Showcases

A variety of showcases and special invited sessions and keynote speakers will be presented during the 2020 International Biometric Conference.


Young Statistician Showcase Competition
25 August 2020 | 10:00 UTC
ZOOM ACCESS

The Young Statisticians' Showcase is an important part of the Society's International Biometric Conference (IBC). Five papers (one from Africa, Asia & Australasia, Europe, North America and South America) have been selected for presentation in the Virtual IBC2020 Young Statisticians' Showcase session.  A schedule for each presentation is currently being made. We will update you as soon as it posted. 

Representing Australia/Asia (Australasian Region)
Luca Maestrini, Faculty of Science, School of Mathematical and Physical Science, University of Technology Sydney 
Title: Variational approximate inference for inverse problems motivated by medical tomography

Representing Africa (Tanzanian Region)
Wende Safari, Department of Mathematics, Universidad A Coruña 
Title: Nonparametric estimation of mixture cure model when cure status is partially known

Representing Europe (Netherlands Region)
Mirko Signorelli, Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center
Title: How to predict a survival outcome using longitudinal and high-dimensional omics data

Representing South America (Argentinean Region)
Franca Giannini Kurina, Statistics and Biometrics, Faculty of Cs. Agricultural, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Title: Two step procedure to model site specific herbicide soil persistence 

Representing North America (Eastern North American Region)
Hyo Young Choi, University of Tennessee Health Science Center 
Title: SCISSOR: a novel framework for identifying structural changes in RNA transcripts

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Korean Biostatistics Showcase
27 July 2020 | 11:00 UTC

Session Organizer: IBS Korean Region
Session Chair: Taesung Park, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

RECORDING

Sungho Won
Affiliation: Dept. of Public Health Sciences, Seoul National University
Title: Heritability Estimation of Dichotomous Phenotypes Using a Liability Threshhold Model on Ascertained Family-Based Samples

Minsun Song
Affiliation: Department of Statistics, Sookmyung Women's University
Title: Using imputed genotype data in the joint score tests for genetic association and gene-environment interactions in case-control studies

Wonil Chung
Affiliation: Dept. of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Soongsil University
Title: Efficient penalized regression approaches improve polygenic prediction in Biobank data

Seunggeun Lee
Affiliation: Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University
Title: Scaleable and accurate rare variant test for big biobank data analysis
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Biometrics Showcase

Session 1  Recording
8 July 2020 | 13:00 UTC 
Speakers: Andrew G. Chapple and Peter F. Thall
Title: A hybrid Phase I-II/III clinical trial design allowing dose re-optimization in Phase III (75: 371-381, 2019)

Session 2 Recording
18 August 2020 @ 16:00 UTC
Speakers: John D. Rice, Robert L. Strawderman, Brent A. Johnson
Title: Regularity of a renewal process estimated from binary data (74: 566-574, 2018)

Session 1 Recording
14 July 2020 | 15:00 UTC
Speakers: Matthew J. Heaton
Title: A case study competition among methods for analyzing large spatial data
24: 398-425 (2019)

Session 2 Recording
16 July 2020 | 15:00 UTC
Speakers: Erin Schliep
Title: Joint temporal point pattern models for proximate species occurrence in a fixed area using camera trap data
23: 334-357 (2018)

Statistics in Practice I & II

Interested participants will be asked to watch a pre-recorded lecture  (https://garthtarr.github.io/avfs), download and install the relevant R packages, and then participate in a hands-on practical workshop where Sam and Garth will offer practical advice on using the tools.  There will be two practical sessions:

Session I:
23 July 2020 | 00:00 Midnight UTC

Session II 
23 July 2020 | 06:00 UTC

Fast algorithms and modern visualizations for feature selection