Program

Sunday, July 8, 2007
Short Courses (8:30 AM-12:30 PM)
Sam I Introduction to Multiple Comparison Procedures
Jason Hsu
Sam II Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials
Werner Brannath, Frank Bretz
Short Courses (1:30 PM - 5:30 PM)
Spm I Analysis of multiple endpoints
Alex Dmitrienko
Spm II Workshop on the Analysis of Microarray Data
Katherine S. Pollard


Monday, July 9.
Time Stream 1 Stream 2
AM1:
8:30
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10:00
Charles Dunnett and Eckart Sonnemann Memorial Keynote Session:
Multiple inference in medical research – an experience
Peter Bauer

Martin Posch - Opening of the Conference
Wolfgang Schütz - Welcome from the Dean of the Medical University of Vienna
Ajit Tamhane - Eulogy to Charles Dunnett
Helmut Finner - Eulogy to Eckart Sonnemann
Jason Hsu - Closing Remarks
Coffee break
AM2:
10:30
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12:00
Adaptive Designs
Chair: Willi Maurer
Bioinformatics/Genomics
Chair: Alexander Ploner
Prospective Strategies and Challenges to Adaptively Designing Genomic Biomarker Targeted Trials in Trials
Sue-Jane Wang
Adaptive model-based designs in clinical drug development
Vlad Dragalin
Exploring changes in treatment effects across design stages in adaptive trials
Tim Friede, Robin Henderson
Estimation in Adaptive Group Sequential Design
Cyrus Mehta, Werner Brannath, Martin Posch
A New Hypothesis to Test Minimal Fold Changes of Gene Expression Levels
Jen-pei Liu, Chen-Tuo Liao, Jia-Yan Dai
Family-wise error on the directed acyclic graph of Gene Ontology
Jelle Goeman, Ulrich Mansmann
Testing Procedures on Comparisons of Several Treatments with one Control in a Microarray Setting
Dan Lin, Ziv. Shkedy, Tomasz Burzykowski, Hinrich W.H. Göhlmann, An De Bondt, Tim Perera,
On the Probability of Correct Selection for Large k Populations, with Application to Microarray Data
Xinping Cui, Jason Wilson
Lunch
PM1:
1:30
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3:00
Bioinformatics/Genomics
Chair: Jason Hsu
Adaptive Designs
Chair: Frank Bretz
Multiple Testing Procedures with Applications to Genomics
Sandrine Dudoit; van der Laan, Mark J.
Involving biological information for weighing statistical error under multiple testing
Anat Reiner-Benaim
Modified Weighted Simes Tests in Group Sequential Designs
Willi Maurer
Adaptive Designs with Correlated Test Statistics
Heiko Götte, Andreas Faldum, Gerhard Hommel
On the use of conventional tests in flexible, multiple test designs
Franz Koenig, Peter Bauer, Werner Brannath
Flexible group-sequential designs for clinical trials with treatment selection
Nigel Stallard, Tim Friede
Coffee Break / Poster Session 1
PM2:
3:30
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5:00
Multiple Endpoints
Chair: Chihiro Hirotsu
Bioinformatics/Genomics
Chair: Jen-pei Liu
On Consequences of One-Sided Alternative Hypotheses for the Null Hypothesis
Joachim Röhmel
Multiple comparisons for ratios to the grand mean
Ludwig A. Hothorn, G. Dilba
Comparison of Methods for Estimating Relative Potencies in Multiple Bioassay Problems
Gemechis Dilba
Multiple hypothesis testing to establish whether treatment is
Aldo Solari, Salmaso Luigi, Pesarin Fortunato
Across and Down in Large SNP Studies: the MAX test of Freidlin and Zheng vs SAS PROC CASECONTROL
Dana Aeschliman, Marie-Pierre Dube
Sample size calculation for microarray data analysis using normal mixture model
Masaru Ushijima
Estimating the proportion of true null hypotheses with the method of moments
Jose Maria Muino, P. Krajewski
Knowledge-based approach to handling multiple testing in functional genomics studies
Adam Zagdanski, Przemyslaw Biecek, Rafal Kustra


