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SCC013: Statisticians Group (USSES)

Annual/Termination Reports (SAES-422): [06/26/2009] [09/07/2010] [08/15/2011] [08/28/2012]

Date of Annual Report: 06/26/2009

Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 06/24/09 to 06/26/09
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2008 to 09/2009

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:
    USSES held its annual meeting on June 24-26, 2009 at Unicoi State Park and Lodge in Helen, Georgia. A reception was held on Wednesday night by Jerry Davis, our local host. On Thursday, Bob Lucas of SAS made a presentation outlining new features of the mixed model procedures in SAS as well as new Bayesian analysis capabilities. Heath Rushing of SAS then provided a SAS JMP demo. On Friday, Edzard van Santen of Auburn shared programming tips useful to streamline mixed model analysis and Andy Mauromoustakos of the University of Arkansas gave examples on how SAS JMP software could be used in statistical consulting.

    Brief State Reports were given.

    Location of the 2010 meeting was also discussed. USSES members attending the NCR 170 meeting will report back to the group regarding the location and focus of the 2010 NCR 170 meeting with a joint meeting in mind. If it was determined that USSES was to meet alone in 2010, the preliminary plan was to have Linda Young at the University of Florida host the meeting with a program and program coordinator yet to be determined.

    Kevin McCarter agreed to place information from this meeting on a website so that members of the group will have access to the information provided.

    The meeting was adjourned at 11:35 a.m.

    Report submitted by Pat Gerard.

    Accomplishments:

    Impact Statements:
    Last Modified: 28-Jul-2009

    Date of Annual Report: 09/07/2010

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 07/08/10 to 07/09/10
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2009 to 09/2010

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:
    USSES / NCCC-170 2010 Joint Meeting Meeting Summary

    Meeting Dates: July 8-9, 2010 Location: National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Local Arrangement Chairs: David Meek and Ted Bailey Program Chairs: Kathy Yeater (NCCC-170), Kevin McCarter (USSES)

    Participants

    USSES

    Andy Mauromoustakos(AR), Kevin S. McCarter (LA; also a member of NCCC-170), Ben Mullinix(TX), Julia Sharp(SC)

    NCCC-170

    Ted Bailey (IA), John Boyer (KS), Bruce Craig (IN), Susan Durham (UT), Ed Gbur (AR), Mark Hinds (IA, Pioneer Hi-Bred), Ken Koehler (IA), Matt Kramer (MD, USDA-ARS), David Meek (IA, USDA-ARS), George Milliken (KS), Margaret Nemeth (MO, Monsanto), John Stevens (UT), Rob Tempelman (MI), Mark West (CO, USDA-ARS), Kathy Yeater (VA, USDA-ARS-SPA)

    Visitors

    Philip Dixon (IA), Brian Fergen (IA), Fernando Miguez (IA), Dan Nettleton (IA), Long Qu (IA), Man-Yu Yum (IA)

    Meeting Schedule

    The meeting began at 8:30 am on Thursday, July 8, 2010, with opening remarks by Jerry Hatfield (NLAE Director), Wendy Wintersteen (Dean of the College), and Ken Koehler (Chair of the ISU Statistics Department).

    The technical program is included as an attachment.

    Business Meeting:

    The business meeting began at 9:00 am on Friday, July 9, 2010. In attendance were Andy Mauromoustakos, Kevin McCarter, Ben Mullinix, and Julia Sharp. The meeting was presided over by Kevin McCarter.

    The following items were discussed:

    1) Date and location of next years meeting

    Three sets of dates were considered for the 2011 meeting: June 29-July 1, July 6-8, and July 13-15.

    While past meetings have been in June, Andy thought that the July dates might be better, since grants often have due dates at the end of June.

    Several potential locations for the 2011 meeting were discussed: " Ben raised the possibility of having the meeting in Lubbock, where he currently is located. " Andy indicated that is has been been quite some time since Arkansas hosted the meeting. " Kevin raised the possibility of having the meeting at LSU. " Andy also raised the possibility of having the meeting at SAS, saying that they have hosted the meeting in the past.

