2007 JOINT STATISTICAL MEETINGS
ERRATA SHEET
Program Changes
As of June 20 – July 27, 2007
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2007 JOINT STATISTICAL MEETINGS ERRATA SHEET
Program Changes From June 20 – July 27, 2007
CC = Salt Palace Convention Center • GA = Grand America Hotel
Special Announcements

Cancelled Committee and Society Tables
Gay and Lesbian Concerns in Statistics
Location: Outside Exhibit Hall D

Salt Lake City Visitors Information Center
Location: CC-Level 2

Child Care: Child Care services may be organized through Guardian Angels.
For more information, call 801-598-1229

Luggage Storage – New this year at JSM!
We are offering luggage storage at the Convention Center starting on Wednesday,
August 1 from 12:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. and again on Thursday, August 2 from 7:30 a.m. –
1:00 p.m. The price is $2.00 per bag, per person. Luggage storage will be set up in
Exhibit Hall E, South Foyer Lobby across from JSM registration

Restaurant Booth – If you have questions or want to know more about the local
restaurants, please stop by the Restaurant Reservations Booth located in the South Foyer
at the Convention Center near the Registration area.
Hours of Operations:
Saturday, July 28
Sunday, July 29
Monday, July 30
Tuesday, July 31
Wednesday, August 1

11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
11:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
TRAX - Free Ride Zone for Buses and Trains
Salt Lake City’s Free Ride Zone includes major destinations, such as the Salt Palace
Convention Center and Temple Square. Visit www.rideuta.com for details.
TRAX (cash payment only)
$1.50 Adult One-Way/$0.75 Senior One-Way/Children under 5 ride FREE. Hours: 5:30
a.m.–11:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 5:30 a.m.–1:00 a.m. Friday and Saturday,
and 9:30 a.m.– 9:30 p.m. Sunday. For more information, visit www.rideuta.com or call
(888) 743-3882.
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Saturday, July 28, 2007
CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES
Time
Changes
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
CE_07C – Moved to Room 150DEF from 151F
CE_04C – Moved to Room 151F from 150DEF
Sunday, July 29, 2007
CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES
Time
Changes
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
CE_08C – Moved to Room 155A from 151DEF
CE_13C – Moved to 151DEF from 155A
CE_14C – Moved to Room 155A from 151DEF
Sunday, July 29, 2007
TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES
Session No.
Time
Changes
14
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Session Chair: Scott Patterson, GlaxoSmithKine
Withdrawn Paper: Roberto Gomeni, GlaxoSmithKline
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Byron Jones, Pfizer, Inc.
2:25 pm ♦ Michael Smith, Pfizer, Inc.
2:45 pm ♦ Nitin Patel, Cytel, Inc.
3:05 pm ♦ J. Kyle Wathen, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
3:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
22
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Garrick Wallstrom, University of Pittsburgh
Withdrawn Paper: Yong Chen, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public
Health
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Ori Rosen, University of Texas at El Paso
2:20 pm ♦ Peng Sun, Merck & Co., Inc.
2:35 pm ♦ Xiao Zhang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
2:50 pm ♦ Patricia Bahnsen, Stephen F. Austin State University
3:05 pm ♦ Hongxiao Zhu, Rice University
3:20 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
24
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Yuxiao Tang, Rush University Medical Center
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Lily Alstein, University of California, Los Angeles
2:20 pm ♦ Zailong Wang, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
2:35 pm ♦ Kimberly Walters, The Ohio State University
2:50 pm ♦ Chia-Cheng Chen, North Carolina State University
3:05 pm ♦ Hui Xie, University of Illinois at Chicago
3:20 pm ♦ Wonsuk Yoo, Wayne State University
3:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
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Session No.
