2006 JOINT STATISTICAL MEETINGS



2007 JOINT STATISTICAL MEETINGS

ERRATA SHEET

Program Changes

As of June 20 – July 27, 2007

Special Announcements

• Cancelled Committee and Society Tables

Gay and Lesbian Concerns in Statistics

Location: Outside Exhibit Hall D

• Salt Lake City Visitors Information Center

Location: CC-Level 2

• Child Care: Child Care services may be organized through Guardian Angels.

For more information, call 801-598-1229

• Luggage Storage – New this year at JSM!

We are offering luggage storage at the Convention Center starting on Wednesday,

August 1 from 12:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. and again on Thursday, August 2 from 7:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. The price is $2.00 per bag, per person. Luggage storage will be set up in Exhibit Hall E, South Foyer Lobby across from JSM registration

• Restaurant Booth – If you have questions or want to know more about the local restaurants, please stop by the Restaurant Reservations Booth located in the South Foyer at the Convention Center near the Registration area.

Hours of Operations:

Saturday, July 28 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Sunday, July 29 11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Monday, July 30 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, July 31 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday, August 1 11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

• TRAX - Free Ride Zone for Buses and Trains

Salt Lake City’s Free Ride Zone includes major destinations, such as the Salt Palace Convention Center and Temple Square. Visit for details.

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Saturday, July 28, 2007

CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES

|Time |Changes |

|8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |CE_07C – Moved to Room 150DEF from 151F |

|8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |CE_04C – Moved to Room 151F from 150DEF |

Sunday, July 29, 2007

CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES

|Time |Changes |

|8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |CE_08C – Moved to Room 155A from 151DEF |

|8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. |CE_13C – Moved to 151DEF from 155A |

|1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. |CE_14C – Moved to Room 155A from 151DEF |

Sunday, July 29, 2007

TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES

|Session No. |Time |Changes |

|14 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Session Chair: Scott Patterson, GlaxoSmithKine |

| | |Withdrawn Paper: Roberto Gomeni, GlaxoSmithKline |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Byron Jones, Pfizer, Inc. |

| | |2:25 pm ♦ Michael Smith, Pfizer, Inc. |

| | |2:45 pm ♦ Nitin Patel, Cytel, Inc. |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ J. Kyle Wathen, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |

| | |3:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|22 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Garrick Wallstrom, University of Pittsburgh |

| | |Withdrawn Paper: Yong Chen, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Ori Rosen, University of Texas at El Paso |

| | |2:20 pm ♦ Peng Sun, Merck & Co., Inc. |

| | |2:35 pm ♦ Xiao Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham |

| | |2:50 pm ♦ Patricia Bahnsen, Stephen F. Austin State University |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ Hongxiao Zhu, Rice University |

| | |3:20 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|24 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Yuxiao Tang, Rush University Medical Center |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Lily Alstein, University of California, Los Angeles |

| | |2:20 pm ♦ Zailong Wang, Novartis Pharmaceuticals |

| | |2:35 pm ♦ Kimberly Walters, The Ohio State University |

| | |2:50 pm ♦ Chia-Cheng Chen, North Carolina State University |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ Hui Xie, University of Illinois at Chicago |

| | |3:20 pm ♦ Wonsuk Yoo, Wayne State University |

| | |3:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|Session No. |Time |Changes |

|28 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Ralph Bradley, Bureau of Labor Statistics |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Joost Bottenbley; Yasmin Said, George Mason University |

| | |2:20 pm ♦ Malda Bashi, Paragon Cardiovascular Foundation |

| | |2:35 pm ♦ Robert Gerzoff, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |

| | |2:50 pm ♦ Melvin Ott |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ Kenny Shum, Johns Hopkins University |

| | |3:20 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|29 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Trevor A. Craney, Shell Exploration and Production |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Xinjia Chen, Louisiana State University |

| | |2:20 pm ♦ Marvin Gruber, Rochester Institute of Technology |

| | |2:35 pm ♦ Cheryl Dingus, Batelle |

| | |2:50 pm ♦ Yan Lan, University of Michigan |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ Paul Patterson, USDA Forest Service |

