Conference program Monday, 1 December

AASC’14, 1 December 2014, Port Lincoln, South Australia www.aasc.org.au
Conference program
Monday, 1 December
7:30 – 9:00
9:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:30
12:30 – 13:30
13:30 – 15:00
15:00 – 15:30
15:30 – 17:00
Workshop registration open
Workshop session
Morning tea
Workshop session
Lunch
Workshop session
Afternoon tea
Workshop session
Parallel workshops:
1 Ballroom South – Communicating with graphics: ideas and practices,
with Ross Darnell and David Baird
2 Ballroom Centre – Survey methodologies for agricultural and environmental applications,
with Jennifer Brown and Melissa Dobbie
3 Ballroom North – GenStat Masterclass: skills, scripts and splines,
with Sue Welham and Roger Payne
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Conference program, Tuesday, 2 December
7:30 – 8:50
Conference registration desk open
8:50 – 9:00
Conference opening
9:00 – 10:00
Peter Diggle, Statistics: an information science for the twenty-first century
10:00 – 10:30
Morning tea
Surveys in agriculture and natural resources - 1
Chair: Ross Darnell
10:30 – 11:00
Jennifer Brown,
Adaptive Sampling: New applications for environmental surveys
11:00 – 11:20
Mellissa Dobbie
Investigating the link between landscape heterogeneity and moth abundance at multiple spatial scales
11:20 – 11:40
Tony Meissner
High spring maximum temperatures decrease South Australian wheat and barley yields
11:40 – 11:50
Refreshment break
Surveys in agriculture and natural resources - 2
Chair: Subhash Chandra
11:50 – 12:10
Jeff Wood
The design of a long-term woodland experiment in the Australian Capital Territory
12:10 – 12:30
Warren Müller
What drives recruitment of eucalypt seedlings in southern NSW?
12:30 – 12:50
Bryan Stanfill
An efficient sensitivity analysis method for spatio-temporal data from an agricultural systems simulator
12:50 – 13:30
Lunch
Statistics in medical and health science applications
Chair: Teresa Neeman
13:30 – 13:50
Chris Triggs
Fitting nested random effects in quantile regression models
13:50 – 14:10
Jisheng Cui
Parametric conditional frailty models for recurrent cardiovascular events in the LIPID study
14:10 – 14:30
Pauline Ding - May I have your kidney? A case study implementing a modified generalized estimating
equation method for longitudinal data with multiple levels of variation
14:30 – 14:50
Denny Meyer
The analysis of infant brains using EEG data
14:50 – 15:10
Afternoon tea
Statistics in fishery and marine ecology
Chair: Melissa Dobbie
15:10 – 15:30
Marco Kienzle
Fisheries research: a science at the crossroad of statistics, economics, computer science and ecology
15:30 – 15:50
Peter Rankin
An alternative surplus production model
15:50 – 16:10
Russel Thomson
Using random forests to predict indicators of fishing pressure
16:10 – 16:20
Refreshment break
16:20 – 16:40
Brian Cullis – organiser and chair of the discussion panel Statistics and Biology Collaboration
Collaborate or Perish: the future of Biometrics in Australia
16:40 – 17:00
John Black, Statistics and animal science: a lifetime of experiences
17:00 – 17:20
Paul Butcher, ‘Statistical’ collaboration in the fisheries realm: a case study quantifying shark mortality in a
NSW commercial long line fishery
17:20 – 17:40
Haydn Kuchel, Collaboration with AGT breeding programmes
17:40 – 17:50
Refreshment break
17:50 – 18:15
Poster session presentations,
Chair: Chris Brien
Mario D’Antuono Statistical analysis of data collected from an observational study of collections of pasture legume germplasm grown
in nurseries over many years
Joanne De Faveri Modelling spatial trend and interplot competition in multi-trait / multi-harvest data from variety selection trials
Paul Eckermann Developing a ranking system for frost tolerance in wheat and barley
Kerry Bell Comparing methods for analysing ordinal data using two case studies
Isabel Munoz Santa Bivariate models for internal nitrogen use efficiency: mixture models as an exploratory tool
Maryann Pirie Is floppy meat a sign of poor quality?
Rachel Sore control sets to connect Deli Dura progeny testing trials for breeding and selection
Carole Wright Where’s Bactrocera frauenfeldi?
