August 30 (Thursday)

• Dr. Sandra Kirkwood (Eli Lilly and Company, USA)
  to be announced

Key-note Lectures 2

• Prof. 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 conducted by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
• Jason Jones, Doug Stahl, Mike Nichol and Stanley P. Azen (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 and Toshimitsu Hamasaki (Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd., Japan)
  Recent Statistical Issues in Drug Evaluation Process

• 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
(The place will be announced.)

August 31 (Friday)

• Hua Liang (Harvard University, USA)
  Partially linear models in biostatistics and medicine - Note. include application to AIDS study
• Remy Slama (Hospital de Bicetre, France/Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany), Axel Werwatz (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany), Odile Boutou (Hospital de Bicetre, France), Beatrice Ducot (Hospital de Bicetre, France), Alfred Spira (Hospital de Bicetre, France) and Wolfgang Härdle (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany)
  Does male age have an influence on the risk of spontaneous abortion? An approach combining semiparametric and parametric regression
• Junji Nakano (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan)
  Extendibilities of 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 (Dept. of Statistics, George Mason University, USA)
  A sampling of graphical templates for human mortality studies and gene expression data
• KyungMann Kim (University of Wisconsin, 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 (National Central University, Taiwan)
  To analyze functional 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 (Harvard University, USA)
  A new approach for clustered censored data
• 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 (University of Hong Kong) and Xuming He (University of Illinois, USA)
  Robust analysis of longitudinal data

• Yoshimichi Ochi (Oita University, Japan)
  The performance of the computer intensive methods for over-dispersed categorical data
• Satyabrata Pal (Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, 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
• Tukio 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 and boosting for classifiers based on kernel density estimators
• Karl-Ernst Biebler, Bernd Jager and Michael Wodny (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 Senri Hankyu Hotel

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)
  A 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 of 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 on mixing Poisson distribution with Lomax distribution

• Thomas W. Yee (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
  VGAM family functions for categorical and genetic data
• Henry S. H. Hsu 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 (Nagase ChemteX Corporation, Japan), 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)
  Modelling CD4 lymphocyte count with generalized linear models

Coffee Break

• Prof. Byron Wm. Brown, Jr. (Stanford University, USA)
  to be announced

Optional Tour

Osaka Castle and Bay Area