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Recent WNAR Meetings
  • 2008 - Davis, California
    • President's Invited Speaker:  Peter Bartlett from the University of California, Berkeley gave a presentation on "Convex Methods for Pattern Classification"
    • Short Course:  "R Survey Package Analyses for Two Phase Studies, with Applications in Epidemiology" by Thomas Lumley and Norm Breslow from the University of Washington.  Jerry Lawless from the University of Waterloo gave a presentation entitled, "Making Sense of Life History Processes through Multi-State Models".
    • Local Arrangements:  Frank Samaniego and Chris Drake from UC Davis
    • Program Chair:  Patrick Heagerty from the University of Washington (WNAR) and Charles Kooperberg from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (IMS)
    • Student Paper Chair:  Laura Cowen
    • Student Paper Winners:  Congratulations to Qunhua Li from the University of Washington for winning the 2008 WNAR Best Student Paper Competition for his paper entitled "A Nested Mixture Model for Protein Identification using Mass Spectrometry" and to Luke Bornn from the University of British Columbia for winning the 2008 WNAR Best Oral Presentation for his talk entitled "An Efficient Computational Approach for Prior Sensitivity Analysis and Cross-Validation."  Congratulations also to Kumar Rajan from the University of Washington, the runner-up for the written paper.  Congratulations also to Qunhua Li from the University of Washington, Kumar Rajan from the University of Washington and Adam Boyd from the University of Denver, the runner-ups for the oral presentation.  The students received their award at the conference banquet.
     
  • 2007 - Irvine, California
    • President's Invited Speaker:  Terry Speed from UC Berkley "Statistics and Computational Biology"
    • Short Course:  "Causal Inference in Experimental and Observational Studies" by Don Rubin from Harvard University.
    • Local Arrangements:  Dan Gillen from UC Irvine
    • Program Chair:  Todd Alonzo from University of Southern California (WNAR) and Thomas Richardson from the University of Washington (IMS)
    • Student Paper Chair:  Raphael Gottardo
    • Student Paper Winners:  Congratulations to Rebecca Hubbard from the University of Washington for winning the 2007 WNAR Best Student Paper Competition and Best Oral Presentation for her paper and talk entitled "Modeling Delirium Progression Using a Non-homogeneous Markov Process."  Congratulations also to the runner ups for the written paper Brandie Wagner from the University of Colorado and Kyle Rudser from the University of Washington.  Congratulations also to the runner ups for the oral presentation Hua Zhong from the University of Washington and Sonya Heltshe from the University of Colorado.
     
