Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics
(October 12-14, 2007)
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All plenary sessions, meals and coffee breaks will be in the Elliott University Center (EUC). Parallel sessions will be either in EUC or in Bryan Building. Thursday, October 11, 2007 6:00pm – 9:00pm Registration Desk open at Park Lane Hotel Friday, October 12, 2007 7:30am – 8:45am Pickups from Park Lane Hotel for the Conference site 8:00am – 6:00pm Registration Desk at Elliott University Center, Auditorium lobby 8:00am – 9:00am Coffee 9:00am – 9:20am Inaugural Remarks (EUC Auditorium) Friday, October 12, 9:20am to 10:40am Plenary Session 1 - EUC Auditoriumm Chair: Angela Dean, The Ohio State University, amd@stat.ohio-state.edu 9:20am – 10:00am Alan Gelfand: Duke University Dimension Reduction Approaches for Analyzing Large Spatial Datasets 10:00am – 10:40am Kamil Feridun Turkman: University of Lisbon, Portugal Extremes of Continuous Processes and their Discrete Versions Friday, October 12, 10:50am to 12:40am Session 1a: Design of Experiments - EUC Auditoriumm Organizer and Chair: M. L. Aggarwal, University of Memphis, maggarwl@memphis.edu Speakers: Jay H. Beder: University of Wiskonsin - Milwaukee Resolution, aliasing, and word length patterns in arbitrary fractions Boxin Tang: Simon Fraser University, Canada Existence and construction of two-level orthogonal arrays for estimating main effects and some specified two-factor interactions Huaiqing Wu: Iowa State University Fractional Factorial Designs with Admissible Sets of Clear Two-Factor Interactions Shane Reese: Brigham Young University A Bayesian Approach for the Identification of Pollution Source Directions Lunch Break: Cone Ballroom, EUC 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm Friday, October 12, 2:00pm to 3:20pm Plenary Session 2 - EUC Auditoriumm Chair: Alan Gelfand, Duke University, alan@stat.duke.edu 2:00pm – 2:40pm Ken Bollen: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Structural Equaton Models (Sems) For Pooled Time-Series And Cross-Sectional (Panel) Data 2:40pm – 3:20pm Bob Plemmons: Wake Forest University, North Carolina Tensor Analysis of Massive Data Sets Coffee Break 3:20pm to 3:40pm Friday, October 12, 3:45pm to 5:45pm Parallel Session 2a: Workshop on Issues in Cluster Randomized Trial Design and Analysis - 206 Bryan Organizer & Chair: Hrishikesh Chakraborty, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, hchakraborty@rti.org Speakers: Hrishikesh Chakraborty: RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Janet L. Bartz: RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Friday, October 12, 3:45pm to 5:45pm Parallel Session 2b: Design of Experiments - 105 Bryan Organizer: M. L. Aggarwal, University of Memphis, maggarwl@memphis.edu Chair: Angela Dean, The Ohio State University, amd@stat.ohio-state.edu Speakers: Roger E. Kirk: Baylor University Cell Means Approach to ANCOVA Designs Bradley Jones: SAS Institute Inc, North Carolina D-optimal Design of Split-split-plot Experiments Shaun S. Wulff: University of Wyoming Using Residuals to Assess Models for Repeated Measures Designs Chihiro Suetake: Oita University, Japan Automorphism groups of a symmetric transversal design STD_2[12;6] Friday, October 12, 3:45pm to 5:45pm Parallel Session 2c: Coding, Cryptography and Infocom Technology - 111 Bryan Chair: B. K. Dass, University of Delhi, India, dassbk@rediffmail.com Speakers: B. K. Dass: University of Delhi On 2-Repeated Burst Error Detecting Codes Priti Shankar: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India Combinatorial Representations of Block Codes Ashok Kumar Singh: Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi, India Optimal Release Policy under Fuzzy Environment Pranav Dass: North Dakota State University Efficient Scheduling of QoS in long-range mobile sensor nodes Friday, October 12, 3:45pm to 5:45pm Parallel Session 2d: Linear Models - 128 Bryan Chair: João Tiago Mexia, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, jtm@fct.unl.pt Speakers: Miguel Fonseca: New University of Lisbon, Portugal Inference and Hypothesis Testing in Mixed Linear Models Vera de Jesus: New University of Lisbon, Portugal Binary Operations on Prime Basis Factorials and Their Fractional Replicates Francisco Carvalho: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar, Portugal Variance components estimation in models with Commutative Orthogonal Block Structure Sandra Saraiva Ferreira University of Beira Interior, Portugal Variance components in nested segregated mixed models João Tiago Mexia: New University of Lisbon, Portugal