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Session IP1c3

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Cutting Edge Biostatistical Research

Organizer: Susmita Datta, University of Florida
Yuan Wang, Washington State University
Time: Friday, 17:00–18:30
Room: LInC 368

17:00-17:30

Dynamic Disease Screening Using Statistical Process Control Charts

Peihua Qiu, University of Florida

17:30-18:00

Microbiome Data: First Steps in Data Analysis

Snehalata Huzurbazar, University of Wyoming

18:00-18:30

Differential Network Analysis with Multiply Imputed Lipidomic Data

Susmita Datta, University of Florida

Session IP1c4

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Pharmaceutical Statisticians: Who are We?

Organizer: Hiya Banerjee, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Chair: Yulan Li, Medvision
Time: Friday, 17:00–18:30
Room: LInC 314

17:00-17:30

Comparing Academia and Industry: One Statistician’s Experience

Neby Bekele, Gilead Sciences, Inc

17:30-18:00

Pharmaceutical Statisticians:  Organization, Contributions to Drug Development and Opportunities for Leadership and Research

Ellen Snyder, Merck & Co., Inc.

18:00-18:30

Role of Statistician in Pharmaceutical Industry and Recent Challenges

Vipin Arora, Eli Lilly and Company

Session IP1c5

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A Variety of Dimension Reduction Techniques

Organizer: T. N. Sriram, University of Georgia
Chair: T. N. Sriram, University of Georgia
Time: Friday, 17:00–18:30
Room: LInC 350

17:00-17:30

The Dual Central Subspaces in Dimension Reduction

Ross Iaci, College of William & Mary

17:30-18:00

Sequential Sufficient Dimension Reduction

Haileab Hilafu, University of Tennessee

18:00-18:30

Sufficient Dimension Folding with Categorical Variables

Yuanwen Wang, University of Georgia

Session IP1c6

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Statistical Inference on Networks

Organizer: Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Oregon State University
Chair: Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Oregon State University
Time: Friday, 17:00–18:30
Room: LInC 268

17:00-17:30

Detection of anomalous path in a noisy network

Shirshendu Chatterjee, City University of New York

17:30-18:00

Two projects on graphons and blockmodels

David Choi, Carnegie Mellon University

18:00-18:30

Matched bipartite block model with covariates

Arash Amini, University of California, Los Angeles

Session IP1c7

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Recent advances in Bayesian Techniques

Organizer: Sanajy Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore
Chair:Rajarshi Guhaniyogi, University of California, Santa Cruz
Time: Friday, 17:00–18:30
Room: LInC 228

17:00-17:30

A Two-step Metropolis Hastings Method for Bayesian Empirical Likelihood Computation

Sanajy Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore

17:30-18:00

Default Bayesian analysis with global-local shrinkage priors

Jyotishka Datta, Duke University

18:00-18:30

An analysis of liver transplant waiting times using semi-parametric models for ordinal data

Sujit Ghosh, North Carolina State University

Keynote Session 2

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Chair: Ginny Lesser, Oregon State University
Time: Saturday, 8:30–10:00
Room: LInC 128

8:30-9:15

The Statistician as a Civic Scientist

Kathy Ensor, Rice University

9:15-10:00

Machine Learning Methods and their applications to Causal Inference

Debashis Ghosh, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Session SP1

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Women in Statistics

Organizer: Ellen Snyder, Merck & Co., Inc.
Chair: Ellen Snyder, Merck & Co., Inc.
Time: Saturday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 210

Participants/ speakers

Amanda L. Golbeck, University of Arkansas

Lisa Lupinacci, Biostatistics, Merck & Co. Inc.

Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan School of Public Health

Session SP2

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Young researcher session

Chair: Tapan Nayak, George Washington University
Time: Saturday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 350

10:30-11:00

 Ground state energy in the spherical mixed p-spin model

Arnab Sen, University of Minnesota

11:00-11:30

A New Perspective on Boosting in Linear Regression via Modern Optimization

Rahul Mazumder, MIT

11:30-12:00

On mixed memberships and matrix factorization

Purnamitra Sarkar, University of Texas, Austin

Session IP2a1 (ICSA sponsored)

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Recent advances in nonparametric methods and model selection

Organizer: Lan Xue, Oregon State University
Chair: Lan Xue, Oregon State University
Time: Saturday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 268

10:30-11:00

Variable selection for additive autoregressive model via cumulative ratios of empirical strengths total

Miao Yang, Oregon State University

11:00-11:30

Selection by Partitioning the Solution Path

Peng Wang, University of Cincinnati

11:30-12:00

Spline confidence bands for generalized regression models

Jing Wang, University of Illinois at Chicago

Session IP2a2

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High Dimensional Inference

Organizer: Kshitij Khare, University of Florida
Chair: Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
Time: Saturday, 10:30–12:00
Room: LInC 302

10:30-11:00

Scalable and consistent variable selection for high dimensional logistic regression

Naveen Narisetty, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

11:00-11:30

Network-based pathway enrichment analysis with incomplete network information

George Michailidis, University of Florida Consortium

11:30-12:00

A Bayesian approach for envelope models

Kshitij Khare, University of Florida