Invited Session Scientific Committee

Javier Rojo, Chair                --  Rice University

Jane Ling Wang        --  UC Davis

David W. Scott          --  Rice University

Juliet P. Shaffer        --  UC Berkeley

Deborah Mayo          --  Virginia  Polytechnical Institute

Jef Teugels                --  Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

James R. Thompson  --  Rice University

 

Invited Sessions

Naisyin Wang, Chair	Recent Advances in Longitudinal Data Analysis
	Raymond J. Carroll -- Texas A&M University	Semiparametric Efficiency in Longitudinal Marginal Models
	Fushing Hsieh -- University of California, Davis	Some Issues and Results on Nonparametric Maximum likelihood Estimations in Joint Model for Survival and Longitudinal Data.
	Jane-Ling Wang --  University of California, Davis	Functional Regression and Principal Components Analysis for Sparse Longitudinal Data
David W. Scott, Chair	Semiparametric and Nonparametric Testing
	Jeffrey D. Hart -- Texas A&M University	Semiparametric Bayesian and Frequentist Tests of Trend  for a Large Collection of Variable Stars
	Joseph Gastwirth  -- George Washington University	Efficiency Robust Tests for Linkage or Association
	Irene Gijbels -- Institut de Statistique, Université Catholique de Louvain	Nonparametric testing for monotonicity of a hazard rate
Juliet P. Shaffer, Chair	Multiple hypothesis tests: New approaches--optimality issues
	Juliet P. Shaffer  -- UC Berkeley	Different types of optimality in multiple testing
	Joseph Romano  -- Stanford	Optimality in stepwise hypothesis testing
	Sandrine Dudoit  -- UC Berkeley	Massive numbers of hypotheses: The example of microarrayanalysis
	Peter Westfall  -- Texas Tech University	Optimality considerations in testing massive numbers of hypotheses
Persi Diaconis, Chair	Philosophy of Statistics
	David Freedman --  UC Berkeley	Some reflections on the foundations of statistics
	Sir David Cox  --  Oxford	Some remarks on statistical inference
	Deborah Mayo  -- Virginia Polytechnical Institute	The theory of statistics as the "frequentist's" theory of inductive inference
Jef Teugels, Chair	Extremes and Finance
	Richard A. Davis -- Colorado State University	Regular Variation and Financial Time Series Models
	Hansjoerg Albrecher -- University of  Graz -- Austria	Ruin theory in the presence of dependent claims
	Patrick L. Brockett  --  University of Texas, Austin	A chance constrained programming approach to pension plan  management when asset returns are heavy tailed
James R. Thompson, Chair	Robustness
	Adrian Raftery -- University of Washington	Probabilistic Weather Forecasting Using Bayesian Model Averaging
	James R. Thompson -- Rice University	The Simugram: A Robust Measure of Market Risk
	Nozer D. Singpurwalla  --  The George Washington University	The Hazard Potential: An Approach for Specifying Models of Survival
Javier Rojo, Organizer	New Investigators
William C. Wojciechowski , Chair	Gabriel Huerta -- University of New Mexico	Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Mexico City Ozone Levels
	Sergio Juarez -- Universidad Veracruzana -- Mexico	Robust and Efficient Estimation for the Generalized Pareto Distribution
	William C. Wojciechowski -- Rice University	Adaptive Robust Estimation by Simulation
	Rudolf H. Riedi -- Rice University	Optimal Sampling Strategies for Tree-based Time Series