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                  Workshop on Modelling Indirectly or Imprecisely Observed 
                    Data 
                    December 10-12, 2009 
                    at the University of Western Ontario
                  Organizers:  
                    John Braun, University of Western Ontario 
                    Patrick Brown, University of Toronto 
                    Joan Hu, Simon Fraser University 
                   
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            OVERVIEW 
            A wide variety of practical problems involve "indirect observations", 
              "filtered information" or "imprecise data". 
              The fields include medical research, epidemiology, environmetrics, 
              finance and reliability. Suppose that inferences on a population 
              quantity associated with a random element y of the space Y are of 
              interest but the available observations are realizations of another 
              random element x, an element of the space X, where the spaces Y 
              and X are not necessarily the same and x=F(y) with F a mapping from 
              Y to X. Here F can vary from individual to individual. 
            The workshop will focus on examples of the above formulation. In 
              particular, we will consider panel counts over time (interval-censoring), 
              general panel data (area-censoring), regression with measurement 
              errors,missing data, and misclassification, masked or aggregated 
              outcomes. Alongside these general approaches of indirectly/incompletely 
              observed data, we will consider theoretical developments in smoothing 
              and data sharpening. We will also consider emerging issues in spatial 
              data analysis, such as disease mapping with spatial aggregation 
              and spatio-temporal modeling with changing boundaries of spatial 
              aggregation. 
             
            Keynote Speakers:
            Charmaine Dean (Simon Fraser University) 
              Peter Hall (University of Melbourne) 
              Linda Young (University of Florida) 
            Final List of Participants:
            
               
                | Full Name | 
                University Name | 
               
               
                | Abarin, Taraneh | 
                Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute | 
               
               
                | Acar, Elif Fidan | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Bari, Abdellah | 
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                | Bhattacharyya, Samit | 
                University of Guelph | 
               
               
                | Braun, W. John | 
                University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Brown, Patrick | 
                Cancer Care Ontario | 
               
               
                | Chenouri, Shojaeddin | 
                University of Waterloo | 
               
               
                | Dean, Charmaine | 
                Simon Fraser University | 
               
               
                | Dehghan, M. Hossein | 
                Laval University | 
               
               
                | Dixon, Stephanie | 
                The University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Duchesne, Thierry | 
                Laval University | 
               
               
                | Earles, Jeffrey | 
                c/o A. Ahlog, at Umaine | 
               
               
                | Escudero, Nester | 
                Universidad Centro Occidental Lisandro Alvarado | 
               
               
                | Flint, Ortho | 
                University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Ghosh, Suma | 
                York University | 
               
               
                | Hall, Peter | 
                University of Melbourne | 
               
               
                | Hu, Joan | 
                Simon Fraser University | 
               
               
                | Jiang, Hedy | 
                Cancer Care Ontario | 
               
               
                | Kang, Xiuli | 
                University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Klar, Neil | 
                University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Kulperger, Reg | 
                University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Lei, Na | 
                University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Li, Ye | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Murdoch, Duncan | 
                University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Nielsen, Jason | 
                Carleton University | 
               
               
                | Peterson, Derick | 
                University of Rochester | 
               
               
                | Rosychuk, Rhonda | 
                University of Alberta | 
               
               
                | Shakourifar, Mohammad | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Sun, Yanqing | 
                University of North Carolina at Charlotte | 
               
               
                | Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre | 
                Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute | 
               
               
                | Tanatar, Andriy | 
                Bank of Montreal | 
               
               
                | Wang, Ching-Yun | 
                Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 
               
               
                | Wang, Liqun | 
                University of Manitoba | 
               
               
                | Wolters, Mark | 
                University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Woolford, Douglas | 
                Wilfrid Laurier University | 
               
               
                | Xiong, Juan | 
                University of Western Ontario | 
               
               
                | Yi, Grace | 
                University of Waterloo | 
               
               
                | Young, Linda | 
                University of Florida | 
               
               
                | Zhang, Ying | 
                University of Iowa | 
               
               
                | Zhao, Lihui | 
                Harvard School of Public Health | 
               
               
                | Zhou, Lutong | 
                Cancer Care Ontario | 
               
               
                | Zivari Piran, Hossein | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
             
             
             
            ACCOMODATION: Please see the link at the top of this page 
              for more information. 
               
              TRAVEL: Please see the link at the top of this page for directions 
              to London and to the workshop. 
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