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Sunday, 08/01/2010
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Borrowing from Survival Analysis to Assess Lumber Strength
Lang Wu, The University of British Columbia; Jim Zidek, The University of British Columbia; Lucy Cheng, The University of British Columbia; Sameoul Wong, Harvard University; Conroy Lum, Forintek Canada; Ciprian Pirvu, Forintek Canada
2:05 PM
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A Parametric Bootstrap Procedure for the Generalized Exponential Distribution Under Progressive Type-I Interval Censoring
Yuhlong Lio, The University of South Dakota; Din Chen, Georgia Southern University
2:05 PM
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Eliciting and Incorporating Priors on Effect Size Distributions in Genomewide Association Studies
Ju-Hyun Park, National Cancer Institute; Nilanjan Chatterjee, National Cancer Institute
2:05 PM
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Estimation of a Discrete Monotone Distribution
Hanna Jankowski, York University
2:20 PM
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Posterior Predictive Loss for Model Selection in Incomplete Longitudinal Data
Arkendu Sekhar Chatterjee, University of Florida; Michael J. Daniels, University of Florida
2:20 PM
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On the Predictive Potential of Kernel Principal Components
Andreas Artemiou, Penn State; Bing Li, Penn State
2:35 PM
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Skew-Elliptical Spatial Random-Effect Modeling for Areal Data with Application to Mapping Health Utilization Rates
Farouk Salim Nathoo, University of Victoria; Pulak Ghosh, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
2:35 PM
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Inference for Change-Point Parameters Under Varying Degrees of Model Misspecification
Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan; Michael Kosorok, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Rui Song, Colorado State University
3:05 PM
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A Distribution for the Sum of Correlated Bernoulli Trials
Gary Witt, Temple University
3:05 PM
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The Time of Ruin and Surplus Before Ruin with Mixture Distribution
Min Deng, Maryville University
4:05 PM
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Reliability Data Analysis for Designed Experiments
Laura June Freeman, Virginia Tech; Geoffrey Vining, Virginia Tech
4:05 PM
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A Parametric Test for Correlated Time-to-Event Data with a Failure Rate Change
Gang Han, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute; Ji-Hyun Lee, Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
4:05 PM
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Flexible Distribution Modeling and Efficient Test Effort Allocation in Inkjet Pen Development
Robert O'Donnell, Hewlett-Packard
4:20 PM
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Confidence Distributions and a Unifying Framework for Meta-Analysis
Minge Xie, Rutgers University
4:30 PM
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Efforts to Adjust for Confounding by Neighborhood Using Complex Survey Data
Babette Brumback, University of Florida; Amy Dailey, University of Florida; Zhulin He, University of Florida; Lyndia C. Brumback, University of Washington; Melvin Livingston, University of Florida
4:35 PM
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Predictive Distribution Under Cox's Proportional Hazard Model
Yijie Liao, Southern Methodist University; Ron Butler, Southern Methodist University
4:35 PM
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A Life-Time Model with Random Number of Components in a Series System
Ram C. Tripathi, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ramesh C. Gupta, University of Maine
4:35 PM
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Estimating the Central Kth Moment Space via an Extension of Ordinary Least Squares
Yuexiao Dong, Temple University; Zhou Yu, East China Normal University
4:50 PM
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Dimension-Reduced Kernel Estimation for Distribution Functions with Incomplete Data
Zonghui Hu, National Institutes of Health
5:05 PM
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A Perspective on the Connection Between Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches
Jin Wang, Abbott Vascular
5:05 PM
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Small Sample Tests for Shape Parameter(s) of Gamma Distributions
Dulal Bhaumik, University of Illinois at Chicago; Jerome Keating, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Robert D. Gibbons, University of Illinois at Chicago; Kush Kapur, University of Illinois at Chicago
5:05 PM
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Monday, 08/02/2010
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Measuring the Rectangularization of Survival Functions Using the Gompertz Distribution
Peter Oskar Pflaumer, Technical University of Dortmund
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Fractal Analysis of Time Series and Distribution Properties of Hurst Exponent
Ferry Butar Butar, Sam Houston State University; Malhar Kale, Kaiser Permanente
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Meta-Analyses of Multiple Baseline Time Series Design Intervention Models for Dependent and Independent Series
Oluwagbohunmi Adetunji Awosoga, University of Lethbridge; Joseph W. McKean, Western Michigan University; Bradley E. Huitema, Western Michigan University
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Doubly Truncated Negative Binomial Regression for Evaluating the Age Distribution of Pertussis Infant Deaths
Andrew Lewis Baughman, CDC; Tracy Pondo, CDC; Margaret Cortese, CDC; Barry Sirotkin, CDC; Charles E. Rose, Jr., CDC; Tejpratap Tiwari, CDC
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Adjusted Cumulative Distribution Function and Effect Size Methods for Stratified Two-Sample Comparisons
Kelly H. Zou, Pfizer Inc.; Martin O. Carlsson, Pfizer Inc.; Ching-Ray Yu, Pfizer Inc.
