Invited sessions

Yanyuan Ma (University of South Carolina, USA): A validated information criterion to find the structural dimension
Layla Parast (RAND Corporation, USA): Robust estimation of the proportion of treatment effect explained by multiple surrogate markers
Tanya P. Garcia (Texas A&M University, USA): Improved selection of high-dimensional neuroimaging biomarkers associated with Huntington’s disease motor-onset

Martin Boer (Biometris, Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, the Netherlands): The analysis of big data using P-splines and sparse matrix algebra
Dae-Jin Lee (BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Bilbao, Spain): Spatial and spatio-temporal modeling of aggregated counts with applications in epidemiology: Methods and tools
María Xosé Rodríguez-Álvarez (Department of Statistics and Operations Research and Biomedical Research Centre (CINBIO), University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain): Spatial models for field trials using P-splines
Discussant: Paul Eilers (Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands)

Viviana Giampaoli (IME, USP, Brasil): Modelos mistos, potencialidades e desafios nas ciências biológicas
Mariana Rodrigues- Motta (IME, UNICAMP, Brasil): A mixed model for positive responses augmented by zeros
Discussant: Mariza Andrade (Mayo Clinics, USA)

Mia Hubert (KU Leuven, Belgium): Functional outlier detection with applications to MRI image data
Peter J. Rousseeuw (KU Leuven, Belgium): Detecting anomalous data cells
Valentin Todorov (United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Vienna International Centre, Vienna, Austria): An R package for robust orthogonal regression for compositional data

Paulo Henrique Ferreira da Silva (UFBA, Brasil): Bivariate Clayton copula-based SUR Tobit model: a modified inference function for margins, interval estimation and an application to food consumption data
Francisco Louzada Neto (USP, Brasil): SISGERES: A statistical system for urban solid waste management
Gleici da Silva Castro Perdoná (USP, Brasil): Survival modelling for prediction of intrapartum interventions

Vanda Lourenço (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal): On the robust estimation of trait heritability
Bhramar Mukherjee (University of Michigan, USA): Set-based interaction analysis: some new observations
Geert Molenberghs (Hasselt University, Belgium): Pseudo-likelihood and split-sample methods in small and very large trials

Luzia Aparecida Trinca (UNESP/Botucatu, Brasil): On compound design criteria
Rafael Pimentel Maia (UNICAMP, Brasil): Variance component estimation on discrete time competing risks analysis with masked causes
Renata Alcarde Sermarini (ESALQ/USP, Brasil): Case study of sugarcane trials with commercial varieties and test lines
Discussant: Clarice Garcia Borges Demétrio (ESALQ/USP, Brasil)