Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association

8:50am STA-1.3 Marginalized Regression Models for Longitudinal Count Data; Keunbaik Lee*,
Michael Daniels and Yongsung Joo
9:10am STA-1.4 Cumulative Incidence Function under the Semiparametric Additive Competing
Risks Model; Seungguen Hyun*,Yanging Sun and Rajeshwari Sundaram; Univ. of South Carolina
Upstate
9:20am
9:40am STA-1.5 Improving Power for Testing Genetic Association in Case-Control Studies by
Reducing Alternative Space; Jungnam Joo; National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
10:00am STA-1.6 Directional Dependence of Genes using Trivariate and Truncated FGM Survival
Coupla; Jong-Min Kim*, Yoon-Sung Jung and Tim Soderberg; Univ. of Minnesota
10:20am STA-1.7 Optimal Adaptive Design for Binary Response Trials with K Treatments; Youngsook
Jeon* and Felfang Hu; Univ. of Virginia
10:40am STA-1.8 Testing Multinomial Categories with Sequential Sampling: Is a Wheel of Fortune
Fair?; Hal Zhen and Hokwon Cho*; Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas
11:30am
Friday (8/15/2008) Afternoon Special SessionSession: Invited Speaker
Professor Granger Joint session with APM
Friday (8/15/2008) Afternoon Session: Invited Speakers and Biostatistics
Session Chairs: Sin-Ho Jung (Duke Univ.) and Byeong U. Park (Seoul National Univ.)
2:45pm Invited Speaker
STA-2.1 Climate Change Uncertainties: Is Global Warming Really Our Fault?; Richard Levine; San
Diego State Univ. San Diego
3:15pm
3:45pm Invited Speaker
STA-2.2 Statistical Science in Korea: the State of Art; Jong Woo Jeon; President of the Korean
Statistical Society and Seoul National Univ.
4:15pm Invited Speaker
STA-2.3 Gene Discovery through Microarray Studies; Sin-Ho Jung; Duke Univ.
4:45pm STA-2.4 On the Generalization of Closed Testing Procedures with Null Hypotheses Grouped
into Families; Hanjoo Kim* and Justin Shults;Univ. of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
5:05pm STA-2.5 Prediction of Quantiles in Ordinal Regression with Applications to Aging Research;
Hyokyoung Hong; Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champain, IL
5:45pm
Saturday (8/16/2008) Morning Session: Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Session Chairs: Hokwon Cho (Univ. of Nevada) and Sin-Ho Jung (Duke Univ.)
8:00am STA-3.1 Mobile Obesity Study; Hyon Lee, Stephen Intille and Jarmo Souminen;, MIT
8:20am STA-3.2 Bayesian Method using Sparsity Prior for Protein Interaction Predictions; Inyoug
Kim, Yin Liu and Hongyu Zhao; Virginia Tech.
8:40am STA-3.3 A Pathway Based Analysis using Different Weight for Each Gene in a Pathway; Sook
Shin Ha; Virginia Tech.
9:00am STA-3.4 Using Chromatin Signature: Prediction of Regulatory Elements in Mammalian
Genome; Kyoung-Jae Won, Iouri Chepelev, Bing Ren and Wei Wang; UC San Diego
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