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2015 Roeling Conference Schedule

All talks will be in room 208 of Maxim Doucet Hall.

UL Lafayette Campus map (pdf) Maxim D. Doucet Hall faces Johnston Street. Glance at the campus map first so you can find Maxim Doucet Hall on the new Google map which no longer highlights Maxim Doucet Hall.


Friday, November 20, 2015

Time Activity
11:00 - 12:00 room 206 of Maxim Doucet Hall
Sign--in and Refreshments
12:00 - 12:45 rooms 209 and 208 of Maxim Doucet Hall
Sign--in and Refreshments
 
note All talks will be in room 208 of Maxim Doucet Hall
12:45 - 1:00 Opening Remarks
Dean Azmy Ackleh
1:00 - 1:40 Varying-Coefficient Single-Index Signal Regression
Brian D. Marx, Louisiana State University
1:40 - 2:20 Comparison of Drug Dissolution Profiles: A Proposal Based on Tolerance Limits
Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland Baltimore County
2:20 - 3:00 On Analysis of Incomplete Field Failure Data
Hon Keung Tony Ng, Southern Methodist University
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 3:35 Network analysis using protein-protein interaction data with results from Genome-wide Association Studies
in Whites and African-Americans identify common genes underlying late-onset Alzheimer's Disease

Shubhabrata Mukherjee, University of Washington, Seattle
3:35 - 3:55 Multiple Comparison Procedures for Binomial Distributions
Jie Peng, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa
3:55 - 4:15 Summation-Extendable Survival Functions
Scott E. Smith, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, Texas
4:15 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 4:50 Overlap, distance, and similarity measures
Madhuri S. Mulekar, University of South Alabama
4:50 - 5:10 A nonparametric test on the dependence of two continuous variables
Bin Li, Louisiana State University
5:10 - 5:30 Minimum Distance Estimators in Linear Regression with Autoregressive Errors
Jiwoong Kim, Michigan State University
5:30 - 5:50 Bootstrapping Analogs of the Two Sample Hotelling's T^2 Test
Hasthika S. Rupasinghe Arachchige Don, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
5:50 - 7:00 Relax
7:00 Dinner at Don's Seafood and Steakhouse
301 E. Vermillion Street
Arrive 7:00 to 7:30. Dinner at 7:30.

Saturday, November 21, 2015

Time Activity
note All talks will be in room 208 of Maxim Doucet Hall
 
8:30 - 9:00 Refreshments
9:00 - 9:40 Controlling for Systematic Bias in Allelic Imbalance Estimation Using a Negative Binomial Bayesian Model
Luis Leon Novelo, University of Texas School of Public Health-Health Science Center at Houston
9:40 - 10:20 Survival model selection with missing data and correlated covariates
Sydeaka P. Watson, The University of Chicago
10:20 - 11:00 Robust analyses of over-dispersed counts with varying follow-up in small samples and rare diseases
Frank Konietschke, The University of Texas at Dallas
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 11:35 Robustness of Inference for One-way and Two-way ANOVA with Correlated Observations
Avishek Mallick, Marshall University
11:35 - 11:55 Inference in Binary Regression with Stochastic Covariates
Denise Danos* and Evrim Oral, LSUHSC, School of Public Health
11:55 - 12:15 Testing Monotonic Renewal Variance Residual Life Under Shock Models
Mohammad Sepehrifar, Mississippi State University
12:15 - 12:35 Improving the Efficiency of Randomized Response Techniques by a Two-Stage Model for Binary Responses
Husam I. Ardah* and Evrim Oral, LSUHSC, School of Public Health
12:35 - 1:35 Lunch
1:35 - 2:15 Multivariate Inverse Prediction with Mixed Models
Lynn R. LaMotte, LSUHSC School of Public Health
2:15 - 2:55 A statistical method to correcting cross-annotations in NGS metagenomic functional profiling
Zhide Fang, LSUHSC, School of Public Health
2:55 - 3:35 Approximate small-sample tests of fixed effects in nonlinear mixed models
Julia Volaufova and Jeffrey Burton, LSUHSC, School of Public Health and Pennington Biomedical Research Center
3:35 - 3:50 Break
3:50 - 4:10 Identification of SNP-SNP Interaction Patterns
Hui-Yi Lin, LSUHSC, School of Public Health
4:10 - 4:30 Shakin' Things Up: Modeling Extreme Earthquake Activity
Audrene Edwards, Lamar University
4:30 - 4:50 Modeling Extreme Aviation Accidents Using Generalized Pareto Distribution
Asim Dey and Kumer Pial Das*, University of Texas at Dallas and Lamar University
4:50 - 5:05 Break
5:05 - 5:25 Visualizing and Testing the Multivariate Linear Regression Model
Lasanthi C. R. Pelawa Watagoda, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
5:25 - 5:45 Graphical EDA for Ball Games in Sports
Seongbaek Yi* and Daeheung Jang, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea