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The International Biometric Society Australasian Region Conference, 26-30th November 2017
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Bounding IV Estimates Using Mediation Analysis Thinking

November 5, 2017 admin

In this paper we initially demonstrate that the well-known assumptions for conducting IV-analyses can equivalently be expressed using natural effects…

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Correlated Bivariate Normal Competing Risks—Structuring Estimation In An Ill-Posed Problem

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Estimation of correlation between competing risks has long been known to be an ill-posed problem, due to lack of identifiablity,…

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Hockey Sticks And Broken Sticks – A Design For A Single-Arm, Placebo-Controlled, Double-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial Suitable For Chronic Diseases

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This work is motivated and exemplified by a genetic disorder causing early onset diabetes, blindness and deafness, which is extremely…

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A General Framework For Functional Regression Modelling

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Recent technological advances generate an increasing amount of functional data, data where each observation represents a curve or an image…

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Conference Dinner

November 4, 2017 admin

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Multiple Sample Hypothesis Testing Of The Human Microbiome Through Evolutionary Trees

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Next generation sequencing technologies make it possible to survey microbial communities by sequencing nucleic acid material extracted from multiple samples.…

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An Asymmetric Measure of Population Differentiation Based on the Saddlepoint Approximation Method

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In the field of population genetics there are many measures of genetic diversity and population differentiation. The best known is…

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Bayesian Hypothesis Tests With Diffuse Priors: Can We Have Our Cake And Eat It Too?

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We introduce a new class of priors for Bayesian hypothesis testing, which we name “cake priors”. These priors circumvent Bartlett’s…

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Bayesian Semi-Parametric Spectral Density Estimation With Applications To The Southern Oscillation Index

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Standard time series modelling is dominated by parametric models like ARMA and GARCH models. Even though nonparametric Bayesian inference has…

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Efficient Multivariate Sensitivity Analysis Of Agricultural Simulators

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Complex mechanistic computer models often produce multivariate output. Sensitivity analysis can be used to help understand sources of uncertainty in…

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