2025 Roeling Conference Schedule
(Updated Final - posted 6:10 am 25 October 2025)
Friday, October 24, 2025
| Time | Title and Speaker | |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00-1:45 | Sign in and refreshments (Maxim Doucet Hall, rooms 210 and 211) | |
| 1:45-2:00 | Opening remarks (Maxim Doucet Hall, room 211) | |
| 2:00-2:45 |
A simulation approach to the statistical analysis of interval-valued data William H. Woodall, Virginia Tech |
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| 2:45-3:00 |
Limitations of Transformations for Count Data: Evidence from Simulation and Implications for Health Research Achraf Cherkaoui, LSU Health Science Center |
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| 3:00-3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15-3:30 |
BayBiMR: a Bayesian bi-directional Mendelian Randomization method accounting for correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropy Siyi Chen, LSU Health Science Center |
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| 3:30-3:45 |
Bayesian Analyses and Design of Aggregated Group Sequential N-of-1 Clinical Trials Md Abdullah Al-Mamun, LSU Health Science Center |
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| 3:45-4:00 |
An energy statistic-based test for exponentiality Nurudeen Ajadi, UL Lafayette |
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| 4:00-4:15 |
Robust Alternatives to Conventional AR(q) Models: Simulation Results and Empirical Evidence from COVID-19 Data Mohamed Mohamed, LSU Health Science Center |
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| 4:15-4:30 | Break | |
| 4:30-4:45 | Louisiana ASA Chapter business meeting | |
| 4:45-6:00 | Relax, network, and discuss research | |
| 6:00 | Dinner (Maxim Doucet Hall, room 201) |
Saturday, October 25, 2025
| Time | Title and Speaker |
|---|---|
| 8:00-9:00 | Refreshments and visit (Maxim Doucet Hall, rooms 210 and 211) |
| 9:00-9:45 |
Fiducial Generative Models Jan Hannig, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
| 9:45-10:00 |
Confidence Intervals for Normal Quantiles: One- and Two-Sample Justin Dunnam, UL Lafayette |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Fiducial Inference in Inverse Sampling Bao Anh Maddux, Winston-Salem State University |
| 10:15-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-11:15 |
Generalized Exponentially-Modified Gaussian (EMG) Regression and Parametric Conditional Quantile Curve Estimation Derek S. Young, University of Kentucky |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Dependency Tests for Mixed Graphical Models using Chatterjee's Correlation Coefficient Penalized by L1 Norm Christian Hacker, Louisiana Tech University |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Optimal Prediction and Tolerance Intervals for the Ratio of Dependent Normal Random Variables Gboyega David Adepoju, Nova Southeastern University |
| 11:45-1:00 | Lunch (Maxim Doucet Hall, room 201) |
| 1:00-1:45 |
Latent Structure of Mixed Neuropathology: A Cross-Cohort Factor Analytic Brain Pathology Score Shubhabrata Mukherjee, University of Washington |
| 1:45-2:00 |
Tests and Confidence Intervals for the Mean of a Zero-Inflated Poisson Distribution Meesook Lee, McNeese State University |
| 2:00-2:15 |
Estimating Multiple Missing Observations in Factorial Experiments Kumer P. Das, UL Lafayette |
| 2:15-2:45 |
Dimension Reduction for Spatially correlated data Hossein Moradi Rekabdarkolaee, Bowling Green State University |
| 2:45-3:00 | Break |
| 3:00-3:15 |
Simple Closed-Form Confidence Intervals for Stress-Strength Reliability in Normal Distributions and Comparisons Ibrahim Adenekan, UL Lafayette |
| 3:15-3:45 |
Addressing Unknown Heterogeneity in Microbiome Sequencing Studies Ni Zhao, Johns Hopkins University |
| 3:45-4:00 |
Two-time scale maximum likelihood estimate using different tail perturbation Dao Nguyen, The University of Mississippi |
| 4:00-4:15 | Closing remarks |