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Robust Inference in Some Multiple Multifactor Dynamical Systems
Sévérien Nkurunziza, University of Windsor
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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
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Overweight Distribution and Spatial Risk for Binomial Response
Lia Zangirolani, State University of Campinas; Ricardo Carlos Cordeiro, State University of Campinas - Unicamp; Luciana Bertoldi Nucci, State University of Campinas; Ana Carolina Cintra Nunes Mafra, State University of Campinas - Unicamp; Maria Angelica Tavares Medeiros, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Campinas; Liciana Vaz Arruda Silveira, Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho
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A Model for Multilevel Clustered Data with Informative Cluster Size Using Poisson Distribution
Ana-Maria Iosif, University of California, Davis; Allan Sampson, University of Pittsburgh
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Two-Way Gaussian Mixture Models for High-Dimensional Classification
Mu Qiao, Penn State; Jia Li, Penn State
8:55 AM
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An Evaluation of Kan and Wang's Adjusted Box-Pierce Test Using Seasonal Time Series
Brian Carl Monsell, U.S. Census Bureau
8:55 AM
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Analyzing Data from a Split-Plot Experiment When the Observations Have Overdispersed Poisson Distributions
Jia Liu, Iowa State University; Philip Michael Dixon, Iowa State University
9:05 AM
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Lambert W Random Variables: A New Family of Generalized Skewed Distributions
Georg Matthias Goerg, Carnegie Mellon University
9:05 AM
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Optimization of Error Spending Approach in Clinical Trials
Michael Baron, The University of Texas at Dallas; Yi Zhong, The University of Texas at Dallas
9:05 AM
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Applications of Gaussian Subordination Models in Climate Research
Sucharita Ghosh, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
9:05 AM
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Power Under Local Alternatives for Generalized Estimating Equations
Zhigang Li, Columbia University
9:15 AM
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Finding the Right Distribution for Highly Skewed Zero-Inflated Clinical Data
Resmi Gupta, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Bradley S. Marino, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; James F. Cnota, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; Richard F. Ittenbach, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
9:20 AM
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A Simple Integer-Valued AR(p) Process
Keith Freeland, University of Waterloo
9:35 AM
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An Arcsin Limit Theorem of D-Optimal Designs for Weighted Polynomial Regression
Fu-Chuen Chang, National Sun Yat-sen University; Jhong-Shin Tsai, National Sun Yat-sen University
9:35 AM
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A Multistate Modeling and Prediction of Survival Distribution Using Information on Subject's Tumor Response Over Time
Shengyan Hong, MedImmune; Iiya Lipkovich, Eli Lilly and Company; Yan Daniel Zhao, Eli Lilly and Company
9:50 AM
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Bayesian Generalized Method of Moments
Guosheng Yin, The University of Hong Kong
10:35 AM
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A Practical Way to Standardize Test Scores in Some Clinical Measures
Liansheng Zhu, Hoffmann-La Roche
10:35 AM
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Nonparametric Weighted Log-Rank Tests for Comparing Multivariate Distributions
Xiaoru Wu, Columbia University; Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University; Tian Zheng, Columbia 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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Invariance Principles for Some FARIMA and Nonstationary Linear Processes in the Domain of a Stable Distribution
William Peter McCormick, The University of Georgia
11:05 AM
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On mMean Residual Life of the k Out of n System
Mohammad Ahsanullah, Rider University
11:05 AM
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Using Bayesian Predictive Distributions to Identify Outbreaks of Influenza-Like Illness
Owen Devine, CDC; Howard Burkom, The Johns Hopkins University
11:15 AM
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A Nonparametric EWMA Control Chart for Location Based on the Sign Statistic
Marien Alet Graham, University of Pretoria; Schalk William Human, University of Pretoria; Subhabrata Chakraborti, The University of Alabama
11:20 AM
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A Robust-Likelihood Cummulative Sum Chart
Youlan Rao, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Steven MacEachern, The Ohio State University; Chunjie Wu, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
11:20 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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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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Q Charts for the Exponential Distribution
Schalk William Human, University of Pretoria; Subhabrata Chakraborti, The University of Alabama
11:50 AM
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Efficient Weighting Approaches for Analysis of Population-Based Case-Control Studies with Complex Sampling Designs
Victoria Landsman , National Cancer Institute ; Barry I. Graubard, National Cancer Institute
2:05 PM
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Computation of the Stationary Wealth Distribution in a Heterogeneous Agent Based Economy with Employment Uncertainty
Muffasir Badshah, Florida State University; Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University; Paul Beaumont, Florida State University
2:20 PM
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Properties and Applications of a Graphical Self-Similarity Test
Rakhee Patel, University of California, Los Angeles
2:20 PM
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Statistical Design for a Small Serial Dilution Series
Daniel Zelterman, Yale University
2:25 PM
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Applications of Assignment Algorithms to Nonparametric Tests for Homogeneity
David Michael Ruth, United States Navy; Robert Koyak, Naval Postgraduate School
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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Proportional Likelihood Ratio Model
Xiaodong Luo, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; Wei Yann Tsai, Columbia University
3:05 PM
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Data Depth for Statistically Equivalent Blocks
Reza Modarres, The George Washington University; Zhenyu Liu, The George Washington University
3:05 PM
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Alternatives to Cut-Off Sampling for a Family of Surveys
Paula Ellen Mason, Energy Information Administration; Benita Jean O'Colmain, ICF Macro ; Pedro Saavedra, ICF Macro; Amerine Woodyard, Energy Information Administration; Bin Zhang, Energy Information Administration
3:20 PM
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Boundary Problem in the Kernel Estimation of Probability Distribution Function
Shunpu Zhang, National Cancer Institute
3:20 PM
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On Modeling and Estimation of Response Probabilities When Missing Data Are Not Missing at Random
Michail Sverchkov, Bureau of Labor Statistics
3:35 PM
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Tuesday, 08/03/2010
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A New Method for the Comparison of Survival Distributions
Xun Lin, Pfizer Global Research and Development; Qiang Xu, FDA
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Skew Factor Models and Dynamic Skew Factor Models
Beverly Jane Gaucher, Texas A&M University
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Comparing Mammography Visits in High and Low Repeat Rate Facilities
Jonathan D. Mahnken, The University of Kansas Medical Center; Jianghua (Wendy) He, The University of Kansas Medical Center; Hung-Wen Yeh, The University of Kansas Medical Center; Niaman Nazir, The University of Kansas Medical Center; Linda L. Jianas, The University of Kansas Medical Center; Kimberly K. Engelman, The University of Kansas Medical Center
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Testing for Monotonic Changes in Multivariate Gene Expression Distributions
Heng Wang, Iowa State University; Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University
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Testing for Differences in Concentration Parameters Among Several Populations of Angular Variables
Curtis Miller, The University of Kansas; Mary Christman, University of Florida
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Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Distributions Using Multivariate Permutation Testing Procedures
Megan Christina Orr, Iowa State University; Peng Liu, Iowa State University; Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University
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Power in the Case of Extreme Bimodal Distribution: Analysis of Delirium/Coma-Free Days in the ICU
Jennifer L. Thompson, Vanderbilt University; Ayumi Shintani, Vanderbilt University
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Accurate Approximations for the Distribution of Tests of Symmetry
John E. Kolassa, Rutgers University
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Orientation Data Analysis in Physical Sciences
Dan Nordman, Iowa State University
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What Will Happen to the Power If Dependent and Independent Variables Are Switched?
Youngju Pak, University of Missouri-Columbia; Wade Justin Davis, University of Missouri-Columbia
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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
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Nonparametric Tests for Conditional Independence Using Conditional Distributions
Taoufik Bouezmarni, McGill University; Roch Roy, Université de Montréal; Abderrahim Taamouti, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
8:50 AM
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Association of Zero-Inflated Continuous Distributions
Magdalena Niewiadomska-Bugaj, Western Michigan University; Ronald Pimentel, MPI Research
8:50 AM
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Combination of Confidence Distributions (CDs) and an Efficient Approach for Meta-Analysis of Heterogeneous Studies
Dungang Liu, Rutgers University; Regina Liu, Rutgers University; Minge Xie, Rutgers University
8:50 AM
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A Normal-Based Monotone Convex Transformation, with Continuous Convexity, as an Alternative to the Concept of 'Distribution'?
Haim Shore, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
8:50 AM
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A Hierarchical Bayesian Model of Learning in the Acquisition of a Skill
Jun Lu, American University; Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri; Paul Speckman, University of Missouri-Columbia; Jeff Rouder, University of Missouri
8:55 AM
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A Robust Approach to Linear Mixed Effects Models Based on the Skew t Distribution
Tsung-I Lin, National Chung Hsing University; Hsiu J. Ho, National Chung Hsing University
9:05 AM
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A Semi-MLE Algorithm for RMM Distribution and a Comparison of the Goodness of Fit of RMM Distribution and the Pearson Distribution System
Michal Shauly, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Yisrael Parmet, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Haim Shore, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
9:05 AM
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Tolerance Factors in Multiple and Multivariate Linear Regressions
Sumona Mondal, Clarkson University; Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
9:05 AM
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Robust Two-Stage Modeling with Finite Mixture Conditional Distributions
Tingting Zhan, Temple University; Inna Chervoneva, Thomas Jefferson University; Boris Iglewicz, Temple University
9:05 AM
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The NPMLE of the Joint Distribution Function with Right-Censored and Masked Competing Risks Data
Qiqing Yu, Binghamton University
9:35 AM
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The Sampling Distribution of the W Estimator of the Number of Valid Signatures on a Petition
Mark E. Eakin, The University of Texas at Arlington; Mary M. Whiteside, The University of Texas at Arlington
9:35 AM
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Distribution-Free Models for Latent Population Mixtures
Hui Zhang, University of Rochester Medical Center
9:50 AM
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Some Extreme Value Problems in Climate Research
Peter Guttorp, University of Washington/Norwegian Computing Center
10:35 AM
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A Prior Distribution of Bayesian Nonparametrics Incorporating Distances of Various Types
Brian M. Hartman, Texas A&M University; David Dahl, Texas A&M University; Bani K. Mallick, Texas A&M University; Debabrata (Debu) Talukdar, State University of New York at Buffalo
10:50 AM
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Diagnostics for Bayesian Hierarchical Models of Response Time Data
Peter F. Craigmile, The Ohio State University; Mario Peruggia, The Ohio State University; Trisha Van Zandt, The Ohio State University
10:55 AM
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An Initialization Strategy for the EM Algorithm in Gaussian Mixtures
Igor Melnykov, Colorado State University; Volodymyr Melnykov, North Dakota State University
11:05 AM
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Permutation Test for Comparing Zero-Inflated Continuous Distributions
Jixiang Wu, South Dakota State University; Lei Zhang, Mississippi State Department of Health; William Johnson, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
11:05 AM
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Isotonized Estimation of Cumulative Distribution Functions from Judgment Post-Stratification Data
Xinlei Wang, Southern Methodist University; Ke Wang, Southern Methodist University ; Lynne Stokes, Southern Methodist University
11:15 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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A Metropolis-Hastings--Based Method for Sampling from the G-Wishart Conjugate Prior in Gaussian Graphical Models
Nicholas Mitsakakis, Dalla Lana School of Public Health; Helene Massam, York University; Michael Escobar, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
11:20 AM
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Improved Prediction Intervals for Binomial and Poisson Distributions
Jie Peng, St. Ambrose University; Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
11:35 AM
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Estimating Variances of Strata in Ranked Set Sampling
Min Chen, Yale University; Johan Lim, Seoul National University
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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Expanding the Domains and Methods for Creating Directional Cauchy Distributions
Tom Downs, Research Statistics, Inc.
