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PROGRAM

 

9:00-9:05         Welcome Remarks (Reza Modarres, George Washington University)

 

 

Session 1 (Chair: Refik Soyer, George Washington University)

 

9:05-9:40         Herman Chernoff (Harvard University)

                       

Discovering Influential Variables: A Method of Partitions

 

9:40-10:15       Jane-Ling Wang (University of California at Davis)


An Extended Hazards Model for the Joint Analysis of Longitudinal and


Event-Time Data

10:15-10:50     Dylan Small (University of Pennsylvania)

 

Simultaneous Sensitivity Analysis for Observational Studies Using Full

 

Matching or Matching with Multiple Controls

 

10:50-11:20     Open Discussion (Zhaohai Li, George Washington University)

 

11:20-13:00     Lunch Break

 

 

Session 2 (Chair: Nancy Geller, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH)

 

13:00-13:35     Mitchell Gail (National Cancer Institute, NIH)


Applying the Lorenz Curve to Disease Risk to Optimize Health Benefits

 

Under Cost Constraints

13:35-14:10     Barry Graubard (National Cancer Institute, NIH)

 

The Use of the Risk Percentile Curve in the Analysis of Epidemiologic

 

Data

14:10-14:30   Break

 

 

 

 

Session 3 (Chair: Nancy Spruill, Department of Defense)

 

14:30-15:05     Colin Aitken (University of Edinburgh)

 

Some Thoughts at the Interface of Law and Statistics

 

15:05-15:40     Weiwen Miao (Haverford College)

 

A New Two Stage Adaptive Nonparametric Test for Paired Data

 

15:40-16:15     David Kaye (Pennsylvania State University)

                        

                         ``False, but Highly Persuasive’’: The Supreme Court’s Impending

                          Review of Probability Evidence in McDaniel v. Brown