| Day | Start | Session | Speaker | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue | 9:00 | Welcome/house keeping | |||
| Tue | 9:05 | Welcome to country | |||
| Tue | 9:15 | Invited speaker Chair: Raaj Kishore Biswas | Teresa Dickinson Deputy Australian Statistician, Australian Bureau of Statistics | Statistics: Making it official | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 10:00 | Population and economics Chair: Janan Arslan Co-chair: John Yeung | Stephanie Kobakian | sugarbag: hexagons maps and life in Australia |
| ⊕ | Tue | 10:12 | Zhi Yang Tho | On the Robust Estimation for Spatial Autoregressive Model | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 10:24 | James Bailie | Using Admin Data and Machine Learning to Predict Dwelling Occupancy on Census Night | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 10:36 | Rajas Kulkarni | Iwi Index of Multiple Deprivation for Ngai Tahu | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 10:48 | Sophie Schiller | Detecting Migration Routes for the First Peoples of Australia | |
| Tue | 11:00 | Morning Tea | |||
| ⊕ | Tue | 11:30 | Bioinformatics, agricultural and environmental Chair: Kylie-Ann Mallitt Co-chair: Nidhi Menon | Sam Rogers | A comparison of linear mixed model packages in R for analysis of plant breeding comparative experiments |
| ⊕ | Tue | 11:42 | Xiangnan Xu | A local consistency visualization (LC-vis) method for nutrigenomics | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 11:54 | Aline Kunnel | Can Hypercubes Overcome the Issue of High Dimensionality in Gene Expression Data for Sepsis? | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 12:06 | Laura Cartwright | Bayesian atmospheric tomography for detection and estimation of methane emissions | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 12:18 | Annie Conway | A genome-wide association study on drought tolerance in barley | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 12:30 | Udani Abhisheka Wijewardhana | Statistical models for the persistence of threatened birds developed using citizen science data | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 12:40 | Yiwen(Wendy) Li | Experiments on canola emergence for Ag Science students: project-based teaching of statistics | |
| Tue | 12:45 | Lunch | |||
| Tue | 13:45 | Invited speaker Chair: Emi Tanaka | Calvin Hung Data Scientist, QuantumBlack | It’s a great time to be in analytics | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 14:30 | Applied biostatistics and biostatistics in practice Chair: Philip Clare Co-chair: Ratih Putri Pertiwi | D.K. Ishara | Forecasting daily counts of patient presentations in Australian emergency departments using statistical models with time-varying predictors: a retrospective study |
| ⊕ | Tue | 14:42 | Chrianna Bharat | Predicting alcohol dependence among early adolescent regular alcohol users | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 14:54 | Lachlan Webb | Using Segmented Regression to describe the clearance profile of an antimalarial in human infections | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 15:06 | John Warmenhoven | Bringing functional data analysis to the field of sport science: examples from rowing. | |
| ⊕ | Tue | 15:18 | Aminath Shausan | Minimising Dengue Spread by Transmissible Interfering Particles | |
| Tue | 15:30 | Afternoon tea | |||
| Tue | 16:00 | Careers panel Chair: Philip Clare | Louise Ryan, UTS Teresa Neeman, ANU Warren Muller, CSIRO Jacinta Holloway, ABS Smitha Ramaswamy, Teachers Mutual Bank | ||
| Wed | 9:00 | Invited speaker Chair: Philip Clare | Alison Hill Data Scientist & Professional Educator, Rstudio | The Art of Literate Projecting | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 9:45 | Mathematical statistics Chair: Ratih Putri Pertiwi Co-chair: Kylie-Ann Mallitt | Farzana Jahan | Bayesian Empirical Likelihood Spatial Model applying Leroux Structure |
| ⊕ | Wed | 9:57 | Sarah Romanes | Using Variational Approximations to efficiently build a generalised discriminant analysis (genDA) algorithm. | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 10:09 | Peilun He | On the Parameter Estimation in the Schwartz-Smith’s Two-Factor Model | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 10:21 | Nelson Chua | Asymptotic Relative Efficiency of Composite Likelihood Estimation for Gaussian Spatial Processes | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 10:33 | Ravindi Nanayakkara | Stochastic Modelling and Statistical Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background Data | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 10:45 | Haruki Osaka | Asymptotic theory for the hypothesis testing problem for the number of components in a normal mixture model | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 10:50 | Aya Alwan | mpcmp: fitting dispersed count data using mean parametrized Conway-Maxwell-Poisson models | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 10:55 | Bradley Wakefield | The Multivariate Moments Problem: A Solution to Privacy Concerns of Synthetic Data | |
| Wed | 11:00 | Morning Tea | |||
| ⊕ | Wed | 11:30 | Biostatistical methods Chair: Nidhi Menon Co-chair: Janan Arslan | Monsurul Hoq | Comparison of statistical methods for constructing age-specific paediatric reference intervals: a simulation study |
| ⊕ | Wed | 11:42 | Rushani Wijesuriya | Evaluation of approaches for multiple imputation in three-level data structures | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 11:54 | Ruoxu Tan | Group testing regression analysis with missing data | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 12:06 | Jeffrey Pullin | Bayesian analysis of noisy categorical ratings in health and medicine | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 12:18 | Philip Clare | Comparison of methods for adjusting for exposure-affected time-varying confounding in the presence of missing data – a Monte-Carlo simulation study | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 12:30 | Quoc Duyet Tran | Bayesian agreement measure for ordinal outcomes | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 12:35 | Farzana Jahan | Augmenting Disease maps: a Bayesian meta-analysis approach | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 12:40 | Connor Smith | VIVID: Visualising model stability information | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 12:45 | Kim Jachno | Accounting for non-constant rates and time-dependent treatment effects when designing, analysing and reporting clinical trials: a review | |
| Wed | 12:50 | ||||
| Wed | 12:55 | Lunch | |||
| Wed | 13:55 | Video competition | |||
| ⊕ | Wed | 14:08 | Computer science Chair: John Yeung Co-chair: Emi Tanaka | Jiadong Mao | Nonparametric estimation for streaming data |
| ⊕ | Wed | 14:20 | Nicholas Tierney | Making better spaghetti (plots): Exploring the individuals in longitudinal data with the brolgar package | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 14:32 | Lisa Thomasen | Influencing Data Culture to Enable Opportunities for Analytics | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 14:44 | Sayani Gupta | Exploring probability distributions for bivariate temporal granularities | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 14:56 | Huize (Sherry) Zhang | Exploration of Judicial Facial Expression in Videos and Transcripts of Legal Proceedings | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 15:08 | Samudra Herath | Name-like Numbers for Simulating Names in Entity Resolution | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 15:20 | Matthew J. Gibson | Robust convolutional networks for label noise | |
| ⊕ | Wed | 15:25 | Daniel Flores Agreda | Bootstrapping Clustered Data with a Random Weighted Laplace Approximation | |
| Wed | 15:30 | ||||
| Wed | 15:30 | Afternoon tea | |||
| Wed | 16:00 | Invited speaker Chair: Philip Clare | Margarita Moreno-Betancur Senior Research Fellow, VicBiostats | Causal mediation analysis: bridging the gap with empirical science | |
| Wed | 16:45 | Closing/awards/video competition |