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Thursday 18th August

09:00 - 09:45 Invited Talk, MS.01/MS.02, Chair: Julia Brettschneider
Wolfgang Huber Genomes and phenotypes [Slides] [Video]
09:50 - 10:50 Financial Models, B3.02, Chair: Giovanni Petris
Helgi Tomasson Computational aspects of continuous-time-arma (CARMA) models: The ctarma package
Bernhard Spangl robKalman - An R package for robust Kalman filtering revisited
Peter Ruckdeschel (Robust) Online Filtering in Regime Switching Models and Application to Investment Strategies for Asset Allocation [Slides]
Ecology and Ecological Modelling, B3.03, Chair: Karline Soetaert
Christian Kampichler Using R for the Analysis of Bird Demography on a Europe-wide Scale [Slides]
Johan P. Dahlgren Using OpenBUGS and lmer to study variation in plant demographic rates over several spatial and temporal scales
John C. Nash An effort to improve nonlinear modeling practice [Slides]
Generalized Linear Models, MS.03, Chair: Kenneth Knoblauch
Ioannis Kosmidis brglm: Bias reduction in generalized linear models [Slides]
Cezary Dendek Large Scale, Massively Parallel Logistic Regression in R with the Netezza Analytics Package
Merete K. Hansen The binomTools package: Performing model diagnostics on binomial regression models [Slides]
Reporting Data, MS.01, Chair: Martyn Plummer
Sina Rüeger uniPlot - A package to uniform and customize R graphics [Slides]
Alexander Kowarik sparkTable: Generating Graphical Tables for Websites and Documents with R [Slides]
Isaac Subirana compareGroups package, updated and improved [Slides]
Process Optimization, MS.02, Chair: Tobias Verbeke
Emilio López Six Sigma Quality Using R: Tools and Training [Slides]
Thomas Roth Process Performance and Capability Statistics for Non-Normal Distributions in R [Slides]
Nikolaus Rudak R-Package JOP: Optimization of Multiple Responses
10:50 - 11:15 Coffee, Main atrium and Mathematics Workroom A0.05
11:15 - 12:35 Inference, B3.02, Chair: Peter Ruckdeschel
Henry Deng Density Estimation Packages in R [Slides]
Henrike Weinert The benchden Package: Benchmark Densities for Nonparametric Density Estimation
Taylor Arnold Nonparametric Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Discrete Null Distributions
Patrick Rubin-Delanchy An algorithm for the computation of the power of Monte Carlo tests with guaranteed precision
Population Genetics and Genetics Association Studies, B3.03, Chair: Martin Morgan
Benjamin French Simple haplotype analyses in R [Slides]
Jing Hua Zhao Mixed models of large pedigrees in genetic association studies
Jan Graffelman Graphical tools for assessing Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium for bi-allelic genetic markers
Neuroscience, MS.03, Chair: Brandon Whitcher
Heather Turner Detecting Drug Effects in the Brain
Karsten Tabelow Statistical Parametric Maps for Functional MRI Experiments in R: The Package fmri [Slides]
Marijke Welvaert neuRosim an R package for simulation of fMRI magnitude data with realistic noise
Data Management, MS.01, Chair: Barry Rowlingson
Susan Ranney It's a Boy! An Analysis of Tens of Millions of Birth Records Using R [Slides]
Joanne Demmler Challenges of working with a large database of routinely collected health data: Combining SQL and R [Slides]
John Bryant Demographic: Classes and Methods for Data about Populations
Mark van der Loo Correcting data violating linear restrictions using the deducorrect and editrules packages
Interactive Graphics in R, MS.02, Chair: Paul Murrell
Eleni-Anthippi Chatzimichali iWebPlots: Introducing a new R package for the creation of interactive web-based scatter plots
Ian Hansel Rocessing: Interactive Visualizations in R
Richard Cotton Easy Interactive ggplots [Slides]
Adrian Waddell RnavGraph and the tk canvas widget
12:35 - 14:00 Lunch, Rootes Restaurant
14:00 - 15:00 Kaleidoscope IIIa, MS.03, Chair: Adrian Bowman
Thomas Petzoldt Using R for systems understanding - a dynamic approach [Slides]
David L. Miller Using multidimensional scaling with Duchon splines for reliable finite area smoothing [Slides]
Alastair Sanderson Studying galaxies in the nearby Universe, using R and ggplot2 [Slides]
Panel Discussion II, MS.01, Chair: Louis Bajuk-Yorgan
Challenges Bringing R into Commercial Environments
Kaleidoscope IIIb, MS.02, Chair: Frank Harrell
Olaf Mersmann microbenchmark: A package to accurately benchmark R expressions
Paul Murrell Vector Image Processing [Slides]
15:05 - 15:50 Invited Talk, MS.01/MS.02, Chair: Tom Nichols
Simon Urbanek R Graphics: Supercharged - Recent Advances in Visualization and Analysis of Large Data in R
15:50 - 16:00 Closing Remarks, MS.01/MS.02

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