December 8-13, 2013 at Atlantic City, New Jersey
The 69th Deming Conference on Applied Statistics
Sponsored by Metropolitan Section, ASQ and Biopharmaceutical Section, ASA
   
2012 Program


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The format of the 69th conference will be identical to that of the 68th. The 69th program will be posted on or before June first.

69th Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics
December 8-13, 2013
Atlantic City, NJ

The purpose of the 3-day Deming Conference on Applied Statistics is to provide a learning experience on recent developments in statistical methodologies. The conference is followed by two 2-day parallel short courses. The format will be identical to the 2012 program as below, which will be updated to the 2013 program by June 1st. The conference is composed of 12 3-hour tutorials on current statistical topics of interest based on recently published texts. The conference sells these books at a 40% discount. Poster submissions are also solicited.


2012 Program
What is new this year

Starting this year, the Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics will accept submission of abstracts for poster presentation during the conference. The poster sessions provide a forum to attendees to present concepts and issues of relevance to their peers. The rules and tips of the poster presentations can be found by clicking the button below.

or click here to download the pdf file.


Program Summary

The 68th Deming Conference will be held on December 3-7, 2012 at Atlantic City, NJ. There will be two parallel half-day tutorial sessions based on recently published books for the first three days for a total of 12 tutorial sessions (December 3, 4, 5). Then the conference will continue with two 2-day short courses on December 6 and December 7. The 15 books used for the tutorial sessions and for the short courses will be sold at an appreciable discounted prices. The authors of the books are invited as the speakers. Poster sessions will also be presented.

Summary of The 2012 program is given below. A complete program is available for download at the bottom of this page. Click the session titles or course titles to read the abstracts. Click the name for speaker's biosketch. Titles with & are based on a book, which can be ordered online through the registration page.


The 68th Deming Conference Program (2012)
12/3/2012 (Monday)
Keynote Address: Early History of the Deming Conference (8:30 AM - 9:00 AM)
Professor J Stuart Hunter, Princeton University

Samuel S. Wilks hosted the annual Princeton Conference beginning in the early 1950's to increase interest in applications of statistics in and around the New Jersey area. Invited speakers were the statistical leaders of the day accompanied by active practitioners. This brief address discusses the personalities and topics that then ruled the day.

Morning Session (9:00 AM - 12:00 noon) Afternoon Session (1:30 PM - 4:30 PM)
Session A: Dose Finding Under Model Uncertainty: The MCPMod Approach

Dr. Jose Pinheiro
Johnson & Johnson


Dr. Frank Bretz
Novartis Pharma AG


Dr. Björn Bornkamp
Novartis Pharma AG

Session C: Applied Group Sequential Design For Clinical Trials

Dr. Keaven Anderson
Merck

Session B: Clinical Biomarker Model Development and Validation &

Professor Jae K. Lee
Biostatistics, University of Virginia

Session D: Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data: Methods & Application &

Professor Din Chen
University of Rochester


Professor Tony Sun
University of Missouri

7:00 PM: Speaker Dinner

Emeritus Professor John H. K. Kao of the Polytechnic University, at the youthful age of 96, will be getting a somewhat delayed award for his 25 years of exemplary service on the Program Committee of the Deming Conference.
12/4/2012 (Tuesday)
Morning Session (8:30 AM - 11:30 AM) Afternoon Session (1:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
Session E: Sensitivity Analysis For Missing Data In Randomized Trials

Professor Joe Hogan
Brown University

Session G: Subgroup Analysis In Clinical Trials: Challenges & Opportunities

Dr. Mohamed Alosh
FDA


Dr. Mohammad Huque
FDA

Session F: Selection Bias in Clinical Trials

Dr. Vance Berger
National Cancer Institute


Ms. Kaitlin Palys
Virginia Tech

Session H: Statistical Analysis of Biomarkers

Professor Hongyu Zhao
Yale University


Professor Herbert Pang
Duke University

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM: Student Scholar Poster
Click here to view the abstracts and award recipients
12/5/2012 (Wednesday)
Morning Session (8:30 AM - 11:30 AM) Afternoon Session (1:00 PM - 4:00 PM)
Session I: Adaptive Clinical Trial Design and Simulation &

Dr. Mark Chang
Amag Pharmaceuticals

Session K: Adaptive Designs for Confirmatory Clinical Trials

Dr. Cyrus Mehta
President, Cytel Inc.

