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Program of the 3rd International Conference of the EMR-IBS
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Monday, May 9, 2005
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Time
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Preconference
Course
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2:00
- 6:00 pm
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Statistical Analysis of
Microarray Data,
David Stephens; Dept of Mathematics, Imperial College of
London, UK
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Time
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8:30
pm - 10:00 pm
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Opening Mixer and Pre-Registration (Corfu
Imperial Hotel)
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005
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Time
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8:30
am - 9:00 am
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Registration
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9:00
am - 10:00 am
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Opening Session
Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address
Chair: Urania Dafni; University
of Athens, Greece
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9:00
am - 9:15 am
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Welcoming Remarks by the EMR-IBS President
Refik Burgut;
Cukurova University, Adana,
Turkey
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9:15
am - 10:00 am
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Keynote Address
Biostatisticians, Biostatistical Science and the Future,
Marvin Zelen; Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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10:00
am - 11:30 am
(1:30)
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Session A
Analysis of Microarray Experiments
Chair: Maria-Grazia
Valsecchi; University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
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10:00
am - 10:30 am
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Pooling Data Across Microarray
Experiments Using Different Versions of Affymetrix Oligonucleotide Arrays,
Jeffrey
Morris,
Zhang L, Wu C, Baggerly K, Coombes K; University of Texas M.D. Anderson
Cancer Center, USA
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10:30 am – 10:50 am
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Combining Multiple Microarray Studies
under Various Conditions,
Park T, Yi S, Choi H, Lee S-Y; Seoul National University, Korea
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10:50 am – 11:10 am
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Identifying Periodically Expressed
Transcripts in Microarray Time Series Data,
Fokianos K; University of Cyprus, Cyprus
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11:10 am – 11:30 am
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Epigenetic Hypothesis Tests for
Methylation and Acetylation
in a Triple Microarray System,
Li L, Shi H, Yiannoutsos CT, Huang
T M-H, Nephew KP; Indiana University, USA
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11:30 am - 11:50 am
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Coffee Break
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11:50
am - 1:40 pm
(1:50)
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Parallel Sessions
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Session B1
Modelling of Longitudinal Data
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Session B2
Statistical Methodology I
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Session B1
Modelling of Longitudinal Data
Chair: Constantine Gatsonis; Brown University, USA
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11:50
am - 12:20 pm
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Modelling,
Estimation and Diagnostics for Longitudinal Binary Data with Dropout,
Robin
Henderson
& Rosemire Fiaccone; Lancaster
University, Newcastle University, UK
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12:20 pm - 12:40 pm
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Marginalized Multilevel Models for
Multivariate Longitudinal Binary Data,
Ilk O; Middle East Technical University, Turkey
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12:40 pm - 1:00 pm
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Estimating Future Age
Specific Breast cancer Mortality Using a Novel Approach in Demographic
Forecasting,
Bircan E, Hyndman R, Gertig D; University of Melbourne,
Monash University, Australia
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1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
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Modelling Bivariate Longitudinal Data in
the Presence of Informative Drop-outs: Robustness of a Joint Parametric
Model,
Pantazis N & Touloumi G; University of Athens, Greece
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1:20 pm - 1:40 pm
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Primary and Sensitivity Analysis of Incomplete
Longitudinal Clinical Trial Data,
Beunckens C, Molenberghs G, Jansen I, Verbeke G, Kenward MG; Limburgs
Universitair Centrum, Belgium
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11:50
am - 1:40 pm
(1:50)
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Session B2
Statistical Methodology I
Chair: Laurence
Freedman; Bar Ilan University, Israel
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11:50 am - 12:10 pm
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Limiting the Risk of Data
Disclosure through Variance Replicate Weights in the National Health and
Nutrition Examination Surveys,
Lu Wen; Simon Fraser University, Canada
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12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
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A Discrepancy Based
Robust Model Selection Criterion,
Mattheou K & Karagrigoriou A; University of Cyprus,
Cyprus
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12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
