GENERAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE ✪ Themed Session ● Applied Session ❖ Presenter CC-Washington State Convention & Trade Center H-Grand Hyatt Seattle S-Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers THURSDAY, AUGUST 10 Invited Sessions 8:30 a.m.–10:20 a.m. Thursday 483 CC-603 Tours ● Collaborative Research in Statistics—Invited General Methodology, Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. CC-Convention Place Organizer(s): Bonnie K. Ray, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center TR10 - Northwest Winery Tour (fee event) Chair(s): Bonnie K. Ray, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 8:35 a.m. Sensor Analytics: Radioactive Gas Quantity 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. CC-Convention Place Estimation and Error Propagation—❖Dale TR11 - Glassblowing Tour (fee event) N. Anderson, Pacifi c Northwest National Laboratory; Justin I. McIntyre, Pacifi c Northwest National Laboratory; Deborah K. Carlson, Pacifi c Northwest National Laboratory; Reynold Suarez, Committee/Business Meetings & Other Pacifi c Northwest National Laboratory; James C. Activities Hayes, Pacifi c Northwest National Laboratory 9:00 a.m. Using Informative Bayesian Priors in a Sales 7:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m. CC-305 Forecasting System—❖Phillip M. Yelland, Sun Howard Levene Memorial Breakfast Reception Microsystems Laboratories (closed) Organizer(s): Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University 9:25 a.m. Formulation Prediction for Derivative Product Development—❖Martha Gardner, GE Global 7:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. CC-507, CC-508 Research Speaker Work Rooms 9:50 a.m. Disc: Sarah Michalak, Los Alamos National Laboratory 7:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. CC-Level 4 South Lobby 10:10 a.m. Floor Discussion Cyber Center 7:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. CC-Level 4 South Lobby 484 CC-3A JSM Main Registration ✪ Statistical Methodology for Environmental ASA Membership/Special Assistance Desk Applications—Invited International Indian Statistical Association 8:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m. CC-306 Organizer(s): Soumendra N. Lahiri, Iowa State University Council of Sections Response Meeting (closed) Chair(s): Soumendra N. Lahiri, Iowa State University Chair(s): John E. Boyer, Kansas State University 8:35 a.m. Bayesian Melding: an Application and Critical Assessment—❖James Zidek, Th e University of 8:00 a.m.–10:30 a.m. CC-Level 4 South Lobby British Columbia; Zhong Liu, Th e University of ASA Marketplace British Columbia; Nhu Le, BC Cancer Agency/ University of British Columbia 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. CC-Level 1 Citywide Concierge Center 9:00 a.m. Fixed Rank Kriging for Massive Datasets— ❖Noel Cressie, Th e Ohio State University; 10:00 a.m.–11:30 a.m. CC-306 Gardar Johannesson, Lawrence Livermore Council of Sections Governing Board Debriefi ng National Laboratory Meeting (closed) 9:25 a.m. Minimum Distance Inference in Unilateral Chair(s): John E. Boyer, Kansas State University Autoregressive Lattice Processes—❖Marc G. Genton, Texas A&M University; Hira L. Koul, Michigan State University Seattle 225 GENERAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE ✪ Themed Session ● Applied Session ❖ Presenter CC-Washington State Convention & Trade Center H-Grand Hyatt Seattle S-Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers 9:50 a.m. Computation and Modeling for Large Space-Time Critical Path Drug—❖Michael D. Hale, Amgen Environmental Datasets—❖Michael L. Stein, Th e Inc. University of Chicago 10:15 a.m. Floor Discussion 10:15 a.m. Floor Discussion 487 CC-619 485 CC-3B ● ✪ Women Pioneering Solutions to New Global Statistical Genetics and Nonparametric Methods: Challenges—Invited in Memory of Howard Levene—Invited Committee on Women in Statistics Memorial, Section on Nonparametric Statistics Organizer(s): Lori A. Th ombs, University of Missouri-Columbia; Eleanor Organizer(s): Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University Feingold, University of Pittsburgh Chair(s): Todd Durham, Inspire Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Chair(s): Eleanor Feingold, University of Pittsburgh 8:35 a.m. The Infl uence of Professor Levene’s Test of the 8:35 a.m. Aggregation, Lasso, and Sparsity—❖Florentina Equality of the Variances of k Groups on the Bunea, Florida State University Development of Robust Procedures and Their 9:00 a.m. A Bayesian Hierarchical Model with Nest-Specifi c Application—❖Joseph Gastwirth, Th e George Covariates in Nest Survival Study—❖Jing Cao, Washington University Southern Methodist University; Chong He, 9:00 a.m. The Infl uence of Levene’s Paper on Polymorphism Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Subdivided Populations—❖Edward Pollak, 9:25 a.m. Joint Statistical Models for Genome-Wide Tiling Iowa State University Array and Sequence Data—❖Sunduz Keles, 9:25 a.m. Howard Levene: Statistician, Educator, Colleague, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Heejung Shim, and Friend—❖Th eodore W. Anderson, Stanford