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Time |
Monday 30 November 2015 |
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8:15am – 12:30pm |
Conference Registration –
Hadley’s Orient Hotel |
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9:00 |
Welcome Ceremony |
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General Statistics Room: John Webb Chair: Chris Triggs |
Health Room: George Cartwright Chair: Brenton Clarke |
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9:20 |
John Carlin - Misplaced confidence in
confidence intervals [pdf] |
Sophie Zaloumis
- Application
of a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo approach for modelling the dynamics of
Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in severe malaria patients [pdf] |
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9:40 |
Alan Welsh - Evaluating Frequentist Model
Averaged Confidence Intervals [pdf] |
Jake Olivier - Relative Effect Sizes for
Measures of Risk [pdf] |
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10:00 |
Ruth Butler – “Myths” in presenting
statistical results (or: statistical bees I have in my bonnet…..) [pdf] |
Rory Wolfe Health effects of disasters [pdf] |
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10:20 |
Morning tea (Leadlight Room) |
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Invited talks in John Webb Room (Chair:
David Baird) |
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10:50 |
John Hinde - A Medley of Mixtures [pdf] |
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11:40 |
Rosemary Bailey
- The design
key in single and multi-phase experiments [pdf] |
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12:30 |
Lunch (Leadlight Room) |
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Mixture Models Chair: Samuel Mueller |
Design/Estimation Chair: Rory Wolfe |
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1:30 |
Brenton Clarke - A Comparison of the L2 Minimum Distance Estimator and the EM-Algorithm when Fitting k-Component Univariate Normal Mixtures |
Graham Hepworth
- Design and
analysis of simulation experiments [pdf] |
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1:50 |
Shirley Pledger
- The fourth
corner problem: niche overlap using mixtures [pdf] |
Tibor Schuster
- Efficient
recruitment strategies in randomised controlled trials with continuous
outcomes [pdf] |
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2:10 |
M.A.C.S.S.
Fernando - Limitations
of Hierarchical and Mixture Model Comparisons [pptx] |
Jeff Wood - How many letters are there in
the alphabet? [pdf] |
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2:30 |
Firouzeh
Noghrehchi - Multiple
imputation as a stochastic EM approximation to maximum likelihood [pdf] |
Jakub Stoklosa
- On
quadratic logistic regression models when predictor variables are subject to
measurement error [pdf] |
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2:50 |
Afternoon tea (Leadlight Room) |
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SSAI Sponsored Session on Multiple Imputation Room: John Webb Chair: Jake Olivier |
Mixed Models I Room: George Cartwright Chair: Mario D'Antuono |
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3:20 |
Katherine Lee -
Multiple
imputation: a miracle cure for missing data? [pptx] |
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3:40 |
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4:00 |
Julie Simpson -
Sensitivity
analysis within the multiple imputation framework: The pattern-mixture method
[pdf] |
Chong You - A study of one and two stage
analyses for genomic prediction of yield in wheat [pdf] |
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4:20 |
Cattram Nguyen
- Diagnostic
methods for checking multiple imputation models [pptx] |
Daniel Tolhurst
- Improving
the accuracy of genetic predictions for expensive multi-phase traits [pdf] |
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4:40 |
Margarita
Moreno-Betancur - Multiple imputation and sensitivity analysis for incomplete
longitudinal data departing from the missing at random assumption [pdf] |
Emi Tanaka - A study of correlated marker
effects for dense linkage map in QTL analysis in wheat [pdf] |
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Poster Presentations (John Webb Room) |
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P1 |
Ken Beath – Robust analysis of Poisson
and binary data using a mixture model approach [pdf] |
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P2 |
Lindy Guo – How do we make kiwifruit
nicer? [pdf] |
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P3 |
Mario D'Antuono
– The
colourful life of a biometrician [pdf] |
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P4 |
Ross Darnell – Applying the factor analytic
mixed model to meta-analyses [pdf] |
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P5 |
Peter Jackson –
Maximising
the benefits of a plant breeding database [pdf] |
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P6 |
Anna Norberg – How well do different
statistical frameworks predict species- and community-level patterns? [pdf] |
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P7 |
Barbara Kachigunda
– Evaluation
of sampling methodology for imported plant products and preservation of pest
area freedoms [pdf] |
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P8 |
Margarita
Moreno-Betancur – Survival analysis with multiple causes of death: reconsidering
the competing risks model |
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P9 |
Terry Cohen – Methods for estimating trends
in sea level [pptx] |
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Time |
Tuesday 1 December 2015 |
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Models Room: John Webb Chair: Alan Welsh |
Genetics Room: George Cartwright Chair: Thomas Lumley |
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9:00 |
Russell Millar - WIC and importance sampling
approximations to cross-validation for models with observation-level latent
variables [pdf] |
Louise McMillan - Visualizing Population Genetics [pdf] |
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9:20 |
Garth Tarr - Interactive and data adaptive model
selection with mplot [pdf] |
Daisy Shepherd - Sliding Through Phylogenetics [pdf] |
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9:40 |
Alan Huang - Vector regression without specifying
marginal or association structures [pdf] |
Teresa Neeman - New Models of Molecular Evolution [pptx] |
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10:00 |
Chanatda Somchit - P-Spline Vector Generalized Additive
Model and Its Application [pdf] |
Wei Zhang - Stationary distribution of the linkage
disequilibrium coefficient r2 [pdf] |
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10:20 |
Morning tea (Leadlight Room) |
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Invited talks in John Web Room (Chair: Kaye Basford) |
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10:50 |
Thomas Lumley - Family-based genetic association
modelling in a multistage sample [pdf] |
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11:40 |
