CONFERENCE PROGRAM - Cukurova University
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM - Cukurova University
CONFERENCE PROGRAM 1 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society 2 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Beyaz Salon - Opening Ceremony Talk by president of Local Committee REFIK BURGUT, CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY, TURKEY Talk by president of EMR HAVI MURAD, GERTNER INSTITIUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH, ISRAEL Talk by president of IBS JOHN HINDE, NUI GALWAY, IRELAND Beyaz Salon - Bayesian Analysis Chair: Laurence Freedman Emmanuel Lesaffre L-BioStat / KU Leuven, Belgium - Invited Talk A BAYESIAN MULTIVARIATE GROWTH CURVE MODEL Emre Dünder Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey A BAYESIAN LASSO APPROACH FOR MODELLING DIABETIC DISEASE Zeynep Öztürk Artvin Çoruh University, Turkey COMPARISONS ON CONVERGENCE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS FOR BAYESIAN LOGISTIC RANDOM EFFECT MODEL Kazem Nasserinejad Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands PREDICTION OF HEMOGLOBIN IN BLOOD DONORS USING A LATENT CLASS MIXEDEFFECTS TRANSITION MODEL Lila Salon - Longitudinal Data Analysis Chair: Urania Dafni Victor Kipnis US National Cancer Institute, United States - Invited Talk TIME-VARYING MODELS FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA MEASURED WITH ERROR, WITH APPLICATION TO PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND SLEEP Denitsa Grigorova Sofia University, Bulgaria CORRELATED PROBIT ANALYSIS OF TWO REPEATEDLY MEASURED ORDINAL OUTCOMES WITH APPLICATION TO THE HEALTH AND RETIREMENT STUDY Diklah Geva Ben Gurion University, Israel DYNAMIC MODEL TO STUDY THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN TWO LONGITUDINAL MEASURES IN THE PRESENCE OF SURVIVAL Zeynep Kalaylioglu Middle East Technical University, Turkey JOINT VARIANCE PRIOR FOR THE ANALYSIS OF RANDOM EFFECTS MODELS 3 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Turkuaz Salon - Computational Methods Chair: Atilla Halil Elhan Ozlem Ilk Middle East Technical University, Turkey MLE IN A FEASIBLE REGION IS AS GOOD AS OR BETTER THAN THE USUAL MLE WHILE ESTIMATING BOX-COX TRANSFORMATION PARAMETER IN ANOVA Fadlalla G. Elfadaly The Open University, United Kingdom ON POINT ESTIMATION OF THE ABNORMALITY OF AN INDIVIDUAL PATIENT'S RESULTS Bekir Çetintav Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey A NEW COST-EFFICIENT SAMPLING METHOD BY USING OF THE FUZZY SETS IN RANKED SET SAMPLING Derya Karagöz Hacettepe University, Turkey DETECTION OF MULTIPLE OUTLIERS IN MULTIVARIATE DATA Beyaz Salon - Mixture Models Chair: Hélène Jacqmin-Gadda KyungMann Kim University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States - Invited Talk MARGINALLY SPECIFIED MEAN MODELS FOR ZERO-INFLATED COUNT DATA Youngjo Lee Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of LIKELIHOOD-BASED INTERVALS FOR UNOBSERVABLES Nikos Pantazis Athens University, Greece USING ROUTINE BIOMARKER MEASUREMENTS TO PREDICT TIME BETWEEN HIV INFECTION AND DIAGNOSIS Melike Kaya Bahҫecitapar Hacettepe University, Turkey THE IMPORTANCE OF ESTIMATION METHODS ON STATISTICAL POWER OF F-TEST STATISTICS WITH ADJUSTED DEGREES OF FREEDOM IN LINEAR MIXED EFFECTS MODELS FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA Lila Salon - Survival Analysis – I Chair: Mithat Gonen John Hinde NUI Galway, Ireland - Invited Talk SUMMARISING CENSORED