Time
Changes
28
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Ralph Bradley, Bureau of Labor Statistics
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Joost Bottenbley; Yasmin Said, George Mason University
2:20 pm ♦ Malda Bashi, Paragon Cardiovascular Foundation
2:35 pm ♦ Robert Gerzoff, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2:50 pm ♦ Melvin Ott
3:05 pm ♦ Kenny Shum, Johns Hopkins University
3:20 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
29
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Trevor A. Craney, Shell Exploration and Production
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Xinjia Chen, Louisiana State University
2:20 pm ♦ Marvin Gruber, Rochester Institute of Technology
2:35 pm ♦ Cheryl Dingus, Batelle
2:50 pm ♦ Yan Lan, University of Michigan
3:05 pm ♦ Paul Patterson, USDA Forest Service
3:20 pm ♦ Chunwang Gao, Iowa State University
3:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
33
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
New Presenting Author: Hung-Wen Yeh, The University of Kansas Medical
Center for Wenyaw Chan at 3:35 pm
36
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Mike Kwanisai, NORC at the University of Chicago
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Jeffrey Gonzalez, Bureau of Labor Statistics
2:20 pm ♦ Allison Deal, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2:35 pm ♦ John Rotondo, AT&T Labs-Research
2:50 pm ♦ Bryce Johnson, Westat
3:05 pm ♦ Tonja M. Kule, Macro International
3:20 pm ♦ Lawrence Ernst, Bureau of Labor Statistics
3:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
51
4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.
New Session Chair: Trevor Park, University of Florida
New Presenting Author Yoko Tanaka, Eli Lilly and Company for Hajime
Uno at 4:25 pm
53
4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.
New Presenting Author: Bruce Ketcham, Exponent, Inc. for Wai Chan at
4:25 pm
54
4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Zhu Wang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
New Session Order:
4:05 pm ♦ Huiping Jiang, Columbia University
4:25 pm ♦ Mengyuan Xu, Southern Methodist University
4:45 pm ♦ Stephen Robertson, Southern Methodist University
5:05 pm ♦ Wayne Woodword, Southern Methodist University
5:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
55
4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Airong Cai, University of Illinois at Chicago
New Session Order:
4:05 pm ♦ Hongfei Li, The Ohio State University
4:25 pm ♦ Tonglin Zhang, Purdue University
4:45 pm ♦ Lei Kang, The Ohio State University
5:05 pm ♦ Jiehua Chen, Stanford University
5:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
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Session No.
Time
Changes
61
4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.
New Session Chair: Fred Lorenz, Iowa State University
72
4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Jasjeet Sekhon, University of California, Berkeley
New Session Order:
4:20 pm ♦ Natalya Verbitsky, University of Michigan
4:35 pm ♦ Bridget Lavelle, Iowa State University
4:50 pm ♦ Stephen Ponisciak, Consortium on Chicago School Research
5:05 pm ♦ Mack Shelley, Iowa State University
5:20 pm ♦ Shaunna Clark, University of California, Los Angeles
5:35 pm ♦ Xin Shi, University of Manchester
Monday, July 30, 2007
COMMITTEE/BUSINESS MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITY CHANGES
Room
Time
GA-Grenoble
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Changes
CC-Ballroom A
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
CC-150 DEF
6:00 p.m. – 7:00p.m.
CC-Kenneth Knight
Board Room
6:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
New Chair: John E. Boyer, Kansas State University
Council of Chapters International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF)
Breakfast Meeting (closed)
New Event: The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Departments of
Biostatistics and Operations Research Alumni and Current Faculty and
Student Reception
New Event: International Indian Statistical Association Open Meeting
Chair: Subir Shosh, University of California, Riverside
New Event: Section on Risk Analysis Executive Committee Meeting
(closed), Chair: Robert Stine, University of Pennsylvania
Monday, July 30, 2007
TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES
Session No.