Tuesday, July 10.
Time Stream 1 Stream 2 Stream 3
AM1:
8:30
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10:00
Theory and Foundations
Chair: Ludwig Hothorn
Categorical Data / Nonparametrics
Chair: Cyrus Mehta
Bioinformatics / Genomics / Other
Chair: Nigel Stallard
Aesthetics and power in multiple testing – a contradiction?
Gerhard Hommel
A general principle for shortening closed test procedures with applications
Werner Brannath, Frank Bretz
FDR-control: Assumptions, a unifying proof, least favorables configurations and FDR-bounds
Helmut Finner, Thorsten Dickhaus, Markus Roters
Asymptotic improvements of the Benjamini-Hochberg method for FDR control based on an asymptotically optimal rejection curve
Thorsten Dickhaus, Helmut Finner, Markus Roters
A unified approach to proof of concept and dose estimation for categorical responses
Bernhard Klingenberg
Multiple Testing Procedures with Incomplete Data for Rank-based Tests of Ordered Alternatives.
Paul Cabilio, Jianan Peng
Adjusting p-values of a stepwise generalized linear model
Chiara Brombin, Finos L., Salmaso L.
A test procedure for random degeneration of paired rank lists
Michael G. Schimek, Peter Hall, Eva Budinska
Non-negative matrix factorization and sequential testing
Paul Fogel, S. Stanley Young, NISS (possibly speaker)
Multiple Testing Procedures for Hierarchically Related Hypotheses
Przemyslaw Biecek
On the conservatism of the multivariate Tukey-Kramer procedure
Takahiro Nishiyama, Takashi Seo
Distribution Theory with Two Correlated Chi-Square Variables
Anwar H Joarder
Coffee break
AM2:
10:30
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12:00
Resampling based methods
Chair: Sandrine Dudroit
Adaptive Designs
Chair: Tim Friede
Screening and Selection
Chair: Juliet Shaffer
Resampling-Based Control of the False Discovery Rate under Dependence
Michael Wolf, Joseph Romano, Azeem Shaikh
To model or not to model
Jason Hsu, Violeta Calian, Dongmei Li
False discovery proportion control under dependence
Yongchao Ge
Resampling-Based Empirical Bayes Multiple Testing Procedure for Controlling the False Discovery Rate with Applications to Genomics
Houston Gilbert, Sandrine Dudoit, Mark J. van der Laan
CONFIDENCE SETS FOLLOWING A MODIFIED GROUP SEQUENTIAL TEST
Hans-Helge Müller, Nina Timmesfeld
Unbiased estimation after modification of a group sequential design
Nina Timmesfeld, Schäfer, Helmut, Müller, Hans-Helge
Homogeneity of stages in adaptive designs
Andreas Faldum
Controversy? What controversy? - An attempt to structure the debate on adaptive designs
Marc Vandemeulebroecke
On estimates of R-values in selection problems
Andreas Futschik
Screening for Partial Conjunction Hypotheses
Ruth Heller, Benjamini, Yoav
Exact simultaneous confidence bands for multiple linear regression over an ellipsoidal region
Shan Lin, Wei Liu
Stepwise confidence intervals for monotone dose-response studies
Jianan Peng, Chu-In Charles Lee, Karolyn Davis
Lunch
PM1:
1:30
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3:00
Error rates
Chair: Ajit Tamhane
Normal theory, linear/non linear models
Chair: Anthony Hayter
Closed testing and partitioning principle
Chair: Gunnar Stefansson
Control of Generalized Error Rates in Multiple Testing
Joseph P. Romano
Comparing mutliple tests for separating populations
Juliet Shaffer
A leave-p-out based estimation of the proportion of null hypotheses in multiple testing problems
Alain Celisse
Repeated significance tests controlling the False Discovery Rate
Martin Posch, Sonja Zehetmayer, Peter Bauer
Simultaneous Inference for Ratios
David Hare, Hare, David and John Spurrier
Neglect of Multiplicity in Hypothesis Testing of Correlation Matrices
Burt Holland
Minimum area confidence set optimality for confidence bands in simple linear regression
Wei Liu, A. J. Hayter
Sch\'effe type multiple comparison procedure in order restricted randomized designs
Omer Ozturk, Steve MacEachern
The multiple confidence procedure and its applications
Tetsuhisa Miwa
Gate-keeping testing without tears
David Li, Mehrotra, Devan
An Application of the Closed Testing Principle to Enhance One-Sided Confidence Regions for a Multivariate Location Parameter
Michael Vock
A Procedure to Multiple Comparisons of Diagnostic Systems
Ana Cristina Braga, Lino A. Costa e Pedro N. Oliveira
Coffee Break / Poster Session 2
PM2:
3:30
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5:00
Closed testing and partitioning principle
Chair: Russ Wolfinger
Bioinformatics / Genomics
Chair: A Lawrence Gould
Response Adaptive and Optimal Designs
Chair: Sue-Jane Wang
Multiple Testing of General Contrasts: Truncated Closure and the Extended Shaffer-Royen Method
Peter H. Westfall, Tobias, Randall D.
Powerful short-cuts for gatekeeping procedures
Frank Bretz, Gerhard Hommel, Willi Maurer
Simultaneous confidence regions corresponding to Holm's stepdown multiple testing procedure
Olivier Guilbaud
Compatible simultaneous lower confidence bounds for the Holm procedure and other closed Bonferroni based tests
Klaus Strassburger, Frank Bretz
Detecting differential expression in microarray data: Outperforming the Optimal Discovery Procedure
Alexander Ploner, Elena Perelman, Stefano Calza, Yudi Pawitan
FLEXIBLE TWO-STAGE TESTING IN GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDIES
André Scherag, Helmut Schäfer, Hans-Helge Müller
Sequential genome-wide association studies for pharmacovigilance
Patrick Kelly
FDR control for discrete test statistics
Anja Victor, Scheuer C, Cologne J, Hommel G
Multiple treatment comparison based on a non-linear binary dynamic model
Brajendra Sutradhar, Vandna Jowaheer
On Multiple Treatment Effects in Adaptive Clinical Trials for Longitudinal Count data
Vandna Jowaheer, Brajendra C. Sutradhar
Multi-treatment optimal response-adaptive designs for continuous responses
Atanu Biswas, Saumen Mandal
On Identification of Inferior Treatments Using the Newman-Keuls Type Procedure
Samuel Wu, Weizhen Wang; David Annis


