COTS 2002

Preliminary Program

Friday, April 5, 2002

	Time	Speaker	Location
	8:30AM	REGISTRATION	UTSPH Room102a/b
9:30-12:00: Session I	9:30-9:40	Welcome to COTS in Houston	UTSPH: Room 102a/b
	9:40-10:25	Lem Moye, MDA Mutliple analyses in clinical trials: Fundamentals and Modern Interpretations	UTSPH: Room 102a/b
	10:25-11:10	Scott Cantor, UTMD Medical Decision Making and Its Application to the Decision to Screen for Prostate Cancer	UTSPH: Room 102a/b
	11:10-11:55	Dennis Cox, Rice Resampling Methods for Multiple Comparisons of Randomization Tests	UTSPH: Room 102a/b
12:00-1:30: Lunch and Talk		Don Berry, MDA The Screening Mammography Controversy: Science, Politics and the Press . . . and Women in the Middle	UTSPH: Room 102a/b

1:30-2:30		Student Poster Session	UTSPH: Room 102a/b

2:30-5:00: Session II	Time	Speaker	Location
	2:30-3:15	Marina Vannucci, Texas A&M Multinomial Data, Model Selection and Microarray Data	UTSPH: Room 102a/b
	3:20-4:05	Kim Ahn Do, MDA Some Recent Methods in Clustering Microarray Gene Expression Data and Applications	UTSPH: Room 102a/b
	4:05-4:15	Break	UTSPH
	4:15-5:00	Chad Shaw: Baylor College of Medicine Normalization for Microarray Experiments	UTSPH: Room 102a/b
5:00-6:00		COTS Business Meeting
6:00-7:00: Banquet		Announcement of Don Owen Award	Holiday Inn

Saturday, April 6, 2002

	Time	Speaker	Location
	8:30AM	REGISTRATION	Herzstein Hall, Rice
9:30-12:00 New Faculty Session	9:00-9:45	James Stamey, SFASU Bayesian Analysis of Poisson Data with False Positives and False Negatives	Herzstein Hall, Rice
	9:50-10:35	Shan Sun, Texas Tech Smooth Quantile Processes from Right Censored Data and Construction of Simultaneous Confidence Bands	Herzstein Hall, Rice
	10:35-10:45	Break
	10:45-11:30	Ian Harris, SMU Density power divergence for estimation	Herzstein Hall, Rice
12:00-1:30: Lunch			3092 Duncan Hall, Rice
CANCELLED	Cancelled	Recruiting/Careers for Students	Cancelled

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Parking information for the Medical Center
Parking for the UT School of Public Health is available at Garage 5, Northeast of SPH ($9 per day) and South Extension Lot, South of SPH ($4 per day). Additional information is available at http://www.tmc.edu/tmc-parking.html

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