Nesting and Interactions in Orthogonal Models Friday, October 12, 3:45pm to 5:45pm Parallel Session 2e: Statistical Methodology - 205 Bryan Chair: Carlos Coelho, New University of Lisbon, cmac@fct.unl.pt Speakers: Broderick O. Oluyede: Georgia Southern University Exponential Approximations for Length-Biased and Weighted Residual Life Reliability Functions Kirsten Doehler: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Estimating Survival Functions through use of the Semi-nonparametric Density Hani Samawi: Georgia Southern University Optimal Bivariate Ranked Set Sample Design For The Matched Pairs Sign Test Satkartar Kinney: Duke University Two-stage multiple imputation Simin Hall: University of North Carolina at Greensboro The Impact of Feedback on Information Processing Javid Shabbir: Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan On estimating the ratio of population proportions using auxiliary information Friday, October 12, 3:45pm to 5:45pm Parallel Session 2f: Recent Developments on Variable/Model Selection for Multiple Regression Models - 104 Bryan Chair: Len Stefanski: North Carolina State University, stefanski@stat.ncsu.edu Speakers: Howard Bondell: North Carolina State University Simultaneous regression shrinkage, variable selection, and supervised clustering of predictors Hao Helen Zhang: North Carolina State University Nonparametric Variable Selection with COSSO and Its Recent Development Len Stefanski: North Carolina State University Contributions to the Practice and Teaching of Regression and Variable Selection Friday, October 12, 3:45pm to 5:45pm Parallel Session 2g: Software Solutions in Statistics - 204 Bryan Chair: Ashok Kumar, Kentucky State University, ashok.kumar@kysu.edu Speakers: Julie Petlick: SAS Higher Education Consulting, SAS, North Carolina Support for SAS in the Classroom Rob Brown: Pearson Education My Stat Lab Mike Unuakhalu: Kentucky State University Challenges of Teaching Online Programming Courses Friday, October 12, 6:00pm to 7:30pm Reception: Cone Ballroom - EUC Pickups for Park Lane Hotel 7:15pm – 8:30pm Saturday, October 13, 2007 7:00am – 8:30am Pickups from Park Lane Hotel for the Conference site 7:30am – 6:00pm Registration Desk at Elliott University Center 8:00am – 8:45am Coffee Saturday, October 13, 8:45 am – 10:05 am Plenary Session 3 - EUC Auditoriumm Chair: John Rayner, University of New Castle, Australia, John.Rayner@newcastle.edu.au 8:45am – 9:25am Bimal Sinha: University of Maryland, Baltimore County On some aspects of Berkson's bioassay problem: issues and controversies 9:25am – 10:05pm Mark E. Glickman: Boston University Bayesian Locally-Optimal Design of Knockout Tournaments Saturday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Parallel Session 3a: Design of Experiments - 105 Bryan Organizer: M. L. Aggarwal, University of Memphis, maggarwl@memphis.edu Chair: Kamil Feridun Turkman: University of Lisbon, Portugal kamil.turkman@fc.ul.pt Speakers: John Stufken: University of Georgia Maximin Universally Optimal Block Designs in the Presence of a Trend John Morgan: Virginia Tech Optimal Experimentation in Two Blocks Mohan Shrikhande: Central Michigan University An overview of embedding problems of quasi-residual designs Douglas Wiens: University of Alberta, Canada Robust Designs for Model Discrimination Saturday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Parallel Session 3b: Advances in Statistical Techniques for Genetic Analysis - 104 Bryan Co-Chairs: David Remington, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, dlreming@uncg.edu, Olav Rueppell, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, olav_rueppell@uncg.edu Speakers: Ahmed N. Albatineh: Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida A Correction of Jaccard Similarity Index For Chance Agreement In Cluster Analysis David L. Aylor: North Carolina State University From Classical Genetics to Quantitative Genetics to Systems Biology: The Role of Epistasis Xiaohua Gong: North Carolina State University A Markov Chain Method for Calculating Transmission Probability of QTL Alleles in Half-Sib Populations Youssef Idaghdour: North Carolina State University An Application of the New “Surrogate Variable Analysis” Method to a Human Gene Expression Study Li Li: North Carolina State University In Silico Identification of Androgen Response Elements David L. Remington: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Predicting Functional Mechanisms of Quantitative Trait Loci Using Structural Equation Models Saturday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Parallel Session 3c: Combinatorial Aspects of Coding