The 75th Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics will be held on December 2-6, 2019, Atlantic City, NJ.
Below is the 2019 (75th) program.

2019 Program Schedule
DAY
01 - Monday December 02, 2019
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06:30 - 08:00
REGISTRATION
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07:00 - 08:00
BREAKFAST
Full Hot Breakfast (Covered by registration fee)
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08:00 - 09:00SESSION KEYNOTE
Clinical Trials in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges and Opportunities
Professor Susan S. Ellenberg, UPenn
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch -
09:00 - 12:00SESSION A
Clinical Trial Data Monitoring Committees and Reporting Statistical Centers: Problems and Solutions
Professor Susan Ellenberg, University of Pennsylvania, Matt Downs, MPH, Statistics Collaborative, Washington DC
Moderator Alfred H. Balch -
09:00 - 12:00SESSION B
Using Restricted Mean Survival Time for Classifications and Clinical Trials for Survival Endpoints
Professor Ying Lu, Stanford University
Moderator: Naitee Ting -
12:00 - 13:30
LUNCH BREAK
Lunch Break (at your own)
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13:30 - 17:00SESSION C
Bootstrap Methods
Professor Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Moderator: Ivan S F Chan -
13:30 - 16:30SESSION D
Discrete Multiple Testing In Detecting Differential Methylation Using Sequencing Data
Professor Nan Lin, Washington University in St. Louis
Moderator: Xiaoming Li -
19:00 - 23:00
Speaker’s and Awards Dinner
Speaker’s and Awards Dinner (Optional Added Fee Event)
DAY
02 - Tuesday December 03, 2019
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06:30 - 08:00
REGISTRATION
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07:00 - 07:50
BREAKFAST
Full Hot Breakfast (Covered by registration fee)
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08:00 - 09:00SESSION KEYNOTE
Practical and Challenging Statistical Issues in Regulatory Science
Professor Shein-Chung Chow, Duke University
Moderator: Naitee Ting -
09:00 - 12:00SESSION E
Introduction to Instrumental Variables
Nandita Mitra, PhD, UPenn and Jason Roy, PhD, Rutgers University
Moderator: Kalyan Ghosh -
09:00 - 12:00SESSION F
Modern Dose Finding Designs – Advances and Hot topics
Frank Fleischer, PhD, Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG
Moderator: Naitee Ting -
12:15 - 13:45
LUNCH BREAK
Lunch Break (at your own)
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13:45 - 16:30SESSION G
Artificial Intelligence for Drug Development, Precision Medicine and Healthcare
Professor Mark Chang, Boston University
Moderator: Wenjin Wang -
13:45 - 16:30SESSION H
Clinical Trial Data Analysis Using R & SAS
Professor Din Chen, UNC & Pinggao Zhang, PhD, Takeda
Moderator: Walter Young
DAY
03 - Wednesday December 04, 2019
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06:30 - 08:00
REGISTRATION
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07:00 - 08:00
BREAKFAST
Full Hot Breakfast (Covered by registration fee)
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08:00 - 09:00SPECIAL SESSION
Non-Statistical Reflections on 50 Years Chairing the Deming Conference, Walter R. Young
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch -
09:00 - 12:00SESSION I
Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) for Machine Learning: A Gentle Introduction
Professor Mark J. van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley
Moderator: Bill Wang -
09:00 - 12:00SESSION J
Statistical Topics in Outcomes Research: Patient-Reported Outcomes, Meta-Analysis, and Health Economics
Joseph Cappelleri, PhD, Pfizer and Professor Thomas Mathew, UMBC
Moderator Ivan S. F. Chan -
12:15 - 13:15
LUNCH BREAK
Lunch Break (at your own)
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13:15 - 16:45SESSION K
Prediction In Event-Based Trials
Professor Daniel Heitjan, SMU
Moderator: Kalyan Ghosh -
13:15 - 16:45SESSION L
A Method to Evaluate the Validity of a Literature Claim
S. Stanley Young, PhD, CGSTAT
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch
DAY
04 - Thursday December 05, 2019
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06:30 - 08:00
SHORT COURSE REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
Short Course Registration and Breakfast
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08:00 - 17:50SHORT COURSE 1
Medical Product Safety Evaluation: Biological Models & Statistical Methods
Instructors: Dr. Jie Chen, Merck Research Laboratories
Moderator: Naitee Ting -
08:00 - 17:50SHORT COURSE 2
Targeted Learning in Data Science: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data
Professor Mark J. van der Laan, University of California at Berkeley
Moderator: Bill Wang -
08:00 - 17:50SHORT COURSE 3
Combining Information From Different Studies with Meta-Analysis and Network Meta-Analysis
Professor Chris Schmid, Brown University
Moderator: Alfred H. BalchBREAK TIMINGS:
9:30-9:50 Break
11:20-12:40 Lunch on Your Own
2:10-2:30 Break
4:00-4:20 Break
DAY
05 - Friday December 06, 2019
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06:30 - 08:00
SHORT COURSE REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST
Short Course Registration and Breakfast
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08:00 - 17:50
SHORT COURSE 1 ( continued )
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08:00 - 17:50
SHORT COURSE 2 ( continued )
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08:00 - 17:50
SHORT COURSE 3 ( continued )
BREAK TIMINGS:
8:00-9:30 Lecture
9:30-9:50 Break
9:50-11;20 Lecture
11:20-11:40 Break
11:40-1:10 Lecture
*All tutorial and short course titles, presenters and moderators from 1989 onward are on www.demingconference.com
Session is based on a recently published text that is available either for a discounted price or is included in the price of the two short courses
Sessions will have their breaks extended by 15 minutes for Poster Presentations
Full hot breakfasts are included on each of the five days