| | |3:20 pm ♦ Chunwang Gao, Iowa State University |

| | |3:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|33 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |New Presenting Author: Hung-Wen Yeh, The University of Kansas Medical Center for Wenyaw Chan at |

| | |3:35 pm |

|36 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Mike Kwanisai, NORC at the University of Chicago |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Jeffrey Gonzalez, Bureau of Labor Statistics |

| | |2:20 pm ♦ Allison Deal, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |

| | |2:35 pm ♦ John Rotondo, AT&T Labs-Research |

| | |2:50 pm ♦ Bryce Johnson, Westat |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ Tonja M. Kule, Macro International |

| | |3:20 pm ♦ Lawrence Ernst, Bureau of Labor Statistics |

| | |3:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|51 |4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. |New Session Chair: Trevor Park, University of Florida |

| | |New Presenting Author Yoko Tanaka, Eli Lilly and Company for Hajime Uno at 4:25 pm |

|53 |4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. |New Presenting Author: Bruce Ketcham, Exponent, Inc. for Wai Chan at 4:25 pm |

|54 |4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Zhu Wang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |4:05 pm ♦ Huiping Jiang, Columbia University |

| | |4:25 pm ♦ Mengyuan Xu, Southern Methodist University |

| | |4:45 pm ♦ Stephen Robertson, Southern Methodist University |

| | |5:05 pm ♦ Wayne Woodword, Southern Methodist University |

| | |5:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|55 |4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Airong Cai, University of Illinois at Chicago |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |4:05 pm ♦ Hongfei Li, The Ohio State University |

| | |4:25 pm ♦ Tonglin Zhang, Purdue University |

| | |4:45 pm ♦ Lei Kang, The Ohio State University |

| | |5:05 pm ♦ Jiehua Chen, Stanford University |

| | |5:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|61 |4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. |New Session Chair: Fred Lorenz, Iowa State University |

|72 |4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California, Berkeley |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |4:20 pm ♦ Natalya Verbitsky, University of Michigan |

| | |4:35 pm ♦ Bridget Lavelle, Iowa State University |

| | |4:50 pm ♦ Stephen Ponisciak, Consortium on Chicago School Research |

| | |5:05 pm ♦ Mack Shelley, Iowa State University |

| | |5:20 pm ♦ Shaunna Clark, University of California, Los Angeles |

| | |5:35 pm ♦ Xin Shi, University of Manchester |

Monday, July 30, 2007

COMMITTEE/BUSINESS MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITY CHANGES

|Room |Time |Changes |

|GA-Grenoble |7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. |New Chair: John E. Boyer, Kansas State University |

| | |Council of Chapters International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) Breakfast Meeting |

| | |(closed) |

|CC-Ballroom A |5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |New Event: The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Departments of Biostatistics and |

| | |Operations Research Alumni and Current Faculty and Student Reception |

|CC-150 DEF |6:00 p.m. – 7:00p.m. |New Event: International Indian Statistical Association Open Meeting |

| | |Chair: Subir Shosh, University of California, Riverside |

|CC-Kenneth Knight |6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. |New Event: Section on Risk Analysis Executive Committee Meeting (closed), Chair: Robert |

|Board Room | |Stine, University of Pennsylvania |

Monday, July 30, 2007

TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES

|Session No. |Time |Changes |

|74 |7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. |Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: ML02 |

|76 | |Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: ML05 |

|77 | |Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: ML06 |

|78 | |Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: ML07 |

|94 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Valerie Durkalski, Medical University of South Carolina |

| | |Withdrawn Discussant: David Harrington |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Cristiana Gassmann-Mayer, Johnson & Johnson PRD |

| | |8:55 am ♦ Mohammad Huque, Food and Drug Administration |

| | |9:15 am ♦ Xiahong Huang, sanofi-aventis |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Mohamed Alosh, Food and Drug Administration |

| | |10:15 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|97 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Minjung Kyung, North Carolina State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Matthew Taddy, University of California, Santa Cruz |

| | |8:55 am ♦ Luping Zhao, The University of Minnesota |

| | |9:15 am ♦ Abel Rodriguez, Duke University |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Yuefeng Wu, North Carolina State University |

| | |9:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|Session No. |Time |Changes |