and Cryptography - 111 Bryan Co-Chairs: Michele Elia, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, eliamike@tin.it Carmelo Interlando, San Diego State University, carmelo.interlando@sdsu.edu, Speakers: Carmelo Interlando: San Diego State University A New Class of Feebly One-Way Permutations Guglielmo Morgari: TELSY Microelectronics, Torino, Italy Steganographic schemes for very noisy communication channels Joseph B. Attili: San Diego State University Algebraic Decoding of q-ary Quadratic-Residue Codes Michele Elia: Politecnico di Torino, Italy Some Remarks on Probabilities and Computational Complexities in Solving the Diophantine Equation p x^2 + q y^2=z^2 Saturday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Parallel Session 3d: Multivariate Analysis - 128 Bryan Chair: Ravi Khattree, Oakland University, khattree@oakland.edu Speakers: Dayanand Naik: Old Dominion University Canonical Correspondence Analysis Muni S. Srivastava: University of Toronto, Canada Testing the Equality of Two Covariance Matrices and Testing the Independence of Two Subvectors with Fewer Observations than the Dimension Ahmed N. Albatineh: Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida A New Method For Determining The Number Of Clusters In a Data Set Ravi Khattree: Oakland University Discrimination and Classification for Repeated Measures Data: A Review Saturday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Parallel Session 3e: Bayesian methods in biomedical applications - 204 Bryan Organizer: Sujit Ghosh: North Carolina State University, ghosh@stat.ncsu.edu Chair: Shane Reese, Brigham Young University, reese@stat.byu.edu Speakers: Suraj Anand: North Carolina State University A Bayesian Approach to Assessing the Risk of QT Prolongation Pingping Qu: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Discovery of transcription factors regulating cell response to radiation exposure using a joint modeling approach Dipankar Bandyopadhyay: Medical University of South Carolina Bayesian analysis of Zero-inflated Count Data with applications to Dental Caries Sujit Ghosh: North Carolina State University A Joint Modeling Approach for Analyzing Non-ignorable Missing Data Kaushal Mishra: North Carolina State University Bayesian Semi-parametric Regression Models for the Quality Adjusted Lifetime Data Saturday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Parallel Session 3f: Interdisciplinary Research Projects for Undergraduates - 205 Bryan Organizer: Jan Rychtar, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, j_rychta@uncg.edu Chair: Prajneshu, Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, INDIA, prajnesh@iasri.res.in Speakers: George P. H. Styan: McGill University An illustrated philatelic introduction to magic squares George Antczak: North Carolina State University Background Ozone Trends in the Eastern United States Wilma Jackson: North Carolina State University Forecasting PM Fine Levels For Air Quality Index Reporting Naomi Brownstein: University of Central Florida Two Element Unavoidable Sets of Partial Words Simin Hall: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Improving Statistics Self-Efficacy: Learning from errors and Feedback Saturday: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Parallel Session 3g: Workshop on Clinical Trials - 206 Bryan Organizer & Chair: Stephan Ogenstad, Statogen Consulting, Wake Forest, North Carolina, sogenstad@statogen-consulting.com Speakers: Stephan Ogenstad: Statogen Consulting, Wake Forest, North Carolina Dose-Finding Methods in Drug Development Lothar Tremmel: Sr. Director & Group Leader, Biostatistics, CEPHALON Inc. A New Look at Evaluating MTD Designs in Cancer Research Lunch Break Cone Ballroom, EUC 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Saturday, October 13, 2:00 pm – 3:20 pm Keynote Session - EUC Auditorium Chair:Sat Gupta, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, sngupta@uncg.edu 2.00pm – 2.40pm Pranab Sen: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Keynote Address: Burden of Bioinformatics in Medical Research: Statistical Perspectives and Controversies 2.40pm – 3.20pm Angela Dean: The Ohio State University R. C. Bose Memorial Lecture: Screening Experiments with Large Number of Factors Coffee Break 3:20pm to 3:40pm Saturday: 3:50 pm – 5:50 pm Parallel Session 4a: Design of Experiments - 105 Bryan Organizer: M. L. Aggarwal, University of Memphis, maggarwl@memphis.edu Chair: John Stufken, University of Georgia, jstufken@stat.uga.edu Speakers: Dibyen Majumdar: University of Illinois at Chicago Some results on D-Optimal designs for nonlinear models Peter Goos: Universiteit Antwerpen Optimal run orders in the presence of serial correlation Hulin Wu: University of Rochester Parameter Identifiability and Design of Experiments for Differential Equation Models with Biomedical Applications Sarah Garland: The University of Memphis Latin Squares and Their Applications Saturday: 3:50 pm – 5:50 pm Parallel Session 4b: Statistical Methods in Information Systems Research - 104 Bryan Chair: Prashant Palvia, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, pcpalvia@uncg.edu Speakers: Prashant Palvia: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Retaining Developers and Maintaining Quality in Open Source Software Projects Hua Dai: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Factors Affecting Mobile Commerce Adoption: A cross-cultural study Praveen Pinjani: Delaware State University Diversity In Global Virtual Teams: Results From A Field Survey Qing Shi: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Evaluating Fuel Economy of Cars through Linear Regression Analyses Ting Chi: California State Polytechnic University at Pomona Relationships between business environment characteristics, competitive priorities, supply chain structures, and firm business performance – An Application of SEM Meenakshi Prajneshu: Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Traditional Knowledge: An Overview Saturday: 3:50 pm – 5:50 pm Parallel Session 4c: Multivariate Analysis - 111 Bryan Chair: Dayanand Naik, Old Dominion University, dnaik@odu.edu Speakers: Toby Berger: University of Virginia, Charlottesville Multiterminal v. Centralized Estimation of Correlation Coefficients Luis Miguel Grilo: Polytechnic Institute of Tomar & The New University of Lisbon, Portugal Near-exact distributions for the generalized Wilks Lambda criterion based on truncations of the exact characteristic function Carlos A. Coelho: The New University of Lisbon, Portugal The decomposition of elaborate hypotheses on covariance matrices as a basis for building near-exact distributions for the test statistics Filipe J. Marques: The New University of Lisbon, Portugal Near-exact distributions for the likelihood ratio test statistic for the multi-sample block-matrix sphericity test Jessalyn Smith: University of South Carolina 'Intuitive' Interpretation of MIRT Model Parameters Saturday: 3:50 pm – 5:50 pm Parallel Session 4d: Bioinformatics - 128 Bryan Chair: Sunil Mathur, University of Mississippi, skmathur@olemiss.edu Speakers: Cheng Cheng: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Microarray Gene Co-Expression Analysis And Validation Ping Gong: SpecPro Inc Deciphering reversible neurotoxicity in Eisenia fetida by gene expression analysis using a custom-designed, genome-wide high density oligo probe array Sunil Mathur: University of Mississippi A New Test to Identify Differentially Expressed Genes from Microarray Data Yogendra Chaubey: Concordia University Wavelet-based Joint Estimation Technique for cDNA Microarray Images Saturday: 3:50 pm – 5:50 pm Parallel Session 4e: Interdisciplinary Research Projects for Undergraduates - 205 Bryan Organizer: Jan Rychtar, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, j_rychta@uncg.edu Chair: Bhu Dev Sharma, Clark Atlanta University, USA, bsharma@cau.edu Speakers: Kevin James: Clemson University Undergraduate research in computational number theory and combinatorics at Clemson Matthew King: Clemson University Average Frobenius distributions for elliptic curves over Abelian extensions of the rational number field Philip Lee: Clemson University The parity of the 5-regular and 13-regular partition functions Crystal Elmore: University of North Carolina at Greensboro The Whos and Whys of Live Golf Tournament Attendance: A Longitudinal Study Jan Rychtar: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Math models of beetles, bees, evolution, and genes Saturday: 3:50 pm – 5:50 pm Parallel Session 4f: Statistical Methodology - 204 Bryan Chair: Hrishikesh Chakraborty, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, hchakraborty@rti.org Speakers: John Rayner: University of Newcastle, Australia From Smooth1 to Smooth2 Olivier Thas: Ghent University, Gent, Belgium New Practical Guidelines for Smooth Goodness-of-Fit Testing Prajneshu: Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute, New Delhi, INDIA Nonlinear time-series modelling and forecasting for volatile onion price data in India Amy J. Nail: North Carolina State University Using a hierarchical space-time model to decompose ozone into locally created, regionally transported, and background components Jana Jureckova: Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Extreme