This is the program for the 2010 Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Monday, 08/02/2010
Classroom Derivation and Simulation: An Asymptotic Two-Sample Test for Comparing Population Medians
Vadim Y. Bichutskiy, California State University, East Bay; Joshua D. Kerr, California State University, East Bay; Eric A. Suess, California State University, East Bay


Predictive Recursion: Convergence Theory, Extensions, and Applications
Ryan Martin, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis; Surya Tokdar, Duke University
9:35 AM

Nonparametric Weighted Log-Rank Tests for Comparing Multivariate Distributions
Xiaoru Wu, Columbia University; Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University; Tian Zheng, Columbia University
10:35 AM

Order-Restricted Estimation of the New Better Than Used in Expectation and Decreasing Mean Residual Life Functions Under Censoring
Ganesh Bahadur Malla, Xavier University; Hari Mukerjee, Wichita State University
10:50 AM

Generalized Additive Models for Zero-Inflated Data with Partial Constraints
Hai Liu, Indiana University School of Medicine; Kung-Sik Chan, The University of Iowa
3:05 PM

Finiteness Matters in Inference for New Keynesian Phillips Curve
Hrishikesh (Rick) D. Vinod, Fordham University
3:20 PM

Tuesday, 08/03/2010
Achieving Accurate Computation in Bayesian Scale-Usage Models
Chris Hans, The Ohio State University; Greg Allenby, The Ohio State University; Peter F. Craigmile, The Ohio State University; Ju Hee Lee, The Ohio State University; Steven MacEachern, The Ohio State University; Xinyi Xu, The Ohio State University
8:35 AM

Ridge Structural Equation Modeling with Correlation Matrices for Ordinal and Continuous Data
Ke-Hai Yuan, University of Notre Dame; Ruilin Wu, Beihang University; Peter M. Bentler, University of California, Los Angeles
9:35 AM

Wednesday, 08/04/2010
On Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices
Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania
8:35 AM

Adaptive Fitting of Linear Mixed Effects Models with Correlated Random Effects
Guangxiang George Zhang, State University of New York at Stony Brook; John J. Chen, State University of New York at Stony Brook
11:05 AM

Finite Memory Estimation of Infinite Memory Processes
Zsolt Talata, The University of Kansas; Imre Csiszar, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2:25 PM

A Unified Framework for High-Dimensional Analysis of M-estimators with Decomposable Regularizers
Pradeep Ravikumar, The University of Texas at Austin; Sahand Negahban, University of California, Berkeley; Martin Wainwright, University of California, Berkeley; Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley
2:30 PM

Thursday, 08/05/2010
Realized Volatility When Sampling Times Can Be Endogenous
Yingying Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ; Per Mykland, The University of Chicago; Eric Renault, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lan Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago; Xinghua Zheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
8:35 AM

A Fast and Globally Convergent Method for Estimating General Scale-Shape Distributions
Kai-Sheng Song Song, University of North Texas
10:50 AM




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