SURVIVAL DATA USING THE MEAN RESIDUAL LIFE FUNCTION Bella Vakulenko-Lagun Hebrew University, Israel COMPARING ESTIMATION APPROACHES FOR THE ILLNESS-DEATH MODEL UNDER LEFT TRUNCATION AND RIGHT CENSORING Jonathan Yefenof Hebrew University, Israel LEFT WITHOUT BEING SEEN-THE DISAPPEARANCE OF IMPATIENT PATIENTS Jeremy M G Taylor University of Michigan, United States A MULTISTATE MODEL FOR TIME TO CANCER RECURRENCE AND DEATH INCORPORATING A CURED FRACTION 4 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Turkuaz Salon - Genomics Chair: Ziv Shkedy Or Zuk Hebrew University, Israel BAYESIAN MULTISCALE HIDDEN MARKOV TREE MODELS FOR ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONAL DATA Stefan Konigorski Max Delbrück Center (MDC) for Molecular Medicine, Germany C-JAMP (COPULA-BASED JOINT ANALYSIS OF MULTIPLE PHENOTYPES): A JOINT STATISTICAL MODEL INTEGRATING MULTI-LEVEL BIOLOGICAL DATA FOR GENETIC ASSOCIATION ANALYSIS BASED ON COPULA FUNCTIONS Seyit Ali Kayis Karabuk University, Turkey PRELIMINARY EXPRESSION ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL MICRORNA AND BIOGENESIS PATHWAY IN HUMAN MESENCHYMAL STEM CELLS DERIVED FROM PERIODONTAL LIGAMENT AND PULP OF MOLAR AND PREMOLAR TEETH Tal Galili Tel Aviv University, Israel DECIPHERING THE TRNA AMINOACYLATION CODE Beyaz Salon - Lecture and Reception In Honor of Marvin Zelen Chair : Urania Dafni & Refik Burgut Sponsor: EMR & Frontier Science Foundation-Hellas Talks by friends of Marvin Zelen Ori Davidov - EMR 2015 Marvin Zelen Award Lecture ORDERED REGRESSIONS WITH APPLICATIONS Reception 5 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Beyaz Salon - Data Mining Chair: Birol Emir Yoav Benjamini Tel Aviv University, Israel - Invited Talk SELECTIVE INFERENCE OF BIG DATA IN HEALTH INFORMATICS Yair Goldberg University of Haifa, Israel ADAPTIVE PARAMETER ESTIMATION IN MULTI-STAGE DECISION PROBLEMS Sengul Cangur Duzce University, Turkey COMPARISON OF FAST REGRESSION ALGORITHMS FOR MODEL SELECTION IN LARGE AND HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA Ülger Aydoğan Culha General Directorate of Highways, Republic of Turkey, Turkey CLASSIFICATION IN HIGH DIMENSION LOW SAMPLE SIZE SETTINGS WITH AND WITHOUT DATA REDUCTION Lila Salon - Italian-EMR-Spanish Chair: Havi Murad Moisés Gómez-Mateu Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain SELECTING THE PRIMARY ENDPOINT IN A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL. A CARDIOVASCULAR CASE STUDY Davide Paolo Bernasconi University of Milano-Bicocca , Italy SURVIVAL PROBABILITY WITH TIME VARYING TREATMENT: THEORETICAL QUANTITIES AND NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATORS M.Luz Calle University of Vic - Central University of Catalonia, Spain KERNEL METHODS IN GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES Livio Finos University of Padua, Italy CONDITIONAL MULTIVARIATE SCORE TEST IN RNA-SEQ DATA Turkuaz Salon - Diagnostic and Screening Tests Chair: Ergun Karaagaoglu Fragiskos Bersimis Harokopio University, Greece A COMPOSITE HEALTH RELATED INDEX'S DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY INCREASES WHEN ITS COMPONENTS' SUPPORT LENGTH INCREASES AND WHEN SPECIFIC WEIGHTS ARE ASSIGNED TO THEM Naime Meric Konar Hacettepe University, Turkey THE EFFECT OF CORRELATION STRUCTURE BETWEEN DIAGNOSTIC TESTS ON NET RECLASSIFICATION IMPROVEMENT (NRI) AND INTEGRATED DISCRIMINATION IMPROVEMENT (IDI) Erdal Cosgun Acibadem University, Turkey DETERMINATION OF THE REFERENCE INTERVALS