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September 17, 2018

12:45 / Registration
  • Venue: Senatssaal, Helmholtzstraße 16, 89081 Ulm, Germany.
  • MAP (from the bus station to the venue)

You will receive your name badges and you can get something to drink.

Markus Pauly will welcome you at Ulm University.

CHAIR: Markus Pauly, Ulm

  • 13:05 Thilo Welz / Non-normality in mixed-effects meta-regression models - A comparative simulation study based on robust covariance estimation.
  • 13:25 Hans-Peter Piepho / A coefficient of Determination (R2) for generalized linear mixed models.
  • 14:00 Stefan van Aelst /Robust model selection for generalized linear models based on resampling.
  • 14:35 Break

CHAIR: Georg Zimmermann, Salzburg

  • 15:05 Paavo Sattler / Inference for high-dimensional split-plot-designs: A unified approach for small to large numbers of factor levels.
  • 15:25 Martin Happ / Pseudo-rank statistics and high-dimensional data - A computational problem?
  • 15:45 Marc Ditzhaus / Signal detection via Phi-divergences for general mixtures.
  • 16:05 Break

CHAIR: Arne Bathke, Salzburg

  • 16:15 Regina Stegherr / Two methodological challenges in the analyses of left truncated time-to-event data.
  • 16:35 Rachel Heyard / Development and validation of dynamic clinical prediction models for discrete time-to-event data with competing risks.
  • 16:55 Dennis Dobler / Non-Markov methods for right-censored event history data.
  • 17:30 Break

CHAIR: Leonhard Held, Zurich

  • 17:35 Johannes Bracher / Time series modelling of multivariate infectious disease surveillance counts: Higher-order lags and periodic stationarity.
  • 17:55 Roland Fried / Robust change-point detection in multivariate time series.
  • 18:30 End of Day 1

19:30 / GetTogether

 We will meet at the "Barfüsser" (Brewery Ulm), Neue Straße 87-89, 89073 Ulm, Germany

September 18, 2018

CHAIR: Dennis Dobler, Amsterdam

  • 09:00 Leonhard Held / Challenging Statistical Significance - A Case for Reverse-Bayes.
  • 09:35 Fabian Freund / Inference of the genealogy model from genetic data - multifurcating vs. bifurcating genealogical trees.
  • 09:55 Break

CHAIR: Wolfgang Trutschnig, Salzburg

  • 10:30 Lubna Amro / Parametric bootstrap approach for matched pairs with missingness in a single-arm.
  • 10:50 Burim Ramosaj / A cautionary tale on using imputation methods for inference in matched pairs design.
  • 11:10 Georg Zimmermann / Comparing multivariate outcomes between groups while adjusting for baseline measurements.
  • 11:30 Jochen Reißinger / Confidence intervals for global means in repeated measures designs with unequal replication numbers.
  • 11:50 Break

CHAIR: Marc Ditzhaus, Ulm

  • 12:20 Wolfgang Trutschnig / On the interrelation between Kendall´s T and Spearman´s P.
  • 12:40 Betül Özkan / Evaluating uncertainty in a pharmaceutical supply chain by using fuzzy linear programming.
  • 13:00 Ansgar Steland / tba

13:35 / Young Researchers Award

Book Prize Winners & Decision Committee Members

  1.  The Eckart Sonnemann Prize: Martin Happ, University of Salzburg. Talk: "Pseudo-rank statistics and high-dimensional data - A computational problem ?"
  2. The Richard von Mises Prize: Johannes Bracher, University of Zurich. Talk: "Time series modelling of multivariate infectious disease surveillance counts: higher-order lags and periodic stationarity"
  3. The Leopold Karl Schmetterer Prize: Georg Zimmermann, Paracelsus Medical University Salzburg. Talk: "Comparing multivariate outcomes between groups while adjusting for baseline measurements"
  4. The Maria-Pia Geppert Prize: Lubna Amro, Ulm University. Talk: "Parametric bootstrap approach for matched pairs with missingness in a single-arm"
  5. The Joachim Hartung Prize: Paavo Sattler, Ulm University. Talk: "Inference for high-Dimensional split-plot-designs: A unified approach for small to large numbers of factor levels"

Thank you for your participation.