Regression Quantiles Martin Klein: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Physiologically based pharmacokinetic modeling: overview and statistical issues Saturday: 3:50 pm – 5:50 pm Parallel Session 4g: Estimation, Algorithms and Simulation: Applications in Mathematical Finance - 206 Bryan Chair: Manuel L. Esquivel, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, mle@fct.unl.pt Speakers: João Beleza Sousa: DEETC-ISEL-IPL M2A-ISEL, Rua Conselheiro Emídio Navarro, Lisbon, Portugal Option Pricing with Gaussian Processes Carlos Veiga: New University of Lisbon, Portugal European Options with Discrete Dividends - A Hedging Perspective Lúcia Ventura: Banco BIG, Lisbon, Portugal Pricing exotic derivatives on interest rate products: some practical issues Miguel de Carvalho: New University of Lisbon, Portugal An Approach to Stochastic Optimization Manuel L. Esquivel: New University of Lisbon, Portugal On Some Stochastic Algorithms for Global Optimization Saturday: 6:15 pm – 7:00 pm R. A. Fisher Public Lecture - EUC Auditorium C. R. Rao, Eberly Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University How Statistics Works In Knowledge Discovery Chair: Pranab Sen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, pksen@bios.unc.edu Saturday: 7:15 pm – 9:00 pm Conference Banquet & NC-ASA Chapter awards presentations to Jim Berger (Duke University) and Pranab Sen (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Cone Ballroom, Elliott University Center Pickups for Park Lane Hotel 9:00pm – 10:00pm Sunday, October 14, 2007 7:00am – 8:30am Pickups from Park Lane Hotel for the Conference site 7:30am – 1:00pm Registration Desk at Elliott University Center 8:00am – 8:45am Coffee Sunday, October 14, 8:45 am – 10:15 am Plenary Session 4 - EUC Auditorium Chair:Sastry Pantula, North Carolina State University, pantula@stat.ncsu.edu 8:45am – 9:25am Narsingh Deo: University of Central Florida Emergence of the Web-Like Networks 9:25am – 10:05am Montserrat Fuentes: North Carolina State University A multivariate spatial nonparametric modeling framework for hurricane wind fields 10:05am – 10:25am NC-ASA Chapter Award Presentation to Dan Solomon (N. C. State University) Coffee Break 10:25am to 10:50am Sunday, October 14, 10:50 am – 12:50 pm Parallel Session 5a: Design of Experiments - 105 Bryan Organizer: M. L. Aggarwal, University of Memphis, maggarwl@memphis.edu Chair: Doug Wiens, University of Alberta, doug.wiens@ualberta.ca Speakers: Shanhong Guan: Department of Statistics, Univeristy of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Sample Size Consideration and MED Precision Estimate in Dose-Response Studies Yingfu Li: University of Houston - Clear Lake Non-regular designs for the detection of interactions between control and noise factors Chen Quin Lam: The Ohio State University Comparing Adaptive Designs of Computer Experiments for Global Fit of Response Surfaces Abhyuday Mandal: University of Georgia Multi-objective optimal experimental designs in event-related fMRI study Sunday, October 14, 10:50 am – 12:50 pm Parallel Session 5b: Interdisciplinary Research Projects for Undergraduates - 205 Bryan Chair:Jan Rychtar, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, j_rychta@uncg.edu Speakers: Meghan Fitzgerald: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Kleptoparasitism: Time is of the essence for Onthophagus Taurus Nels Johnson: Virginia Tech Reduction in the variability of diploid drone production selects for multiple mating in honey bees Robert Gove: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Benefit Functions of Promoting Multiple Mating in Honeybee Queens Brian Stadler: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Evolutionary Dynamics: From Small-Worlds to Random Graphs Petr Girg: University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Building a system for Web Computing with students Sunday, October 14, 10:50 am – 12:50 pm Parallel Session 5c: Search Theory - 104 Bryan Chair:G. O. H. Katona, Renyi Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, ohkatona@renyi.hu Speakers: Fernando Cicalese: Bielefeld University (Germany) & University of Salerno (Italy) 2-Stage Fault Tolerant Interval Group Testing Antony Macula: Biomathematics Group, SUNY Geneseo, Geneseo, NY Hypothesis Group Testing Gabor Wiener: Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Traces of codes Krisztian Tichler: Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary Search when the lie depends on the target Sunday, October 14, 10:50 am – 12:50 pm Parallel Session 5d: Statistics in Anthropological