Title: Testing linearity in rapid microbiological method validation Abstract: Testing the linearity of a measurement system (MS) is required during its validation. Guidelines clearly discuss the appropriate design and analysis in testing the linearity of an MS when the data is Gaussian distributed but not for count data. This talk addresses how linearity is tested and

Title: Hierarchical structural component models for pathway analysis of longitudinal categorical phenotypes Presenter:  Md. Kamruzzaman, PhD Associate Professor, Jagannath University, Email: kzaman1@isrt.ac.bd   Abstract: Several statistical methods for pathway analysis have been developed to test the association between pathways and phenotypes of interest. Since pathways are highly correlated, a hierarchical structural component models (HisCoM) was developed