  • 2006 - Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
    • President's Invited Speaker: Xiao-Li Meng of Harvard  University, "(Data) Size Does Matter, But You Might be in for a Surprise...".
    • Short Course: "Statistical Methods for Analysis of Missing Data" by XH Andrew Zhou of the University of Washington.
    • Local Arrangements: Roy St. Laurent, Northern Arizona University
    • Program Chair: Ying Lu (WNAR), Wolfgang Polonik (IMS)
    • Student Paper Chair: Sarah Michalak of Northern Arizona University.
    • Student Paper Winners: Leslie Taylor from the University of Washington for winning the 2006 WNAR Best Student Paper Competition and Best Student Oral Presentation for her paper and talk entitled "Multiple Imputation Methods for Treatment Noncompliance and Missing Data."  Congratulations also go out to the runner-up Jeff Lingwall from BYU.
  • 2005 - University of Fairbanks, Fairbanks, Alaska
    • President's Invited Speaker: Donald Rubin of Harvard University, "The Design (Versus Analysis) of Observational Studies".
    • Short Course: "Bayesian Clinical Trials," by Scott Berry of Berry Consultants, and "Active Set Adaptive Sampling," by Steve Thompson of Pennsylvania State University and Simon Fraser University.
    • Local Arrangements: Dana Thomas, University of Alaska-Fairbanks
    • Program Chair: Gilbert Fellingham (WNAR), Thomas Lee (IMS)
    • Student Paper Chair: Mike Fugate from Los Alamos National Laboratory.
    • Student Paper Winners: Nema Dean from the University of Washington for winning the 2005 WNAR Best Student Paper Competition for her paper, "Normal Uniform Mixture Differential Gene Expression Detection for cDNA Microarrays."  Congratulations to Laura Cowen from Simon Fraser University on winning the Best Student Oral Presentation Award for her talk entitled, "The Jolly-Seber Model with Tag Loss."  Congratulations also go out to runners-up for Best Oral Presentation Garrett Hellenthal from University of Washington and Megan Dailey from Colorado State University.
  • 2004 - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
    • President's Invited Speaker: Donald A. Berry from University of Texas, "Why Bayes?  Innovations in Clinical Trial Design and Analysis"
    • Short Course: "Hierarchical Modeling and Analysis of Spatial Data," by Bradley Carlin from the University of Minnesota.
    • Local Arrangements: Ed Bedrick, Gabriel Huerta
    • Program Chair: David Higdon (WNAR), Jason Fine (IMS)
    • Student Paper Committee: C. Shane Reese from Bigham Young University (Chair), Margaret Short from Los Alamos National Laboratories and, Jeff Morris from MD Anderson Cancer Center.
    • Student Paper Winners: Raphael Gottardo of the University of Washington, Winner, 2004 WNAR Best Student Paper Award for his paper, "Robust estimation of cDNA microarray intensities with replicates."  James H. Degnan of the University of Mexico, Winner, 2004 Best Student Oral Presentation Award for his talk entitled, "Gene tree distributions under the coalescent process."  Congratulations also to first runner-up Lihong Qi from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Washington and Chuan Zhou from the University of Washington in the Best Student Paper Competition.
  • 2003 - Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado (N=123)
    • President's Invited Speaker: Heike Hofmann from Iowa State University,  "Graphics: An Ace in the Sleeve of a Statistician"
    • Short Course: "Pattern-Mixture and Selection Models Demystified," by Diane L. Fairclough from University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
    • Local Arrangements: Jim Murphy, Bill Navidi, Gary Zerbe
    • Program Chair: Snehalata Huzurbazar (WNAR), Naisyin Wang (IMS)
    • Student Paper Committee: David Higdon from Los Alamos National Laboratory (Chair), .Misoo Ellison from National Jewish Center, John Neuhaus from USCF
    • Student Paper Winners: Daniel Gillen of the University of Washington, Winner, 2003 WNAR Best Student Paper Award and Best Student Oral Presentation Award. Congratulations also to first runner-up Jiang Qi from Merck, Inc. in New Jersey , second runners-up Timothy Webb from University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Zonghui Hu from Texas A&M University and honorable mention papers by: Kent Kaprowicz from University of Washington, A. R. deLeon, and A. Liu from University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 2002 - UCLA, Los Angeles, California
    • President's Invited Speaker: Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Statistical methods to analyze genomic aberrations in cancer cells"
    • Short Course: "Molecular Phylogeny: Statistical Methods for Reconstructing and Interpreting Evolutionary Histories", by Kenneth Lange1, Eric Schadt2, Janet S. Sinsheimer3, and Marc Suchard4. Departments of Biomathematics{1,3,4} and Human Genetics{1,3}, UCLA School of Medicine, and Computational Genomics2, Rosetta Inpharmatics 
    • Local Arrangements: John Boscardin
    • Program Chair: Weng Kee Wong (WNAR), Michael Kosorok (IMS)
    • Student Paper Committee: John Neuhaus, University of California San Francisco (chair), Ed Bedrick, University of New Mexico, Chris Williams, University of Idaho.
    • Student Paper Winners: Grace Chiu (1st); Rachel MacKay (2nd); Xiao Yan Leng, UC Davis (3rd)
  • 2001 - Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
    • President's Invited Speaker: Noel Cressie, Ohio State University "A Bird's Eye View of Earth and It's Atmosphere."
    • Short Course: Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington, "Inference from Genetic Data on Pedigrees."
    • Local Arrangements: Tim Swartz.
    • Program Chair: Mary Lesperance.
    • Student Paper Committee: Laura Salter (Chair), Ed Bedrick.
    • Student Paper Winners: To be Announced.
  • 2000 - University of California, Berkeley, California (N=722)
    • President's Invited Speaker: Ross L. Prentice "Biostatistics and Chronic Disease Prevention Research"
    • Short Course: Kyung-Yee Liang & Scott Zeger "Analysis of Data from Longitudinal Studies--Current Topics"; Clarice Demetrio & John Hinde "Overdispersion: Models and Estimation"; Chris Jennison, Bruce Turnbull, & Cyrus Mehta "Group Sequentional Design and Interim Monitoring of Clinical Trial Data: Statistical Methodology and Computation"
    • Local Arrangements: Joan Hilton (Chair), Lynn Ackerson, Stuart Gansky, Lauren Gee, Kevin Delucchi, David Giltinan, Nicholas Jewell, Sue Service
    • Program Chair: Sylvia Richardson (Invited Program), Laura Lazzeroni (Contributed Program), Snehalata Huzurbazar (WNAR-IBC Liaison)