University of Wisconsin-Madison University 9:50 a.m. A Markov-Hidden Markov Model for Genetic 9:50 a.m. Testing Multivariate Scale Difference by Depth Admixture—❖Hua Tang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Rank Tests—❖Regina Liu, Rutgers University; Research Center; Pei Wang, Fred Hutchinson Kesar Singh, Rutgers University Cancer Research Center; Marc Coram, Th e 10:15 a.m. Floor Discussion University of Chicago 10:15 a.m. Floor Discussion 486 CC-612 ● Experimental Design for Nonlinear Modeling— 488 CC-607 Invited ● ✪ Bayesian Methods in Bioinformatics—Invited Biopharmaceutical Section Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Biometrics Section, WNAR, ENAR Organizer(s): Th omas E. Bradstreet, Merck Research Laboratories Organizer(s): Sounak Chakraborty, University of Missouri-Columbia Chair(s): Th omas E. Bradstreet, Merck Research Laboratories Chair(s): Marc A. Suchard, University of California, Los Angeles 8:35 a.m. Curvature, Robustness, and Optimal Design 8:35 a.m. Bayesian Mixture Models and Application to in Applied Nonlinear Regression Modeling— High-Throughput Data—❖Kim-Anh Do, M. D. ❖Timothy E. O’Brien, Loyola University Chicago Anderson Cancer Center 9:00 a.m. Locally D-Optimal Designs Based on Models 9:00 a.m. Bayesian Modeling of Complex Traits—❖Paola Combining Emax and One-Compartment Models— Sebastiani, Boston University ❖Sam Hedayat, University of Illinois at Chicago 9:25 a.m. Functional Clustering by Bayesian Wavelet 9:25 a.m. Optimal Designs in Nonlinear Mixed- Methods—❖Bani K. Mallick, Texas A&M Effects Models: Applications for Population University Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics Studies— 9:50 a.m. Multiclass Cancer Diagnosis with Bayesian ❖Sylvie Retout, INSERM U738; Emmanuelle Kernel Machine Models—❖Sounak Chakraborty, Comets, INSERM U738; France Mentre, INSERM University of Missouri-Columbia U738 10:15 a.m. Floor Discussion 9:50 a.m. Modeling and Clinical Trial Simulation in the Post– 226 JSM 2006 GENERAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE ✪ Themed Session ● Applied Session ❖ Presenter CC-Washington State Convention & Trade Center H-Grand Hyatt Seattle S-Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers Thursday Seattle 227 GENERAL PROGRAM SCHEDULE ✪ Themed Session ● Applied Session ❖ Presenter CC-Washington State Convention & Trade Center H-Grand Hyatt Seattle S-Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers 489 CC-2B 491 CC-614 ● Bayesian Inference for Population Survey ● Bayesian Nonparametric Methods—Invited Data—Invited ENAR, WNAR, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Section on Section on Survey Research Methods, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science Nonparametric Statistics Organizer(s): Michael R. Elliott, University of Michigan Organizer(s): Mahlet G. Tadesse, University of Pennsylvania Chair(s): Steven G. Heeringa, University of Michigan Chair(s): Mahlet G. Tadesse, University of Pennsylvania 8:35 a.m. The Bayesian Approach to Inference for Finite 8:35 a.m. Split-Merge Markov Chain Monte Carlo for a Population Samples—❖Roderick J. Little, Nonconjugate Dirichlet Process Mixture Model— University of Michigan ❖Sonia Jain, University of California, San Diego; 9:00 a.m. Weight Trimming via Bayesian Variable Selection Radford Neal, University of Toronto Methods—❖Michael R. Elliott, University of 9:00 a.m. Bayesian Semiparametric Inferences for Disease Michigan Risk, ROC Curves, and Prevalence—❖Wesley O. 9:25 a.m. Bayesian Approach for Combining Information Johnson, University of California, Irvine; Adam from Multiple Surveys—❖Trivellore E. Branscum, University of Kentucky Raghunathan, University of Michigan 9:25 a.m. Nonparametric Estimation of Copulas ❖ 9:50 a.m. Infl uence Functions and Robust Bayes via Mixtures— Peter Hoff , University of Estimation—❖Malay Ghosh, University of Washington Florida; Tapabrata Maiti, Iowa State University; 9:50 a.m. Bayesian Nonparametric Spatial and Spatio- Ananya Roy, University of Florida Temporal Models for Disease Incidence Data— ❖ 10:15 a.m. Floor Discussion Athanasios Kottas, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jason Duan, Duke University; Alan E. Gelfand, Duke University 490 CC-303 10:15 a.m. Floor Discussion ● Graphical Tools for Spatial Econometrics— Invited Section on Statistical Graphics 492 CC-304 ● Organizer(s): Christine Th omas-Agnan, University of Toulouse Fusing Environmental Data with Numerical Chair(s): Antoine de Falguerolles, University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III) Models—Invited 8:35 a.m. Using ArcView Mapping Files in Statistical Section on Statistics and the Environment, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science Software Programs—❖James P. LeSage, Th e Organizer(s): Montserrat Fuentes, North Carolina State University University of Toledo Chair(s): Alan Gelfand, Duke University 9:05 a.m. GeoXp: an R Package for Interactive Exploratory 8:35 a.m. Statistical Data Assimilation To Improve Spatial Data Analysis—❖Anne Ruiz-Gazen, Hurricane Forecasting—❖Montserrat Fuentes, University Toulouse I; Christine Th omas-Agnan,