August 30 (Thursday)

• Masashi Goto (Conference President; Osaka University, Japan)

• Sandra Close Kirkwood (Eli Lilly and Company, USA)
  The role of statistics in pharmacogenomics

Key-note Lecture 2
Chair: Yutaka Tanaka (Okayama University, Japan)

• Wing Kam Fung (University of Hong Kong)
  Statistical analysis of forensic DNA: computational problems solved and to be solved

Coffee Break

• Joyce C. Niland (City of Hope National Medical Center, USA)
  An internet based data system for outcomes research
• Jason Jones, Doug Stahl, Michael Nichol and Stanley P. Azen* (VNUS Information Services, University of Southern California and City of Hope National Medical Center, USA)
  Enabling clinically based knowledge discovery in pharmacy claims data: An application in bioinformatics
• Tatsuya Isomura*, Toshimitsu Hamasaki (Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Japan) and Masashi Goto (Osaka University, Japan)
  Statistical issues in the drug evaluation process: some issues in applying the ICH guidelines

• Hidetoshi Shimodaira (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
  Assessing the uncertainty of evolutionary tree selection by the multiscale bootstrap method
• Michele La Rocca (Universitdegli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
  Bootstrap calibration and empirical likelihood in the logistic regression model
• Takashi Koshimizu* (Bayer Yakuhin, Ltd., Japan) and Masaaki Tsujitani (Osaka Electro-Communication University, Japan)
  Bootstrapping neural discriminant models
• Masaya Iizuka (Okayama University, Japan), Yuichi Mori* (Okayama University of Science, Japan), Tomoyuki Tarumi and Yutaka Tanaka (Okayama University, Japan)
  Computer intensive trials to determine the number of variables in PCA

(Move to the reception place)

Welcome Reception
at Restaurant Rosen (in Osaka University Suita Campus)

August 31 (Friday)

• Wolfgang Härdle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
  The dynamics of spatial processes: a net-based common principle component approach
  (Changed from:
  Hua Liang* (Harvard University, USA) and Wolfgang Härdle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
  Partial linear models with heteroscedastic variances)
• Rémy Slama* (Le Klemlin-Bicêtre CEDEX, France/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany), Axel Werwatz (Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin), Odile Boutou (Le Klemlin-Bicêtre CEDEX), Béatrice Ducot (Le Klemlin-Bicêtre CEDEX), Alfred Spira (Le Klemlin-Bicêtre CEDEX) and Wolfgang Härdle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  Does male age have an influence on the risk of spontaneous abortion? An approach combining semiparametric and parametric regression
• Ikunori Kobayashi (Tokushima Bunri University, Japan), Takeshi Fujiwara (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan), Yoshikazu Yamamoto (Tokushima Bunri University, Japan) and Junji Nakano* (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
  Extendibilities of a Java based statistical system

• Igor E. Timchenko* and Ekaterina M. Igumnova (Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol, Ukraine)
  Adaptive balance of causes as a new method for complex systems modeling
• Ekaterina. M. Igumnova* and Igor E. Timchenko (Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol, Ukraine)
  Biomedical information systems based on ABC technology of data processing
• Takashi Namatame* (Science University of Tokyo, Japan) and Yumi Asahi (St.Paul's "Rikkyo" University, Japan)
  Stochastic process model for medical decision making
• Michael G. Schimek (Karl-Franzens-University of Graz, Austria)
  RIP-GAMs and classification trees in quantitative MRI

Coffee Break

• Daniel B. Carr (George Mason University, USA)
  A sampling of graphical templates for human mortality studies and gene expression data
• KyungMann Kim* (University of Wisconsin, USA) and Anastasios A. Tsiatis (North Carolina State University, USA)
  Computational issues in information-based group sequential clinical trials
• Walter Liggett (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) 
  Nonparametric and semiparametric models in comparison of observations of a particle-size distribution

• Wang Pe-Cheng* and Lin D.F. (National Central University, Taiwan)
  To analyze dynamic data from experiments
• Yoshihiro Yamanishi* and Yutaka Tanaka (Okayama University, Japan)
  Geographically weighted functional multiple regression analysis: a numerical investigation
• Shuichi Tokushige*, Koichi Inada and Hiroshi Yadohisa (Kagoshima University, Japan)
  Dissimilarity and related methods for functional data 

