Spring Chapter Meeting - Updated!

When:  Apr 17, 2015 from 09:30 to 16:00 (MT)
Associated with  Colorado-Wyoming Chapter

Colorado/Wyoming Chapter of the American Statistical Association

Spring Meeting,  Friday April 17th - 9:30 to 4.


Thanks for everyone who has volunteered to give a presentation.  The following schedule is approximate and subject to change.  Occasionally, we fall behind and if we have the opportunity to move things up a bit - we will take it. 

 

Colorado/Wyoming Chapter of the American Statistical Association

2015 Spring Meeting Agenda

10        Welcome – Introductions

10:15   “Signal detection of adverse events with imperfect confirmation rates in vaccine safety studies using self-controlled case series design” - Stanley Xu, PhD

10:30   “Negative leakage in subnational climate policy” - Peter Maniloff

10:45   “Analysis of geochronological data when ages are measured with error” S. Huzurbazar - University of Wyoming

11        “Dynamic occupancy models for explicit colonization processes” Kristin Brom – Colorado State University

11:15   “Visualizing bias in Microbiome data” Kayla Williamson – University of Wyoming

11:30   Lunch

12:30   Vislab Demonstration/ Wyoming Supercomputer Overview (Tim Scheitlin/ Dave Hart)

1:00      “Improving the Quality of American Community Survey Estimates.” Seth E. Spielman, University of Colorado

 

1:15     “Why not Substitute? A Simulation Study of Left Censored Data” D.J. Bays, Tyler Bonnett, and Paige Yankey – Marshall University, West Virginia

 

1:30     David Young Speaker

 

1:45     Chapter Business

2:00      “Testing Associations between Stochastic Parameters from Multivariate Generalized Linear Mixed Models” Susan Mikulich, University of Colorado Denver – Health Sciences

2:15     “Estimating the Basic Reproduction Number of the Seasonal Flu” Alec McQuilkin  University of Colorado Denver

2:30     Break

2:45     “Multiway data integration: pregnant women vaginal microbiome case study” Ekaterina Smirnova – University of Wyoming

3          “Brain default mode network identification using Independent Component Analysis.” Manish S. Dalwani UC Denver Health Sciences

3:15     “Incorporating Relatedness in Gene Based Case-Only Analysis of Mendelian Traits” Kraig Thomas - University of Colorado Denver

3:30     “Testing Second Order Properties Of Spatial Data” Zachary D. Weller , Jennifer A. Hoeting

Talks will conclude by 4.  For those interested, there will be a happy hour at the Southern Sun.

 
Short abstracts for these talks are available here. ( Spring Meeting Abstracts 2015.pdf) 

Registration is not required and our meeting is open to all.

Getting There

Shuttle - For those interested in taking public transportation - NCAR runs a shuttle from the RTD Table Mesa Park and Ride, up Table Mesa across Broadway to the lab.  These are 15 passenger vans with the NCAR logo on the side.  Here is more information.

Location

Main Conference Room - National Center for Atmospheric Research
1850 Table Mesa Drive
Boulder, CO 80305