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Sunday, 08/01/2010
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Order Statistics--Based Shrinkage for Multiple Estimation Adjustment with Application in Genomewide Association Study
Jiangang Liao, Penn State
2:20 PM
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Bayesian Thresholding Rules
Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania
3:05 PM
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Inference on Treatment Effect Under a Density Ratio Model and Random Censoring
Shan Jiang, Queen's University; Dongsheng Tu, Queen's University
4:20 PM
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Bayesian Empirical Orthogonal Function Method and Its Application
Yiping Dou, The University of British Columbia; Nhu Le, BC Cancer Agency; Jim Zidek, The University of British Columbia
4:20 PM
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Empirical Likelihood for Small-Area Estimation
Sanjay Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore; Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
4:20 PM
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An Improved Variance-Smoothing Method for Testing Differential Expression in Small-Sample-Size Affymetrix Oligonucleotide Microarrays
Parul Gulati, The Ohio State University; David Jarjoura, The Ohio State University; Soledad Fernandez, The Ohio State University; Lianbo Yu, The Ohio State University; Michael Pennell, The Ohio State University
4:50 PM
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Empirical Comparison of Different Drug Safety Signal Detection Assays Based on Incident User Designs
Maurice Alan Brookhart, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School; Eric Brinsfield, SAS Institute
4:55 PM
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Time-Dependent Cross-Ratio Estimation
Bin Nan, University of Michigan; Tianle Hu, University of Michigan; Xihong Lin, Harvard School of Public Health; James Robins, Harvard School of Public Health
5:20 PM
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Monday, 08/02/2010
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Money Can't Buy You Love (But It Can Buy You Playoff Spots and Championships in Major League Baseball)
Jay R. Schaffer, University of Northern Colorado
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Confidence Intervals for Percentiles Based on Complex Survey Data: Empirical Comparison of Alternative Estimates
Henry Haifeng Xia, National Center for Health Statistics; Deborah D. Ingram, National Center for Health Statistics; Lester Randolph Curtin, CDC
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Interrelating of Longitudinal Processes: An Empirical Example
Tamika Y.N. Royal-Thomas, Florida State University; Daniel McGee, Florida State University; Debajyoti Sinha, Florida State University; Clive Osmond, Medical Research Council Epidemiology Resource Centre; Terrence Forrester, Tropical Medicine Research Institute
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Parallel Implementation of Response Surface Regression on R
Hao Yu, The University of Western Ontario
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Predictive Recursion: Convergence Theory, Extensions, and Applications
Ryan Martin, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Surya Tokdar, Duke University
9:35 AM
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Predictions in Generalized Linear Mixed Model
Chenghsueh Yang, University of California, Riverside
9:50 AM
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Correlated z-Values and the Accuracy of Large-Scale Statistical Estimates
Bradley Efron, Stanford University
10:35 AM
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Censored Empirical Likelihood with Overdetermined Hazard-Type Constraints
Yanling Hu, University of Kentucky; Mai Zhou, University of Kentucky
10:50 AM
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The Occasionally High Type I Error Rate of the Mantel-Haenszel Statistic Used in Detecting Differential Item Functioning and an Empirical Bayes Solution
Sandip Sinharay, Educational Testing Service; Neil J. Dorans, Educational Testing Service
10:55 AM
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A Penalized Empirical Likelihood Method in High Dimensions
Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay, Texas A&M University; Soumendra Nath Lahiri , Texas A&M University
11:35 AM
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On Estimating the Parameters in Conditional Heteroskedasticity Models by Empirical Likelihood Estimation
Tsung-Lin Cheng, National Changhua University of Education
11:35 AM
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First Significant Digit Distributions in the Credit Crisis
Paul Hofmarcher, WU Wien; Florian Löcker, Institute for Statistics and Mathematics
11:35 AM
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Covariate-Adjusted Confidence Intervals for the Mann-Whitney Effect
George Luta, Georgetown University; Ionut Bebu, Georgetown University Medical Center
11:35 AM
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Properties of Empirical Bayes Estimators for Evaluating Questionnaire Data in Epidemiology Studies
Jaya M. Satagopan, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Qin Zhou, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Susan Oliveria, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Stephen Dusza, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Martin Weinstock, Brown University; Marianne Berwick, University of New Mexico; Allan Halpern, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2:35 PM
