Program

Pre-conference workshop

Monday, 27 September 2010    
 
Welcome - Pre-Conference Workshop
 
Fast Sparse Regression and Classification

Professor Jerome H. Friedman,
University of Standford, USA


Main Conference

Tuesday, 28 September 2010    
 
Welcome - Main Conference E. Pham
 
 
Session 1 Assays Chair: Richardus Vonk
 
Improving statistical quality in published research: the clinical experience

Professor Martin Bland,
Department of Health Sciences,
University of York, UK
 
  Contributed papers
Statistical analysis of analytical method transfer: proposals for the location-scale approach and tolerance intervals

Cornelia Frömke
  Development and Validation of an in-vivo bioassay

Birgit Niederhaus
  Cut-off determination: can prediction limit be used as an 
alternative to the 95% percentile?

Marion Berger

Statistical methods for cut-point determination in enzyme- linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA)

Thomas Jaki
  Use of parametric model-averaging in dose-response  analysis

Christian Ritz
  Comparison of initial value routines for dose-response  models

Anke Schulz

 
 
Session 2A Bayesian Statistics Chair: Bruno Boulanger
 
  Contributed papers
Use of Bayesian inference in ecotoxicology

Sandrine Charles
Optimization of ligand-binding assay in a QbD 
environment: Use of Bayesian non-linear hierarchical
model to set up precision profile as quality response.
 Pierre Lebrun
A Bayesian approach to predicting precision of a future  study in the presence of uncertainty about the variance

John Sherington
Bayesian modelling of Escherichia coli O157:H7 dose  response incorporating age as a covariable

Marie Laure Delignette-Muller
 
 
Session 3A Methodology (I)  Chair: Viswanath Devanaryan
 
  Contributed papers
Probabilistic modeling for risk assessment of residual host 
cell DNA in biological products

Harry Yang
Steady-State zone and control chart for process parameters 
of a powder compactor .

 Caroline Lévéder
Design Space – Risk Based Approach

Kevin Lief
Assessing quality control for repeated bioassay data by 
parametric and non-parametric prediction intervals

 Daniel Gerhard
 
 
Session 4A Methodology (II)  Chair: Harry Yang 
 
Contributed papers
How to accept the equivalence of two measurement
methods? Comparison and improvements of the Bland and
Altman’s approach and errors-in-variables regression.
Bernard Francq
Characterizing in vitro synergy using the ray design 
methodology

Sophie Ruquet
 
 
Session 2B Toxicology (I)  Chair: Ludwig Hothorn
 
Contributed papers
Comet Analysis – Issues, Limitations and Recommendations

Jonathan Bright
Comet Assays – Facts and Figures 

Luc Essermeant
An Overview of the Toxicology SIG 

Mike Aylott
Testing a trend effect for count variables which are  bounded by another count variable: application to fertility counts

Jean-Paul Lahmy
 
 
Session 3B Toxicology (II) Chair: Yi Tsong
 
Contributed papers
Assessing systemic drug exposure in repeated  dose toxicity studies in the case of complete and 
incomplete sampling

Martin J. Wolfsegger
Williams-type procedure on monotone trend for normal, non-normal, ordered categorical, proportion and poly-k data, with application in toxicology

Ludwig Hothorn
A Step-Down Approach to Analyzing Electrocardiogram  Endpoints For In Vivo Regulatory Toxicology Studies

Maya L Hanna
Concentration-response analysis of a stochastic process:  Multi-state modelling of in-vitro folliculogenesis and oocyte maturation Marc Weimer
Optimization of the irinotecan – efflux transporter  inhibitors combination for treating irinotecan resistant
tumours

Alexandre Sostelly
Anova-Type Statistics, a good alternative to parametric methods for analysing repeated data from preclinical experiments

 Odile Coudert-Berthion
Prediction of tumor class from gene expression data using  bagged decision trees

Sam Roberts


Wednesday, 29 September 2010    
 
Session 4bis Translational sciences Chair: Emmanuel Pham
 
Development of a dose content uniformity test suitable for medium and large sample sizes

Yi Tsong, Deputy director, Office of Biostatistics, CDER, FDA, USA

 
Contributed papers
K-PD models as a flexible modeling tool in non-clinical statistics

Tom Jacobs
A Unified Approach to Flexible and Powerful Modeling Of  Pre-Clinical Combination Studies

Chris Harbron
Pharmacokinetic similarity analysis using nonlinear mixed  effects models

Anne Dubois
Modeling Dose-response Microarray Data in Early Drug Development Experiments

 Dan Lin
A multivariate analysis of prognostics factors in Chronic  Lymphocytic Leukemia

Giuseppe Palermo
Genomic Biomarkers for Depression: feature-specific and joint biomarkers

Helena Geys  
 
 
Session 5 Omics   Chair: Luc Bijnens
 
Development of biomarker signatures from high- dimensional array data, and identification of subsets with common patterns between multiple array platforms

Viswanath Devanaryan, Director
Exploratory Statistics, Abbott Laboratories, USA
 
Contributed papers
Multivariate approaches to develop molecular biomarkers: a reality check.

Willem Talloen
Seeing the Wood for the Trees: Interrogating the Structure of Random Forests

Chris Harbron
Testing for the Differential Expression of Genes at the  Probe Level of Affymetrix Microarray data

Tatsiana Khamiakova
Treatment of Genomic Data in the Context of Macroarrays 

Julie Pouget
Addressing the Challenges of the Analysis of Genomics  Data with JMP Genomics

Valerie Nedbal
 
Closing and concluding remark Luc Bijnens and E. Pham


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