The 76th Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics will be held virtually on December 7-11, 2020.
Below is the 2020 (76th) program.

2020 Program Schedule
DAY
01 - Monday December 07, 2020
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11:00 - 12:00SESSION KEYNOTE
Precision Imaging for Precision Medicine- Biomarkers and Beyond
Sue-Jane Wang, FDA
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch -
12:00 - 14:50SESSION A
Innovative Designs for Early Phase Dose-Finding Studies
Sue Jane Wang, FDA, and Yuan Ji University of Chicago
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch -
12:00 - 14:50SESSION B
Recent Development in Analyzing Microbiome Data from Clinical Trials
Yinglin Xia, University of Illinois at Chicago and Din Chen, UNC-Chapel Hill
Moderator: Walter R. Young -
13:20 - 13:30
BREAK
Break (at your own)
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15:30 - 18:20SESSION C
Randomization and Inference in Clinical Trials
Diane Uschner, George Washington University
MODERATOR: Ivan S. F. Chan -
15:30 - 18:20SESSION D
Master Protocol and Its Application
Jingjing Ye, BeiGene, Cindy Lu, Biogen andNicole Li, Merck & Co. Inc
MODERATOR: Xiaoming Li
DAY
02 - Tuesday December 08, 2020
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11:00 - 12:00SESSION KEYNOTE
Harnessing the Power of Statistics: Big Challenges, Big Opportunities
Dionne Price, FDA
Moderator: Naitee Ting -
12:00 - 14:50SESSION E
Causal Inference and Data Fusion
Elias Bareinboim and Adele Ribeiro, Columbia University, Dr Mohammad Adibuzzaman, Purdue University
MODERATOR: Bill Wang -
12:00 - 14:50SESSION F
Real World Evidence Landscape and Evolution in Drug Development
Jenny Fang and Melvin Olson, Novartis
MODERATOR: Naitee Ting -
13:20 - 13:30
BREAK
Break (at your own)
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15:30 - 18:20SESSION G
Practical Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling
Fang Chen, SAS Institute Inc.
MODERATOR:Ivan S. F. Chan -
15:30 - 18:20SESSION H
Targeted Estimation of Direct and Indirect Causal Effects in Clinical Trials
Jie Chen, Fang Liu and Yanping Liu, Merck & Co. Inc
MODERATOR:Wenjin Wang
DAY
03 - Wednesday December 09, 2020
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11:00 - 12:00SESSION KEYNOTE
New Statistical Initiatives in the FDA CDRH
Speaker: Ram Tiwari, CDRH, FDA
Moderator: Bill Wang -
12:00 - 14:50SESSION I
Likelihood Ratio Methodologies for Safety and Risk-Based Monitoring
Lan Huang, Zhihao (Howard) Yao and Ram Tiwari, CDRH, FDA
MODERATOR: Bill Wang -
12:00 - 14:50SESSION J
Answering Old Questions with New Tools: Application of the ICH E9 Addendum in Oncology
Kaspar Rufibach, Roche and Evgeny Degtyarev, Novartis
MODERATOR:Kalyan Ghosh -
13:20 - 13:30
BREAK
Break (at your own)
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15:30 - 18:20SESSION K
Statistical Designs and Strategies for Oncology Drug Development
Cong Chen, Merck & Co. Inc
MODERATOR: Kalyan Ghosh -
15:30 - 18:20SESSION L
Statistical Methods in the Clinical Development of Novel Cancer Immunotherapies
SPEAKERS: Bo Huang, Pfizer
MODERATOR: Naitee Ting
DAY
04 - Thursday December 10, 2020
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11:00 - 18:00SHORT COURSE 1
Artificial Intelligence for Drug Development, Precision Medicine and Healthcare
Instructors: Professor Mark Chang, Boston University
Moderator: Ivan S. F. Chan
DAY
05 - Friday December 11, 2020
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11:00 - 18:00
SHORT COURSE 1 ( continued )
DAY
06 - Monday December 14, 2020
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11:00 - 18:00SHORT COURSE 2
Working with Generalized Linear and Nonlinear Mixed Models
INSTRUCTORS: Professor Walter Stroup, The University of Nebraska-Lincoln
MODERATOR: Alfred H. Balch
DAY
07 - Tuesday December 15, 2020
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11:00 - 18:00
SHORT COURSE 2 ( continued )
All tutorial and short course titles, presenters and moderators from 1970 onward are on www.demingconference.org
Session is based on a recently published text that is available for a discounted price. All times in the schedule refer to US EST Time *Virtual conference information with links to participate will be sent to registrants on Nov 15th, 2020.