Contributed Papers
Contributed papers are welcome. Please submit a title and an abstract to
jrojo@stat.rice.edu
Contributed talks are limited to 20 minutes.
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ris Spanos, Virginia Tech:
Where Do Statistical Models Come From? Revisiting the Problem of Specification.
Hannes Leeb, Yale University:
The Large-Sample Minimal Coverage Probability of Confidence Intervals
In Regression After Model Selection
Jun Yan, University of Iowa:
Parametric Inference of Recurrent Alternating Event Data
Gábor J. Székely, Bowling Green State U. and Hungarian Academy of Sciences:
Student's t-test for Scale
Mixture Errors
Jaechoul Lee, Boise State University:
Periodic Time Series Models for United States Extreme Temperature Trends
Loki Natarajan, University of California, San Diego:
Estimation of Spontaneous Mutation Rates
Chris Ding, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory:
Scaled Principal Components and Correspondence Analysis: Clustering and Ordering
Mark D Rothmann, Biologics Therapeutic Statistical Staff, CDER, FDA:
Inferences about a Life Distribution by Sampling from
the Ages and from the Obituaries
Victor de Oliveira, University of Arkansas
:
Bayesian Inference and Prediction of Gaussian Random Fields Based on Censored Data
Jose Almer T. Sanqui, Appalachian State University:
The Skew-Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution
Victor Hugo de la Peña, Columbia University:
Pseudo Maximization and Self-Normalized Processes
Guosheng Yin, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center:
A Class of Bayesian Shared Gamma Frailty Models with
Multivariate Failure Time Data
Shulamith T. Gross, The National Science Foundation and Baruch College / CUNY:
Optimizing your chances of being funded by the NSF
Eun-Joo Lee, Texas Tech University:
An Application of the Hájek - LeCam Convolution Theorem
Daren B. H. Cline, Texas A&M Universuty:
Determining the parameter space, Lyapounov exponents and existence of moments for
threshold ARCH and GARCH time series
Hammou El Barmi, Baruch College:
Restricted Estimation of the Cumulative Incidence Functions Corresponding to K competing Risks.
Asheber Abebe, Auburn University:
Generalized Signed-Rank Estimation for Nonlinear Models
Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University:
Inference for Mean Residual Life and Proportional Mean Residual Life Model
via Empirical Likelihood
Cheng Cheng, St. Jude Childrenís Research Hospital
:
A Significance Threshold Criterion for Large-scale Multiple Tests
Wei-Yin Loh, University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Regression tree models for data from designed experiments
Yuan-Ji, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center:
Bayesian mixture models for complex high-dimensional count data
K. Krishnamoorthy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette:
Inferences Based on Generalized Variable Approach
Vladislav Karguine, Cornerstone Research:
On the Chernoff bound for efficiency of quantum hypothesis testing
Robert Mnatsakanov, West Virginia University:
Asymptotic Properties of Moment-density and Moment-type CDF Estimators in the Models with Weighted Observations
Benard Omolo, Texas Tech University:
An aligned rank test for a repeated observations model with orthonormal design