Session J: Clinical Trials in Oncology &

Dr. Stephanie Green
Pfizer Inc.

Session L: Cancer Clinical Trials in the Genomic Era

Dr. Richard Simon
National Cancer Institute

12/6/2012 - 12/7/2012 (Thursday and Friday)
8:30 – 10:00 Lecture 10:00 – 10:20 Break 10:20 – 11:50 Lecture 11:50 – 1:10 Lunch 1:10 – 2:40 Lecture 2:40 – 3:00 Break 3:00 – 4:30 Lecture
Friday schedule will be an half hour earlier to facilitate students' transportation home
Short Course 1: Missing Data in Clinical Trials &

Professor Roderick Little
University of Michigan


Professor Trivellore Raghunathan
University of Michigan

Short Course 2: Modeling Ordinal Data &

Professor Alan Agresti
University of Florida


Professor Bernhard Klingenberg
Williams College



The following books will be used and sold during the conference. Please order the books through the registration page. You should not order the book used for the short course you registered unless you want to order extra copies.
Book Information (Author, Title, etc.) Price (USD)
List Discount
Taylor and Francis
Mark Chang, Adaptive Design Theory and Implementation Using SAS and R, 2007, 440 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-584-88962-495 60
Mark Chang, Monte Carlo Simulation for the Pharmaceutical Industry: Concepts, Algorithms, and Case Studies, 2010, 564 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-439-83592-090 57
Shein-Chung Chow, and Mark Chang, Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials (2nd Edition), 2011, 374 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-439-83987-590 57
Din Chen, Jianguo Sun, and Karl Peace, Interval-Censored Time-to-Event Data: Methods & Applications, 2012, 421 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-466-50425-7100 63
Din Chen, and Karl Peace, Clinical Trial Data Analysis Using R, 2010, 387 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-439-84020-7 90 57
Michael Daniels, and Joseph Hogan, Missing Data in Longitudinal Studies: Strategies for Bayesian Modeling and Sensitivity Analysis, 2008, 328 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-58488-609-9 90 57
Stephanie Green, J. Benedetti, A. Smith, and J. Crowley , Clinical Trials in Oncology (3rd Edition), 2012, 264 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-439-81448-2100 63
Springer
Alan Agresti, and Xiao-Li Meng, Strength in Numbers: Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S., 2012, 365 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-4614-3648-5149 92
Mark Chang, Modern Issues and Methods in Biostatistics, 2011, 307 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-441-99841-590 57
Naitee Ting, Dose Finding in Drug Development, 2006, 248 Pages, ISBN: 978-0-387-29074-4129 80
John Wiley and Sons
Alan Agresti, Analysis of Ordinal Categorical Data (2nd Edition), 2010, 424 Pages, ISBN: 978-0-470-08289-8 (Included in Short Course 2) 135 80
Alan Agresti, Categorical Data Analysis (3rd Edition), 2012, 768 Pages, ISBN: 978-0-470-46363-5135 80
Mark Chang, Classical and Adaptive Clinical Trial Designs Using ExpDesign Studio, 2008, 260 Pages, ISBN: 978-0-470-27612-9134 79
Jae Lee, Statistical Bioinformatics: For Biomedical and Life Science Researchers, 2010, 370 Pages, ISBN: 978-0-471-69272-0111 66
Roderick Little, and Donald Rubin, Statistical Analysis with Missing Data (2nd Edition), 2002, 408 Pages, ISBN: 978-0-471-18386-0 (Included in Short Course 1) 156 92

Download the conference brochure here.