Lunch

• Yi Li*, Louise Ryan, Scarlett Bellamy (Harvard University, USA) and Glen Satten (CDC, USA)
  A new approach for clustered censored data
  (Title of paper: Inference on clustered survival data using imputed frailties)
• Andy H. Lee* (Curtin University of Technology, Australia) and Kelvin K. W. Yau (City University of Hong Kong)
  Zero-augmented Gamma mixed modeling to analyse longitudinal data with many zeros
• Bo Fu, Wing Kam Fung* (University of Hong Kong) and Xuming He (University of Illinois, USA)
  Robust analysis of longitudinal data
  (Speaker Changed)

• Yoshimichi Ochi (Oita University, Japan)
  The performance of the computer intensive methods for over-dispersed categorical data
• Satyabrata Pal* (Bidhan Chandra Agricultural University, India) and Shyamsundar Sahoo (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
  A computer intensive technique to identify the peaks from a mixture population using non-parametric methods
• Hiroyuki Minami*, Yuriko Komiya and Masahiro Mizuta (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  Evaluation of execution time on data analysis with parallel virtual machine
• Tsukio Morita* (Mimasaka Women's College, Japan) and Yutaka Tanaka  (Okayama University, Japan)
  Sensitivity analysis in latent class analysis

Coffee Break

• Manabu Ichino (Tokyo Denki University, Japan)
  Neighbourhood graphs in classification problems for symbolic data
• Hans-Hermann Bock (Technical University of Aachen, Germany)
  Clustering algorithms and Kohonen maps for symbolic data
• Paula Brito (University of Porto, Portugal)
  Hierarchical and pyramidal clustering for symbolic data

• Masahiro Mizuta (Hokkaido University, Japan)
  Multidimensional scaling for continuous dissimilarity functions
• Edgar Acuna* and Alex Rojas (University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, Puerto Rico)
  Bagging classifiers based on Kernel density estimators
• Karl-Ernst Biebler*, Bernd Jäger and Michael Wodny and Elke Below (University of Greifswald, Germany)
  Mixed data type and topological classification
• Tomoya Tokairin* and Yosiharu Sato (Hokaido University, Japan)
  The method to decide the dimension of data by MDL criterion

(Move to Senri Hankyu Hotel)

Banquet
at Crystal Hall in Senri Hankyu Hotel (Toyonaka, Osaka)

September 1 (Saturday)

• Norisuke Kawai* (Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, Japan) and Masashi Goto (Osaka University, Japan)
  Measures of variation explained by binary regression
• Osamu Sugano (Tsuyama Commercial High School, Japan)
  Rank association measure for cross classifications
• Toshio Sakata* (Kyushu Institute of Design, Japan) and Ryuichi Sawae (Okayama University of Science, Japan)
  A study of the sequential conditional test for contingency tables
• Takahiko Hara (Oita University, Japan)
  Invariant confidence sequences for slippage of normal means
• Shafeeqah A. Al-Awadhi* and M.E. Ghitany (Kuwait University, Kuwait)
  Statistical properties of Poisson-Lomax distribution and its application to repeated accidents data

• Henry S. H. Hsu*, Rolf E. Taffs, Anna Ivshina (United States Food and Drug Administration, USA), Kyoji Hioki, Tatsuji Nomura (Central Institute for Experimental Animals, Japan ) and Peter A. Lachenbruch(United States Food and Drug Administration, USA)
  An example of analyzing ordinal categories of response using continuation-ratio models
• Mitsumasa Baba* (Pharmacia K. K., Japan), Masaki Fujisawa (Grelan Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.), Wataru Sakamoto and Masashi Goto (Osaka University, Japan)
  Statistical evaluation of umbrella dose-response relationships
• Takashi Daimon* and Masashi Goto (Osaka University, Japan)
  Power-transformation mixed effect models with their applications to pharmacokinetics
• Freedom Gumedze* and June Juritz (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  Hierarchical generalised linear models for CD4 lymphocyte counts
• Thomas W. Yee (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
  VGAM family functions for categorical and genetic data

Coffee Break

• Byron Wm. Brown, Jr.* and Jerry Halpern (Stanford University, USA)
  Sample sizes of clinical trials: for science and decision making

• Yutaka Tanaka (Chair of Scientific Program Committee; Okayama University , Japan)

Optional Tour
Osaka Castle, Tempozan Harbor Village
Buffet-style dinner on the cruiser `Santa Maria'