Invited Speakers

Plenary Talks:
Jürgen Windeler Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care, Cologne, Germany	"Spielen sie schon oder is' grad piano?" - Zur Wahrnehmung der Medizinischen Biometrie
John Hinde NUI Galway, Ireland	Translational Statistics

CEN-Session
Pawel Krajewski Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan, Poland	On functional data analysis applied to interpretation of next-generation sequencing experimental results	CEN Session: Design and Analysis of Agricultural, Ecological and Biological Experiments
Marcin Kozak University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszów, Poland	Communication between agricultural scientists and statisticians: a broken bridge?	CEN Session: Design and Analysis of Agricultural, Ecological and Biological Experiments
Stanislaw Mejza Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland	Design and analysis of non replicated genetic experiments	CEN Session: Design and Analysis of Agricultural, Ecological and Biological Experiments

Session talks:
Isadora Antoniano-Villalobos Università Bocconi, Italy	I know one thing: that I know nothing. A Bayesian nonparametric model for regression	Bayesian statistics and use of additional information
Areti Angeliki Veroniki Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Canada	Methods for statistical inference in random effects meta-analysis for use in systematic reviews of medical interventions	Benefit assessment of drugs and medical devices
Volker Stollorz Freelance journalist, Cologne, Germany	Recherchewerkzeug OperationsExplorer: Wie Datenjournalisten mit Daten und Statistik ringen	Biostatistics in public
Els Goetghebeur Ghent University, Belgium	Causal inference in practice - Methods for the construction and comparison of standardized risks to measure quality of care across centers	Education for Statistics in Practice
Heping Zhang Yale Public School of Health, USA	Tree and Forest Approaches to Identification of Genetic and Environmental Factors for Complex Diseases	Machine learning
Daniel Jackson Cambridge Institute of Public Health, United Kingdom	Models for network meta-analysis with random inconsistency effects	Meta-analysis
Marc G. Genton King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia	Statistical models for spatio-temporal data	Spatial-temporal statistics
Tomasz Burzykowski Hasselt University, Belgium	The use of hidden Markov-models to analyze QTL-mapping experiments based on whole-genome next-generation-sequencing data	Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics
Philip H. Kass Population Health & Reproduction, Davis, USA	Design and analysis issues in non-traditional epidemiological studies	Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
Sylvie Charbonnier gipsa-lab Saint Martin d'Hères, France	Methods to monitor mental fatigue in operators using EEG signals	Surveillance
Thomas Gerds University of Copenhagen, Denmark	Risks of predictive modelling in survival analysis	Survival analysis