|102 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Moonsu Kang, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Jean Roayaei, National Institutes of Health |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Jason Osborne, North Carolina State University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Hyonho Chun, University of Wisconsin-Madison |

| | |9:20 am ♦ James Signorovitch, Harvard University |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Shunpu Zhang, University of Nebraksa, Lincoln |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Heather Adams, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|103 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Ed Mascha, The Cleveland Clinic |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Ke Wu, California State University |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Tao Liu, Brown University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Jiantian Wang, Kean University |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Shulamith Gross, Baruch College/CUNY |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Rajeshwari Sundaram, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Pinaki Biswas, University of Michigan |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|110 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Jiawei Liu, Georgia State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Sunil Mathur, University of Mississippi |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Weixing Song, Kansas State University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Chin-Shang Li, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Zhong Guan, Indiana University South Bend |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Michael P. Anderson, Kansas State University |

| | |9:50 am ♦ David Hosmer, University of Massachusetts |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|114 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Frank Jenkins, Westat |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Joseph Olsen, Brigham Young University |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Eric Grau, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Tiandong Li, Westat |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Prabhu Bhagavatheeswaran, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Stan Lipovetsky, GfK Custom Research North America |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Brian Meekins, Bureau of Labor Statistics |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|116 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |New Chair: James Treat, U.S. Census Bureau |

|119 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |New Discussant Chi-hong Tseng, New York University for Judith Goldberg |

|125 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |New Chair: Brian Harris Kojetin, Office of Management and Budget |

|126 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Debashis Ghosh, University of Michigan |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ S. Stanley Young, National Institute of Statistical Sciences |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Yifan Huang, University of South Florida |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin-Madison |

| | |12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|Session No. |Time |Changes |

|131 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: George Hough, Portland State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Linda Gage, California Department of Finance |

| | |10:55 am ♦ Joseph Salvo, NYC Department of City Planning |

| | |11:15 am ♦ Discussant: Michael L. Cohen, Committee on National Statistics |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Discussant: Deborah H. Griffin, U.S. Census Bureau |

| | |11:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|132 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |New Presenting Author: Stephen Kaluzny, Insightful Corporation for Sven Knudsen at 10:55 am |

|133 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Discussant: Kannan Natarajan, John and Johnson PRD |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Vipin Arora, Norvartis Pharmaceuticals |

| | |10:55 am ♦ Thomas Cook, University of Wisconsin-Madison |

| | |11:15 am ♦ Janet Wittes, Statistics Collaborative |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Discussant: Marian Fisher, University of Wisconsin-Madison |

| | |11:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|138 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Jungsoon Choi, North Carolina State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Wei Chen, Karmanos Cancer Institute |

| | |10:55 am ♦ Joo Yeon Lee, Food and Drug Administration |

| | |11:15 am ♦ Liansheng Zhu, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc. |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|139 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |New Session Chair: Kanchan Mukherjee, The University of Liverpool |

| | |Withdrawn Paper: David Scott, Rice University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania |

| | |10:55 am ♦ Yaacov Ritov, The Hebrew University of Jeruselam |

| | |11:15 am ♦ Andrew Rukhin, University of Maryland |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Sam Efromovich, University of Texas at Dallas |

| | |11:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|144 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Jiang Gui, Dartmouth Medical School |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Xiaoyu Jiang, Boston University |

| | |10:50 am ♦ Gang Luo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Lacey Gunter, University of Michigan |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Yeming Ma, State University of new York at Stony Brook |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Andrejus Parflonovas, Utah State University |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Bibhas Chakraborty, University of Michigan |

| | |12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|147 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Carsten Botts, Williams College |

| | |Withdrawn Paper: Yi-Liang Tung, National Cheng Kung University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Brenda Ng, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |

| | |10:50 am ♦ Sam Behseta, California State University |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Christopher Hans, The Ohio State University |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Zhi Ouyang, Duke University |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Joyee Ghosh, Duke University |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|148 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Betsy Enstrom, Duke University |

| | |Withdrawn Paper: Janet Rosenbaum, Harvard University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Martey Dodoo, The Robert Graham Center |

| | |10:50 am ♦ Yi Lin, University of British Columbia |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Byron Gajewski, The University of Kansas Medical Center |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Betsy C. Gunnels, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Camelia Sima, MSKCC |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|154 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Poster: |

