Applications In Statistics: What's Hot / What's Next VII

Statistics and Public Health

Conference Agenda, March 23, 2002

U/Albany & Albany NY Chapter American Statistical Association

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Time
Event 
Location 
8:00 - 8:55 AM
 Registration, Continental Breakfast, and Student Poster Display
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Auditorium
9:05 - 9:55  Welcoming Remarks: Peter Levin, Dean U/Albany School of Public Health
Keynote Address: 
Abdelmonem A. Afifi

Dean Emeritus, UCLA School of Public Health
Professor of Biostatistics & Biomathematics

"What's Hot for Biostatistics in Public Health."

 Auditorium
10:05-10:55
  Panel: 'Bioterrorism'
 Auditorium
Larry Lessner  -           A Perspective On the ER Surveillance Data
David Smith -                Using Surveys to Monitor Health Effects of Terrorism
Colleen Flanigan -         ER Surveillance Model
Trang Nugyen -           The Analysis of Daily Emergency Department Surveillance Data
10:05-10:55
Concurrent Session
Issues in Data Analysis: Jonathan Cole
 Class Room C4
Session  Jorge Luis Romeu Operations Research/Statistics Techniques: A Key to Quantitative Data Mining 10:05-10:20
John D. McKenzie
 Statistical Analysis with Microsoft Excel 2002 10:20-10:35
*Robert A. Bress
 Nonlinear Kernel PLS Regression for DNA Splice Junction Prediction 10:35-10:55
A. Afifi and Wendy Rotz meet with High School Students, Class Roomm C1
11:05-11:55
Concurrent Sessions 
Auditorium
Session 1
Special Invited Session
Statistics in Demography: Patrice Kuzniak
Richard Alba, U/Albany Department of Sociology
Decolonization immigrations and the social origins of the second generation:The case of North Africans in France
 11:05-11:20
11:20-11:35
Steven Elliott, New York State Assembly
Census, Apportionment and Redistricting
11:35-11:55
Leonard M. Gaines, Empire State Development
2010:  A whole new census?
Session 2
Estimating Health Effects:Smoking, Blood Lead and HIV
 Class Rm C4
Glen Johnson Indirect Small Area Estimation of Behavioral Risk Factors by Logistic Regression:  Application to Estimating ZIP Code-Level Smoking Rates in New York State 11:05-11:20
Valerie B. Haley Geographic Analysis of Blood Lead Levels in New York State Children 11:20-11:35
Larry Lessner Estimating HIV Prevalence With the CDC's New Born Seroprevalence Model 11:35-11:55
Modeling of Risks and Services: Thomas Willemain
 Class Rm C1
Session 3
*Natasha Yakovchuk
Least-absolute-value Estimation in Two-way Tables and its Application to Explaining Variation in Flight Times
 11:05-11:20 
*David P. Armstrong
Model Selection Strategies in Social Research: Monte-Carlo Simulation Results
11:20-11:35 

11:35-11:50
*Guibo Xing
An Empirical Analysis of Medicare Eligible Veterans' Demand for Outpatient Health Care Services
12:05-12:55
Luncheon and Poster Award Presentations
 Across from Auditorium
1:05-1:55
Plenary Address:

Wendy Rotz
Quantitative and Economic Statistical Group of Ernst and Young, LLP.

"Challenges of Statistical Consulting in a Big Five Accounting Firm"

 Auditorium
2:05-2:55
Panel:Data Mining in the Biological Sciences: Lloyd Lininger
 Auditorium
Ingo Ruczinski - Statistical and Computational Issues in Ab Initio Protein Structure Prediction 2:05-2:30
Rafael A. Irizarry - Comparing Summaries of High Density Oligonucleotide Array Probes 2:30-2:55
2:05-2:55
Concurrent Session
2:05-2:55
Statistical Analysis Techniques: Gerry Hahn
 Class Rm C4
Session  *Ciprian Crainiceanu Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling to Assess Pathogen Risk in Natural Water Supplies 2:05-2:20
*Haiyan Huang Scenario Generation for Multivariate Time Series Data using the k-Nearest-Neighbor Bootstrap 2:20-2:35
Donald Neal Statistically Based Material Properties In Designing Aircraft Structures 2:35-2:50
3:05-3:55
Concurrent Sessions
3:05-3:55
Converting to the North American Industry Classification System(NAICS):Lenny Gaines
 Auditorium
Session 1 Mycroft Sowizral NAICS "Backcasting":  Creation and Analysis of a Historical Data Series 3:05-3:20
*Vinay Mehta Multiple Iterations Analysis 3:20-3:35
*Zhuoye Xu
Reverse Algorithm Analysis
 3:35-3:50 
3:05-3:55
Modeling for Markets: John Michalke
 Class Rm C4
Session 2
*Nandini Chatterjee
 Borrowing Constraints and Investment in Health: An Empirical Study Based on a Survey of Consumer Finances 3:05-3:20 
Laura Close & Igor Zurbenko
 Optimization of effectiveness of profiling system 3:20-3:35 

 

3:35-3:50
Mohamed Elsendiony
 Stock Price Sensitivities to Interest Rates and Firm Characteristics
4:05 - 4:30
Conference Wrap-up and Presentation of Awards.
 Auditorium
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