Richard Emsley - Stratified medicine: the essential role of
mechanisms evaluation [pptx] |
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Time |
Wednesday 2 December 2015 |
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Multispecies analysis Room: John Webb Chair: Steve Candy |
Agricultural Modelling Room: George Cartwright Chair: Alison Smith |
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9:00 |
Daniel Fernandez - Categorising Ecological Community Count
Data [pdf] |
Alison Kelly - Selection of genotypes for resistance
and tolerance to pathogens: a multivariate statistical analysis of yield and
disease response. [pdf] |
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9:20 |
Nicole Hill - Modelling the distribution of
sub-Antarctic and Antarctic demersal fish communities: An application of new
community –modelling method [pptx] |
M. Gabriela Borgognone - Including molecular marker information in the
analysis of multi-environment trial data helps differentiate superior
genotypes from promising parents: a wheat example [pdf] |
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9:40 |
Loïc Thibaut - Inference for multivariate abundance
data using generalised mixed effects models and the PIT-trap [pptx] |
Ky L Mathews - Selecting environment covariates to
explain GxE: A comparison of cyclic forward regression and subset regression
approaches. [pdf] |
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10:00 |
Gordana Popovic - Approximate likelihood ratio test for
multivariate abundance data [pdf] |
Martin Upsdell - Fitting quadratic peaks to fluorescence
data to identify chemical compounds [pptx] |
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10:20 |
Morning tea (Leadlight Room) |
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Invited talks in John Webb Room (Chair: Scott
Foster) |
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10:50 |
Jay Ver Hoef - Estimating Abundance from Counts in
Large Data Sets of Irregularly Spaced Plots using Spatial Basis Functions [pdf] |
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11:40 |
Otso Ovaskainen - Analyzing community data with joint
species distribution models: abundance, traits, phylogeny, co-occurrence and
spatio-temporal structures [pptx] |
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12:30 |
Lunch (Leadlight Room) |
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Spatial Point Processes Room: John Webb |
Genomics Room: Geroge Cartwright |
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1:30 |
Ian Renner - Point process models for presence-only
analysis [pdf] |
Kim-Anh Le Cao - A multivariate approach for multiple
‘omics data integration and biomarker discovery [pdf] |
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1:50 |
Samantha Peel - Assessing a species distribution model’s
performance for sparse and patchy presence data. [pptx] |
Anne Bernard - Sparse Multiple Correspondence analysis
for selection of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms [pdf] |
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2:10 |
Wesley Brooks - Spatial confounding may cause bias in
regression models for presence-only data [pdf] |
Florian Rohart - Integrative meta analyses to combine
transcriptomics studies [pdf] |
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2:30 |
Ramethaa Pirathiban - Eliciting and encoding expert knowledge
on variable selection into classical or Bayesian species distribution models [pdf] |
Conrad Burden - Estimation of the amplicon methylation
pattern distribution from bisulphite sequencing data [pdf] |
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2:50 |
Afternoon tea
(Leadlight Room) |
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Ecology – Models Room: John Web Chair: Warren Müller |
Longitudinal Models Chair: Malcolm Hudson |
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3:20 |
Natalie Kelly - Humpback whales in the Great Barrier
Reef: model-based inferences on distribution and abundance [pptx] |
Alastair Scott - Analysing longitudinal data with
outcome-dependent sampling [pdf] |
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3:40 |
Wen-Hsi Yang - Mapping Soil Regolith Depth in Large and
Censored Spatial Datasets Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models [pdf] |
Sam Brilleman - Joint longitudinal and survival models
for investigating the association between natural disasters and disability
whilst accounting for non-random dropout due to death [pdf] |
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4:00 |
Melissa Dobbie - Estimating relative species abundance
from partially-observed data [pptx] |
Pauline Ding - Bootstrap influence on the variance components
in the longitudinal data with multiple source of variation [pptx] |
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4:20 |
Jan Jansen - The influence of surface productivity on
seafloor food-availability and biodiversity distributions on the George V
shelf, East Antarctica [pdf] |
Liliana Orellana - A novel methodology for inhomogeneity
identification in climate time series [pptx] |
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4:40 |
Emma Lawrence - An experimental design for testing
Bycatch Reduction and Turtle Excluder Devices in the PNG Prawn Trawl Fishery [pptx] |
Jessica Kasza - Assessing the impact of unmeasured
confounding: confounding functions for causal inference [pdf] |
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Time |
Thursday 3
December 2015 |
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Mixed Models 2 Room: John Webb Chair: Brian Cullis |
Survival Analysis Room: George Cartwright Chair: John Carlin |
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9:00 |
Clayton Forknall - Development of a bivariate linear mixed
model to describe yield response due to disease. [pdf] |
Valérie Garès - Estimating the correlation between
competing risks [pdf] |
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9:20 |
Francis Hui - Joint Effects Selection in Mixed Models using CREPE [pdf] |
Malcolm Hudson - Factors affecting treatment recurrence and death: a case study
with longitudinal hospital retreatment records [pdf] |
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9:40 |
Vanessa Cave - Testing significance of
random terms in a linear mixed model [pptx] |
Kasun Rathnayake - Penalized likelihood parameter estimation
for additive hazard model using method of multipliers [pdf] |
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10:00 |
Hwan-Jin
Yoon - Fitting
linear mixed models under misspecification [pdf] |
Maheswaran Rohan - Computing Standard Error for Half-life of Rotenone [pptx] |
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10:20 |
Morning tea (Leadlight
Room) |
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Invited
talks in John Webb Room (Chair: Ross Darnell) |
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10:50 |
David
Warton - The case of the missing model: the modernisation of
multivariate analysis in ecology [pptx] |
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11:40 |
Adrian Bowman- Visualising
the environment: data, models and graphics [NA - interactive] |
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