| | |32 Eric Nordmoe, Kalamazoo College |

| | | |

| | |Speaker that Did Not Show to Present their Poster: |

| | |49 Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University |

|156 |12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: ML10, ML11, ML12, ML13 |

|158 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: ML15 |

|163 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: ML21 |

|164 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: ML22 |

|165 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: ML23, ML25 |

|166 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: ML26 |

|167 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: ML27 |

|168 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: ML28 |

|171 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |New Discussant: Holger Hoefling, Stanford University for Steve Feinberg at 3:05 pm |

|181 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |New Session Chair: Aili Cheng, GlaxoSmithKline |

|187 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Hao Helen Zhang, North Carolina State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Anthony Garnst, University of California, San Diego |

| | |2:25 pm ♦ Lifeng Wang, University of Pennsylvania |

| | |2:45 pm ♦ Thuan Nguyen, University of California, Davis |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ Michael Donohue, University of California, San Diego |

| | |3:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|193 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Ming Dai, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |

| | |Withdrawn Paper: Robert Krafty, University of Pennsylvania |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Pang Du, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |

| | |2:25 pm ♦ Li Qin, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |

| | |2:45 pm ♦ Anna Liu, University of Massachusetts Amherst |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|203 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |New Session Chair: Dan Fitzsimmons, Boeing for EunJoo Lee |

|205 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Presenter Change: Ravi Varadhan, Johns Hopkins University will present paper on behalf of |

| | |Constantine Frangakis at 2:35 p.m. |

|209 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Speaker that Did Not Show to Present their Poster: |

| | |78 Joseph Richardson, Auburn University |

| | | |

| | |Withdrawn Poster: |

| | |84 Matt Jans, Institute for Social Research |

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

TOURS

|Tour No. |Time |Changes |

|TR07 |8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |Cancelled Tour: Utah Olympic Park, Park City Main Street |

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

COMMITTEE/BUSINESS MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITY CHANGES

|Room |Time |Changes |

|GA-Provence |7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. |New Event: ASA-Pfizer, University of Connecticut Project on Filming of Distinguished |

| | |Statisticians (closed); Organizer: Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut |

|Off Property: Joseph |7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. |Date and Location Change: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |

|Smith Memorial | |Friends and Alumni of Brigham Young University - Open House/Breakfast |

|Building, 15 East South| |Originally scheduled for August 1, 2007 |

|Temple | | |

|GA-Provence |10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. |New Event: Sequential Analysis Journal Editorial Board (closed) |

| | |Organizer: Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut |

|CC-Kenneth Knight Board|2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |Cancelled Event: Aplia Statistics Focus Group (closed) |

|Room | | |

|GA-Imperial Ballroom C |4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. |New Location: Biometrics Editorial Board (closed); Originally scheduled at GA-Venice Moved |

| | |to: GA-Imperial Ballroom C |

|CC-Kenneth Knight Board|7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. |New Event: National Numeracy Network Open House |

|Room | |Organizer: Milo Schield, Augsburg College |

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES

|Session No. |Time |Changes |

|217 |7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. |Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: TL06 |

|218 | |Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: TL08 |

|225 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Discussant: Han Hong, Stanford University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Elie Tamer, Northwestern University |

| | |9:15 am ♦ Victor Aguirregabiria, University of Toronto |

| | |9:25 am ♦ Pat Bajari, The University of Minnesota Twin Cities |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University |

| | |9:45 am ♦ Shakeeb Khan, Duke University |

| | |9:55 am ♦ Adam Rosen, University College London |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|235 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Li Ding, Medtronic, Inc. |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ David Naftel, The University of Alabama at Birmingham |

| | |8:55 am ♦ Gina Garding, Boston Scientific Corporation |

| | |9:15 am ♦ Yun Lu, Boston Scientific Corporation |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Lijuan Deng, Boston Scientific Corporation |

| | |9:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|242 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Organizer: Martin Theus, O2 |

