Semi-parametric Methods for Survival
and Longitudinal Data
(26 Feb - 24 Apr 2005)

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Schedule of Talks and Tutorials

Week 1 · Week 2 · Week 3 · Week 4 · Week 5 · Week 8

 

An Introduction to R: Software for Statistical Modelling and Computing Workshop (28 Feb - 2 Mar 2005)
Speaker:	Petra Kuhnert, CSIRO, Cleveland, Australia
Venue:	CSD Lab 2 (S13-04-13) Department of Physics National University of Singapore
Files:	Presentation slides..., Lab exercises..., Datasets..., R scripts...

Monday, 28 Feb 2005 (Day 1)
AN ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION TO R
08:30am - 09:00am	Registration
09:00am - 10:00am	Whirlwind Tour of R
10:00am - 10:15am	--- Break ---
10:15am - 11:15am	R and the Tinn-R editor (includes demonstration)
11:15am - 11:45am	Tutorial
11:45am - 12:30pm	R objects
12:30pm - 01:00pm	Tutorial
01:00pm - 02:00pm	--- Break ---
02:00pm - 03:30pm	Graphics: an introduction (includes tutorial)
03:30pm - 04:00pm	--- Break ---
04:00pm - 05:00pm	Manipulating data
05:00pm - 05:30pm	Tutorial

 

Tuesday, 1 Mar 2005 (Day 2)
STATISTICAL MODELLING AND GRAPHICS
08:30am - 09:30am	Classical linear models (includes tutorial)
09:30am - 09:45am	--- Break ---
09:45am - 10:30am	Non-linear regression (includes tutorial)
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Generalized linear modelling and extensions (includes tutorial)
12:00nn - 12:15pm	--- Break ---
12:15pm - 01:00pm	Generalized additive models: an introduction (includes tutorial)
01:00pm - 01:45pm	--- Break ---
01:45pm - 02:45pm	Advanced graphics (includes tutorial)
02:45pm - 03:00pm	--- Break ---
03:00pm - 03:45pm	Importing and exporting
03:45pm - 04:15pm	--- Break ---
04:15pm - 05:30pm	Mixed effects models: an introduction (includes tutorial)

 

Wednesday, 2 Mar 2005 (Day 3)
ADVANCED TOPICS
09:00am - 10:30am	Programming (includes tutorial)
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Neural networks: an introduction ((includes tutorial)
12:00nn - 01:00pm	--- Break ---
01:00pm - 02:00pm	Tree-based models I: classification trees
02:30pm - 03:00pm	Tutorial
03:00pm - 03:30pm	--- Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Tree-based models II:  regression trees and advanced topics
04:30pm - 05:00pm	Tutorial
05:00pm - 05:30pm	Review and feedback

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Venue:

IMS Auditorium Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Thursday, 3 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	Sample size and power of randomized clinical trials Feifang Hu, University of Virginia
11:00am ~	--- Tea Break ---

 

Friday, 4 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	Estimation of density for arbitrarily censored and truncated data Catherine Huber, Université René Descartes - Paris 5
11:00am ~	--- Tea Break ---

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Venue:

IMS Auditorium Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Monday, 7 Mar 2005
09:30am - 10:30am	First hitting models and threshold regressions Mei-Ling Ting Lee, Havard University
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Local polynomial regression analysis of longitudinal data Kani Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
12:00nn - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Analysis of time to pregnancy Niels Keiding, University of Copenhagen
03:00pm - 03:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Bayesian inference and computation for the Cox regression model with missing covariates Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut
04:30pm - 04:45pm	--- Tea Break ---
04:45pm - 05:45pm	An old-new family of multivariate distributions for left truncated and right censored data Shulamith Gross, National Science Foundation

 

Tuesday, 8 Mar 2005
09:30am - 10:30am	Tutorial: Bayesian methods for survival and longitudinal data (Lecture 1) Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut   Presentation: PDF
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Tutorial: Bayesian methods for survival and longitudinal data (Lecture 2) Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut   Presentation: PDF
12:00nn - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Tutorial: Bayesian methods for survival and longitudinal data (Lecture 3) Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut   Presentation: PDF
03:00pm - 03:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Tutorial: Bayesian methods for survival and longitudinal data (Lecture 4) Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut   Presentation: PDF