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Modelling Bivariate Count
Data Using Copula functions,
Nikoloulopoulos AK & Karlis D; Athens University of
Economics and Business, Greece
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12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
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An Approach to the Analysis
of Multivariate Ordinal Repeated Mmeasures Data,
Vasdekis V & Dellaportas P; Athens University of
Economics and Business, Greece
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1:10 pm - 1:30 pm
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Analysis of
Noninferiority Trials in Small Sample Matched Pair Designs with a Structural
Zero,
Okasha MK; Al-Azhar University, Gaza, The Palestinian
Authority
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1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
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Discussion
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1:40 pm - 2:40 pm
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Lunch break
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2:40
pm - 4:50 pm
(2:10)
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Parallel sessions
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Session C1
Clinical Trials I
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Session C2
Statistical Methods in Agricultural Research
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Session C1
Clinical Trials I
Chair: Stephen
Lagakos; Harvard University, USA
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2:40
pm - 3:10 pm
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Statistical Challenges in Medical
Device Clinical Trials,
Sharon-Lise
T. Normand
& O’Malley AJ; Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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3:10 pm - 3:30 pm
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Validation of Surrogate Markers in Multiple
Randomized Clinical Trials with Repeated Measurements: Canonical Correlation
Approach,
Alonso A, Geys H, Molenberghs G, Kenward G, Vangeneugden T; Limburgs
Universitair Centrum, Belgium
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3:30 pm - 3:50 pm
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Diagnostic tests for Gamma and Inverse Gaussian
Distributions of Frailty,
Economou P & Caroni
C; National Technical University of Athens, Greece
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3:50 pm - 4:10 pm
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Overdispersion Modelling with Individual
Random Effects and Penalized Likelihood,
Perperoglou A & Eilers PHC;
Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
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4:10 pm - 4:30 pm
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Interval Censoring and Truncation:
Statistical Inference with Applications,
Huber-Carol C & Vonta F; University of Cyprus, Cyprus
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4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
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Discussion
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2:40
pm - 4:50 pm
(2:10)
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Session C2
Statistical Methods in Agricultural Research
Chair: Stergios Tzortzios; University of Thessaly, Greece
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2:40
pm - 3:10 pm
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Bayesian solutions to some
decision problems in agriculture,
Chris
Theobald;
Biomathematics & Statistics, Scotland and University of Edinburgh, UK
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3:10 pm - 3:30 pm
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Bayesian Re-Analysis of a Quantitative Trait Locus
in Broilers Accounting for Multiple Environments by Scaling,
van Kaam JBCHM, Bink MCAM, van
Arendonk JAM, Quaas RL;
Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della
Sicilia "A. Mirri”, Italy and Wageningen University, The
Netherlands and Cornell University, USA
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3:30 pm - 3:50 pm
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Incorporating Risk in Ranking Dairy Sires,
Shadparvar
AA; Guilan
University, Iran
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3:50 pm - 4:10 pm
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Some New Biometrical Approaches on an Optimum
Groups Selection in Biological Applications,
Tzortzios S & Ganatsiou Ch; University
of Thessaly, Greece
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4:10 pm - 4:30 pm
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Systematic Sampling in 2-Dimensional Populations:
Discrete Variables with a Linear Trend,
Farmakis N; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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4:30
pm - 4:50 pm
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A Comparative Study of Permutation Tests
in a Factorial Design,
Önder H, Çankaya S, Tahtali Y, Cebeci
Z; Çukurova University, Turkey
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4:50 pm - 5:10 pm
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Coffee
break
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5:10
pm - 6:10 pm
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Business
Meeting
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6:10 pm - 7:30 pm
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Break
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7:30
pm - 9:30 pm
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Poster
Presentation and Reception
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005
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Time
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9:00
am - 11:10 am
(2:10)
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Parallel
sessions
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Session D1
Recent Developments in ROC Methodology Relating to the Diagnosis and Prediction
of Disease