  • 1999 - University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

    • President's Invited Speaker: Rob Tibshirani, Stanford University, "Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: Some Old Statistical Tools Applied to Modern Genetics" 
    • Short Course: Dianne Cook, Iowa State University, Deborah Swane and Adreas Buja, AT&T Labs, "Data Mining with the Right Side of the Brain: Interactive Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis"  
    • Local Arrangements: Martin McIntosh
    • Program Chair: Charmaine Dean
    • Student Paper Committee: Patrick Heagert
  • 1998 - University of California at San Diego, California
    • President's Invited Speaker: Robert Elston, Professor of Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology, Case Western Reserve University, "Fieller's theorem and locating genes"
    • Short Course: Guy Nason and Bernard Silverman, University of Bristol, UK, "Everything Applied Statisticians Want to Know about Wavelets but are Afraid to Ask Instructors"  
    • Local Arrangements: Don Slymen
    • Program Chair: Jeremy Taylor
    • Student Paper Committee: Chris Williams (Chair), Robert Fusaro, Lianne Sheppard
    • Student Paper Winners: Nilanjan Chatterjee, Dongliang Zhuang, Thomas Braun
  • 1997 - Utah State University, Park City, Utah
    • President's Invited Speaker: Nan Laird, Harvard University, "Model-Based Methods for the Simultaneous Analysis of Repeated Measures and a Failure Time Variable"
    • Short Course: Ludwig Fahrmeir, University of Munich, and Garrett Fitzmaurice, Harvard University, "Categorical and Correlated Data Analysis" 
    • Local Arrangements: J.L. Madrigal
    • Program Chair: William Navidi
    • Student Paper Committee: Robert Fusaro (chair), Wendy Leisenring, Sam MaWhinney, Mary Sara McPeek
    • Student Paper Winners: Michal Kulich (written, 1st place), Thomas Lumley (oral, tie for 1st), Susan K. Mikulich (oral, tie for 1st), and Wei Zhu (written, 2nd place)
  • 1996 - Washington State University, Pullman, Washington (N=125)
    • Themes: Model Selection & Statistical Consulting
    • President's Invited Speaker: John A. Nelder, Imperial College, London, "Statistics and the Experimental Cycle"
    • Short Course: Marie Davidian & David Giltinan, "Nonlinear models for repeated measurement data"
    • Local Arrangements: Marc Evans
    • Program Chair: LuAnn Johnson
    • Student Paper Committee: Jeffrey Wilson (chair), Lynn Ackerson, John Carlow, Mark Reiser, David Smith
    • Student Paper Winners: Ben Lyons, Adam Olshen, Karim N. Rajwani
  • 1995 - Stanford University, California (N=161)
    • Themes: Genetics & Biologic Populations
    • President's Invited Speaker: Lynne Billard, University of Georgia, President of International Biometric Society, "Modelling and Inference in Plant Disease Spread"
    • Short Course: Robert Elston, Daniel Schaid
      "Statistical Methods for Genetic Epidemiology"
    • Local Arrangements: Dan Bloch
    • Program Chair: Joan Hilton
    • Student Paper Committee: Dan Schafer (chair), Ian Abramson, Marc Evans, Mark Segal
    • Student Paper Winners: Brian Steele, Ranjan Maitra, Charles Spiekerman
  • 1994 - University of California, Los Angeles, California (N=181)
    • Theme: Statistics and Health Research
    • President's Invited Speaker: Terry Speed, University of California, Berkeley, "Statistical Problems in the Study of Molecular Evolution"
    • Local Arrangements: Tom Belin
    • Program Chair: Nat Schenker
    • Student Paper Committee: Ian Abramson (chair); competition canceled
  • 1993 - University of Wyoming (N=177)
    • Theme: Statistics in the Environment and Public Policy
    • President's Invited Speaker: Yashiswami Mittal, University of Arizona, "Models, Amalgamation and Paradoxes in 2x2 Contingency Tables"
    • Short Course: Lyman McDonald, "Environmetrics"
    • Local Arrangements: Bob Cochran
    • Program Chair: Hari Iyer
    • Student Paper Committee: Madeline Bauer, Duane Boes, Frank Graybill, Elbert Walker
    • Student Paper Winners: Mark Ashby, Brad Bickerstaff, Robert Neuman
  • 1992 - Oregon State University (N=236)
    • Theme: Longitudinal data
    • President's Invited Speaker: Ron Brookmeyer, Johns Hopkins University, "A Statistical History of the AIDS Epidemic"
    • Short Course: Richard Jones, "Longitudinal data"
    • Local Arrangements: Cliff Pereira
    • Program Chair: Gary Zerbe
    • Student Paper Committee: Elizabeth Thompson (chair), John Neuhaus, Dan Schafer
    • Student Paper Winners: Jim Hughes
  • 1991 - University of California, Santa Barbara, California (N=150)
    • Theme: Generalized Estimating Equations
    • President's Invited Speaker: John D. Kalbfleish, University of Waterloo, "Mixture Models and Profile Likelihoods"
    • Short Course: Kung-Yee Liang, Scott Zeger, "Generalized Estimating Equations"
    • Local Arrangements: Joe Gani
    • Program Chair: John Neuhaus
    • Student Paper Committee: William Redfearn, Jeremy Taylor, Gary Zerbe
    • Student Paper Winners: Kevin Anderson, Guillermo Marshall, and Yongxiao Wang
  • 1990 - Montana State University
    • President's Invited Speaker: Woollcott Smith, Temple University, "Impact Assessment for Oil Spills and Other Accidents"
    • Local Arrangements: Martin Hamilton & Ken Tiahrt
    • Program Chair: Tony Olshen
    • Student Paper Committee: Barbara McKnight, Leigh Murray, Elizabeth Thompson
    • Student Paper Winner: Marc Evans
  • 1989 - University of California, Davis, California (N=189)
    • President's Invited Speaker: Ethel Gilbert, Battelle Northwest, "Assessing Risks from Occupational Exposure to Low-level Radiation: The Statistician's Role"
    • Local Arrangements: Lyle Calvin
    • Program Chair: Madeline Bauer
    • Student Paper Committee: Sondra Perdue, Kirk Steinhorst, Gary Zerbe
    • Student Paper Winner: Lynn Ackerson

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