Research - 111 Bryan Chair: Eric Jones, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, ecojones@uncg.edu Speakers: Kari MacLauchlin: University of Florida Inequality, Socioeconomic Status, Social Support and Post-Disaster Mental Health in Mexico Laura Krueger: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Post-disaster Mental Health and the Structure of Personal Networks Sofia Ivanova: University of North Carolina at Greensboro What Food Stamp Recipients Get from the Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program Eric C. Jones: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Socioeconomic Status and Strategies of Household Formation Sunday, October 14, 10:50 am – 12:50 pm Parallel Session 5e: Skills Assessment Models in Education - 128 Bryan Chair: Terry Ackerman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, taackerm@uncg.edu Speakers: Robert Henson: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Using Log-Linear Models with Latent Variables for Model Comparisons in Skills Assessment Jonathan Templin: The University of Georgia Assessing Model Fit Using Limited Information Methods for Cognitive Diagnosis Jeffrey Douglas: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Cluster Analysis Approaches for Cognitive Diagnosis John Willse: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro A Non-Parametric Alternative for Analyzing Test Data and Developing Profiles of Skill Mastery Richard M. Luecht: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Multiple Objective Function, Multiple Constraint Set Optimization Models for Automated Test Assembly Sunday, October 14, 10:50 am – 12:50 pm Parallel Session 5f: Statistical Techniques in Experimental Fatigue Studies - 204 Bryan Co-Chairs: Jitendra S. Tate, Texas State University-San Marcos, jt31@txstate.edu Ajit D. Kelkar, North Carolina A&T State University, kelkar@ncat.edu Speakers: Oladapo Akinyede: North Carolina A&T State University Modulus Determination for Composite Materials with Processing Variations- A Statistical Approach Jitendra S. Tate, Texas State University-San Marcos Minimizing scatter in load-controlled fatigue test data of textile polymeric composites using statistical techniques Ron Bolick: North Carolina A&T State University Statistical Fatigue Data Modeling of Stitched, Unstitched and Z-Pinned Textile Composites under Tension Compression Loading Sunday, October 14, 10:50 am – 12:50 pm Parallel Session 5g: Statistical Methodology - 206 Bryan Chair: Scott Richter, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, sjricht2@uncg.edu Speakers: Usha Govindarajulu: Harvard Medical School The comparison of fitted non-linear exposure-response relationships in Cox models using smoothing methods through simulations Scott J. Richter: University of North Carolina at Greensboro A Step-down Multiple Comparison Procedure based on Tukey’s HSD, and the ‘Tukey 2-Step’ Melinda H McCann: Oklahoma State University Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Odds Ratios in Candidate Gene Studies Roland C. Deutsch: University of North Carolina at Greensboro Benchmark Analysis for Two Predictor Variables Lunch Break Cone Ballroom, EUC 12:50 pm – 2:10 pm Sunday, October 14, 2:10 pm – 4:10 pm Session 6a: Interdisciplinary Research Projects for Undergraduates - EUC Auditorium Chair: Petr Girg, University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic, pgirg@kma.zcu.cz Speakers: Michal Bizzarri: University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Parameterization methods for special classes of implicit curves and surfaces Katerina Samkova: University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Surfaces and their representation and approximation in technical applications Milan Hanus: University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Numerical modelling of neutron flux Sarka Petrickova: University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic On the periodic motion of a generalized oscillator in two dimensions Jana Babovakova: University of West Bohemia, Plzen, Czech Republic Bifurcations in one-dimensional oscillator between two elastic walls Pickups for Park Lane Hotel 4:30pm – 6:00pm Important: Please do not lose your meal tickets or conference tag. Entry in dining halls will not be possible without these. If you will have a companion/guest with you, please have him/her registered as a companion so that meal tickets can be generated. For the banquet, you can buy extra entry tickets at $30/ticket but this has to be ordered at least 4 weeks before the conference begins. |
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