Program
Schedule of Events
| 9:30 - 10:00 | Registration (Campus Center - Upper Level) |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Welcome Remarks (Campus Center - Odeum A) Dr. Dennis Berkey, WPI President |
| 10:15 - 11:15 |
Keynote Presentation (Campus Center - Odeum A)
Dr. Lawrence Cox |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 - 12:45 |
Invited Sessions
Contributed Session
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| 12:45 - 2:00 | Lunch (Campus Center - Odeum B & C) |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Keynote Presentation (Campus Center - Odeum A) The Future of Business and Industrial Statistics: From a Manufacturing to a Knowledge Economy Dr. Soren Bisgaard Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Chair: Joseph D. Petruccelli, WPI |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break |
| 3:15 - 4:30 |
Invited Sessions
Contributed Sessions
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| 4:30 - 6:00 | Wine and Cheese Reception (Campus Center - Mid-Century Room) |
| 6:30 | Dinner (Maxwell Silverman's Restaurant, Worcester Center Blvd) |
Invited and Contributed Sessions
11:30 - 12:45 Morning Sessions
| Invited Sessions | ||
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| Business Statistics (Higgins Labs Room 218) - Organizer and Chair: Dominique Haughton | ||
| 11:30 | Uplift Modeling in Direct Marketing, Qizhi Wei | |
| 11:55 | Hierarchical Modeling Using Individual Patient Meta-Analyses: Imputing Methods for Comparisons in Multi-Site Studies, I. Elain Allen and Christopher A. Seaman | |
| 12:20 | CSBIGS Case Studies in Business Industry and Government Statistics: A new journal for data analysis cases, Dominique Haughton | |
| Industrial Statistics (Higgins Labs Room 116) - Organizer and Chair: Brenda Ramirez | ||
| 11:30 | Producible, Robust Designs at GE Aviation, David Rumpf, Gene Wiggs, Todd Williams and James Worachek | |
| 11:50 | Vapor Leak Detection for an Underground Storage Tank System, Roger Lui | |
| 12:10 | A Bayesian Predictive Inference for Multivariate Control Charting, Jai Won Choi, Balgobin Nandram, and Brenda Ramírez | |
| 12:30 | Quantitative Techniques to Evaluate Process Stability, Brenda Ramirez and George Runger | |
| Biopharmaceutical Statistics (Campus Center Odeum A) - Organizer: Mingxiu Hu and Chair: Naiti Ting | ||
| 11:30 | How to Prevent Bad Drugs from Ever Getting In a Human: Preclinical Screening for Off-Target Pharmacologic Effects, James Rogers | |
| 11:55 | Statistical Issues in Combining Adverse Events Data Shailendra S. Menjoge | |
| 12:20 | General Statistical Issues in Pharmaceutical Industry, Mingxiu Hu | |
| Statistical Education (Campus Center Hagglund Room) - Organizer: John McKenzie and Chair: Katherine Halvorsen | ||
| 11:30 |
What's Hot and What's Not in Statistical Education: A Panel Discussion
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| Statistical Methodology (Campus Center Mid-Century Room) - Chair: Daniel Zelterman | ||
| 11:30 | A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach for Estimating Origin of Mixed Population, Feng Guo, Dipak K. Dey and Kent Holsinger | |
| 11:50 | Do Bayesian Methods Overstate the Credibility of Phylogenetic Trees?, Edward M. Johnston | |
| 12:10 | Statistical Based Material Design Values Obtained from Small Data Sets, Donald Neal and Mark Vendel | |
| 12:30 | Model-building: Statistical, Mathematical, Computerised, Scientific, G. Arthur and Danielle Mihram | |
3:15- 4:30 Afternoon Sessions
| Invited Sessions | |
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| Bioinformatics (Campus Center Odeum A) - Organizer and Chair: Jayson D. Wilbur | |
| 3:15 | Cross-validating and Bagging Algorithms for Predicting Clinical Outcomes with Proteomic and Genomic Data, Annette Molinaro |
| 3:40 | Longitudinal Variability in Gene Expression, Andrew Strahs |
| 4:05 | A Link Free Motif Discovery Method Using Time Course Gene Expression Information, Wenxuan Zhong |
| Current Research in Federal Statistical Agencies (Higgins Labs Room 116) - Organizer and Chair: Myron Katzoff | |
| 3:15 | Reengineering the 2010 Decennial Census - Challenges and Opportunities, Preston Jay Waite |
| 3:35 | Characterization of Cost Structures, Perceived Value and Optimization Issues in Small Domain Estimation, John L. Eltinge |
| 3:55 | Research Highlights from the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Carol C. House |
| 4:15 | Bayesian and Frequentist Methods for Provider Profiling Using Risk-Adjusted Assessments of Medical Outcomes, Michael Racz and J. Sedransk |
| Statistics in Acoustics (Higgins Labs Room 218) - Organizer and Chair: Paul J. Gendron | |
| 3:15 | Bayesian Inference in Room-Acoustic Decay Analysis, Ning Xiang |
| 3:40 | The Effect of Random Processes on Acoustic Propagation in the Ocean, Stefanie Wojcik, William W. Durgin, Frank Weber, Tatiana Andreeva |
| 4:05 | A computationally reduced estimator of mutual information for the underwater acoustic channel, Paul J. Gendron |
| Contributed Sessions | |
| Biostatistics (Higgins Labs Room 114) - Chair: Pushpa Gupta | |
| 3:15 | A Semiparametric Modeling Approach for the Development of Metabonomic Profile and Bio-Marker Discovery, Samiran Ghosh |
| 3:30 | Gamma Frailty Process for Longitudinal Count Data, Sourish Das and Dipak Dey |
| 3:45 | Statistical Inference for the Risk Ratio in 2x2 Binomial Trials with Structural Zero, Ramesh C. Gupta and Suzhong Tian |
| 4:00 | Wavelet Estimation in Censored Regression, Linyuan Li |
| 4:15 | Models for Over-dispersed Binomial Data: Fitting a Beta-binomial Distribution to the Toxicological Data, Krishna K. Saha |
| Statistical Applications (Campus Center Hagglund Room) - Chair: Carlos J. Morales | |
| 3:15 | The Effect of Ramadan on the Automobile Accident Rate in Turkey and a Variation of the Wilcoxon Rank Test, Herman Chernoff |
| 3:30 | Text Mining: Some Challenges of Analyzing Natural Language, Roger Bilisoly |
| 3:45 | How Well Can One Predict Stock Price Based on Quarterly Earnings Forecasts? An Applica ton of the Ohlson Model and Bayesian Statistics, Huong Higgins |
| 4:00 | Dynamic Programming Applications for Semi-Markov Processes, Andrew C. Thomas |
| 4:15 | The Prediction of Business Statistics Course Grades Using Freshman Economics Course Grades: A Case in Point, Deborah J. Gougeon |