FOR THE PLASMA AND URINE AMINO ACIDS Demosthenes Panagiotakos Harokopio University, Greece PARAMETRIC WEIBULL SURVIVAL MODEL PERFORMS BETTER ON 10-YEAR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE RISK DATA THAN SEMI-PARAMETRIC MODELS 6 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Beyaz Salon - Survival Analysis - II Chair: Hamparsum Bozdogan Mithat Gönen Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, United States - Invited Talk MODEL-BASED CONCORDANCE FOR EXTERNAL VALIDATION OF PREDICTIVE MODELS WITH CENSORED DATA Klaus Langohr Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain FHTEST: AN R PACKAGE FOR THE COMPARISON OF SURVIVAL CURVES WITH CENSORED DATA Tugba Erdem-Aladag Middle East Technical University, Turkey A JOINT MODEL FOR RECURRENT EVENT TIME AND LONGITUDINAL COVARIATES Leyla Azarang University of Vigo, Spain DIRECT MODELING OF REGRESSION EFFECTS FOR TRANSITION PROBABILITIES IN THE NON-MARKOV ILLNESS-DEATH MODEL Lila Salon - Health Economics Chair: Victor Kipnis Dimitris Rizopoulos Erasmus University, Netherlands - Invited Talk OPTIMAL SCREENING INTERVALS FOR BIOMARKERS USING JOINT MODELS FOR LONGITUDINAL AND SURVIVAL DATA Mehmet Ali Cengiz Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey EVALUATION OF DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH-SYSTEM EFFICIENCY FOR OECD COUNTRIES USING BAYESIAN STOCHASTIC FRONTIER ANALYSIS AND BAYESIAN NETWORK Hamza Erdogdu Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey BAYESIAN MODEL AVERAGING APPROACH FOR ESTIMATING DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH-SYSTEM BAYESIAN EFFICIENCY ACROSS OECD COUNTRIES Ezgi Çabuk Gazi University, Turkey DETERMINING HOMOGENEITY OF PROVINCES ACCORDING TO THE HEALTH FACILITIES IN TURKEY Turkuaz Salon - Time Series Analysis Chair: Recai Yucel Christiana Drake University of California, United States MISSING DATA AND IMPUTATION IN PERIODICALLY CORRELATED HEAVY TAILED PROCESSES Osman Dag Hacettepe University, Turkey FORECASTING VIA GMDH ALGORITHM WITH MEDICAL APPLICATIONS IN R Hanife Taylan Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, Turkey ACCURACY OF MODIFIED EXPONENTIAL SMOOTHING METHOD FOR M-COMPETITION 111 SERIES Demet Aydın Sinop Üniversitesi, Turkey ROBUST ESTIMATION OF THE PARAMETERS OF THE SHIFTED GOMPERTZ DISTRIBUTION 7 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society 8 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Beyaz Salon - Missing Data Methods and Bayesian Analysis - Chair: Emmanuel Lesaffre Havi Murad Gertner Institute for Epidemiology, Israel - Invited Talk ESTIMATING AND TESTING INTERACTIONS USING MULTIPLE IMPUTATION, WHEN EXPLANATORY VARIABLES ARE SUBJECT TO NON-CLASSICAL MEASUREMENT ERROR Recai Yucel State University of New York, Turkey IMPACT OF THE NON-DISTINCTNESS AND NON-IGNORABILITY ON THE INFERENCE BY MULTIPLE IMPUTATION IN MULTIVARIATE MULTILEVEL DATA Legesse Kassa Debusho University of Pretoria, South Africa ANALYSIS OF EXTREME RAINFALL AT EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA Naci Murat Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey DETERMINATION OF CAUSALITY IN STRUCTURAL EQAUATION MODELING WITH BAYESIAN NETWORK ANALYSIS Lila Salon - Survival Analysis - III - Chair: Constantin T. Yiannoutsos Hamparsum Bozdogan The University of Tennessee, United States - Invited Talk MOLECULAR PREDICTION OF SURVIVAL VIA A NOVEL ADAPTIVE ELASTIC NET FOR UNDERSIZED HIGH DIMENSIONAL DATA USING INFORMATION COMPLEXITY Clarice