Time
Changes
74
76
77
78
7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee:
Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee:
Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee:
Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee:
94
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Valerie Durkalski, Medical University of South
Carolina
Withdrawn Discussant: David Harrington
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Cristiana Gassmann-Mayer, Johnson & Johnson PRD
8:55 am ♦ Mohammad Huque, Food and Drug Administration
9:15 am ♦ Xiahong Huang, sanofi-aventis
9:35 am ♦ Mohamed Alosh, Food and Drug Administration
10:15 am ♦ Floor Discussion
97
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Minjung Kyung, North Carolina State University
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Matthew Taddy, University of California, Santa Cruz
8:55 am ♦ Luping Zhao, The University of Minnesota
9:15 am ♦ Abel Rodriguez, Duke University
9:35 am ♦ Yuefeng Wu, North Carolina State University
9:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion
ML02
ML05
ML06
ML07
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Session No.
Time
102
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Moonsu Kang, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Jean Roayaei, National Institutes of Health
8:50 am ♦ Jason Osborne, North Carolina State University
9:05 am ♦ Hyonho Chun, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:20 am ♦ James Signorovitch, Harvard University
9:35 am ♦ Shunpu Zhang, University of Nebraksa, Lincoln
9:50 am ♦ Heather Adams, University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
103
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Ed Mascha, The Cleveland Clinic
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Ke Wu, California State University
8:50 am ♦ Tao Liu, Brown University
9:05 am ♦ Jiantian Wang, Kean University
9:20 am ♦ Shulamith Gross, Baruch College/CUNY
9:35 am ♦ Rajeshwari Sundaram, National Institute of Child Health and
Human Development
9:50 am ♦ Pinaki Biswas, University of Michigan
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
110
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Jiawei Liu, Georgia State University
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Sunil Mathur, University of Mississippi
8:50 am ♦ Weixing Song, Kansas State University
9:05 am ♦ Chin-Shang Li, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
9:20 am ♦ Zhong Guan, Indiana University South Bend
9:35 am ♦ Michael P. Anderson, Kansas State University
9:50 am ♦ David Hosmer, University of Massachusetts
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
114
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Frank Jenkins, Westat
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Joseph Olsen, Brigham Young University
8:50 am ♦ Eric Grau, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
9:05 am ♦ Tiandong Li, Westat
9:20 am ♦ Prabhu Bhagavatheeswaran, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
9:35 am ♦ Stan Lipovetsky, GfK Custom Research North America
9:50 am ♦ Brian Meekins, Bureau of Labor Statistics
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
116
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
New Chair: James Treat, U.S. Census Bureau
119
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Changes
New Discussant Chi-hong Tseng, New York University for Judith Goldberg
125
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
New Chair: Brian Harris Kojetin, Office of Management and Budget
126
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Debashis Ghosh, University of Michigan
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ S. Stanley Young, National Institute of Statistical Sciences
11:05 am ♦ Yifan Huang, University of South Florida
11:35 am ♦ Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
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Session No.
Time
Changes
131
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: George Hough, Portland State University
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Linda Gage, California Department of Finance
10:55 am ♦ Joseph Salvo, NYC Department of City Planning
11:15 am ♦ Discussant: Michael L. Cohen, Committee on National Statistics
11:35 am ♦ Discussant: Deborah H. Griffin, U.S. Census Bureau
11:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion
132
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
New Presenting Author: Stephen Kaluzny, Insightful Corporation for Sven
Knudsen at 10:55 am
133
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Discussant: Kannan Natarajan, John and Johnson PRD
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Vipin Arora, Norvartis Pharmaceuticals
10:55 am ♦ Thomas Cook, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:15 am ♦ Janet Wittes, Statistics Collaborative
11:35 am ♦ Discussant: Marian Fisher, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion
138
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Jungsoon Choi, North Carolina State University
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Wei Chen, Karmanos Cancer Institute
10:55 am ♦ Joo Yeon Lee, Food and Drug Administration
11:15 am ♦ Liansheng Zhu, Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc.