| | |New Session Chair: Daniel Carr, George Mason University |

|243 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Michael Szarek, Pfizer Inc. |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Vittorio Addona, Macalester College |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Chiung-Yu Huang, National Institutes of Health |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Beth Ann Griffin, RAND |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Akim Adekpedjou, University of South Carolina |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Wenquan Wang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Virginia Fillaci, GOG Statistical and Data Center |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|247 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: David Doorn, University of Minnesota at Duluth |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Yu Zhang, Columbia Business School |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Ming-Chin Hung, Soochow University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Jungyeon Yoon, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Ka Sing Man, Western Illinois University |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Peng Liu, North Carolina State University |

| | |9:50 am ♦ David S. Matteson, The University of Chicago |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|249 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Shuva Gupta, Florida State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Santiago Velilla, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Briane Steele, University of Montana |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Eric Vance, Duke University |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Zhe Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Arne Bathke, University of Kentucky |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Lev Sverdlov |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|252 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Jae-Kwang Kim, Yonsei University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Stanislav Kolenikov, University of Missouri-Columbia |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Jianqiang Wang, Iowa State University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Jill Dever, University of Maryland |

| | |9:20 am ♦ David Haziza, University of Montreal |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Richard Griffiths, Arbitron, Inc. |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|272 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Abhijit Dasgupta, Thomas Jefferson University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Amy Kapp, Stanford University |

| | |10:55 am ♦ Francoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch, Georgetown University Medical Center |

| | |11:15 am ♦ Dung-Tsa Chen, Moffitt Cancer Center |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Discussant: Sin-Ho Jung, Duke University |

| | |11:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|283 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Meng Du, University of Toronto |

| | |Withdrawn Paper: Feng Hong, University of Illinois |

| | | |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Huining Kang, University of New Mexico |

| | |10:50 am ♦ Fenghai Duan, University of Nebraska Medical Center |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Benhuai Xie, The University of Minnesota |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Cumhur Demirkale, Iowa State University |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Jyotsna Kasturi, Johnson and Johnson PRD |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Feng Hong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |

| | |12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|284 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Jason Hsia, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Xianggui Qu, Oakland University |

| | |10:50 am ♦ Karen Messer, University of California, San Diego |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Sachiko Tanaka, University of Tokyo |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Jun-mo Nam, National Cancer Institute |

| | |11:35 am ♦ William E. Barlow, Cancer Research and Biostatistics |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Jeong-Gun Park, Harvard School of Public Health/Frontier Science & Technology |

| | |Research Foundation |

| | |12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|288 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Zdenek Patak, Statistics Canada |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Rong Cai, National Center for Health Statistics |

| | |10:50 am ♦ Te-Ching Chen, Bureau of Labor Statistics |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Darryl Janes, Statistics Canada |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Yi Li, Statistics Canada |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|294 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m |Withdrawn Posters: |

| | |15 Neale Hirsh, NSH & Associates |

| | |32 Lindsay Renfro, Baylor University |

| | | |

| | |Speakers that Did Not Show to Present their Poster: |

| | |26 Luis Frank, Universidad de Buenos Aires |

| | |31 Jerry Platt, University of Redlands |

| | |38 Robert Terry, University of Oklahoma |

| | |39 James B. Orris, Butler University |

|295 |12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. |TL09 – formerly a Speaker Roundtable – now a Roundtable with Lunch Moved to: Ballroom A |

|296 |12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: |

| | |TL10, TL11, TL13, TL18, TL24, TL30 |

|298 |12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. |Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: TL17 |

|299 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: TL18 |

|300 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: TL20 |

|300 | |TL21 – Roundtable with Lunch Moved to: Ballroom C |

|301 | |Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: TL23 |

|301 | |Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: TL26 |

|303 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: TL22 |

|305 | |Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: TL30 |

|310 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |New Chair: Christine McLaren, University of California at Irvine |

|327 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Jing Qin, National Institutes of Health |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Shaw-Hwa Lo, Columbia University |

| | |2:25 pm ♦ Jungnam Joo, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute |

| | |2:45 pm ♦ Hon Keung (Tony) Ng, Southern Methodist University |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ Oliver Thas, Ghent University |

| | |3:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|343 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Speakers that Did Not Show to Present their Poster: |

| | |51 Barbara Warsavage, CSUEB |

| | |52 Jingjing Chen, Student |

| | |58 Fassil Nebebe, Concordia University; Tak Mak, Concordia University |

| | |67 Lin Xie, Kansas State University |

| | |92 Daniell Toth, Bureau of Labor Statistics |

| | |93 Peng Wu, University of California, Davis |

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

COMMITTEE/BUSINESS MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITY CHANGES