Beata Sznajder Estimation of population structure in wheat diversity panel
Martin Upsdell Identifying compounds which yellow wool by fitting Gaussian peaks to fluorescence spectra as an alternative to
PARAFAC
Na Wang Deriving optimal fishing effort for managing multi-species fisheries with aggregated effort data
Olena Kravchuk Mixture designs in dietary studies in animal models
18:15 – 20:00
Welcome reception at the Pool Area, PLH (poster viewing continuing)
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Conference program, Wednesday, 3 December
7:30 – 8:30
Conference registration open
VSN International plenary session
8:30 – 9:30
Roger Payne, Design, anova and msanova
9:30 – 9:50
David Baird
Support Vector Machines in GenStat
9:50 – 10:10
Arthur Gilmour
Announcing ASReml 4
10:10 – 10:20
Floor discussion
10:20 – 10:45
Morning tea
10:45 – 17:30
Social program:
Tours, cooking classes, swimming with …, etc.
Refer to www.aasc.org.au
Chair: Mario D’Antuono
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Conference program, Thursday, 4 December
8:00 – 9:00
Conference registration desk open
Designed trials in plant science
Chair: Sue Welham
9:00 – 9:30
Alison Smith
Conducting multi-phase experiments in a commercial laboratory: a case study in collaboration,
communication and compromise
9:30 – 9:50
Chris Brien
Growth analysis of data from high-throughput phenotyping facilities
9:50 – 10:10
Simon Diffey
Factor analytic mixed models for defining seasons in perennial pasture variety trials
10:10 – 10:30
Susan Fletcher
Using a bivariate approach to assess for tolerance of crown rot in wheat
10:30 – 10:50
Morning tea
Genetic analysis and computing
Chair: David Baird
10:50 – 11:20
Julian Taylor,
Statistical and computational methods with high dimensional genetic marker data
11:20 – 11:40
Paul Eckermann
Overview of genetic linkage map construction
11:40 – 12:00
Emi Tanaka
Fast imputation for large unordered marker data
12:00 – 12:20
Emma Huang
Multivariate genetic analysis: trade-offs between statistical and computational efficiency
12:20 – 12:40
Yoonsuh Jung
Biomarker detection in association studies: modelling SNPs simultaneously via logistic ANOVA
12:40 – 13:20
Lunch
Statistical inference 1
Chair: Graham Hepworth
13:20 – 13:50
Murray Aitkin
The problems of very small n
13:50 – 14:10
Ari Verbyla
Another look at Generalized Linear Mixed Models
14:10 – 14:30
Murray Aitkin
Distribution-free Bayesian Generalized Linear Models
14:30 – 14:50
Chanatda Somchit
P-Spline Vector Generalized Additive Models
14:50 – 15:10
Afternoon tea
Statistical inference 2
Chair: Chris Triggs
15:10 – 15:30
Hwan-Jin Yoon
Fitting linear mixed models with and without contextual effects using ML and REML
15:30 – 15:50
Michael Fahey
Multivariate mixture models for latent class identification in zero-heavy food data
15:50 – 16:10
Graham Hepworth
Retesting in the estimation of proportions by group testing
16:10 – 16:20
Refreshment break
Statistics in animal science applications
Chair: Simon Diffey
16:30 – 16:50
Murray Hannah
Meta-analysis for the prediction of milk-yield response to supplementary feed
16:50 – 17:10
Siva Ganesh
Understanding and characterizing complex microbial community data
17:10 – 17:30
Angela Anderson
Contrasting multiple regression and random coefficients regression to determine predictors of calf
hydration
17:30 – 18:00
AGUA meeting
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18:30 – late
Bus departs to the conference dinner (1 departure 18:30, 2 departure 18:50)
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Conference program, Friday, 5 December
8:00 – 8:30
Conference registration open
Applied statistical methodologies
Chair: Denny Meyer
8:30 – 8:50
Alysha De Livera
Statistical methods for handling complex unwanted variation in metabolomics data
8:50 – 9:10
Sharon Nielsen
Black boxes are not only found in aeroplanes: NIR calibration
9:10 – 9:30
Ling Li
Assessing the inter-observer reliability in time and motion studies
9:30 – 9:40
Refreshment break
Statistics communication with science collaborators
Chair: Ruth Buttler
9:40 – 10:00
Teresa Neeman
Biology and The Null Hypothesis
10:00 – 10:20
John Koolaard
Practical means for closer collaboration between statisticians and our biological colleagues –
inference tools for linear models
10:20 – 10:40
David Reid
Survey mania! – are there consequences?
10:40 – 11:00
Morning tea
Statistics training in the workforce
Discussion facilitator: Susan Wilson
10:40 – 11:10
Fred van Eeuwijk,
Teaching statistics for predicting phenotypes from genotypes and environments in plant breeding
11:10 – 11:25
Andrew McLachlan
Staff biometrics training at Plant & Food Research
11:25 – 11:40
Bev Gogel
SAGI Training Program
11:40 – 12:10
Floor discussion
12:10 – 12:30
Conference closing
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 17:00
Post-conference workshop