11:35 am ♦ Floor Discussion
139
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
New Session Chair: Kanchan Mukherjee, The University of Liverpool
Withdrawn Paper: David Scott, Rice University
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania
10:55 am ♦ Yaacov Ritov, The Hebrew University of Jeruselam
11:15 am ♦ Andrew Rukhin, University of Maryland
11:35 am ♦ Sam Efromovich, University of Texas at Dallas
11:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion
144
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Jiang Gui, Dartmouth Medical School
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Xiaoyu Jiang, Boston University
10:50 am ♦ Gang Luo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
11:05 am ♦ Lacey Gunter, University of Michigan
11:20 am ♦ Yeming Ma, State University of new York at Stony Brook
11:35 am ♦ Andrejus Parflonovas, Utah State University
11:50 am ♦ Bibhas Chakraborty, University of Michigan
12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
147
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Carsten Botts, Williams College
Withdrawn Paper: Yi-Liang Tung, National Cheng Kung University
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Brenda Ng, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:50 am ♦ Sam Behseta, California State University
11:05 am ♦ Christopher Hans, The Ohio State University
11:20 am ♦ Zhi Ouyang, Duke University
11:35 am ♦ Joyee Ghosh, Duke University
11:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion
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Session No.
Time
Changes
148
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Betsy Enstrom, Duke University
Withdrawn Paper: Janet Rosenbaum, Harvard University
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Martey Dodoo, The Robert Graham Center
10:50 am ♦ Yi Lin, University of British Columbia
11:05 am ♦ Byron Gajewski, The University of Kansas Medical Center
11:20 am ♦ Betsy C. Gunnels, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
11:35 am ♦ Camelia Sima, MSKCC
11:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion
154
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Poster:
32 Eric Nordmoe, Kalamazoo College
Speaker that Did Not Show to Present their Poster:
49 Alexandra Piryatinska, San Francisco State University
156
158
163
164
165
166
167
168
12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch:
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch:
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch:
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch:
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch:
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch:
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch:
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch:
ML10, ML11, ML12, ML13
ML15
ML21
ML22
ML23, ML25
ML26
ML27
ML28
171
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
New Discussant: Holger Hoefling, Stanford University for Steve Feinberg at
3:05 pm
181
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
New Session Chair: Aili Cheng, GlaxoSmithKline
187
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Hao Helen Zhang, North Carolina State University
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Anthony Garnst, University of California, San Diego
2:25 pm ♦ Lifeng Wang, University of Pennsylvania
2:45 pm ♦ Thuan Nguyen, University of California, Davis
3:05 pm ♦ Michael Donohue, University of California, San Diego
3:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
193
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Ming Dai, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Withdrawn Paper: Robert Krafty, University of Pennsylvania
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Pang Du, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2:25 pm ♦ Li Qin, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
2:45 pm ♦ Anna Liu, University of Massachusetts Amherst
3:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
203
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
New Session Chair: Dan Fitzsimmons, Boeing for EunJoo Lee
205
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Presenter Change: Ravi Varadhan, Johns Hopkins University will present
paper on behalf of Constantine Frangakis at 2:35 p.m.
209
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Speaker that Did Not Show to Present their Poster:
78 Joseph Richardson, Auburn University
Withdrawn Poster:
84 Matt Jans, Institute for Social Research
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
TOURS
Tour No.
Time
Changes
TR07
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Cancelled Tour: Utah Olympic Park, Park City Main Street
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
COMMITTEE/BUSINESS MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITY CHANGES
Room
Time
Changes
GA-Provence
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
New Event: ASA-Pfizer, University of Connecticut Project on Filming of
Distinguished Statisticians (closed); Organizer: Nitis Mukhopadhyay,
University of Connecticut
Off Property: Joseph
Smith Memorial
Building, 15 East
South Temple
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Date and Location Change: Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Friends and Alumni of Brigham Young University - Open House/Breakfast
Originally scheduled for August 1, 2007
GA-Provence
10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
New Event: Sequential Analysis Journal Editorial Board (closed)
Organizer: Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut
CC-Kenneth Knight
Board Room
2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
GA-Imperial
Ballroom C
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
New Location: Biometrics Editorial Board (closed); Originally scheduled
at GA-Venice Moved to: GA-Imperial Ballroom C
CC-Kenneth Knight
Board Room
7:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
New Event: National Numeracy Network Open House
Organizer: Milo Schield, Augsburg College
Cancelled Event: Aplia Statistics Focus Group (closed)
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES
Session No.