|Room |Time |Changes |

|Off Property: Joseph |7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. |NEW Date and Location Change: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 |

|Smith Memorial | |Friends and Alumni of Brigham Young University - Open House/Breakfast |

|Building, | |Originally scheduled for August 1, 2007 |

|15 East South Temple | | |

|GA-Audubon |9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |New Chair: Mary Mulry, U.S. Census Bureau; Council of Sections Publication and Newsletter |

| | |Editors Meeting (closed) |

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES

|Session No. |Time |Changes |

|348 |7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. |Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: WL02 |

|349 | |Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: WL03 |

|358 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |New Session Chair: Mike Colopy, GlaxoSmithKline |

|362 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Chih-Ling Tsai, University of California at Davis |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Runze Li, The Pennsylvania State University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Hua Liang, University of Rochester |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Florin Vaida, University of California, San Diego |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|363 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Panelist: Regina Liu, Rutgers University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |Rebecca Doerge, Purdue University |

| | |Mari Palta, University of Wisconsin-Madison |

| | |Nancy Reid, University of Toronto |

|380 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Kai Yu, National Cancer Institute |

| | |Withdrawn Paper: Wen Wan, Virginia Tech Department of Statistics |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Thomas Hoffman, Harvard University |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Wenguang Sun, University of Pennsylvania |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Ann L. Oberg, Mayo Clinic |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Alina Andrei, University of Wisconsin-Madison |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Cavan Reilly, The University of Minnesota |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|384 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Zongming Ma, Stanford University |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Hadi Rezazad; Yasmin H. Said, George Mason University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Aiyou Chen, Alcatel-Lucent |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Walid Sharabati, George Mason University |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Joseph Blitzstein, Harvard University |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Simone Gray, Duke University |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|385 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Carl Lee, Central Michigan University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Robert Carver, Stonehill College |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Elizabeth Walters, Loyola College in Maryland |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Brian E. Smith, McGill University |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Linda Cooper, Towson University |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Donald Bentley, Pomona College |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Steve Wang, Swarthmore College |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|387 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Jie Ding, The Ohio State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Li Su, Brown University |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Robert Lyles, Emory University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Li Zhang, The Cleveland Clinic |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Michael P. Jones, Macquarie University |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Veena Shetty, National Institutes of Health |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Chong Wang, Cornell University |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|394 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Stephen Chesley, National Aeronautics and Space Administration |

| | |New Discussant: Tommy Wright, U.S. Census Bureau for Ivan Felligi at 11:50 am |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Juanita Tamayo Lott, U.S. Census Bureau |

| | |11:00 am ♦ Steven W. Pedigo, Greater Washington Initiative |

| | |11:25 am ♦ Walter R. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Tommy Wright, U.S. Census Bureau |

| | |12:10 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|Session No. |Time |Changes |

|418 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Lin Wang, sanofi-aventis |

| | |New Presenting Author: Ivan S.F. Chan, Merck & Co. for William Wang at 11:50 a.m. |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Guohui Liu, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. |

| | |10:50 am ♦ Jianming Wang, Amgen, Inc. |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Cyrus Mehta, Cytel, Inc. |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Wentao Feng, University of Pittsburgh |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Ping Gao, The Medicines Company |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Ivan Chan, Merck & Co. |

| | |12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|424 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Zhenyu Yan, University of Virginia |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Dennis Mathaisel, Babson College |

| | |10:50 am ♦ David Llyod, MITRE Corporation |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Landon Sego, Pacific Northwest Laboratory |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Jin Cao, Bell Labs |

| | |12:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|430 |12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m. |Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL11 |

|430 | |Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: WL12 |

|430 | |Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL13 |

|433 | |Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL17 |

|434 | |Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL19 |

|435 | |Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL21 |

|437 | |Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: WL25 |

|439 | |Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL27 |

|447 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |New Presenting Author: John Copeland, Centers for Disease Control for Henry Rolka at |

| | |2:30 pm |

|468 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Kun Liang, Iowa State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |2:05 pm ♦ Irene Helenowski, Northwestern University |