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An Empirical Bayes Model for Metabolite Identifications Using Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
Jaesik Jeong, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Changyu Shen, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Xiang Zhang, University of Louisville
2:50 PM
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Testing Conditional Monotonicity in the Absence of Smoothness
Miguel A. Delgado, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Juan Carlos Escanciano, Indiana University
2:55 PM
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Measures of Goodness of Fit for the Multidimensional Semiparametric Density Ratio Model
Anastasia Voulgaraki, University of Maryland; Benjamin Kedem, University of Maryland
3:05 PM
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Tuesday, 08/03/2010
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Defining the 'Working Poor': Theoretical and Empirical Considerations
Marina Vornovytskyy, U.S. Census Bureau
9:15 AM
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Empirical Influence Functions for Robust Partial Least Squares Regression
Asuman Seda Turkmen, The Ohio State University; Nedret Billor, Auburn University
9:20 AM
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An Empirical Comparison of Constrained Optimization Methods for Benchmarking Economic Time Series
Irene Brown, U.S. Census Bureau
9:35 AM
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Empirical Dynamics for Longitudinal Data
Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California, Davis; Fang Yao, University of Toronto
9:50 AM
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Survival Analysis Without Survival Data: Estimation by Comparing Explanatory Variables from Unbiased and Length-Biased Samples
Kwun Chuen Gary Chan, University of Washington
9:55 AM
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A Generalized Bayesian Spatial Prediction Method
Jim Zidek, The University of British Columbia; Yiping Dou, The University of British Columbia; Nhu Le, BC Cancer Agency
10:35 AM
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An Empirical Comparison of Methods for Temporal Distribution and Interpolation
Baoline Chen, Bureau of Economic Analysis
11:15 AM
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Advanced MPI Support of Distributed Execution of R Programs
Chen Ding, University of Rochester; Bin Bao, University of Rochester; Xiaoming Gu, University of Rochester
11:35 AM
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Comparing Distributions Using Ranked Set Samples
Kaushik Ghosh, University of Nevada at Las Vegas
11:55 AM
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Multivariate Dyadic Regression Trees for Sparse Learning Problems
Han Liu, Carnegie Mellon University; Xi Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
2:05 PM
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Evaluating Distributional Treatment Effect in Observational Studies
Jing Cheng, University of Florida
2:30 PM
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Two-Sample Semiparametric Proportional (Reverse) Hazard Model
Zhong Guan, Indiana University South Bend; Cheng Peng, University of Southern Maine
2:35 PM
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Semiparametric Hybrid Empirical Likelihood Inference for Two-Sample Comparison with Censored Data
Haiyan Su, Montclair State University; Hua Liang, University of Rochester; Mai Zhou, University of Kentucky
2:35 PM
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Wednesday, 08/04/2010
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A Practical Approach for Removing Multiple Outliers Using the T-Square Statistic
John C. Young, Retired; Robert L. Mason, Southwest Research Institute; Youn-Min Amanda Chou, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Empirical Study of Intra-Day Stock Return Volatility
Jian Su, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lan Zhang, Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance; Hsing-Chien Kao, University of Illinois at Chicago; Heshan Liu, Mayo Clinic
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The Unit Interval Characteristic Distributions and Their Applications
Fassil Nebebe, Concordia University
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Characterizing Packet Delay and Jitter Through a Semiempirical Model for VoIP Traffic
Jin Xia, Purdue University; Mark Daniel Ward, Purdue University; William Cleveland, Purdue University
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Seasonal Adjustment to Facilitate Forecasting: Empirical Results
William R. Bell, U.S. Census Bureau; Ekaterina Sotiris, U.S. Census Bureau
10:35 AM
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Horvitz-Thompson Variance Weights: Exact vs. Approximate
James R. Chromy, RTI International
10:35 AM
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Empirical Evaluation of Methods for Predicting Cancer Incidence and Mortality in Canada
Michael Otterstatter, Public Health Agency of Canada; Lin Xie, Public Health Agency of Canada
10:35 AM
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Extreme-Value Distributions as g-and-h Distributions: An Empirical View
David Hoaglin, Abt Bio-Pharma Solutions, Inc.
