ims.15

Sponsor(s): IMS

Session Time: 8:30-10:20 Monday

Estimated Audience Size: 100

A/V Request: Overhead Projector

Session Title: Difficult Likelihoods and Simple Solutions

Theme Session: No $\quad$ Applied Session: No

Organizer: Lele, Subhash  

Session Timing: Opening Remarks by Chair - 2 minutes First Speaker - 25 minutes Second Speaker - 25 minutes Third Speaker - 25 minutes Discussant - 10 minutes Floor Discusion - 5 minutes

Chair: Lele, Subhash  

1. A Composite Likelihood Approach to (Co)variance components estimation $\quad$ Taper, Mark  

$\quad$ Lele, Subhash  

2. Weighted likelihood equations: The case of mixture models $\quad$ Markatou, Marianthi  

3. Pseudo-likelihood is interesting and easy to use $\quad$ Seymour, Lynne  

Discussant: Natarajan, Nandini  

List of speakers who are nonmembers: Taper, Mark