Wednesday, July 11.
Time Stream 1 Stream 2
AM1:
8:30
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10:00
Bayesian methods/False discovery rate
Chair: James Pan
Adaptive Designs
Chair: Werner Brannath
Bayesian adjusted inference for selected parameters
Daniel Yekutieli
A Bayesian Spatial Mixture Model for FMRI Analysis
Brent Logan, Maya P. Geliazkova, Daniel B. Rowe, Prakash W. Laud
A Bayesian screening method for determining if adverse events reported in a clinical trial are likely to be related to treatment
A Lawrence Gould
Exact calculations of expected power for the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure
Deborah Glueck, Anis Karimpour-Fard, Lawrence Hunter, Jan Mandel and Keith E. Muller
Estimating the interesting part of a dose-effect curve: When is a Bayesian adaptive design useful?
Frank Miller
Sample size re-estimation and hypotheses tests for trials with multiple treatment arms
Jixian Wang, Franz Koenig
Adaptive Design in Dose Ranging Studies Based on Both Efficacy and Safety Responses
Olga Marchenko, Prof. R. Keener, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Adaptive seamless designs for subpopulation selection based on time to event endpoints
Emmanuel Zuber, Werner Brannath, Michael Branson, Frank Bretz, Paul Gallo, Martin Posch, Amy Rac
Coffee break
AM2:
10:30
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12:00
Bioinformatics
Chair: Katherine S. Pollard
Others
Chair: Sanat Sarkar
Ranks of true positives in large scale genetics experiments
Russell D. Wolfinger, Zaykin, Dmitri; Zhivotovsky, Lev; Czika, Wendy; Shao, Susan
Multi-stage designs controlling the False Discovery or the Family Wise Error Rate
Sonja Zehetmayer, Peter Bauer, Martin Posch
Two-stage designs for proteomic and gene expression studies applying methods differing in costs
Alexandra Goll, Bauer Peter
Some insights into FDR and k-FWER in terms of average power and overall rejection rate
Meng Du
A Weighted Hochberg Procedure
Ajit Tamhane, Lingyun Liu
Multiple Testing in Change-Point Problem with Application to Safety Signal Detection
Jie Chen
Sequentially rejective test procedures for partially ordered sets of hypotheses
David Edwards, Jesper Madsen
Simultaneous confidence intervals by iteratively adjusted alpha for relative effects in the one-way layout
Thomas Jaki, Martin J. Wolfsegger
Lunch
PM1:
1:30
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3:00
Multiple endpoints problems
Chair: Jie Chen
Error rates
Chair: Klauss Strassburger
Stepwise Testing of Multiple Dose Groups Against a Control With Ordered Endpoints
James Francis Troendle
A new method to identify significant endpoints in a closed test setting
Carlos Vallarino, Joe Romano, Michael Wolf, Dick Bittman
Proportion of true null hypotheses in non high-dimensional multiple testing problems: procedures and comparison
Mario Walther, Claudia Hemmelmann; Rüdiger Vollandt
An Exact Test for Umbrella Ordered Alternatives of Location Parameters: the Exponential Distribution Case
Parminder Singh
Procedures Controlling Generalized False Discovery Rate
Sanat Sarkar, Wenge Guo
Effects of dependence in high-dimensional multiple testing problems
Kyung In Kim, Mark A. van de Wiel
A semi-parametric approach for mixture models: Application to local FDR estimation
Jean-Jacques Daudin, A. Bar-Hen, L. Pierre, S. Robin
Two new adaptive multiple testing procedures.
Etienne Roquain, Gilles Blanchard
Coffee Break
PM2:
3:30
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5:00
Clinical Trials
Chair: Peter Westfall
Multi-stage gatekeeping procedures with clinical trial applications
Alex Dmitrienko, Tamhane, Ajit
A unifying approach to non-inferiority, equivalence and superiority tests
Chihiro Hirotsu
Multiplicity-corrected, nonparametric tolerance regions for cardiac ECG features
Gheorghe Luta, S. Stanley Young, Alex Dmitrienko
Comparing treatment combinations with the corresponding monotherapies in clinical trials
Ekkehard Glimm, Norbert Benda