Time
Changes
217
218
7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: TL06
Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: TL08
225
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Discussant: Han Hong, Stanford University
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Elie Tamer, Northwestern University
9:15 am ♦ Victor Aguirregabiria, University of Toronto
9:25 am ♦ Pat Bajari, The University of Minnesota Twin Cities
9:35 am ♦ Allan Collard-Wexler, New York University
9:45 am ♦ Shakeeb Khan, Duke University
9:55 am ♦ Adam Rosen, University College London
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
235
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Li Ding, Medtronic, Inc.
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ David Naftel, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
8:55 am ♦ Gina Garding, Boston Scientific Corporation
9:15 am ♦ Yun Lu, Boston Scientific Corporation
9:35 am ♦ Lijuan Deng, Boston Scientific Corporation
9:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion
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Session No.
Time
Changes
242
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Organizer: Martin Theus, O2
New Session Chair: Daniel Carr, George Mason University
243
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Michael Szarek, Pfizer Inc.
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Vittorio Addona, Macalester College
8:50 am ♦ Chiung-Yu Huang, National Institutes of Health
9:05 am ♦ Beth Ann Griffin, RAND
9:20 am ♦ Akim Adekpedjou, University of South Carolina
9:35 am ♦ Wenquan Wang, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
9:50 am ♦ Virginia Fillaci, GOG Statistical and Data Center
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
247
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: David Doorn, University of Minnesota at Duluth
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Yu Zhang, Columbia Business School
8:50 am ♦ Ming-Chin Hung, Soochow University
9:05 am ♦ Jungyeon Yoon, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:20 am ♦ Ka Sing Man, Western Illinois University
9:35 am ♦ Peng Liu, North Carolina State University
9:50 am ♦ David S. Matteson, The University of Chicago
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
249
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Shuva Gupta, Florida State University
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Santiago Velilla, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
8:50 am ♦ Briane Steele, University of Montana
9:05 am ♦ Eric Vance, Duke University
9:20 am ♦ Zhe Zhang, The Pennsylvania State University
9:35 am ♦ Arne Bathke, University of Kentucky
9:50 am ♦ Lev Sverdlov
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
252
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Jae-Kwang Kim, Yonsei University
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Stanislav Kolenikov, University of Missouri-Columbia
8:50 am ♦ Jianqiang Wang, Iowa State University
9:05 am ♦ Jill Dever, University of Maryland
9:20 am ♦ David Haziza, University of Montreal
9:35 am ♦ Richard Griffiths, Arbitron, Inc.
9:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion
272
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Abhijit Dasgupta, Thomas Jefferson University
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Amy Kapp, Stanford University
10:55 am ♦ Francoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch, Georgetown University
Medical Center
11:15 am ♦ Dung-Tsa Chen, Moffitt Cancer Center
11:35 am ♦ Discussant: Sin-Ho Jung, Duke University
11:55 am ♦ Floor Discussion
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Session No.
