Statistics in Epidemiology
Strong JSM Program Planned
Amy Herring, section Program Chair, and Dylan small, section Publications Officer
T
he Section on Statistics in Inference, featuring Susan Gruber, Marina Kondratovich, Thomas Gwise,
Epidemiology is excited about Eric Polley, Ori Stitelman, Jeremy and Bipasa Biswas
the strong JSM 2009 program. Rassen, and Catherine Tuglus
We are sponsoring or cosponsoring 11
Contributed sessions
invited, 16 topic-contributed, and 12
Contributed session
New Statistical Methods in
contributed sessions. We are also offer-
Statistical Methods for Modeling Epidemiologic Studies, featuring
ing a one-day short course—Applied
Infectious Disease Risk, featuring Nanshi Sha, Yuanshan Wu, Guoyou
Statistical Genetics for Population-Based
Po-Yung Cheng, Hong Zhou, Qin, Xiaoru Wu, Nancy L. Glenn,
Association Studies, taught by Andrea
Shenghai Zhang, Hector Lemus, Inyoung Kim, and Michael Jones
Foulkes of the University of
Zheng Lu, Nicole B. Carnegie,
Massachusetts—on Saturday, August 1.
and Lawrence Lessner Applications in Cancer Epidemiology,
A complete schedule of Statistics in
featuring Bruno C. de Sousa, Wei-Ting
Epidemiology Section–sponsored events Monday, August 3
Hwang, Chunling Cong, Marinela
is provided below. Also check your pro- Roundtable with coffee
Capanu, Chen Hu, Shih-Yuan Lee,
gram for our section social mixer, with
New Methods and Resources for
and Negasi T. Beyene
location and date yet to be determined.
Gerontologic Biostatisticians,
featuring Peter H. Van Ness
New Developments in Epidemiologic
Saturday, August 1
Methods, featuring Aasthaa Bansal,
One-day short course
Invited sessions Khairul Islam, Carol Y. Lin, Marco
Applied Statistical Genetics for
Statistical Approaches for Studying
Carone, Beth A. Reboussin, Alomgir
Population-Based Association Studies,
Synergism of Genes and Environment
Hossain, and Alastair Scott
taught by Andrea Foulkes of the
in Epidemiologic Studies, featuring
University of Massachusetts
Bhramar Mukherjee, Clare Weinberg,
Tuesday, August 4
Nilanjan Chatterjee, and
Invited session
Sunday, August 2
Sebastian Zollner
Impact of High-Dimensional Data on
Invited sessions
Molecular Epidemiology and Statistical
Setting Particulate Matter Air Policy Continued Use of Family Data in
Genomics, featuring Giovanni
Standards: From Statistical Evidence Statistical Genetics, featuring Heping
Parmigiani, Rebecca Doerge, and
to Federal Policy, featuring Montserrat Zhang, Christophe Lange, Matthew
Colin Begg
Fuentes, Scott Zeger, Bryan Hubbell, McQueen, and Kathleen Merikangas
and Michelle Bell
Topic-contributed sessions
Recent Advances in Missing Data Using SUDAAN for Analysis of
The Issue of High Dimensionality and Causal Inference, featuring Epidemiologic Data, featuring
and Missing Data in Complex Geert Molenberghs, Joe Schafer, Donna Brogan, John Preisser,
Epidemiological Studies, featuring and Constantine Frangakis Nedra Whitehead, Yan Li, and
Nick Jewell, Bin Nan, Rebecca G. Gordon Brown
Betensky, and John Neuhaus Statistical Issues in Building and
Evaluating Genetic Risk Predictors, New Developments in Causal
Topic-contributed sessions
featuring Mitch Gail, Nancy Cook, Inference, featuring Jing Cheng,
Propensity Scores and Bayesian
and Tianxi Cai Wei Wang, Tyler VanderWeele, Ben
Methods for Historical Controls
Hansen, and Rongmei Zhang
and Observational Studies, featuring
Making Statistics Go Viral: Visualizing
Brad Carlin, Caroline Sabin, Michael
Illness in Social Networks, featur- Statistical Methods in Reproductive
Gaffney, Jian Huang, and Yun Lu
ing Alessandro Vespignani, Thomas Epidemiology, featuring Bruno Scarpa,
Valente, and James Moody sungduk Kim, Kirsten Lum, Neil
Machine Learning–Based Causal
Perkins, and Zhen Chen
Inference: Toward Robust Black-
Topic-contributed session
Box Algorithms for Causal Effects Study Designs for Diagnostic Devices,
Statistical Analysis Issues for Diagnostic
That Preserve Meaningful Statistical featuring Kristen Meier, Rong Tang,
Devices, featuring Samir Lababidi,
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