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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Approximation by Log-Concave Distributions, with Applications to Regression
Lutz Duembgen, University of Bern; Dominic Schuhmacher, University of Bern; Richard Samworth, University of Cambridge
2:35 PM
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Partially Adaptive Estimation of Truncated Regression Models: A Comparison with Several Semiparametric Estimators
Patrick Ansel Turley, Brigham Young University; James B McDonald, Brigham Young University
2:35 PM
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Approximate Confidence Limits for a Proportion of the Hypergeometric Probability Distribution: Applications in Audits, Acceptance Sampling and Medical Investigations
Yevgeniy Voinov, KIMEP
2:50 PM
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Sample Size Determination in Two-Sided Distribution-Free Treatment vs. Control Multiple Comparisons
Chunpeng Fan, sanofi-aventis; Donghui Zhang, sanofi-aventis
2:50 PM
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Using the Dice-Based Golf Game GOLO to Illustrate Discrete Probability Distributions and Sampling Distributions on Proportions
Paul L. Stephenson, Grand Valley State University; Mary Richardson, Grand Valley State University; John Gabrosek, Grand Valley State University; Diann Reischman, Grand Valley State University
3:25 PM
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Wednesday, 08/04/2010
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A note on posterior expansions
Chiu-Hsing Weng, National Chengchi University
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Choosing Bayes Priors for Estimating Values Near Zero: A Case Study with the Beta-Binomial and the Gamma-Poisson Distributions
Marcela Alfaro , Universidad de Costa Rica
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Incorporating Data on Residential History for Disease Mapping
Caroline Jeffery, Harvard School of Public Health; Al Ozonoff, Boston University School of Public Health; Justin Manjourides, Harvard School of Public Health; Marcello Pagano, Harvard School of Public Health
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Performance of Control Charts for Low-Volume Production Under a Compound Normal Distribution
Youn-Min Amanda Chou, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Bayesian Estimation of Burr Type XII Parameters with General Progressive Type II Censoring
Chansoo Kim, Kongju National University; Seongho Song, University of Cincinnati
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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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The Distribution of the Maximal Difference Between Brownian Bridge and Its Concave Majorant
Fadoua Balabdaoui, Universite Paris-Dauphine
8:35 AM
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A Parameterization of the Generalized Lambda Distribution with Closed-Form Expressions for Method of L-Moment Estimation
Paul Jacobus van Staden, University of Pretoria
8:35 AM
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The Distributional Efficacy of Collaborative Learning Recitation Sessions on Student Outcomes
James K. Self, Indiana University; Kim P. Huynh, Indiana University; David T. Jacho-Chavez, Indiana University
8:50 AM
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Exact Distribution-Free Tests for Ordinal Data: Stochastic Inequalities and Kendall's Tau
Karl H. Schlag, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
8:55 AM
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Tests of Goodness-of-Fit Based on Smooth Alternatives to the Quantile Function
Olivier Thas, Ghent University; John C.W. Rayner, University of Newcastle
8:55 AM
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Functional Principal Component Analysis of Density Families with Categorical and Continuous Data on Canadian Entrant Manufacturing Firms
Kim P. Huynh, Indiana University; David T. Jacho-Chavez, Indiana University; Robert J. Petrunia, Lakehead University; Marcel Cristian Voia, Carleton University
9:05 AM
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Selection of Consistent Roots to the Likelihood Equation in Finite Mixtures of Location-Scale Distributions
Byungtae Seo, Texas Tech University; Daeyoung Kim, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
9:15 AM
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A New Subfamily of the Mirror-Exponential Distribution
Guillermina Jasso, New York University
9:15 AM
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Distribution of the Number of False Discoveries in Large-Scale Family-Based Association Testing with Applications to SAPPHIRe Data