Time
283
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Changes
Withdrawn Paper: Meng Du, University of Toronto
Withdrawn Paper: Feng Hong, University of Illinois
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Huining Kang, University of New Mexico
10:50 am ♦ Fenghai Duan, University of Nebraska Medical Center
11:05 am ♦ Benhuai Xie, The University of Minnesota
11:20 am ♦ Cumhur Demirkale, Iowa State University
11:35 am ♦ Jyotsna Kasturi, Johnson and Johnson PRD
11:50 am ♦ Feng Hong, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
284
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Jason Hsia, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Xianggui Qu, Oakland University
10:50 am ♦ Karen Messer, University of California, San Diego
11:05 am ♦ Sachiko Tanaka, University of Tokyo
11:20 am ♦ Jun-mo Nam, National Cancer Institute
11:35 am ♦ William E. Barlow, Cancer Research and Biostatistics
11:50 am ♦ Jeong-Gun Park, Harvard School of Public Health/Frontier
Science & Technology Research Foundation
12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
288
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
294
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m
Withdrawn Paper: Zdenek Patak, Statistics Canada
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Rong Cai, National Center for Health Statistics
10:50 am ♦ Te-Ching Chen, Bureau of Labor Statistics
11:05 am ♦ Darryl Janes, Statistics Canada
11:20 am ♦ Yi Li, Statistics Canada
11:35 am ♦ Floor Discussion
Withdrawn Posters:
15 Neale Hirsh, NSH & Associates
32 Lindsay Renfro, Baylor University
Speakers that Did Not Show to Present their Poster:
26 Luis Frank, Universidad de Buenos Aires
31 Jerry Platt, University of Redlands
38 Robert Terry, University of Oklahoma
39 James B. Orris, Butler University
295
12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
TL09 – formerly a Speaker Roundtable – now a Roundtable with Lunch
Moved to: Ballroom A
296
12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch:
TL10, TL11, TL13, TL18, TL24, TL30
298
299
300
300
301
301
303
305
12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: TL17
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: TL18
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: TL20
TL21 – Roundtable with Lunch Moved to: Ballroom C
Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: TL23
Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: TL26
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: TL22
Sold Out Roundtables with Lunch: TL30
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2007 JOINT STATISTICAL MEETINGS ERRATA SHEET
Program Changes From June 20 – July 27, 2007
CC = Salt Palace Convention Center • GA = Grand America Hotel
310
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
New Chair: Christine McLaren, University of California at Irvine
327
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Jing Qin, National Institutes of Health
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Shaw-Hwa Lo, Columbia University
2:25 pm ♦ Jungnam Joo, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
2:45 pm ♦ Hon Keung (Tony) Ng, Southern Methodist University
3:05 pm ♦ Oliver Thas, Ghent University
3:25 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
343
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Speakers that Did Not Show to Present their Poster:
51 Barbara Warsavage, CSUEB
52 Jingjing Chen, Student
58 Fassil Nebebe, Concordia University; Tak Mak, Concordia University
67 Lin Xie, Kansas State University
92 Daniell Toth, Bureau of Labor Statistics
93 Peng Wu, University of California, Davis
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
COMMITTEE/BUSINESS MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITY CHANGES
Room
Time
Changes
Off Property: Joseph
Smith Memorial
Building,
15 East South Temple
7:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
NEW Date and Location Change: Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Friends and Alumni of Brigham Young University - Open House/Breakfast
Originally scheduled for August 1, 2007
GA-Audubon
9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
New Chair: Mary Mulry, U.S. Census Bureau; Council of Sections
Publication and Newsletter Editors Meeting (closed)
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES
Changes
Session No.
Time
348
349
7:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m.
Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: WL02
Sold Out Roundtable with Coffee: WL03
358
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
New Session Chair: Mike Colopy, GlaxoSmithKline
362
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Chih-Ling Tsai, University of California at Davis
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Runze Li, The Pennsylvania State University
9:05 am ♦ Hua Liang, University of Rochester
9:35 am ♦ Florin Vaida, University of California, San Diego
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
363
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Panelist: Regina Liu, Rutgers University
New Session Order:
Rebecca Doerge, Purdue University
Mari Palta, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nancy Reid, University of Toronto
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CC = Salt Palace Convention Center • GA = Grand America Hotel
Session No.