 

Wednesday, 9 Mar 2005
09:30am - 10:30am	Tutorial: Bayesian methods for survival and longitudinal data (Lecture 5) Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut   Presentation: PDF
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Tutorial: Bayesian methods for survival and longitudinal data (Lecture 6) Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut   Presentation: PDF
12:00nn - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Tutorial: Bayesian methods for survival and longitudinal data (Lecture 7) Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut   Presentation: PDF
03:00pm - 03:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Tutorial: Bayesian methods for survival and longitudinal data (Lecture 8) Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut   Presentation: PDF

 

Thursday, 10 Mar 2005
09:00am - 10:00am	Mark-specific hazard function modeling with application to HIV vaccine efficacy trials Ian W. McKeague, Florida State University and Columbia University   Presentation: PDF
10:00am - 10:30am	--- Tea Break ---
10:30am - 11:30am	Nonparametric maximum likelihood inference for change-point transformation models under right censoring Michael R. Kosorok, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Friday, 11 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	Aging and degradation models for survival and longitudinal data: state of the art Mikhail Nikouline, Universite Bordeaux 2
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Tea Break ---
11:30am - 12:30pm	Semiparametric models for survival and longitudinal data : state of the art Mikhail Nikouline, Universite Bordeaux 2
12:30pm - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Diagnostic plots and corrective adjustments for the proportional hazards regression model Debasis Sengupta, Indian Statistical Institute
03:00pm ~	--- Tea Break ---

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Venue:

IMS Auditorium Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Monday, 14 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	Semiparametric models in survival analysis and quantile regression Probal Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Tea Break ---
11:30am - 12:30pm	Lifetime expectancy regression Ying Qing Chen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
12:30pm - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Nonparametric estimation of the cumulative incidence function for multiple events data Weijing Wang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
03:00pm ~	--- Tea Break ---

 

Wednesday, 16 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	An extended semiparametric transformation model with non-susceptibility and heteroscedasticity Chen-Hsin Chen, Academia Sinica Taipei
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Tea Break ---
11:30am - 12:30pm	Measles metapopulation dynamics: a gravity model for epidemiological coupling and dynamics Yingcun Xia, National University of Singapore
12:30pm - 02:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:30pm - 03:30pm	Spline confidence band and hypothesis testing of leaf area index trend in East Africa Lijian Yang, National University of Singapore
03:30pm ~	--- Tea Break ---

 

Friday, 18 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	Varying coefficient GARCH versus local constant modelling Vladimir Spokoiny, Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics
11:00am ~	--- Tea Break ---

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Venue:

IMS Auditorium Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Monday, 21 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	Estimating features of a distribution from binomial data Daniel L. McFadden, University of California at Berkeley     Presentation: PDF     Paper: PDF
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Tea Break ---
11:30am - 12:30pm	Linear regression for panel duration data with dependent censoring Mitali Das, Columbia University
12:30pm - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	A semi-parametric duration model with heterogeneity that does not need to be estimated Jerry A. Hausman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
03:00pm - 03:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Nonparametric estimation of homothetic and homothetically separable functions Oliver Linton, London School of Economics and Political Science   Presentation: PDF

 

Tuesday, 22 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	Quantile regression for longitudinal data Roger Koenker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Tea Break ---
11:30am - 12:30pm	Identification and estimation of truncation regression models Songnian Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
12:30pm - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	A model selection test for bivariate failure-time data Xiaohong Chen, New York University
03:00pm ~	--- Tea Break ---

 

Wednesday, 23 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	Parameter estimation and covariance model selection for irregularly timed repeated measures YouGan Wang, National University of Singapore
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Tea Break ---
11:30am - 12:30pm	Joint analysis of Longitudinal latent variable and a survival process with application in quality of life Mounir Mesbah Université Pierre Et Marie Curie

 

Thursday, 24 Mar 2005
10:00am - 11:00am	Asymptotic normality and strong consistency of maximum quasi-likelihood estimates in generalized linear models Lincheng Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China
11:00am - 11:30am	--- Tea Break ---
11:30am - 12:30pm	Goodness-of-fit tests for a varying-coefficients model in longitudinal studies Lixing Zhu, The University of Hong Kong

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Venue:

IMS Auditorium Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Monday, 28 Mar 2005
09:00am - 10:00am	Analyzing recurrent event data using nonparametric and semiparametric models Mei-Cheng Wang, Johns Hopkins University
10:00am - 10:15am	--- Tea Break ---
10:15am - 11:15am	Tutorial: Lg penalty models: computation and applications (Lecture 1) Wenjiang Fu, Texas A&M University   Presentation: PDF
11:15am - 11:45am	--- Tea Break ---
11:45am - 12:45pm	Tutorial: Lg penalty models: computation and applications (Lecture 2) Wenjiang Fu, Texas A&M University   Presentation: PDF
12:45pm - 02:30pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:30pm - 03:30pm	Tutorial: Lg penalty models: computation and applications (Lecture 3) Wenjiang Fu, Texas A&M University   Presentation: PDF
03:30pm - 04:00pm	--- Tea Break ---
04:00pm - 05:00pm	Tutorial: Lg penalty models: computation and applications (Lecture 4) Wenjiang Fu, Texas A&M University   Presentation: PDF

 

Tuesday, 29 Mar 2005
09:30am - 10:30am	Tutorial: Mixed effects models and longitudinal data analysis (Lecture 1, part I) Jiming Jiang, University of California at Davis   Presentation: PDF
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Tutorial: Mixed effects models and longitudinal data analysis (Lecture 1, part II) Jiming Jiang, University of California at Davis   Presentation: PDF
12:00nn - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Tutorial: Mixed effects models and longitudinal data analysis (Lecture 2, part I) Jiming Jiang, University of California at Davis   Presentation: PDF
03:00pm - 03:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Tutorial: Mixed effects models and longitudinal data analysis (Lecture 2, part II) Jiming Jiang, University of California at Davis   Presentation: PDF

 

Wednesday, 30 Mar 2005
09:30am - 10:30am	Tutorial: Mixed effects models and longitudinal data analysis (Lecture 3) Jiming Jiang, University of California at Davis   Presentation: PDF
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Tutorial: Mixed effects models and longitudinal data analysis (Lecture 4) Jiming Jiang, University of California at Davis   Presentation: PDF
12:00nn - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Iterative estimating equations for analysis of longitudinal data Jiming Jiang, University of California at Davis   Presentation: PDF
03:00pm - 03:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Small sample issues in microarray studies: sample size and error rate estimation Wenjiang Fu, Texas A&M University

 

Venue:

Seminar Room, S16-05-98 Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

Thursday, 31 Mar 2005
02:00pm - 03:20pm	Tutorial: Introduction to semiparametric models (Lecture 1) Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University
03:20pm - 03:40pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:40pm - 05:00pm	Tutorial: Linear transformation models (Lecture 2) Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University

 

Friday, 1 Apr 2005
02:00pm - 03:20pm	Tutorial: Accelerated failure time model (Lecture 3) Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University
03:20pm - 03:40pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:40pm - 05:00pm	Tutorial: Other semiparametric models in survival analysis (Lecture 4) Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University

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Venue:

IMS Auditorium Institute for Mathematical Sciences, NUS 3 Prince George's Park Singapore 118402

Thursday, 21 Apr 2005
09:30am - 10:30am	Tutorial: Semiparametric and nonparametric estimation and testing (Lecture 1) Joel L. Horowitz, Northwestern University   Presentation: PDF
10:30am - 11:00am	--- Tea Break ---
11:00am - 12:00nn	Tutorial: Semiparametric and nonparametric estimation and testing (Lecture 2) Joel L. Horowitz, Northwestern University   Presentation: PDF
12:00nn - 02:00pm	--- Lunch Break ---
02:00pm - 03:00pm	Tutorial: Semiparametric and nonparametric estimation and testing (Lecture 3) Joel L. Horowitz, Northwestern University   Presentation: PDF
03:00pm - 03:30pm	--- Tea Break ---
03:30pm - 04:30pm	Tutorial: Semiparametric and nonparametric estimation and testing (Lecture 4) Joel L. Horowitz, Northwestern University   Presentation: PDF

 

Friday, 22 Apr 2005
09:30am - 10:30am	Nonparametric methods for inference in the presence of instrumental variables Joel L. Horowitz, Northwestern University
10:30am ~	--- Tea Break ---

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