Garcia Borges Demétrio ESALQ/USP, Brazil A COMPETING RISK MODEL FOR DISCRETE TIME WITH MASKED CAUSES AND GAUSSIAN RANDOM COMPONENT Eleni-Rosalina Andrinopoulou Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands BAYESIAN VARIABLE SELECTION WITH JOINT MODELING OF A LONGITUDINAL AND SURVIVAL OUTCOME ASSUMING DIFFERENT ASSOCIATION STRUCTURES Aris Perperoglou University of Essex, United Kingdom A SPECIAL CASE OF A RANK=1 MODEL FOR MODELLING NON-PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS Turkuaz Salon - Epidemiological Methods - Chair: Refik Burgut Nuria Perez-Alvarez Technical University of Catalonia, Spain DISABILITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS (DALY) FOR HIV-INFECTED PATIENTS IN SPAIN: INDIVIDUAL ANALYSIS FOR THE BURDEN OF DISEASE David M Steinberg Tel Aviv University, Israel FRAILTY STATUS AND THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN AIR POLLUTION AND POSTMYOCARDIAL INFARCTION MORTALITY Panagiotis Andreopoulos Harokopio University, Greece GAMMA & GAMMA-GOMPERTZ SMOUTHING REGRESSION MODELS OF MORTALITY INDICES Candemir Cigsar Memorial University, Canada COMPARISON OF OUTCOME-DEPENDENT SAMPLING DESIGNS FOR RECURRENT EVENTS DATA 9 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Beyaz Salon - Longitudinal Data Analysis and Student Awards - Chair: Dimitris Karlis Geert Molenberghs Universiteit Hasselt, Belgium - Invited Talk HANDLING NEGATIVE CORRELATION AND/OR OVERDISPERSION IN GAUSSIAN AND NON-GAUSSIAN HIERARCHICAL DATA Daniel Nevo Hebrew University, Israel ACCOUNTING FOR MEASUREMENT ERROR IN GENOMIC DATA AND MISCLASSIFICATION OF SUBTYPES IN THE ANALYSIS OF HETEROGENEOUS TUMOR DATA. Nicole Erler Erasmus Medical Center, Netherlands MULTIPLE IMPUTATION FOR INCOMPLETE PREDICTORS AND COMPLEX OUTCOMES: MICE VS. SEQUENTIAL BAYESIAN IMPUTATION Loumpiana Koulai University of Cambridge, United Kingdom ESTIMATING THE HIV SEROCONVERSION TIME USING BIOMARKERS OF RECENT INFECTION Lila Salon - Meta Analysis and Survey Methodology - Chair: Stergios Tzortzios Fezan Sahin Mutlu Osmangazi University , Turkey SOME STATISTICAL METHODS ASSESSING PUBLICATION BIAS IN META ANALYSIS Daniel Yekutieli Tel Aviv University, Israel INFERRING PREDICTIVE TREATMENT EFFECTS FROM THE COCHRANE COLLABORATION REVIEWS Liat Shenhav Tel Aviv University, Israel QUENTIFING REPLICABILITY IN SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS: THE R-VALUE Aylin Alkaya Nevsehir Haci Bektas Veli University, Turkey COMPARING THE HORVITZ-THOMPSON AND THE HÁJEK ESTIMATOR OF POSTSTRATIFICATION Turkuaz Salon - Categorical Data Analysis - Chair: Yasemin Yavuz Ayfer Ezgi Yilmaz Hacettepe University, Turkey CONFIDENCE INTERVAL FOR KAPPA COEFFICIENT UNDER STRATIFIED SAMPLING Bahar Erar Brown University, United States PROPENSITY MODEL EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTS OF ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK PARTICIPATION ON PROMOTING SMOKING CESSATION Gokcen Efendioglu Hacettepe University, Turkey CONDITIONAL POINT SKEW SYMMETRY MODEL FOR SQUARE CONTINGENCY TABLES Nilden Tutalar Gazi University, Turkey COMPARISON OF INTER-RATER RELIABILITY MEASUREMENT METHODS FOR ORDINAL SCALED SCORES 10 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Beyaz Salon - Genetics, Genomics, Proteomics and Microarray Data Chair: Geert Molenberghs Ziv Shkedy Hasselt University, Belgium - Invited Talk INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF GENE EXPRESSION, CHEMICAL STRUCTURE AND BIOASSAY