December 6 - 10, 2010 at Atlantic City, New Jersey
The 66th Deming Conference on Applied Statistics
Sponsored by Metropolitan Section, ASQ and Biopharmaceutical Section, ASA
   
2010 Program


The 66th Deming Conference will be held on December 6-10, 2010 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 6, 7, 8). Then the conference will continue with two 2-day short courses on December 9 and December 10. The authors of the books will be invited as the speakers. Books used for the tutorial sessions and for the short courses will be sold at an appreciable discounted prices from publishers. An exhibition of books on applied statistics will be held during the conference.

Summary of The 2010 program is given below. A complete progrqam 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.

Student scholar award recipient presentations will be held at 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm on Monday, December 6, 2010. Click here to read the abstracts.


The 66th Deming Conference Program (2010)
Lunch Break (11:30 AM - 1:00 PM)
12/6/2010 (Monday)
Morning Session (8:30 - 11:30 AM) Afternoon Session (1:00 - 4:00 PM)
Session A: Principles and Techniques of Multiple Testing and Multiple Comparisons &

Professor Jason C. Hsu
The Ohio State University

Session C: Gatekeeping Procedures in Clinical Trials &

Dr. Alex Dmitrienko
Eli Lilly

Session B: Sample Continuous Manufacturing and Large Sample Dose Content Uniformity Acceptance Plan

Professor Venkat Venkatasubramanian
Purdue University


Dr. Yi Tsong
CDER, FDA

Session D: Applied Categorical and Count Data Analysis &

Professor Wan Tang
University of Rochester

12/7/2010 (Tuesday)
Morning Session (8:30 - 11:30 AM) Afternoon Session (1:00 - 4:00 PM)
Session E: Design And Analysis Of Studies Of Health-Related Quality Of Life &

Dr. Diane L. Fairclough
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Session G: Statisticians & Metabolomics: Collaborative

Professor David Banks
Duke University

Session F: The Design and Analysis of Non-inferiority Trials &

Dr. Brian Wiens
Alcon Laboratories

Session H: Emerging Challenges to Clinical Trial Methodology

Dr. James Hung
U.S. Food and Drug Administration

12/8/2010 (Wednesday)
Morning Session (8:30 - 11:30 AM) Afternoon Session (1:00 - 4:00 PM)
Session I: Benefit Risk Assessment, Subgroup Analyses, and Prediction for Interim Data Monitoring

Professor Scott Evans
Harvard School of Public Health

Session K: Clinical Trial Methodology: Case Studies &

Dr. Karl E. Peace
Georgia Southern University

Session J: Monte Carlo Simulation for the Pharmaceutical Industry: Concepts, Algorithms, & Case Studies &

Dr. Mark Chang
Amag Pharmaceuticals

Session L: What Drug Development and The Medical Community Could Learn From Sports

Dr. Scott Berry
Berry Consultants

12/9/2010 - 12/10/2010 (Thursday and Friday)
Morning Session (8:30 - 11:30 AM) Afternoon Session (1:00 - 4:00 PM)
Short Course 1: SAS for Mixed Models: Applications for Repeated Measures, Generalized Linear Mixed Models, and Sample Size Computation &

Professor Ramon Littell
University of Florida


Professor Walt Stroup
University of Nebraska

Short Course 2: Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials &

Dr. Scott Berry
Berry Consultants


Professor Brad Carlin
University of Minnesota



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
Scott Berry, Bradley Carlin, Jack Lee, and Peter Muller, Bayesian Adaptive Methods for Clinical Trials, 2010, 312 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-439-82548-890 57
Mark Chang, Monte Carlo Simulation for the Pharmaceutical Industry: Concepts, Algorithms, and Case Studies, 2010, 552 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-439-83592-090 57
Alex Dmitrienko, Ajit Tamhane, and Frank Bretz, Multiple Testing Problems in Pharmaceutical Statistics, 2009, 320 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-584-88984-790 57
Diane Fairclough, Design and Analysis of Quality of Life Studies in Clinical Trials (2nd Edition), 2010, 424 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-420-06117-890 57
Jason Hsu, Multiple Comparisons: Theory and Methods, 1996, 296 Pages, ISBN: 978-0-412-98281-1110 69
Karl Peace, and Din Chen, Clinical Trial Methodology, 2010, 420 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-584-88917-590 57
Karl Peace, Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials with Time-to-Event Endpoints, 2009, 616 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-420-06639-5100 63
Mark Rothmann, Ivan Chan, and Brian Wiens, Design and Analysis of Non-Inferiority Trials, 2010, 320 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-584-88804-890 57
Wan Tang, Hua He, and Xin Tu, Applied Categorical and Count Data Analysis, 2010, 360 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-439-80624-190 57
SAS Publishing
Ramon Littell, George Milliken, and Walter Stroup, etc, SAS for Mixed Models (2 Edition), 2006, 840 Pages, ISBN: 978-1-590-47500-390 62

Click the link below to download the 2010 complete program and the past several years' conference brochures.

 
  2010 Conference Brochure
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2007 Conference Brochure
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2004 Conference Brochure
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2001 Conference Brochure
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