Time
Changes
380
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Kai Yu, National Cancer Institute
Withdrawn Paper: Wen Wan, Virginia Tech Department of Statistics
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Thomas Hoffman, Harvard University
8:50 am ♦ Wenguang Sun, University of Pennsylvania
9:05 am ♦ Ann L. Oberg, Mayo Clinic
9:20 am ♦ Alina Andrei, University of Wisconsin-Madison
9:35 am ♦ Cavan Reilly, The University of Minnesota
9:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion
384
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Ruriko Yoshida, University of Kentucky
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Zongming Ma, Stanford University
8:50 am ♦ Hadi Rezazad; Yasmin H. Said, George Mason University
9:05 am ♦ Aiyou Chen, Alcatel-Lucent
9:20 am ♦ Walid Sharabati, George Mason University
9:35 am ♦ Joseph Blitzstein, Harvard University
9:50 am ♦ Simone Gray, Duke University
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
385
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Carl Lee, Central Michigan University
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Robert Carver, Stonehill College
8:50 am ♦ Elizabeth Walters, Loyola College in Maryland
9:05 am ♦ Brian E. Smith, McGill University
9:20 am ♦ Linda Cooper, Towson University
9:35 am ♦ Donald Bentley, Pomona College
9:50 am ♦ Steve Wang, Swarthmore College
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
387
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Jie Ding, The Ohio State University
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Li Su, Brown University
8:50 am ♦ Robert Lyles, Emory University
9:05 am ♦ Li Zhang, The Cleveland Clinic
9:20 am ♦ Michael P. Jones, Macquarie University
9:35 am ♦ Veena Shetty, National Institutes of Health
9:50 am ♦ Chong Wang, Cornell University
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
394
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Stephen Chesley, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration
New Discussant: Tommy Wright, U.S. Census Bureau for Ivan Felligi at
11:50 am
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Juanita Tamayo Lott, U.S. Census Bureau
11:00 am ♦ Steven W. Pedigo, Greater Washington Initiative
11:25 am ♦ Walter R. Allen, University of California, Los Angeles
11:50 am ♦ Tommy Wright, U.S. Census Bureau
12:10 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
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CC = Salt Palace Convention Center • GA = Grand America Hotel
Session No.
Time
Changes
418
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Lin Wang, sanofi-aventis
New Presenting Author: Ivan S.F. Chan, Merck & Co. for William
Wang at 11:50 a.m.
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Guohui Liu, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
10:50 am ♦ Jianming Wang, Amgen, Inc.
11:05 am ♦ Cyrus Mehta, Cytel, Inc.
11:20 am ♦ Wentao Feng, University of Pittsburgh
11:35 am ♦ Ping Gao, The Medicines Company
11:50 am ♦ Ivan Chan, Merck & Co.
12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
424
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Zhenyu Yan, University of Virginia
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Dennis Mathaisel, Babson College
10:50 am ♦ David Llyod, MITRE Corporation
11:05 am ♦ Landon Sego, Pacific Northwest Laboratory
11:20 am ♦ Jin Cao, Bell Labs
12:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
430
430
430
433
434
435
437
439
12:30 p.m. – 1:50 p.m.
Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL11
Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: WL12
Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL13
Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL17
Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL19
Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL21
Cancelled Roundtable with Lunch: WL25
Sold out Roundtable with Lunch: WL27
447
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
New Presenting Author: John Copeland, Centers for Disease Control
for Henry Rolka at 2:30 pm
468
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Kun Liang, Iowa State University
New Session Order:
2:05 pm ♦ Irene Helenowski, Northwestern University
2:20 pm ♦ Guangyu Zhang, University of Michigan
2:35 pm ♦ Guy Brock, University of Louisville
2:50 pm ♦ Maria Kocherginsky, The University of Chicago
3:05 pm ♦ Li Chen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
3:20 pm ♦ Mengling Liu, New York University
3:35 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
475
2:00 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
New Session Chair: Kenneth Liu, Merck & Co.
481
4:00 p.m. – 5:50 p.m.