DATA IN DRUG DISCOVERY EXPERIMENTS Umut Özbek Tisch Cancer Institute, United States - Invited Talk STATISTICS FOR X-CHROMOSOME ASSOCIATIONS Taesung Park Seoul National University, Korea, Republic of - Invited Talk MODEL-BASED GENE-GENE INTERACTION ANALYSIS FOR MULTIPLE PHENOTYPES IN GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES Lila Salon - Computational Methods Chair: Özlem İlk Emre Dünder Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey DETECTION THE FACTORS EFFECTING DIABET PATIENTS HBA1C MEASUREMENTS USING ORDINAL LOGISTIC REGRESSION AND GENETIC ALGORITHM Dinçer Göksülük Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Turkey NEGATIVE BINOMIAL LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF RNA-SEQ DATA Elif Acar University of Manitoba, Canada CONDITIONAL COPULA MODELS WITH MULTIPLE COVARIATES Martin Lysy University of Waterloo, Canada COMPARISON AND ASSESSMENT OF MODELS FOR PARTICLE DIFFUSION IN BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS Beyaz Salon - Measurement Error and Robust Analysis Methods Chair: Taesung Park Laurence Freedman Gertner Institute for Epidemiology, Israel - Invited Talk DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF DIETARY VALIDATION STUDIES WHEN TRUE INTAKE IS MODELED AS A TIME-VARYING PROCESS Derya Karagöz Hacettepe University, Turkey ROBUST X ̅ AND R CONTROL CHARTS UNDER SKEWED DISTRIBUTION İrem Yılmaz Dokuz Eylül University, Turkey TESTS OF LOCATION EQUALITY WHEN DISTRIBUTIONS HAVE NON-IDENTICAL SHAPES Samet Hasan Abaci Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME ESTIMATION METHODS IN SIMPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL FOR DIFFERENT SAMPLE SIZES IN PRESENCE OF OUTLIERS 11 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Lila Salon - Pattern Recognition and Spatial Modeling Chair: Zeynep Kalaylıoğlu Ping Hu National Cancer Institute, United States - Invited Talk PREDICT THE FALSE POSITIVE RATE FOR LUNG CANCER SCREENING TEST IN THE NLST DATA Samuel D. Oman Hebrew University, Israel A CASE-STUDY COMPARISON OF METHODS FOR FACTOR ANALYSIS OF SPATIALLY CORRELATED MULTIVARIATE RESPONSES Jonathan Rosenblatt Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel SELECTIVE CORRELATIONS; NOT VOODOO Gokmen Zararsiz Hacettepe University, Turkey STATISTICAL LEARNING APPROACHES IN DIAGNOSING PATIENTS WITH NONTRAUMATIC ACUTE ABDOMEN Turkuaz Salon - Clinical Trials - I Chair: Guadalupe Gómez Dimitris Karlis Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece AN ADAPTIVE DESIGN FOR PHASE II CLINICAL TRIALS Xanthi Pedeli Frontier Science Foundation Hellas, Greece ADJUSTING FOR SELECTIVE CROSSOVER IN RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIALS: THE HERA TRIAL EXAMPLE Yalçın Yavuz Danone Nutricia Research, Netherlands COUNT DATA ANALYSIS IN NUTRITION CLINICAL TRIALS Almendra-Arao, Félix UPIITA del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico CONSTRUCTING A NON-INFERIORITY MARGIN FOR ANTI-BACTERIAL DRUGS 12 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Beyaz Salon - Biometrical Applications in Agriculture Chair: Samuel Oman Stergios Tzortzios University of Thessaly, Greece - Invited Talk THE PHILOSOPHY OF BIOMETRY AS A BASIC TOOL FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE GLOBAL BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH Ömer Gülboy Ondokuz Mayıs University, Turkey DETERMINATION OF THE MOST APPROPRIATE REGRESSION MODEL TO ESTIMATE METABOLIC ENERGY VALUES BY IN VITRO GAS PRODUCTION