11:05 AM
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Assessing Variation in the Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Intermountain Snow Water Storage
James B. Odei, Utah State University; Mevin B. Hooten, Utah State University
11:05 AM
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Empirical Imputation: A New Imputation Method Model
Yijie Xue, The University of Georgia; Nicole Lazar, The University of Georgia
11:20 AM
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Empirical Bayes In-Season Prediction of Baseball Batting Averages
Wenhua Jiang, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University
11:20 AM
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Empirical Bayes Confidence Intervals for Selected Parameters for a Large Number of Normal Populations with Unequal but Estimable Means and Variances
Zhigen Zhao, Temple University; Gene (J.T.) Hwang, Cornell University
11:35 AM
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Empirical Likelihood for Estimating Equations with Censored Data
Mai Zhou, University of Kentucky
2:05 PM
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Semiparametric Inference for Transformation Models via Empirical Likelihood
Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University
2:25 PM
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Empirical Likelihood with Infinitely Many Constraints
Hanxiang Peng, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Anton Schick, Binghamton University
2:45 PM
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Toward Constructing Confidence Intervals from Business Survey Data: An Empirical Investigation
Katherine Jenny Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
2:50 PM
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The Effects of Spatial Correlation on the Empirical Likelihood
Nancy L. Glenn, Texas Southern University; Monica C. Jackson, American University
3:05 PM
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Thursday, 08/05/2010
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Semiparametric Approach to Quantile Regression for Random Coefficients Models
Mi-Ok Kim, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
9:15 AM
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Evaluation of Probability Forecasts: An Empirical Bayes Approach
Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University; Shulamith Gross, Baruch College, CUNY
9:35 AM
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A Gaussian Process Regression Approach to a Single-Index Model
Taeryon Choi, Korea University; Jian Qing Shi, University of Newcastle; Bo Wang, University of York
10:35 AM
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Experiences with Approximate Bayes Inference for the Poisson-CAR Model
Chae Young Lim, Michigan State University; Sarat C. Dass, Michigan State University; Tapabrata Maiti, Michigan State University
10:35 AM
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Evaluating Rare Variants in Genomewide Studies
John S. Witte, University of California, San Francisco
11:00 AM
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Using Call-Back Data to Adjust for Nonignorable Nonresponse: Results of an Empirical Study
Paul Biemer, RTI International; Kevin Wang, RTI International; Patrick Chen, RTI International
11:05 AM
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Penalized Empirical Likelihood for High-Dimensional General Estimating Equations
Chenlei Leng, National University of Singapore; Chengyong Tang, National University of Singapore
11:15 AM
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An Empirical Bayes Approach for the National Agricultural Statistics Service's County Estimation Program
Michael E. Bellow, National Agricultural Statistics Service; Parthasarathi Lahiri , University of Maryland
11:25 AM
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Nonparametric Estimation of Response Probabilities in Survey Sampling: An Empirical Investigation
Audrey Beliveau, Université de Montréal; David Haziza, Université de Montréal
11:35 AM
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Analysis of Non-Negative, Continuously Distributed Data with Excessive Zeros
Huiling Li, sanofi-aventis; Lynn Wei, sanofi-aventis; Hui Quan, sanofi-aventis; Nanshi Sha, Columbia University
11:50 AM
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