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Session D2
Statistics, Cancer and the Mediterranean
Diet
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Session D1
Recent Developments in ROC Methodology Relating to the Diagnosis and
Prediction of Disease
Chair: David
Faraggi;
University of Haifa, Israel
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9:00
am - 9:30 am
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Recent
Developments in the Use of ROC Curves to Evaluate Diagnostic Systems,
Howard
E. Rockette;
University of Pittsburgh, USA
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9:30 am – 10:00 am
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ROC
Analysis for Screening Tests,
Constantine Gatsonis & Hsiu M; Brown University &
University of California, San Francisco, USA
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10:00 am – 10:20 am
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ROC Analysis for Markers with Mass at
Zero,
Schisterman EF, Reiser B, Faraggi D; University
of Haifa, Israel
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10:20 am
– 10:40 am
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Information Theory and Kullback-Leibler
Distance Approach in the Evaluation of Diagnostic Test Performance,
Arslan U, Bozkurt B., Irkec M., Karaagaoglu E; Hacettepe University, Turkey
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10:40 am
– 11:00 am
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Estimation of the ROC Curve under
Verification Bias,
Fluss R, Faraggi D, Reiser B, Rotnitzky A; University of Haifa, Israel
& Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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11:00 am – 11:10 am
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Discussion
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9:00
am - 11:10 am
(2:10)
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Session D2
Statistics, Cancer and the Mediterranean
Diet
Chair: Guadalupe Gomez; Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
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9:00
am - 9:30 am
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Healthy
Diet in Relation to Childhood Diseases and Conditions,
Eleni
Petridou & Ntouvelis E ; University of
Athens, Greece
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9:30 am
- 9:50 am
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Population Distributions of Usual Intake
Adjusted for Dietary Misreporting,
Freedman LS, Yanetz R, Kipnis V, Midthune D, Dodd K, Krebs-Smith S, Subar A;
Bar Ilan University, Israel and US National Cancer Institute, USA
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9:50 am
– 10:10 am
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Extending the Gail Model for Breast Cancer Risk
Prediction to Account for Dietary Modifiable Factors in the Italian
Population,
Calza S, Ferraroni M, Decarli A;
University of Brescia, Italy
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10:10 am
– 10:30 am
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Does the Significance Level of Treatments
Have an Effect on Judgment in Surrogate Endpoint Validation: An Application
to Colon Cancer Data,
Sertdermir Y, Burgut R, Unal I; School of Medicine,
Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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10:30 am – 10:50 am
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Cancer Problem in Turkey: Present and
Future,
Tuncer I & Burgut R; School of Medicine, Cukurova
University, Adana, Turkey
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10:50 am
– 11:10 am
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The Association between
Hepatitis C Virus and Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma in Southern Turkey and Review of
Other Regions,
Paydas S; School of Medicine, Cukurova University, Adana,
Turkey
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11:10 am - 11:30 am
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Coffee
break
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11:30 am - 1:30 pm
(2:00)
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Parallel
sessions
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Session E1
Statistical Modelling in Epidemiology
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Session E2
Statistical Methodology II
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Session E1
Statistical Modelling in Epidemiology
Chair: Refik Burgut; Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Cluster Mapping via Tomographic
Methods,
Forsberg L, Jeffery C, Ozonoff A, Marcello Pagano;
Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
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With Whom Do we Mix? Mixing Patterns in Age Structured
Population, An Investigation of a Possible Configuration of the WAIFW
Matrix,
Ziv
Shkedy,
Aerts M, Molenberghs G, Beutels P, Van Damme P, Van-Effelterre T;
Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium
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12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
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Use of the Cox Model for the Analysis of
Avian Influenza Epidemics,
Rossi E, Galimberti S, Valsecchi M; University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano
and Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro, Italy
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12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
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A Mathematical Model to Describe Viral Dynamics
during Pegylated Interferon Alpha-2b Therapy in Patients with Chronic
Hepatitis B,
Sypsa V & Hatzakis A; University of Athens, Greece
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1:10 pm - 1:30 pm
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Assessing Co-morbidity of Binary Traits:
Applications to Population-based Registry,
Shoukri M & Donner A; King Faisal Specialist Hospital,
Saudi Arabia & University of Western Ontario, Canada
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11:30 am - 1:30 pm