I-Shou Chang, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
9:15 AM
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On the Asymptotic Distribution of LRT When Parameters Lie on the Boundary
Bimal K. Sinha, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Leonid Kopylev, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
9:20 AM
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Distribution-Free Inference for Arbitrary Functionals of Survival
Kyle D. Rudser, University of Minnesota; Michael LeBlanc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Scott Emerson, University of Washington
9:35 AM
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An Asymptotically Distribution-Free Test to Assess Exchangeability of a Test Treatment and the Standard Treatment
Jiuzhou Wang, Cephalon Inc.; Steven Chung-Kuei Chang, Cephalon Inc.
9:35 AM
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On the Distribution of Runs Scored and Batting Strategy in Test Cricket
Xin Shi, Manchester Metropolitan University
9:35 AM
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The Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Gaussian Mixture Innovations of GARCH Model
Taewook Lee, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies; Byungtae Seo, Texas Tech University
9:35 AM
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Where Youth Buy Cigarettes: Clustering Patterns and Efficient Design
Christopher Patrick Cummiskey, RTI International; Victoria McNerney, RTI International; Karol Krotki, RTI International
9:35 AM
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Combining Principal Component Analysis with Parameter Line Searches to Construct Well-Designed Proposal Distributions for Metropolis-Hastings MCMC
David Andrew Kennedy, The University of Chicago; Vanja Dukic, The University of Chicago; Greg Dwyer, The University of Chicago
9:35 AM
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EM-Test for Finite Mixture Models
Jiahua Chen, The University of British Columbia; Pengfei Li, University of Alberta
9:55 AM
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Intensity-Based Estimation of Extreme Loss Event Probability and Value-at-Risk
Kam Hamidieh, Rice University; Stilian Stoev, University of Michigan; George Michailidis, University of Michigan
10:35 AM
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Local-Mass Preserving Prior Distributions for Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Ju Hee Lee, The Ohio State University; Steven MacEachern, The Ohio State University
10:35 AM
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Almost Unbiased Maximum Likelihood Estimation for the Generalized Pareto Distribtion and Value at Risk
David E. Giles, University of Victoria; Hui Feng, King's College/The University of Western Ontario
10:50 AM
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Bayesian Models on Species Richness of Fish in the Gulf of Maine
Xia Wang, National Institute of Statistical Sciences; Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut; Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut; Chiu-Yen Kuo, University of Connecticut
10:50 AM
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Further Simulation Results on the Distribution of Some Survey Variance Estimators
Elizabeth T. Huang, U.S. Census Bureau; William R. Bell, U.S. Census Bureau
10:50 AM
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On the Compatibility of Conditional Normal Distributions
Thomas Jyh-Ming Jiang, National Chengchi University; Kun-Lin Kuo, Academia Sinica; Chwan-Chin Song, National Chengchi University; Lin-Yang Cheng, National Chengchi University
10:50 AM
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Testing the Order of Finite Mixture
Pengfei Li, University of Alberta; Jiahua Chen, The University of British Columbia
10:55 AM
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Baysian Semiparametric Regression Under Competing Risks
Xiaolin Fan, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Purushottam W. Laud, Medical College of Wisconsin
10:55 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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On the Distributions of the Numbers of Sexual Partners Between U.S. Men and Women
Hee-Choon Shin, NORC
11:05 AM
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Optimal Threshold from a Mixture of Two Distributions
Chong Sun Hong, SKK University; Jae Seon Joo, KWDI
11:20 AM
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Simultaneous Bayesian Inference for Skew-Normal Mixed-Effects Joint Models for Longitudinal Data
Yangxin Huang, University of South Florida
11:20 AM
