The Inaugural Ross-Royall Symposium:
From Individuals to Populations
Wood Basic Sciences Auditorium
Friday, February 26, 2016
8:30 am – 6:00 pm
Agenda
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Registration & Check-in
N Wolfe Street Entrance of Preclinical Teaching Building
Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:15 AM
Opening Remarks
Karen Bandeen-Roche
Hurley-Dorrier Professor and Chair, Department of Biostatistics
9:15 - 10:45 AM
Session 1: Population inference from observational studies
Session Chair: Michael Rosenblum
Sebastian Schneeweiss "Comparative Effectiveness of Treatments in Large Healthcare Databases – the
Value of High-Dimensional Propensity Score Approaches”
Rod Little "Calibrated Bayes, an Inferential Paradigm for Official Statistics in the Era of Big Data.”
William R. Bell “Combining Estimates from Related Surveys via Bivariate Models.”
Jae-kwang Kim “Bottom-up estimation and top-down prediction in multi-level models: Solar Energy
Prediction combining information from multiple sources”
10:45 - 11:00 AM
Break
Refreshments served
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Session 2: Transporting treatment effects using randomized trials and observational studies
Session Chair: Jay Herson
Elizabeth Stuart “Generalizing experimental study results to target populations."
Eloise Kaizar "Estimating Beyond the Trial-Represented Population by Incorporating Studies with SelfSelected Treatments."
Erin Hartman “From SATE to PATT: Combining Experimental with Observational Studies to Estimate
Population Treatment Effects”
Ravi Varadhan “A Bridge Design for Extending the Applicability of Randomized Controlled Trials”
The Inaugural Ross-Royall Symposium:
From Individuals to Populations
Wood Basic Sciences Auditorium
Friday, February 26, 2016
8:30 am – 6:00 pm
Agenda, cont.
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Lunch
Boxed lunch served
1:30 – 3:00 PM
Session 3: Inference from internet samples
Session Chair: Elizabeth Ogburn
Andrew Gelman "Challenges in Generalizing from Sample to Population.”
Richard Valliant “Inference in Finite Populations from Nonprobability Samples.”
Doug Rivers “Hierarchical Models for Calibrating Selection Bias.”
Jon Krosnick "The Future of Internet Surveys: Why Bother with Random Sampling?"
3:00 – 3:15 PM
Break
Refreshments served
3:15 – 4:30 PM
Concluding panel
Session Chair: Thomas A. Louis
Timothy G. Gregoire
Peter Miller
Scott Keeter
Estelle Russek-Cohen
4:30 – 6:00 PM
Reception
Note: All abstracts are available online at: http://goo.gl/sYaf1D