TECHNIQUE Samet Hasan Abaci Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey DETERMINING OPTIMAL DISTANCE MEASURE TO CLASSIFICATE HONEY BEE (APIS MELLIFERA L.) SUBSPECIES IN PRINCIPAL COORDINATE ANALYSIS Cem Tirink Igdir University, Turkey COMPARING THE NONPARAMETRIC PERMUTATION TEST AND DUNNETT MULTIPLE COMPRASION TEST Lila Salon - Competing Risk Chair: Cecile Proust Hélène Jacqmin-Gadda INSERM & University of Bordeaux, France - Invited Talk JOINT MODELS FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA AND SEMI-COMPETING RISKS WITH INTERVAL CENSORING Giorgos Bakoyannis Indiana University, United States FLEXIBLE LIKELIHOOD INFERENCE FOR THE CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE FUNCTION Menggang Yu University of Wisconsin , United States BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR FLEXIBLE MODELING OF SEMI-COMPETING RISK DATA Constantin T. Yiannoutsos Indiana University, United States IMPACT OF AND CORRECTION FOR MISCLASSIFICATION IN CUMULATIVE INCIDENCE ESTIMATION Turkuaz Salon - Experimental Design and Graphical Methods Chair: Yuksel Bek Fatma Gül Akgül Ankara University, Turkey ESTIMATING THE PARAMETERS IN ONE-WAY ANOVA BASED ON RANKED SET SAMPLING Carla Francisco Universidade Aberta de Lisboa, Portugal BIOMETRICS AUTHENTICATION: EXPLORING LINKS TO COMBINATORIAL DESIGNS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS TO AUTHENTICATION CODES Damla Dokuzoglu Middle East Technical University, Turkey SIMULATION STUDY FOR THE APPLICATION OF COPULAS IN THE GAUSSIAN GRAPHICAL MODEL Sıddık Keskin Yuzuncu Yil University, Turkey GENERALISED PROCRUSTES ANALYSIS AND ITS APPLICATION IN SENSORY DATA 13 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Beyaz Salon - Data Mining Chair: Ping Hu Birol Emir Pfizer Inc, United States - Invited Talk DATA MINING APPLICATIONS ON ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS WITH SEVERE CLASS IMBALANCE: IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL FIBROMYALGIA PATIENTS Duygu Aydin Hakli Hacettepe University, Turkey COMPARING THE PERFORMANCE OF OVERSAMPLING METHODS TO SOLVE CLASS IMBALANCE PROBLEM Seungyeoun Lee Sejong University, Korea, Republic of POWER COMPARISON OF MODIFIED MULTIFACTOR DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION METHODS FOR THE SURVIVAL PHENOTYPE FOR DETECTING GENE-GENE INTERACTIONS Ozan Cinar Middle East Technical University, Turkey A SURVEY STUDY OF A NOVEL APPROACH FOR CLUSTERING GENES WITH DISSIMILAR REPLICATES Lila Salon - Clinical Trials - II Chair: Refik Burgut Guadalupe Gómez Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain - Invited Talk PLANNING CLINICAL TRIALS WITH COMPOSITE BINARY ENDPOINTS Hans Hockey Biometrics Matters Limited (BML), New Zealand NEVER FIT SEQUENCE - THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF MULTI-PERIOD CLINICAL TRIALS Emel Dogan Kurtoglu Novagenix Bio Analytical R&D Centre, Turkey PERFORMANCE OF HOTELLING T2 TEST IN REPLICATED CROSSOVER DESIGN Zardad Khan University of Essex, United Kingdom ENSEMBLE PRUNING BASED ON ACCURACY AND DIVERSITY TO LEARN IMBALANCED DATA IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH 14 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Lidia Raquel de Carvalho University of the State of São Paulo-UNESP, Brazil ADJUSTING OF THE LOGISTIC MODEL WITH FIXED, WEIGHTED AND MIXED EFFECTSAPPLICATIONS Victor Hugo Lachos Davila Universidad Estadual de Campinas, Brazil CENSORED MIXED EFFECTS MODELS FOR IRREGULARLY