Program
- The full conference program booklet is available here.
- Biographical information on our speakers is available here.
- Conference presentations are available for download below:
Agenda: May 12 @ UCONN
Room 101, Lawrence D. McHugh Hall, Storrs, CT (formerly Laurel Hall)
- 9:00 Registration
- 9:30 Opening Remarks
Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut
Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut
- 9:55 Keynote Session
(chair: Zhen Chen)
“A Conditional Density Estimation Partition Model Using Logistic Gaussian Processes”
Bani Mallick, Texas A&M University
- 10:40 Coffee Break
- 10:50 Session 1: Advanced Statistical Methods for Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data
(chair: Jinjian Mu)
- “Bayesian Modeling of Sparse High-Dimensional Data using Divergence Measures”
Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut
- “A Correlated Bayesian Rank Likelihood Approach to Multiple ROC Curves for Endometriosis”
Zhen Chen, National Institutes of Health
- “A Mixture Model and an Empirical Bayes Approach to Detect Edges in Sparse Co-expression Graphs”
Haim Bar, University of Connecticut
- “Statistical Learning for Biomedical Data Integration and Analysis”
Yuping Zhang, University of Connecticut
- 12:10 Lunch (McMahon Dining Hall)
- 1:30 Session 2: Bayesian Modelling and Application
(chair: Wei Shi)
- “On Spatial Disease Mapping”
Sudipto Banerjee, University of California, Los Angeles
- “Finite Population Unequal Probability Bayesian Bootstraps and Multiple Imputation”
Mike Cohen, American Institutes for Research
- “A Bayesian Regularized Mediation Analysis with Multiple Exposures”
Yu-Bo Wang, National Institutes of Health
- “Bayesian Joint Modeling of Response Times with Dynamic Latent Ability in Educational Testing”
Xiaojing Wang, University of Connecticut
- “Testing Congruence in Phylogenomic Data using Bayes Factors”
Suman Neupane, University of Connecticut
- 3:10 Social Mixing
- 4:00 Session 3: Statistical Application in Clinical Trials (chair: Qi Qi)
- “An Innovative Design to Combine a PoC Study with Dose Range”
Naitee Ting, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- “Statistical Methods for Evaluating Diagnostic Devices”
Changhong Song, Food and Drug Administration
- “Use of the VG (Virtual Twins combined with GUIDE) Method in the Development of Precision Medicines”
Wangang Xie, AbbVie Inc.
- “A Multi-Stage Stochastic Model in the Analysis of Longitudinal Dementia Data”
Qi Qi, University of Connecticut
- 5:20 Closing Remarks
Depart for banquet dinner (Han Restaurant, 310 Prospect Ave, Hartford, CT 06106)