New Title for COPSS Fisher Lecture: The Early Detection of
Chronic Disease: Statistical Challenges, Marvin Zelen, Harvard School
of Public Health
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Program Changes From June 20 – July 27, 2007
CC = Salt Palace Convention Center • GA = Grand America Hotel
Thursday, August 2, 2007
COMMITTEE/BUSINESS MEETINGS AND OTHER ACTIVITY CHANGES
Room
Time
CC-254 C
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Changes
New Title: Council of Sections Business Meeting Part 2 (closed)
formerly Council of Sections Governing Board JSM Meeting, Part 1 (closed)
CC-254 C
10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
New Title: Council of Sections Governing Board Meeting Part 2 (closed)
formerly Council of Sections Governing Board JSM Meeting, Part 2 (closed)
Thursday, August 2, 2007
TECHNICAL SESSION CHANGES
Session No.
Time
Changes
491
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn paper: Jianyang Sun, Case Western Reserve University
9:05 am ♦ Michael Epstein, Emory University
9:20 am ♦ Joseph Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
499
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
New Chair: Douglas Wolfe, The Ohio State University
506
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Jane Chang, Bowling Green State University
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Luc Bijnens, Johnson & Johnson PRD
8:50 am ♦ Ruixiao Lu, University of California, Davis
9:05 am ♦ Willem Talloen, Johnson & Johnson PRD
9:20 am ♦ Shuang Liu, University of California, Davis
9:35 am ♦ Shibing Deng, Pfizer, Inc.
9:50 am ♦ Hui-Rong Qian, Eli Lilly and Company
10:05 am ♦ Floor Discussion
508
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Olympia Hadjiliadis, Princeton University/Drexel
University
Withdrawn Paper: Jaydip Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Hyejin Shin, Auburn University
8:50 am ♦ Richard Nicki, University of Connecticut
9:05 am ♦ Satrajit Roychoudhury, Schering Plough Research Institute
9:20 am ♦ Philippe Berthet, The University of Renees
9:35 am ♦ Floor Discussion
514
8:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Yan Lu, Arizona State University
New Session Order:
8:35 am ♦ Guillermo Mendez, Arizona State University
8:50 am ♦ Feng Min Lin, National Cheng Kung University
9:05 am ♦ Sabine Krieg, Statistics Netherlands
9:20 am ♦ Punam Pahwa, University of Saskatchewan
9:35 am ♦ Steen Magnussen, Canadian Forest Service
9:50 am ♦ Floor Discussion
519
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Mirjam Moerbeek, Utrecht University
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Catherine M. Crespi, University of California, Los Angeles
11:00 am ♦ Allan Donner, University of Western Ontario
11:25 am ♦ Ziding Feng, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:50 am ♦ Susan L. Stewart, University of California, San Francisco
12:15 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
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Program Changes From June 20 – July 27, 2007
CC = Salt Palace Convention Center • GA = Grand America Hotel
Session No.
Time
Changes
533
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Guan Xing, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Bin Wang, University of South Alabama
10:55 am ♦ Zhaozhi Fan, Memorial University of Newfoundland
11:15 am ♦ Liang Li, The Cleveland Clinic
11:35 am ♦ Floor Discussion
539
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Ariful Haque, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Jianjun Li, Merck & Co., Inc.
10:50 am ♦ Alex Dmitrienko, Eli Lilly and Company
11:05 am ♦ Frank Bretz, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
11:20 am ♦ Ajit Tamhane, Northwestern University
11:35 am ♦ Xiaojiang Zhan, Merck & Co., Inc.
11:50 am ♦ Norman Bohidar, Johnson & Johnson PRD
12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
549
10:30 a.m. – 12:20 p.m.
Withdrawn Paper: Negasi Beyene, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
New Session Order:
10:35 am ♦ Peng Liu, Food and Drug Administration
10:50 am ♦ Matthew P. Spackman, Brigham Young University
11:05 am ♦ Abdul Salam, University of Alberta
11:20 am ♦ Gong Tang, University of Pittsburgh
11:35 am ♦ Yongming Qu, Eli Lilly and Company
11:50 am ♦ Hua Fang. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
12:05 pm ♦ Floor Discussion
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