| | |2:20 pm ♦ Guangyu Zhang, University of Michigan |

| | |2:35 pm ♦ Guy Brock, University of Louisville |

| | |2:50 pm ♦ Maria Kocherginsky, The University of Chicago |

| | |3:05 pm ♦ Li Chen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |

| | |3:20 pm ♦ Mengling Liu, New York University |

| | |3:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|475 |2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m. |New Session Chair: Kenneth Liu, Merck & Co. |

|481 |4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m. |New Title for COPSS Fisher Lecture: The Early Detection of Chronic Disease: Statistical |

| | |Challenges, Marvin Zelen, Harvard School of Public Health |

Thursday, August 2, 2007

COMMITTEE/BUSINESS MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITY CHANGES

|Room |Time |Changes |

|CC-254 C |8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. |New Title: Council of Sections Business Meeting Part 2 (closed) |

| | |formerly Council of Sections Governing Board JSM Meeting, Part 1 (closed) |

|CC-254 C |10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |New Title: Council of Sections Governing Board Meeting Part 2 (closed) |

| | |formerly Council of Sections Governing Board JSM Meeting, Part 2 (closed) |

Thursday, August 2, 2007

TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES

|Session No. |Time |Changes |

|491 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn paper: Jianyang Sun, Case Western Reserve University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Michael Epstein, Emory University |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Joseph Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|499 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |New Chair: Douglas Wolfe, The Ohio State University |

|506 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Jane Chang, Bowling Green State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Luc Bijnens, Johnson & Johnson PRD |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Ruixiao Lu, University of California, Davis |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Willem Talloen, Johnson & Johnson PRD |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Shuang Liu, University of California, Davis |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Shibing Deng, Pfizer, Inc. |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Hui-Rong Qian, Eli Lilly and Company |

| | |10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|508 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Olympia Hadjiliadis, Princeton University/Drexel University |

| | |Withdrawn Paper: Jaydip Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Hyejin Shin, Auburn University |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Richard Nicki, University of Connecticut |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Satrajit Roychoudhury, Schering Plough Research Institute |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Philippe Berthet, The University of Renees |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|514 |8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Yan Lu, Arizona State University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |8:35 am ♦ Guillermo Mendez, Arizona State University |

| | |8:50 am ♦ Feng Min Lin, National Cheng Kung University |

| | |9:05 am ♦ Sabine Krieg, Statistics Netherlands |

| | |9:20 am ♦ Punam Pahwa, University of Saskatchewan |

| | |9:35 am ♦ Steen Magnussen, Canadian Forest Service |

| | |9:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|519 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Mirjam Moerbeek, Utrecht University |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Catherine M. Crespi, University of California, Los Angeles |

| | |11:00 am ♦ Allan Donner, University of Western Ontario |

| | |11:25 am ♦ Ziding Feng, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Susan L. Stewart, University of California, San Francisco |

| | |12:15 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|533 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Guan Xing, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Bin Wang, University of South Alabama |

| | |10:55 am ♦ Zhaozhi Fan, Memorial University of Newfoundland |

| | |11:15 am ♦ Liang Li, The Cleveland Clinic |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Floor Discussion |

|539 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Ariful Haque, Novartis Pharmaceuticals |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Jianjun Li, Merck & Co., Inc. |

| | |10:50 am ♦ Alex Dmitrienko, Eli Lilly and Company |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Frank Bretz, Novartis Pharmaceuticals |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Ajit Tamhane, Northwestern University |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Xiaojiang Zhan, Merck & Co., Inc. |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Norman Bohidar, Johnson & Johnson PRD |

| | |12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

|549 |10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. |Withdrawn Paper: Negasi Beyene, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |

| | |New Session Order: |

| | |10:35 am ♦ Peng Liu, Food and Drug Administration |

| | |10:50 am ♦ Matthew P. Spackman, Brigham Young University |

| | |11:05 am ♦ Abdul Salam, University of Alberta |

| | |11:20 am ♦ Gong Tang, University of Pittsburgh |

| | |11:35 am ♦ Yongming Qu, Eli Lilly and Company |

| | |11:50 am ♦ Hua Fang. University of Nebraska-Lincoln |

| | |12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion |

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