(2:00)
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Session E2
Statistical Methodology II
Chair: Ilia Vonta; University of Cyprus,
Cyprus
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11:30 am
- 11:50 am
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Comparing the Survival of Two Groups for
the Early Detection of Screening Trials,
Ping Hu; National Cancer Institute, USA
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11:50 am
- 12:10 pm
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Optimal Cross-Over Two Treatment Designs,
Kounias S & Chalikias M; University of Athens, Greece
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12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
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Adaptive Selection and Multiple Testing of
Efficient and Safe Doses,
Koenig F; Werner Brannath and Peter Bauer, University of Vienna, Austria
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12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
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Impact of Misspecified Random-Effects
Distribution on Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Generalized Linear Mixed
Models,
Litière S, Alonso A, Molenberghs G; Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium
& Universitair Campus, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
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Meta-Analysis Of Safety Data Of Coxibs in
Comparison with Non Selective NSAIDS - Methodological Issues,
Yiannakopoulou E, Papadopoulos JS, Bamia Ch, Damianou Ch; University of Athens,
Greece
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1:10 pm - 1:30 pm
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Mediation Analyses with Structural Mean
Models,
Tenhave T; University of Pennsylvania, USA
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1:30 pm
- 2:30 pm
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Lunch
break
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2:30 pm - 3:50 pm
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Panel Discussion
Statistical Impact of International
Biopharmaceutical Guidelines,
Allan Sampson, Emmanuel Lesaffre, Willi
Maurer,
Armin Koch; University of Pittsburgh, USA & Katholieke Universitaet Leuven, Belgium & Novartis & Bundesinstitut f. Arzneimittel und Medizinprodukte, Germany
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3:50 pm - 4:10 pm
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Coffee break
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4:10 pm - 5:50 pm
(1:40)
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Parallel
sessions
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Session F1
Multiple Comparisons in Biostatistics
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Session F2
Modelling of Survival Data
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Session F1
Multiple Comparisons in Biostatistics
Chair: Mohamed Shoukri; King Faisal Specialist
Hospital, Saudi Arabia
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4:10 pm - 4:40 pm
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False Discovery Rate Adjusted Multiple
Confidence Intervals for Selected Parameters,
Yoav Benjamini, Yekutieli D; Tel-Aviv University, Israel
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4:40 pm - 5:10 pm
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Genomic Screening in Family Based
Association Testing and the Multiple Testing Problem,
Van Steen K, McQueen MB, Herbert A, Raby B, Lyon H, Murphy A, Su J, Datta S,
Rosenow C, Silverman EK, Laird NM, Weiss ST, Lange C; Harvard School of
Public Health, Boston University and AFFYMETRIX, INC., USA
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5:10 pm - 5:40 pm
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Complexity of Data and
Analysis Related to FDR Control in Microarray Experiments,
Reiner A, Yekutieli D, Benjamini Y; Tel-Aviv University,
Israel
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5:40 pm - 5:50 pm
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Discussion
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4:10 pm - 5:50 pm
(1:40)
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Session F2
Modelling of Survival Data
Chair: Takis Papaioannou; University
of Pireaus, Greece
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4:10 pm - 4:30 pm
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A Pseudo Partial Likelihood Method for
Semi-Parametric Survival Regression,
Zucker D; Hebrew
University, Israel
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4:30 pm - 4:50 pm
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Noninformative and Constant-sum Conditions
for Interval-Censored Survival Data,
Calle ML, Oller R, Gomez G;
Universitat de Vic & Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
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4:50 pm - 5:10 pm
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Bayesian Factor Analysis for Modelling
Spatial and Temporal Variation in Cancer Mortality in Greece,
Tzala E & Best N; Imperial College London, UK
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5:10 pm - 5:30 pm
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Prospective Survival Analysis with a General
Semiparametric Shared Frailty
Model - A Pseudo Full Likelihood Approach,
Gorfine M; Bar-Ilan University, Israel
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5:30 pm - 5:50 pm
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Inference for Survival Distributions Based on
Interrupted Hazards,
Griffin BA & Lagakos S; Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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5:50 pm - 8:30 pm
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Break - New Executive Committee Meeting
(5:50 pm-7:00 pm)
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8:30
pm
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Buses to Corfu town outing
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Thursday, May 12, 2005
