The Symposium will be held on April 9-10, 2020. This event will be sponsored by the Department of Biostatistics & Data Science at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the Kansas-Western Missouri Chapter of the American Statistical Association, and Cerner Corporation.
CANCELED DUE TO COVID-19 CONCERNS
Symposium Keynote Address
Title: Probabilistic Pairwise Model Comparisons Based on Discrepancy Measures
and a Reconceptualization of the P-Value
Presented by Joseph Cavanaugh, Ph.D.,
Professor of Statistics and Actuarial Science, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Professor of Statistics, College of Public Health, University of Iowa
Symposium Invited Presentations
Title talk 1: Sexually Transmitted Disease Detection Using Array Testing Algorithms with Multiplex Assays
Presenter: Christopher Bilder, Ph.D.,
University Of Nebraska
Title talk 2: CatBoost Gradient Boosting
Presenter: Shivam Tundele, M.S.,
Cerner Corporation
Title talk 3: Machine Learning in Digital Histology: Transforming Epidemiologic Studies Pixel by Pixel
Presenter: Lynn Chollet Hinton, Ph.D.,
University Of Kansas Medical Center
Title talk 4: Estimating Power for Clinical Trials with Patient Reported Outcomes Endpoints using Item Response Theory
Presenter: Jinxiang Hu, P.hD.,
University Of Kansas Medical Center
Title talk 5 A Covariate-Adjusted Classification For Multiple Longitudinal Biomarkers
Presenter: Wei-Wen Hsu, Ph.D.,
Kansas State University
Symposium Short Course
Title: Matched Pairs and Longitudinal Binary Observations
Date Thursday April 9th 8:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Presented by Bernhard Klingenberg, Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Williams College