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Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis to Time Series with Missing Value
Aladdin Shamilov, Anadolu University; Cigdem Giriftinoglu, Anadolu University
11:20 AM
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Interpolation, Benchmarking, and Temporal Distribution with Natural Splines
Benoit Quenneville, Statistics Canada; Susie Fortier, Statistics Canada; Frédéric Picard, Statistics Canada
11:25 AM
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Heavy-Tailed Behavior of High-Frequency Foreign Exchange Changes
Ece Oral, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey
11:35 AM
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Estimating Uncertainty Bounds for Complex Demographic Models: A Case Study of Estimates of the Unauthorized Population in the United States
Dean Judson, Office of Immigration Statistics; Derekh Cornwell, Office of Immigration Statistics
11:50 AM
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Simulating Data to Study Performance of Finite Mixture Modeling and Clustering Algorithms
Volodymyr Melnykov, North Dakota State University; Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University
11:55 AM
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Some Pareto Mixtured Distributions
Humayun Kiser, Jahangirnagar University; Mian Arif Shams Adnan, Jahangirnagar University
12:05 PM
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Simulation of a Phase III Trial Using Realizations of Posterior Distribution Based on a Phase IIb Trial
A. Lawrence Gould, Merck Research Laboratories
2:05 PM
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Asymptotic Distribution of Projections of High-Dimensional Random Vectors
Armine Bagyan, Penn State; Arkady Tempelman, Penn State; Bing Li, Penn State
2:05 PM
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Performance Assessment of 'Gamma Distribution'-Shaped Detection Functions for Aerial Line Transect Surveys of Large Terrestrial Mammals
Joel Howard Reynolds, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Anna-Marie Benson, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
2:25 PM
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Creating a 100-Year Time Series of Tax Data with Consistent Income Ranges from Existing Historical Tabulations and Current Microdata - Part 1: Why and How
Victoria Bryant, IRS; Yan K. Liu, IRS; Fritz Scheuren, NORC; Katie Thamert, IRS
2:25 PM
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On an Interpretation of Celebrated Rao-Rubin Condition and Its Variations Arising in the Characterizations of the Poisson and Other Discrete Distributions
Makarand V. Ratnaparkhi, Wright State University
2:35 PM
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Studying Student Learning Trajectories for Sampling Distributions by Using Simulation Activities
Aaron Weinberg, Ithaca College; Stacey Hancock, Reed College; Jennifer Noll, Portland State University; Sean Simpson, Westchester Community College
2:45 PM
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Identification of Power Distribution Mixtures Through Regression of Exponentials
Wen-Jang Huang, National University of Kaohsiung
2:50 PM
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Robust Functional Principal Components Analysis for Skewed Distributions and Its Application to Outlier Detection
Liangliang Wang, The University of British Columbia; Nancy Heckman, The University of British Columbia; Matias Salibián-Barrera, The University of British Columbia
3:05 PM
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Linear Approximation of the Ratio of the Standard Normal Density and Distribution Functions for the Estimation of Parameters of a Skew Normal Distribution
Debarshi Dey, University of California, Riverside; Subir Ghosh, University of California, Riverside
3:20 PM
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Thursday, 08/05/2010
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Gibbs-Type Priors for Bayesian Nonparametric Inference on Species Variety
Stefano Favaro, University of Turin ; Antonio Lijoi, University of Pavia; Ramses Mena, IIMAS-UNAM; Igor Pruenster, University of Turin
8:35 AM
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A Two-Parameter Generalized Double Exponential Distribution
Mian Arif Shams Adnan, Jahangirnagar University; Humayun Kiser, Jahangirnagar University
8:35 AM
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Voxelwise Analysis of Imaging Response to Therapy in Neurooncology
Mengye Guo, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Jeffrey Yap, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Annick D. Van den Abbeele, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Nancy U. Lin, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Armin Schwartzman, Harvard School of Public Health
