2018 Statistics Week Taiwan

2018 Statistics Week Taiwan

Statistics for the Next Decade

November 5 - 9, 2018

Program

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Nov. 5 Mon	1st Conference Room, Activity Center, Academia Sinica (Taipei)
9:00 – 9:30	Opening Chun-houh Chen (Director, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica) James C. Liao (President, Academia Sinica) Tzer-Ming Chu (Minister, Directorate General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, Taiwan)
9:30 – 9:40	Group Photo
9:40 – 10:40	Keynote Speech Chair: Ker-Chau Li Speaker: Samuel Kou Learning from big medical data: statistical analysis on electronic health data
10:40 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 12:00	Keynote Speech Chair: Jae Chang Lee Speaker: Helen MacGillivray Statistics learning for the next decade
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00	AS Frontiers of Sciences and Humanities Seminar Series – Statistics Statistics for the next decade Chair: A. John Bailer
15:00 – 15:30	Break
15:30 – 17:00	Workshop of ISI EC and Associations Chair: Chuhsing Kate Hsiao Speaker: Stephen Penneck Confidentiality in an era of Big Data: an official statistics perspective Speaker: Fabrizio Ruggeri Adversarial hypothesis testing Speaker: Wing Kam Fung Test for imprinting effects on the X chromosome
17:30 ~	Shuttle Bus for Welcome Reception Departure: 17:30, Location: Activity Center (By invitation only)

Nov. 6 Tue	1st Conference Room, Activity Center, Academia Sinica (Taipei)
9:00 – 9:20	Opening Helen MacGillivray (President, ISI) Han-Ming Wu (Chair of ISI Young Statisticians Committee)
9:20 – 10:20	Keynote Speech Chair: Han-Ming Wu Speaker: Yen-Tsung Huang Causal mediation analysis: from univariate to multivariate mediators
10:20 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 12:00	Ice-breaking/EC and Association Presidents/Representatives & YS/Small Group Discussion
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00	ISI Young Statisticians Regional Workshop – Session 1 Chair: Hideatsu Tsukahara Speaker: Seongil Jo Amortized variational inference methods for Bayesian model criticism Speaker: Aijun Zhang Tuning machine learning algorithms via sequential uniform designs Speaker: Jun Tsuchida Canonical correlation analysis by Chi-square statistics Speaker: Fengqing Chao A systematic assessment of national, regional and global levels and trends in the sex ratio at birth and scenario-based projections	Joint Meeting of ISI EC and Association Presidents/Representatives Location: Environmental Changes Research Building (A) - R6005
15:00 – 15:30	Break
15:30 – 17:00	ISI Young Statisticians Regional Workshop – Session 2 Chair: Yun Fah Chang Speaker: Charlotte Wang Dis/Similarity-based test for case-control association study with rare variants Speaker: I-Chen Lee Sequential test planning for polymer composites Speaker: Sheng-Hsuan Lin Visualization and identification of agonistic interaction through an exclusive transformation of sufficient component cause model Speaker: Feng-Chi Liu A joint modelling of threshold stochastic volatility model and realized measures	Separate Meetings of ISI EC and Association Presidents/Representatives Location: Environmental Changes Research Building (A) - R6005 and R6008
17:30 ~	Shuttle Bus for Conference Banquet Departure: 17:30, Location: Activity Center (By invitation only)

Nov. 7 Wed	Department of Statistics, National Cheng Kung University (Tainan)
9:00 – 10:00	Visit the Museum of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica	8:00 – 12:00	ISI EC Meeting Location: Environmental Changes Research Building (A) - R6005
10:00 – 12:30	(Leave at 10:05) ISI Association Presidents/Representatives Travel to NCKU, Tainan	8:00 – 12:00
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch Break	12:00 – 12:45	Lunch Break
13:30 – 15:00	NCKU-ISI Statistics Workshop - Session 1 Chair: Ray-Bing Chen Speaker: Gail Burrill The importance of statistics and statistical literacy in K-16 education Speaker: Denise Silva Time series analysis for repeated sample surveys Speaker: Patrick Groenen A regression perspective of binary and multi-class support vector machines	12:45 - 15:30	ISI EC Meeting Location: Environmental Changes Research Building (A) - R6005
15:00 – 15:30	Break	12:45 - 15:30
15:30 – 17:00	NCKU-ISI Statistics Workshop - Session 2 Chair: Sheng-Mao Chang Speaker: Nalini Ravishanker High-frequency financial time series analysis Speaker: Alessandro Fassò Statistical modelling of atmospheric profiles and uncertainty	15:30 – 18:00	(Leave at 15:40) ISI EC Travel to NCKU, Tainan
18:00 ~	Dinner

Nov. 8 Thu	Department of Statistics, National Cheng Kung University (Tainan)
10:00 – 12:00	NCKU-ISI Statistics Forum (ISI EC + Association Presidents/Representatives) Chair: Ray-Bing Chen
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch Break
13:30 – 18:00	Event for ISI EC and Association Presidents/Representatives (Return to Taipei after 18:00)

Nov. 9 Fri	Graduate Institute of Statistics, National Central University (Taoyuan)
8:30 – 10:00	Joint Meeting of ISI EC and Association Presidents/Representatives Location: Environmental Changes Research Building (A) - R6005
10:00 – 12:45	Separate Meetings of ISI EC and Association Presidents/Representatives Location: Environmental Changes Research Building (A) - R6005 and R6008
12:45 – 13:30	Lunch Break
14:30 – 15:30	ISI EC and Association Presidents/Representatives Travel to NCU, Taoyuan
16:10 - 17:30	CSA-NCU-ISI International Sessions at NCU – International Session 1 Chair: Henry Horng-Shing Lu Speaker: A. John Bailer Going from the classroom to the studio: the birth and infancy of Stats + Stories Speaker: Peter Guttorp Decision making under uncertainty: the case of sea level rise adaptation Speaker: Richard Barker Continuous time capture-recapture	CSA-NCU-ISI International Sessions at NCU – International Session 2 Chair: Shih-Feng Huang Speaker: Mark Podolskij High frequency data in statistics Speaker: Jürgen Symanzik Eye-tracking in practice: the EyeTrackR R package and its use in a study on human postures Speaker: Irena Križman Partnership between official statistics and academia
18:00 –	Banquet of CSA