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Time
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9:00
am - 10:40 am
(1:40)
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Session G
Competing Risks in Survival Analysis
Chair: Geert Molenberghs; Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium
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9:00
am - 9:30 am
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Competing Risks: Modelling Cause Specific
Hazard and Crude Cumulative Incidence Functions,
Patrizia Boracchi, Antolini
L, Biganzoli E; Istituto Nazionale per lo Studio e la Cura dei Tumori di
Milano, Italy
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9:30
am - 9:50 am
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Estimation and Model Selection for
the Competing Risks Model with Masked Causes of Failure,
Craiu RV; University of
Toronto, Canada
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9:50
am - 10:10 am
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Bounding Marginal Probability of Treatment Failure
due to Specific Cause in Competing Risks Setup,
Antolini L,
Biganzoli E, Boracchi P; Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy
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10:10
am - 10:30 am
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A Method for Analyzing Disease-Specific Mortality
with Missing Cause of Death Information,
Ruan PK & Gray RJ; Harvard School of Public Health &
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, USA
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10:30
am - 10:40 am
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Discussion
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10:40
am - 11:00 am
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Coffee
break
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11:00
am - 1:10 pm
(2:10)
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Parallel
Sessions
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Session H1
Clinical Trials II
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Session H2
Measurement Error in Epidemiology and
Medicine
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Session H1
Clinical Trials II
Chair: Marvin Zelen; Harvard
School of Public Health, USA
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11:00
am - 11:30 am
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Randomization, Permuted Blocks, and
Covariates in Clinical Trials,
Lu Zheng; Harvard School of Public Health, USA
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11:30 am - 11:50 am
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Bioequivalence Studies with Generalized p
–values,
Poulopoulou S & Papaioannou T; University of Piraeus, Greece
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11:50 am - 12:10 pm
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Sensitivity Analysis Tools for Incomplete
Data,
Molenberghs G; Limburgs Universitair Centrum, Belgium
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12:10
pm - 12:30 pm
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Simple Formulas for Confidence Intervals
for Quantiles of the Normal and Log-Normal Distributions,
Stephens M; Simon Fraser University, Canada
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12:30 pm - 12:50 pm
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Weighted Stratified Estimators for the
Survival Function in the Presence of Dependent Censoring,
Gomez G, Serrat C,
Calle ML; Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, and Universitat de Vic,
Spain
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12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
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Comparison of Distributions for Ordered
Categorical Data with Application to Clinical Trials,
Kateri M; University of Piraeus, Greece
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11:00
am - 1:10 pm
(2:10)
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Session H2
Measurement Error in Epidemiology and
Medicine
Chair: Mahmoud Okasha; Al-Azhar University, Gaza, The Palestinian Authority
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11:00
am - 11:30 pm
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Structural and Functional Cox Proportional
Hazards Models with Covariate Misclassification,
Donna Spiegelman & Zucker D; Harvard School of Public Health, USA and Hebrew
University, Israel
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11:30 am - 12:00 pm
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Imputation Methods for Adjusting for Covariate Measurement
Error,
Victor
Kipnis;
National Cancer Institute, USA
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12:00 pm - 12:20 pm
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A General Method for Dealing with
Misclassification in Regression: the Misclassification SIMEX,
Lesaffre E, Kuechenhoff H, Mwalili S; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
& Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
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12:20 pm - 12:40 pm
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Comparison of Measurement Error Model with
Latent Class Model in
Estimating Sensitivity & Specificity of a Screening Test with an
Imperfect
Gold Standard,
Wand H, Zhou B, Spiegelman D; Australia & Harvard School of Public
Health, USA
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12:40 pm - 1:00 pm
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A Bayesian Model to Correct for
Measurement Error the Diet/Disease
Relationship in a Multi-Centric Study: the
Experience of the EPIC Study,
Ferrari P, Carroll R, Riboli E; International Agency for Research on
Cancer, France and Texas A&M
University, USA
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1:00 pm - 1:10 pm
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Discussion
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1:10 pm - 1:30 pm
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Student Awards
Closing Session
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