Thursday, 20 Mar 2014

09:00am - 09:15am

Registration

09:15am - 09:30am

Opening Remarks

09:30am - 10:30am

Constant partying: Introducing a generic toolkit for recursive partitioning in R (PDF)
Torsten Hothorn, University of Zurich, Switzerland

10:30am - 11:00am

--- Coffee Break ---

11:00am - 12:00nn

Parties, models, mobsters: A new implementation of model-based recursive partitioning in R (PDF)
Achim Zeileis, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

12.00nn - 01:30pm

--- Lunch Reception at IMS ---

01:30pm - 02:30pm

Rank-based decision tree for paired comparison data
Yu-Shan Shih, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan

02:30pm - 03:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Research Discussions

06:30pm - 07:30pm

Public Lecture:
Shape of the Earth, Motion of the Planets and the Method of Least Squares (PDF)
Probal Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, India
Venue: LT31, Bk S16, Level 3, Faculty of Science, NUS

Friday, 21 Mar 2014

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

09:30am - 10:30am

Regression trees for longitudinal and clustered data based on mixed effects models: methods, applications, and extensions (PDF)
Jeffrey Simonoff, New York University, USA

10:30am - 11:00am

--- Coffee Break ---

11:00am - 12:00nn

Mixed effects trees and forests for clustered data (PDF)
Denis Larocque, HEC Montréal, Canada

12.00nn - 01:30pm

--- Lunch ---

01:30pm - 02:30pm

Semiparametric discriminant analysis for mixture populations using Mahalanobis distance (PDF)
Probal Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, India

02:30pm - 03:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Research Discussions

Monday, 24 Mar 2014

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

09:30am - 10:30am

PartDSA for deriving survival risk groups and for ensemble learning (PDF)
Annette Molinaro, University of California, USA

10:30am - 11:00am

--- Group Photo & Coffee Break ---

11:00am - 12:00nn

Tree depth in a forest (PDF)
Mark R. Segal, University of California, USA

12.00nn - 01:30pm

--- Lunch ---

01:30pm - 02:30pm

Tree-structured mixed-effects regression modeling for longitudinal data
Hyungjun Cho, Korea University, Korea

02:30pm - 03:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Classification and regression soft trees and beyond
Antonio Ciampi, McGill University, Canada

Tuesday, 25 Mar 2014

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

09:30am - 10:30am

Interaction trees for exploring stratified and individual treatment effects (PDF)
Xiaogang Su, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

10:30am - 11:00am

--- Coffee Break ---

11:00am - 12:00nn

Clustering patients into subgroups differing in optimal treatment alternative: the method QUINT (PDF)
Elise Dusseldorp, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, The Netherlands

12.00nn - 01:30pm

--- Lunch ---

01:30pm - 02:30pm

Regression tree methods for subgroup identification I (PDF)
Xu He, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

02:30pm - 03:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Regression tree methods for subgroup identification II (PDF)
Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Wednesday, 26 Mar 2014

09:15am - 09:30am

Registration

09:30am - 10:30am

Weight-adjusted pruning for classification ensemble
Hyunjoong Kim, Yonsei University, Korea

10:30am - 11:00am

--- Coffee Break ---

11:00am - 12:00nn

Decision support system for classifying emergency room patients (PDF)
Hongshik Ahn, Stony Brook University, USA

12.00nn - 01:30pm

--- Lunch ---

01:30pm - 02:30pm

Kernel-induced classification tree and its ensemble model (PDF)
Guangzhe Fan, Dalian University of Technology, China

02:30pm - 03:00pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:00pm - 04:00pm

Research Discussions