A variety of showcases and a special invited session will be presented during the 2018 International Biometric Conference.
Review the list below or click on a title for more information:
Monday 9 July
Statistics in Practice I & II
Session I – 13:45 – 15:15 | Room: Susie Bayarri
Session 2 – 15:45 – 17:15 | Room: Susie Bayarri
Organizer and Moderator: Annette Kopp-Schneider (for Education Committee)
Frailty models: theory and practice
Theodor Balan, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Hein Putter, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Tuesday 10 July
Biometrics Showcase Session
Time: 10:30 – 12:00 | Room: Laura Pla
Organizer and Chair: Geert Molenberghs
Best papers by an IBS member in Biometrics, 2016 and 2017.
2016: Published in the December 2016 issue, volume 72, pages 1155-1163
Kim Inyoung, Virginia Tech, USA – Flexible variable selection for recovering sparsity in nonadditive nonparametric models
2017: Published in the June 2017, volume 73, pages 656-665
Joshua Tebbs, University of South Carolina, USA – Hierarchical group testing for multiple infections
Young Statistician Student (YSS) Showcase
Time: 15:45 – 17:15 | Room: Susie Bayarri
Organizer: Pamela Shaw
Chair: Iris Pigeot [DR]
Tilahun F. Asena, Hawassa University & Arba Minch University, Ethiopia – Modeling Evolution of HIV/AIDS Disease Progression: A Parametric Semi-Markov Model with Interval Censuring
Virginia Fisher, Boston University School of Public Health, United States – Genetic Fine Mapping Incorporating Functional Annotation: A Random Effects Approach
Rafael de Andrade Moral, University of São Paulo, Brazil – Conditional and Marginal Models for Analysing Light Interception Data
Tea Kristiane E. Uggen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia – Automated Classification of Post-Stroke Aphasia by Severity
Yuejia Xu, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom – Cross-selection HIV Incidence Estimation Accounting for Heterogeneity Across Communities
Thursday 12 July
Host Region Special Invited Session
Time: 08.30 – 10:00 | Room: Susie Bayarri
Organizer: Spanish Biometric Society [SEB]: Klaus Langohr and Immaculada Arostegui
Concepcion Arenas, Barcelona University, Spain – Identifying extreme observation to detect differentially expressed genes
Eugenia Castellanos, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain – Goodness of fit models in ABC methods
David Conesa, Universitat de València, Spain – Challenging statistical issues in species distribution modeling
Jan Graffelman, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain – Recent methodological developments for a Hardy-Weingberg analysis of X-chromosomal variants
Dae-Jin Lee, BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain – Beta-binomial multivariate regression modeling of patient-reported outcomes
ISI Special Invited Session
Time: 15:45 – 17:15 | Room: Laura Pla
Organizers: Peter Guttorp
Competition Chair: Kaye Basford [ISI liaison to IBS]
Kristie L. Ebi, University of Washington, USA – Current impacts and future risks of climate change for health
Erin Peterson, Queensland University of Technology, Austraila – The fish data analysis tool: River-Network scaled modeling and visualization of juvenile fish abundance from multiple agencies
Guy F. Midgley, Stellenbosch University, South Africa – Opportunities for attributing ecological responses of species and ecosystems to climate change drivers
Friday 13 July
JABES Showcase Session
Time: 09:00 – 10:30 | Room: Laura Pla
Competition Chair: JABES Editor, Steve Buckland
2016 Winner: Raphael Huser, King Abdullah University and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia – Non-stationary dependence structures for spatial extremes
2017 Winner: Jenni Niku, University of Jyväskylä, Finland – Generalized linear latent variable models for multivariate count and biomass data in ecology