8:35 AM
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Wrapped Three Parameter Gamma Distribution
Shongkour Roy, Jahangirnagar University; Mian Arif Shams Adnan, Jahangirnagar University
8:50 AM
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Time-Varying Transformation Models for Estimation of Conditional Distributions and Quantiles with Longitudinal Data
Xin Tian, National Institutes of Health
8:55 AM
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A Weighted Logarithmic Distribution: Stretching the Long Tail
Michael Terry Anderson, The University of Texas at San Antonio; Ram C. Tripathi, The University of Texas at San Antonio
9:05 AM
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Sample Size and Power for Truncated Bivariate Normal Distribution
Sourav Santra, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited
9:05 AM
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Testing the Equality of the Distribution Functions for Two Populations
Charles L. Dunn, Miami University
9:05 AM
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Improving Efficiency of Ratio-Type Estimators Through Order Statistics
Evrim Oral, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
9:20 AM
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Simulation Study for Comparison and Evaluation of Differentially Expressed Gene-Detection Methods in mRNA-Seq
Sunghee Oh, Yale University ; Hongyu Zhao, Yale University; James P. Noonan, Yale University
9:20 AM
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Distance-Based Probability Distributions on Set Partitions for Bayesian Nonparametric Models
David Dahl, Texas A&M University; Ryan Day, University of the Pacific; Jerry Tsai, University of the Pacific
9:25 AM
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Conditional Moments of P(Y
Mohammed A. Shayib, Prairie View A&M University; Aliakbar Montazer Haghighi, Prairie View A&M University
9:35 AM
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Distributions for p-Values
Chang Yu, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Daniel Zelterman, Yale University
9:35 AM
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Robust Estimation of Mixtures of Heavy-Tailed Distributions
A. M. Santos, IBM/University of Colorado Denver; Karen Kafadar, Indiana University
9:50 AM
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Exact Distributions and Sequential Monte Carlo for Change Points in Space-Time Systems with Application to Brain Imaging
John Aston, University of Warwick; Christopher Nam, University of Warwick; Adam Johansen, University of Warwick
9:50 AM
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Bias Reduction for High-Dimensional Multivariate Data
Siamak Noorbaloochi, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis; David Nelson, VA Medical Center, Minneapolis
10:35 AM
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Distribution of Statistics of h-GAP Clusters for a Collection of Words
Deidra Andrea Coleman, North Carolina State University; Donald E.K. Martin, North Carolina State University
10:35 AM
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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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Exact Distribution of Prediction Error Rates for Protein and Domain Interactions
Donald E.K. Martin, North Carolina State University; John Aston, University of Warwick
10:50 AM
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Defining Probability Density for a Distribution of Random Functions
Aurore Delaigle, The University of Melbourne; Peter Hall, The University of Melbourne
11:15 AM
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Marginally Conditional Autoregressive Distributions for Misaligned Regions
Chester Lee Schmaltz, University of Missouri; Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri
11:15 AM
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Estimating Parameters for Rice-Distributed Time Series Observations with Applications to fMRI
Daniel W. Adrian, Iowa State University; Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University; Daniel B. Rowe, Marquette University
11:15 AM
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A Rare Event Model for Growth Dynamics
Dodi Devianto, Andalas University
11:20 AM
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A Modified Adjusted Boxplot for Skewed Distributions
Yinaze Herve Dovoedo, The University of Alabama; Subhabrata Chakraborti, The University of Alabama
11:50 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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