Program in Brief

The 2013 program for the Interface Conference on Applied Statistics is taking form now. More details on the conference will follow. Check http://www.armyconference.org for official updates.

• Welcome:
  
• TBD
  
  
• Short Course:
  
  Classification and Regression Trees and Forests
  Prof. Wei-Yin Loh will present a short course, “Classification and Regression Trees and Forests," on December 9 & 10 preceding the conference beginning on December 11th.  This presentation details this important tool in data mining and emphasizes applications using the instructor's Guide software.


• Invited Speakers:
  
  
  • Kirk Borne, George Mason University
    Keynote: Big Data: Concepts and Missteps
    
    
  • Colin Wu, National Institute of Health
    Estimation of Longitudinal Concomitant Intervention Effects with Shared Parameter Models
    
    
  • Edward Wegman, George Mason University
    Topic: Big Data: Technology and Analysis
    
    
  • Bill Heavlin, Google
    Ranking Performance Videos
    
    
• Special Sessions:
  
  
  • Text Data Mining
    Organizers: Wendy Martinez, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Edward Wegman, George Mason University
    
    Ming Sun, Amazon
    Inferential Variability in Latent Dirichlet Allocation
    
    Joseph A. Marr, Muffarah G. Jahangeer, Trevor S. Crawford, Angeline P. Chau, Hyun Soo Choi, Jennifer J. Jones, Aneela B. Wadan, and Edward J. Wegman, George Mason University
    IMPLICATION (Implied Causation):  Locating and Extracting Causation Statements in Unstructured Text
    
    
  • Agent Based Modeling
    Organizers: Alyson Wilson (North Carolina State University)  and Yevgeniya K. Pinelis (Center for Naval Analysis)
    
    Maciej M. Latek, George Mason University
    Multiagent Simulations as Data Generating Algorithms
    
    Yevgeniya (Jane) Pinelis and Warren Sutton, Center for Naval Analyses;
    CDR Arjay J. Nelson, BUPERS-34B
    Projecting Inventories for Navy Community Managers using IMPACT-AC
    
    
    
• Contributed Presentations
  
  Collaborative Learning Under a Large-Scale Elicitation
  Terrance Savitsky, Bureau of Labor Statistics
  A Regression Tree Approach to Identifying Subgroups with Differential Treatment Effects
  Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  
  Seeking Better Supercomputer Experience for Kraken Users -- Evidence Based Assessment Using Statistical Tools
  Fei Xing, Statistician, Mathematica Policy Research Inc.; Haihang You, Computational Scientist, National Institute for Computational Sciences, ORNL; Yang Shen, Corporate Credit Risk Analytics Project Manager, BB&T Bank.
  
  Tolerance Limits Under Mixture Models
  Zachary Zimmer, Army Test and Evaluation Center; Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland Baltimore County; DoHwan Park, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  
  Point-Wise and Simultaneous Tolerance Limits Under Logistic Regression
  Zachary Zimmer, Army Test and Evaluation Center; Dr.Thomas Mathew, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Dr. DoHwan Park, University of Maryland Baltimore County
  
  Impact of Topcoding on the Utility of Consumer Expenditure Microdata
  Daniel K. Yang and Daniell Toth, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office of Survey Methods Research (BLS, OSMR), 2 Massachusetts Ave. N.E. Suite 1950, Washington, DC 20212
  
  A Method to Estimate Fix Effectiveness for Known Failure Modes
  Dr. David Spalding, Institute for Defense Analyses, Studies and Analyses Center
  
  Estimating Component Reliability based on Failure Time Data from a System of Unknown Design*
  Francisco J. Samaniego, University of California, Davis
  
  Comparison of Classical and Bayesian Storage Reliability Models
  Allan T. Mense, Ph.D., PE, CRE, Principal Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ; Grant Olsen, M.S., Engineer, Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ
  
  High Dimension Data Analysis with Application on Schizophrenia
  Hongda Zhang, George Washington University; Yuanzhang Li, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
  
  An Investigation of Quantile Function Estimators Relative to Quantile Confidence Interval Coverage
  Lai Wei, Digital System, Inc., Chevy Chase, MD and State University of New York at Buffalo,Department of Biostatistics, Buffalo, NY;  Dongliang Wang, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Syracuse, NY; Alan D. Hutson, State University of New York at Buffalo,Department of Biostatistics, Buffalo, NY.
  
  Comparison of Taguchi L9 and JMP 9 run Definitive Design
  William C. Thomas MS., Raytheon Co., Tucson, AZ
  
  An Evaluation of Joint Models Using Different Feature Extraction Metrics for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of Aircraft.
  Amanda Sue King*, Christine M. Schubert Kabban*, Cheryl P. Edelmann *, Mark Derriso,  Air Force Institute of Technology*, AFRL/RQ
  
  Identifying Common Groups for Variance Function Models in Complex Sample Design
  MoonJung Cho, John L. Eltinge, Julie Gershunskaya and Larry Huff
  
  Assessment of Quality, Cost and Risk Factors in Statistical Work With Administrative Record Data
  John Eltinge, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics  Eltinge.John@bls.gov
  
  
• Events:
  Wilks Banquet, Wednesday, 11 December, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
  A la Lucia Restaurant
  315 Madison Street, Alexandria
  Walking from the ASA: Left out the front door. Right for 3 blocks (under 2/10 mile) down Madison. A la Lucia diagonally across the intersection with N. Royal. White, 1-story building.
  

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