1998 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

• Invited Addresses
  • 9. Detecting Changes in Brain Shape Using Random Fields
    Sponsor: IMS

  • 36. Presidential Invited Address by Sir David Cox: The Relation Between
    Theory and Application in Biostatistics
    Sponsor: ENAR

• Invited Paper Sessions
  • 1. Data Mining
    Sponsor: IMS

  • 2. Achieving Consensus in Clinical Trials: When is the Evidence Compelling?
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 3. Statistical Aspects of Neural Modeling
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 8. Impact of Recent Therapeutic Advances for AIDS on Clinical Trial
    Design and Analysis
    Sponsor: ASA Biopharmaceutical Section/ENAR

  • 10. The GIS/Statistics Interface
    Sponsor: ASA Biometrics Section

  • 11. Phylogenetic Trees
    Sponsor: ASA Biometrics Section

  • 15. Personal Reflections on Biostatistics
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 16. Exact Permutation tests for Clinical Trial Outcomes
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 17. Introduction to Generalized Estimating Equations
    Sponsor: ENAR/ASA Biometrics Section

  • 18. Statistical Challenges in Magnetic Resonance Imaging
    Sponsor: IMS

  • 22. Golden Oldies: the State of Biometry in the Late 1940s and 1950s
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 23. Clustering
    Sponsor: IMS

  • 24. Exploratory Data Analysis Using Classification Trees: Biomedical Applications
    Sponsor: ASA Biopharmaceutical Section/ENAR

  • 29. Analysis of Quality of Life Data in Clinical Trials
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 30. Issues in the Choice of Analysis for Discrete Data Problems
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 31. Databases and Methodological Innovations That Support Health Policy Research
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 32. Genetic Mapping of Complex and Quantitative Traits
    Sponsor: ASA Biometrics Section

  • 37. Inference From Population Dynamics Models
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 38. The Role of DSMBs and Accumulating Evidence in the Conduct of Cinical Trials
    Sponsor: ASA Biopharmaceutical Section/ENAR

  • 39. Statistical Challenges in Estimating Ratios
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 40. Model Selection
    Sponsor: IMS

  • 44. Asymptotic Methods in Biostatistics
    Sponsor: IMS

  • 45. Statistical Issues in Trials Involving Respiratory Diseases
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 46. Applications of Remotely Sensed Data
    Sponsor: ASA Biometrics Section

  • 51. Mixture Models
    Sponsor: IMS

  • 52. Comparative Analyses of Categorical Outcomes From a Longitudinal Survey
    Sponsor: ENAR/ASA Epidemiology Section

  • 53. Model Selection and Model Adequacy in Survival Analysis
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 57. Stochastic Models of Carcinogenesis
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 58. Statistical issues in Ophthalmological Clinical Trials
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 59. Causal Inference in Longitudinal Problems Using G-estimation
    Sponsor: IMS

• Contributed Paper Sessions
  • 1. Bioassay and Carcinogenicity
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 5. Nonlinear Modeling
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 6. Health Services
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 7. IMS Contributed Papers I
    Sponsor: IMS

  • 12. Multiple Endpoints
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 13. Experimental Designs
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 14. Epidemiology
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 19. Bayesian Methods
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 20. Biopharmaceutical Applications
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 21. Missing Data
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 25. Applications to AIDS
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 26. Survival Analysis
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 27. Imaging and Spatial Modeling
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 28. IMS Contributed Papers II
    Sponsor: IMS

  • 33. Longitudinal Data Analysis
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 34. Environmental and Ecological Applications
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 35. Clinical Trials
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 41. Diagnostic and Screening Tests
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 42. Generalized Linear Models
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 43. Time Series
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 47. The Cox Proportional Hazards Model
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 48. Categorical Data
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 49. Missing Covariates
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 50. Mixed Applications
    Sponsor: IMS/ENAR

  • 54. Applications to Cancer
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 55. Inference and Causal Inference
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 56. Genetics
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 60. Sequential Design and Sample Size Selection in Clinical Trials
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 61. Rank-based Inference
    Sponsor: ENAR

  • 62. Special Topic Contributed Papers: UNC Biostatistics Students
    Sponsor: ENAR