The 77th Annual Deming Conference on Applied Statistics will be held on December 6-10, 2021.
Below is the 2021 (77th) program.

2021 Program Schedule
DAY
01 - Monday December 06, 2021
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11:00 - 12:00SESSION KEYNOTE
What is Translational Biostatistics and How to Implement It?
Prof. L. J. Wei, Harvard University
Moderator: Pinggao Zhang -
12:00 - 15:00SESSION A
Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Interval-Censored Data
Danyu Lin, UNC-Chapel Hill
Moderator: Wenjin Wang -
12:00 - 15:00SESSION B
Precision Gains in Randomized Studies Using Covariate Adjustment With Ordinal and Time-To-Event Endpoints
Ivan Diaz, Cornell University
Moderator: Kalyan Ghosh -
15:30 - 18:30SESSION C
Group Sequential Design (GSDESIGN) and Non-Proportional Hazard
Keaven Anderson, Yilong Zhang and Xiao Nan, Merck & Co. Inc
Moderator: Bill Wang -
15:30 - 18:30SESSION D
Marginal Models in Analysis of Correlated Binary Data with TimeDependent Covariates in Biomedical Clinical Trials
Jeffrey R. Wilson, Arizona State University and Din Chen, UNC-Chapel Hill
Moderator: Walter R. Young
DAY
02 - Tuesday December 07, 2021
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11:00 - 12:00SESSION KEYNOTE
Multiple Imputation and Missing Data
Prof. Stef van Buuren, University of Utrecht, Holland
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch -
12:00 - 15:00SESSION E
Toward Better Practice of Covariate Adjustment in Analyzing Randomized Clinical Trials
Shao Jun, University of Wisconsin – Madison and Ting Ye, University of
Washington
Moderator: Naitee Ting -
12:00 - 15:00SESSION F
C’mon in … The DOOR is Open: Pragmatic Benefit:Risk Evaluation Using Outcomes to Analyze Patients Rather than Patients to Analyze Outcomes
Scott Evans and Toshimitsu Hamasaki, George Washington University
Moderator: Bill Wang -
15:30 - 18:30SESSION G
Beyond Bonferroni Correction – Innovation, Intuition and Common Sense
Qian Helen Li, BMS
MODERATOR:Naitee Ting -
15:30 - 18:30SESSION H
Extracting Real-World Evidence from Real-World Data
SPEAKERS: Rebecca Hubbard, University of Pennsylvania and Xu Shi, University of Michigan
MODERATOR:Kalyan Ghosh
DAY
03 - Wednesday December 08, 2021
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11:00 - 12:00SESSION KEYNOTE
Two Key Ideas in Missing Data – Missing at Random and Response Propensity
Prof. Rod Little, University of Michigan
Moderator: Alfred H. Balch -
12:00 - 15:00SESSION I
The Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials
Rod Little, University of Michigan
MODERATOR: Alfred H. Balch -
12:00 - 15:00SESSION J
Robust Methods for Assessment of Average and Scaled Average Bioequivalence
Divan Burger, University of Pretoria, South Africa
MODERATOR:Din Chen -
15:30 - 18:30SESSION K
Using SAS PROC BGLIMM and MCMC for Bayesian Analysis of Mixed Models
Walter Stroup, University of Nebraska
MODERATOR:Alfred H. Balch -
15:30 - 18:30SESSION L
Statistical Analyses Targeting Estimands
Frank Bretz and Dong Xi, Novartis
MODERATOR: Ivan S F Chan
DAY
04 - Thursday December 09, 2021
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11:00 - 18:00SHORT COURSE 1 (Dec 9 -Dec 10)
Estimands, Missing Data Handling and Bayesian Methods for Clinical Trials
Instructors: Frank Liu, Merck & Co. Inc and Fang Chen, SAS®
Moderator: Ivan S. F. Chan
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 *Conference information with links to participate will be sent to registrants on Nov 2021