OBSERVED REPEATED MEASURES WITH APPLICATIONS TO HIV VIRAL LOAD Tuba Koc Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi, Turkey A BAYESIAN APPROACH FOR CONTINUAL REASSESSMENT METHOD FOR PHASE I CLINICAL TRIALS Can Ates Ankara University, Turkey A PROBABILISTIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR COST-EFFECTIVENESS MODEL OF ORAL ANTIVIRAL TREATMENTS FOR CHRONIC HEPATITIS-B PATIENTS Gazel Ser Yüzüncü Yil University, Turkey THE PERFORMANCE OF MULTIPLE IMPUTATION FOR DIFFERENT NUMBERS OF IMPUTATIONS İ. Safa Gurcan Ankara Üniversitesi, Turkey COMPARISONS OF THE COMMON USED GROWTH MODELS ON THE PEKIN DUCKS Gazel Ser Yüzüncü Yil University, Turkey USE OF GENERALIZED ESTIMATING EQUATIONS WITH MULTIPLE IMPUTATION FOR MISSING LONGITUDINAL DATA Ufuk Kaya Ankara University, Turkey COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT LACTATION CURVE MODELS FOR EWES Haydar Koc Çankırı Karatekin University, Turkey FEATURE SELECTION APPROACH FOR ZERO INFLATED REGRESSION MODELS USING ARTIFICIAL BEE COLONY ALGORITHM Serpil Gumustekin Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey COMPARISONS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF HOSPITALS IN SAMSUN USING NETWORK DATA ENVELOPMENT ANALYSIS Doğukan Özen Ankara University, Turkey DETERMINATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE LENGTH OF RACING CAREER IN TURKISH ARABIAN RACEHORSES Aytaç Akcay Erciyes Üniversitesi, Turkey EVALUATION OF MEAT CONSUMPTION PREFERENCES WITH ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS Mustafa Agah Tekindal Baskent University, Turkey EVALUATING RIGHT-CENSORED DATA THROUGH SUBSTITUTION, PARAMETRIC, SEMIPARAMETRIC, AND NON-PARAMETRIC METHODS: A SIMULATION STUDY Tal Galili Tel Aviv University, Israel THE DENDEXTEND R PACKAGE FOR THE VISUALIZATION AND COMPARISON OF DENDROGRAMS Asli Akilli Ahi Evran University, Turkey EFFECT OF NORMALIZATION TECHNIQUES ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK PERFORMANCE FOR 305 DAY MILK YIELD PREDICTION Asli Akilli Ahi Evran University, Turkey POWER ANALYZE REVIEW OF RESEARCH ARTICLES IN JOURNALS THAT PUBLISHING AT LIFE SCIENCE FIELD IN TURKEY Özlem Gullu Ankara Üniversitesi, Turkey EVALUATING THE IMPROVEMENT OF MODEL PERFORMANCE WITH THE ADDITION OF MEAN PLATELET VOLUME MARKER IN A CARDIOVASCULAR RISK PREDICTION MODEL Cengiz Han Acikel Gülhane Askeri Tıp Akademisi, Turkey 15 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society EVALUATION OF PEER EFFECTS ON EATING HABIT: A CLUSTER ANALYSIS APPLICATION Selcen Yuksel Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey A SIMULATION STUDY: CORRELATION BETWEEN AN ORDINAL AND A CONTINUOUS VARIABLE, SPEARMAN OR POLYSERIAL? Selcen Yuksel Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey A SIMULATION STUDY: CORRELATION BETWEEN TWO ORDINAL VARIABLES, SPEARMAN OR POLYCHORIC? Urko Aguirre Hospital Galdakao-Usansolo (OSAKIDETZA), Spain MULTIPLE IMPUTATION IS NOT NECESSARY FOR PERFORMING ANALYSES IN PRE-POST STUDIES Burçin Öner Gazi University, Turkey LDL CHOLESTEROL LEVEL IN SUBJECTS WITH CORONER HEART DISEASE AND TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS: A META-ANALYSIS OF PROSPECTIVE STUDIES Pınar Ambarcioglu Ankara University, Turkey THE EVALUATION OF THE MORPHOLOGIC CHARASTERISTICS OF TWO DIFFERENT MUTTON SHEEP BREEDS USING CLUSTER AND FUZZY CLUSTER ANALYSIS Aslı Akıllı Ahi Evran University, Turkey COMPARISON OF ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK AND MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION FOR PREDICTION OF LIVE WEIGHT IN HAIR GOAT Anton Stoilov South-West University "Neofit Rilski", Bulgaria HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ON BIOINFORMATICS 16 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Sıddık Keskin Yüzüncü Yil University, Turkey USING OF NONLINEAR CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSIS TO MULTIWAY DATA Aslıhan Alhan Ufuk University, Turkey COPULA REGRESSION MODELS Pervin Demir Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi, Turkey EVALUATION THE FACTORS AFFECTING COMMON ITEM SELECTION TO DEVELOP PARALLEL TEST BY USING SIMULATION STUDY Yasar Sertdemir Cukurova University, Turkey HOW USEFULL ARE VITAL FINDINGS OF NEONATES IN PREDICTING SEPSIS Legesse Kassa Debusho University of Pretoria, South Africa ALGORITHMS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF OPTIMAL BLOCK DESIGNS FOR TWO-COLOUR CDNA MICROARRAY EXPERIMENTS Gözde Kuş, Ege University, Turkey STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Ebru Turgal HİTİT UNIVERSITY, Turkey NON-LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS Ümit Cengiz Uysal Baskent University, Turkey INVESTIGATION WITH MULTIPLE CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS OF THE PUBLIC PROCUREMENT IN THE MEDICAL FIELD IN TURKEY Yusuf Kemal Arslan Cukurova University, Turkey COMPARING DIFFERENT MODELS ON BAYESIAN APPROACH TO THE DIAGNOSTIC TESTS WHEN THERE IS NO GOLD STANDARD Yusuf Kemal Arslan Cukurova University, Turkey BAYESIAN SAMPLE SIZE DETERMINATION IN DIFFERENT CONDITIONS Bertan Yilmaz Cukurova University, Turkey ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA (ESR1) REGULATES AROMATASE (CYP19A1) EXPRESSION IN THE MOUSE BRAIN Leman Tomak Ondokuz Mayis University, Turkey DECIDING THE REPEATABILITY AND REPRODUCIBILITY OF ANY MEASURED BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS BY USING GAGE R&R ANALYSIS Aytaç Akcay Erciyes Üniversitesi, Turkey THE CALCULATION OF LETHAL DOSE (LD50) USING PROBIT ANALYSIS Ceren Efe Cukurova University, Turkey THREE WAY ROC ANALYSIS: THEORY AND APPLICATION Gozde Erturk Erciyes Üniversitesi, Turkey EVALUATION OF COMPETING RISKS BASED ON BOTH DEPENDENT, INDEPENDENT REAL AND SIMULATED DATA BY USING SELF DEVELOPED R PROGRAM Betul Dagoglu Cukurova University, Turkey IS A STATEMENT OF THE DESIGN EFFECT NECESSARY IN STROBE CHECKLIST? (CONCORDANCE OF MEDLINE SURVEY STUDIES WITH RESPECT TO STROBE) Duygu Siddikoglu Cukurova University, Turkey LONGITUDINAL DATA ANALYSIS IN THE MODELING OF UNBALANCED REPEATED MEASUREMENTS Nazlı Totik Cukurova University, Turkey DEALING WITH MEASUREMENT ERRORS IN LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS Özlem Güllü Baskent University, Turkey MEASURING THE QUALITY OF SERVICE IN THE HEALTH SECTOR THROUGH SERVQUAL METHOD: THE CASE OF A PHYSICAL THERAPY AND REHABILITATION CENTER 17 The 8th Conference of Eastern Mediterranean Region of International Biometric Society Meryem Goral Yildizli Cukurova Unıversity, Turkey PROPORTION OF COST OF ANTIBIOTIC TO TOTAL EXPENDITURES FOR HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS OF CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN 2013 Selen Begüm Uzun Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health, Turkey TO DETERMINE THE CURRENT CONVENIENT APPROACHES IN GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY FOR THE SOLUTION OF THE MOST FREQUENT PROBLEMS M. 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