    It was felt that, since only four people were in attendance at the business meeting, that we should wait to make a decision on the date and location of the 2011 meeting until we get input from other USSES members. We will send out an email requesting feedback on these matters, and make the decision about next years meeting after that feedback has been received.

    2) Inclusion of presentations by SAS and/or JMP representatives at next years meeting. While talks by members are valuable, it was felt that it is also of great value to have SAS representatives give talks on what new in SAS and JMP.

    The meeting was adjourned at approximately 9:30am.

    2010 NCCC-170/USSES Joint Meeting Program

    Thursday, July 8 7:30  8:30 Check-in to ARS building / coffee 8:30  9:00 Welcome/Introductions from Iowa St. and ARS 9:00  9:30 Dave Meek  Graphics for Paired Observations 9:30  10:30 John Stevens  Recent Statistical Tools for Next-GenSequencing Data 10:30  11:00 Break and Refreshments 11:00  12:00 Long Qu  A Hierarchical Semiparametric Model for Incorporating Inter-gene Information for Analysis of Gene Expression Profiling Data 12:00  1:00 Lunch 1:00  1:45 Andy Mauromoustakos  New Analytics and Features in upcoming JMP Version 9 1:45  2:45 Ben Mullinix  Analysis of the Uniform Peanut Performance Tests using Mixed Model Techniques 2:45  3:15 Break and Refreshments 3:15  4:00 Julia Sharp  Testing for Co-directional Interactions in Two-factor Factorial Experiments using Union-intersection and Intersection-union Methods 4:00  4:45 Fernando Miguez - BioCro: an R package for Crop Simulation and Statistics 4:45  5:00 Wrap-up Friday, July 9 8:00  9:00 Check-in to ARS Building/ coffee 9:00  11:00 Business Meetings (Separate) 11:00  12:00 Refreshments and Discussion

    Location Coordinators: David Meek & Ted Bailey Special Thanks to Mindy Barber for coordinating the registrations

    Program Chairs: Kathy Yeater (NCCC-170) & Kevin McCarter (USSES)

    Presenter Instructions

    " Presentations must be in .ppt, .pptx, or .pdf format. " Either e-mail your presentation early to Dave Meek (dave.meek@ars.usda.gov) on Tuesday or Wednesday (July 6-7) or bring on a USB drive. " Note for presentations, that the projector in the room is limited to 1074 x 768 resolution, so high density presentations are not recommended.

    Accomplishments:

    Impact Statements:
    Last Modified: 08-Sep-2010

    Date of Annual Report: 08/15/2011

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 06/29/11 to 07/01/11
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2010 to 09/2011

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:
    2011 USSES MEETING MINUTES

    Dates: Thursday, June 30: 8am-5pm, Friday, July 1: 8am-12pm Host: Louisiana State University Location: Cook Conference Center and Hotel, LSU Campus Meeting and Program Coordinator: Kevin McCarter

    Thursday, June 30  Friday, July 1

    Bob Lucas from SAS gave presentations on the following topics:

    Prediction Using SAS® Enterprise Miner and JMP Pro

    " Using Honest Assessment to choose a best model " Recursive partitioning classification/regression trees,extensions. o Basics of recursive partitioning o Boosted trees (SAS/EM or JMP Pro) o Bagged trees (SAS/EM) o Stochastic gradient boosting (SAS/EM or JMP Pro) " Neural networks with applications to discrete time survival models o Neural network architectures (SAS/EM and JMP Pro) o Discrete time analysis using logistic regression (SAS/STAT) o Discrete time analysis using neural networks (SAS/EM procedure code) " Survival Data Modeling

    DISCUSSIONS

    ñ Location and Date for 2012 USSES Meeting: æ Offers ª Mullinix offered Lubbock ª Hill offered Clemson ª Saxton offered Tennessee ª Oglesby said SAS would be pleased to host the meeting at any time æ Decision for 2012 USSES Meeting ª 2012 USSES meeting will be held at SAS in Cary, NC ª Date for 2012 meeting : June 28-29 æ Chair of the meeting ª Jason Osborne, NC State University ª Program chairs  Jason Osborne & Jerry Oglesby æ Possible speakers ª Bradley Jones ª Bob Rodriguez ª James Goodnight ª Oliver Schabenberger ª JMP æ Possible topics ª What's new in SAS STAT, JMP? ª Experimental design (Bradley Jones) æ Kevin McCarter volunteered to create a wiki to facilitate organizing the 2012 USSES meeting

