian Wu (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: tjwu@stat.ncku.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Yun-Chan Chi

Department of Statistics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: ycchi@stat.ncku.edu.tw

Title: The Additive Hazards Model for Clustered Current Status Data
Time:
 June 26, 3:103:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4

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Wei-Yann Tsai

Department of Biostatistics, Columbia University, U.S.A.

Email: wyt@biostat.columbia.edu

Title: Pseudo Partial Likelihood Estimators for Cox Regression With Missing Covariates
Time:
  June 26, 3:404:10 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

Weijing Wang

Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: wjwang@stat.nctu.edu.tw

Title: Statistical Inference for Dependent Truncation Data
Time:
  June 26, 4:104:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

Hung-Yi Lu

Department of Statistics and Information Science, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

Email: fj069201@mails.fju.edu.tw

Title: Sequential Estimation in Logistic Measurement Error Models
Time:
  June 26, 4:405:00 p.m., AC Conference RM4

 

 

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Statistical Process Control

Organizer: Longcheen Huwang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: huwang@stat.nthu.edu.tw

Chair: Longcheen Huwang (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: huwang@stat.nthu.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

Argon Chen

Graduate Institute of Industrial Engineering, National Taiwan University,

Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: achen@ccms.ntu.edu.tw

Title: Sample-Efficient Regression Tree and Its Applications to Semiconductor Yield Learning
Time:
 June 26, 10:1010:40 a.m., AC Conference RM4

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Jyh-Jen Horng Shiau

Institute of Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: jyhjen@stat.nctu.edu.tw

Title: Profile Monitoring via Nonparametric Regression
Time:
 June 26, 10:4011:10 a.m., AC Conference RM4

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Arthur B. Yeh

Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research, Bowling Green State

University, U.S.A.

Email: byeh@bgsu.edu

Title: Multivariate Control Charts for Monitoring Process Variability
Time:
  June 26, 11:1011:40 a.m., AC Conference RM4

 

Ping-Huang Huang

Aletheia University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: phhuang@email.au.edu.tw

Title: On The Sampling Distribution of Range And Sample Coefficient of Range for Generalized Gamma Population and Its Application
Time:
  June 26, 11:4012:00 noon., AC Conference RM4

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Stochastic Processes

Organizer: Chii-Ruey Hwang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: crhwang@sinica.edu.tw

Chair: Chii-Ruey Hwang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)

Email: crhwang@sinica.edu.tw

 

Speakers:

To be announced.

Time:  June 26, 10:1010:40 a.m., HSS Conference RM1

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Shizan Fang

I.M.B., UFR Sciences et Techniques, Université de Bourgogne, France

Email: fang@u-bourgogne.fr

Title: Recent Developments in Stochastic Differential Equations
Time:
June 26, 10:4011:10 a.m., HSS Conference RM1

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Tai-Ho Wang

Graduate Institute of Applied Mathematics, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: thwang@math.ccu.edu.tw

Title: Fundamental Solutions of Generalized SABR Models
Time:
June 26, 11:1011:40 a.m., HSS Conference RM1

 

Yuanhui Xiao

Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, USA

Email: matyxx@langate.gsu.edu

Title: Shot Noise Processes
Time:
June 26, 11:4012:00 noon., HSS Conference RM1

 

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Survey Sampling

Organizers: Jiahua Chen and Changbao Wu (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Email: jhchen@uwaterloo.ca  &  cbwu@uwaterloo.ca

Chair: W. Y. Wendy Lou (University of Toronto, Canada)

Email: wendy.lou@utoronto.ca

 

Speakers:

Louis-Paul Rivest

Département de Mathématiques et de Statistique, University of Laval, Canada

Email: lpr@mat.ulaval.ca

Title: Stratification in Business Surveys: A Review and Some Advances
Time:
 June 26, 1:101:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4

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Mary Thompson

Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, Canada

Email: methomps@uwaterloo.ca

Title: Estimating Functions and Survey Sampling
Time:
 June 26, 1:402:10 p.m., AC Conference RM4 

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Zilin Wang

Department of Mathematics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Email: zwang@wlu.ca

Title: A Resampling Approach to Estimate Variance Components of Multilevel Models
Time:
 June 26, 2:102:40 p.m., AC Conference RM4 

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