Chicago CHEC hosts the 7th International Conference on Risk Analysis

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Thursday, May 4th, 2017

Room SU-003

 

Session A: Statistical Models for Cancer Risk Analysis

9:00-10:30AM

On Comparing Cumulative Incidence Functions in a Competing Risks Model Using an Empirical Likelihood Approach, by Hammou El Barmi and Vicente Núñez-Antón

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Chicago CHEC: Reducing Colorectal Cancer Disparities on the Southside of Chicago through Cross-Institutional Collaboration, by Shan Wang, Hardik Marfatia (Presenting Author), Danielle Lazar, Kenzie Cameron, Karriem Watson, Keia Hobbs.

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Revisiting Regression Models and some Applications considering Medical Data and Cancer Risks, by Amilcar Oliveira, Teresa Oliveira, Victor Leiva

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Statistical comparisons of constitutional deletions and duplications in the human chromosomal, fragile sites, by Inês Jorge Sequeira, Dora Prata Gomes, Miguel Fonseca, Elsa Moreira, José Rueff and Aldina Brás

 

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Plenary Session

10:45AM-12:15PM

Statistical Models for Cancer data: A Breast Cancer Analysis, by Christos P. Kitsos

 

Experimental Design and related methodologies on Cancer Risk Research, by Teresa Oliveira

 

A Two-Phase Morphological Stability Study of Tumor Growth using Surface and Elastic Energies, by

Emma Turian, Kara Pham, Kai Liu, Shuwang Li, John Lowengrub

 

Statistical methods of identification of driver mutations in cancer: Capture-Recapture, Latent Class

Analysis and EM-algorithm, by Marek Kimmel, Stephanie Hicks, David Wallace-Bradley"

 

 

 

Session B: Risk Models for Health Sciences

2:00-3:30PM

Evaluating the Caregivers Literacy on Pediatric High Blood Pressure, by M. Filomena Teodoro

 

Modelling Psychosocial Risks in Occupational Health, by Luís M. Grilo and Helena L. Grilo.

 

General Method for Construction of Bivariate Stochastic Processes Given Two Marginal Processes, by Jerzy Filus, Lidia Filus

 

Probable Maximum Loss for The Florida Public Hurricane Loss Model: A Summary and a Comparison, by Sneh Gulati, Florence George , B.M. Golam Kibria, Shahid Hamid, Steve Cocke, and Jean-Paul Pinelli

 

 

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Session C: Undergraduate and Graduate Student Oral and Poster Presentations

3:45-5:00PM

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Friday, May 5th, 2017

Room COBM

 

Session D: Risk Model in Bussines and Environmental Sciences

9:00-10:30AM

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Using PIXE Method to Determine the Origin of Commercial Feathers by T. Yamada , K. Kataoka, T. Saunders, K. Sera, T. Nakamura and Y. Nose

 

The Empirical Study on Precious Metals Investments Versus Stock Indexes, by Izabela Pruchnicka-Grabias

 

Identifying and Correcting Gerrymandered Legislative Districts, by James R. Bozeman, Jillian Mori , Abby Salvadore

 

The Impact of Eco- Innovation on Firm Performance and Competitive Capability, by Pawel Bartoszczuk

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Effects of Violations of Prerequisites in Sequential Designs on Sample Size and Power, Karl Moder

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Session E: Dynamical Epidemiological Modeling Methods for Risk Assessment for Public Health

10:45AM-12:15PM

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Optimizing Massively Parallel Simulations of Infection Spread Through Air Travel For Policy Analysis, by Ashok Srinivasan

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Multiscale Model for Pedestrian and Infection Dynamics During Air Travel, by Sirish Namilae

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Transmission Dynamics of Vector Borne Disease with Multiple Hosts: An Application of Visceral Leishmaniasis, by Anuj Mubayi

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The Types of Social Influences and Their Role on The Dynamics of High School Dropouts, by Bechir Amdouni

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Methamphetamine Epidemics: Influence of Markets and Interventions on its Dynamics, by Steve Szymanowski

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