    ñ USSES - Current project expires in 2013 æ Get a group together to start working on a new proposal for the USSES group æ Re-purpose? Future focus? ª Re-educate societies on modern statistical techniques ª Analysis of data involving space & time ª Need for advanced statistical analysis for spatial type data

    Accomplishments:

    Impact Statements:
    Last Modified: 24-Aug-2011

    Date of Annual Report: 08/28/2012

    Report Information:
  • Annual Meeting Dates: 06/27/12 to 06/29/12
  • Period the Report Covers: 10/2011 to 10/2012

    • Participants:
    Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting:
    The annual meeting of the University Statisticians of Southern Experiment Stations (USSES)was held on the SAS Campus in Cary, NC, in June, 2012. The meeting was joint with the NCCC-170 group. The program involved a progression of talks from SAS employees and also from Francis Giesbrecht, Professor Emeritus from N.C. State. The presentations all covered recent developments in statistical software from SAS and JMP. Technical Program:

    Speaker Title

    Radhika Kulkarni High performance analytics : Competing in the 21st century

    Bradley Jones (JMP) A class of three-level designs for de nitive screening in thepresence of second-order effects

    Francis Giesbrecht(NCSU) Constructing Plans for experiments: A package of SAS modules

    F. Michael Speed(SAS) Is variable selection in PROC REG obsolete?

    Min Zhu(SAS) Bias adjustment methods for small sample inference in mixed models

    Maura Stokes (SAS) Look out: After SAS/STAT 9.3 comes SAS/STAT 12.1!

    Russ Wol nger (JMP) Update on JMP Genomics

    Reports from USSES members:

     Jason Osborne (NCSU) - No raises in the last four years, but there is talk of one this year. College ofAg continues to be supportive of statistical consulting within the dept. Going to hire half a position(other half through vet school) for non tenure-track consulting

     Jerry Davis (UGA) - no cuts this year. admin is \moving towards" hiring somebody at Tifton. No raises last four years.

     Edzard van Santen (Auburn) - hiring for the position of head of a consulting center but seems to have ignored the consulting that Edzard has been providing for years. They belatedly asked him to participate in the search and he declined..

     Jay Gegan (LSU), 4th year without raises. Lost one position in the Department of Statistics.

     Arnold Saxton (UT-Knoxville) - reported favorable outlook in Tennessee, 2 raises of 2.5% across the board, raises the last two years, New Chancellor, New Dean for Agricultural Research.

     Linda Young (UFL) - no cuts in ag this year, but cuts elsewhere in the university impact teaching within the Statistics Department. Several personnel changes were reported, Dr. Randles retired, Dr. Casella passed away unexpectedly and Dr. Daniels is leaving the department. All of these will have major impact on the department.

     Hoke Hill (Clemson) - reported further minor cuts to the rather drastic ones in the past, with things now level for 2012,2013. After four years of no raises, there was a 2% merit raise last year and there will be cost-of-living and merit raises in the next year. The transition of personnel into the Math. Dept.has been smooth. Pat Gerard was voted by the graduate students as most helpful faculty member, underscoring this smooth transition.

    New Business Ken Koonce (LSU) raised the issue that the USSES program needs to be validated again this year, with a proposal that needs to be done around June, 2013. There was considerable discussion about the possibility of proposing a deliverable. Edzard lamented the decline of delity to good statistical principles in agronomy journals and Osborne complained that many students seeking statistical consulting had little knowledge of the tenets of sound experimental design, including randomization and blocking. Edzard and Kevin mentioned multivariate methodology as an area where techniques beyond principal components analysis are not well-known.

    Plans for next year The meeting will be held in Tennessee, most likely at or near the campus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The date will be sometime in June or July, 2013.

    Accomplishments:

    Impact Statements:
    1. Impacat on research through enhanced statistical analysis procedures through design, analysis and interpretation.
    2. Impact on utilization of new analytics technology developed through SAS Institute
    Last Modified: 06-Sep-2012
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