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Sunday, 08/01/2010
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Limit Theory for Multivariate Shape Constraints: Partial Results, Open Problems, and Conjectures
Jon A. Wellner, University of Washington
2:05 PM
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Finding Quantitative Trait Loci Genes in Experimental Crosses with Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation in a Semiparametric Model
Hui Wang, University of California, Berkeley
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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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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Estimation of a Discrete Monotone Distribution
Hanna Jankowski, York University
2:20 PM
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Statistical Issues of Measuring and Monitoring Childhood Obesity from Administrative Records: The New York City FITNESSGRAM
Kevin J. Konty, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
2:20 PM
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A Jump-Detecting Procedure Based on Spline Estimation
Lijian Yang, Michigan State University; Shujie Ma, Michigan State University
2:25 PM
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Hellinger Deviance Testing for Mixture Complexity
An-Lin Cheng, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Anand Vidyashankar, George Mason University
2:25 PM
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Estimation of Genetic Risk Parameters from Case Control and Family Studies Using a Marginalized Approach
Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat, Leiden University Medical Center; Roula Tsonaka, Leiden University Medical Center; Marieke De Visser, Leiden University Medical Center; Frits Rosendaal, Leiden University Medical Center
2:25 PM
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Accurate Estimation of Evolutionary Attributes of Coding Sequences and Pattern Analysis in Large Collections of Viral and Mammalian Genes
Sergei L. Pond, University of California, San Diego
2:35 PM
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A Numerical Comparison of Some Rate-Efficient Nonparametric Estimates
Boris Levit, Queen's University
2:45 PM
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Current Practices in Shelf Life Estimation
James Schwenke, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
2:45 PM
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A Probabilistic Group Independent Component Analysis Model and a Fast Approximate Estimation Approach
Ying Guo, Emory University
2:45 PM
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Bayesian Density Estimates in Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation
Yuefeng Wu, Cornell University
2:45 PM
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An Alternative Estimation of Sliced Inverse Regression
Qin Wang, Virginia Commonwealth University; Xiangrong Yin, The University of Georgia
2:50 PM
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Bootstrap Under Nonstandard Conditions
Zhuqing Yu, The University of Hong Kong; Stephen M.S. Lee, The University of Hong Kong
2:50 PM
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Identifying QTLs in Plant Breeding Populations with Adaptive Mixed LASSO
Dong Wang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Kent M. Eskridge, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jose Crossa, International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
2:50 PM
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Smoke Plume Estimation from Satellite Images
Charmaine Dean, Simon Fraser University; Victoria Wan, Simon Fraser University; John Braun, The University of Western Ontario; Sarah Henderson, The University of British Columbia
3:05 PM
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An Analysis of Alternate Variance Estimation Methods for the American Community Survey Group Quarters Sample
Don Keathley, U.S. Census Bureau
3:05 PM
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Bayesian Analysis via Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo for Statistical Model with Intractable Normalizing Constants
Ick Hoon Jin, Texas A&M University; Faming Liang, Texas A&M University
3:05 PM
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Bent Line Quantile Regression with Application to an Allometric Study of Land Mammals' Speed and Mass
Chenxi Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Ying Wei, Columbia University; Rick Chappell, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Xuming He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3:20 PM
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Estimation of the Cox Model Parameters Through Kernel Resampling
Haiyan Bai, University of Central Florida
3:20 PM
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Alternative Shelf Life Estimation Methodologies
Walt Stroup, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Michelle Quinlan, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
3:25 PM
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Direct Estimation of Haplotype Frequencies in Genetic Association Studies
Stefan Boehringer, Leiden University Medical Center
3:25 PM
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A Method for Estimating the Overlap of eQTLs Between Two Tissues, with Application to Skin and Lymphoblastoid Cells
Jun Ding, University of Michigan; Gonçalo R. Abecasis, University of Michigan
3:35 PM
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Comparison of the Effectiveness of Three Novel Statistical Methods for Biomarker Selection with Application to an HIV Infection Data Set
Bosny J. Pierre-Louis, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
4:05 PM
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Network Model-Assisted Prevalence Estimation from Respondent-Driven Sampling Data
Krista J. Gile, Nuffield College; Mark S. Hancock, University of California, Los Angeles
4:05 PM
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Building-Block BLUPs for Aggregate-Level Small-Area Estimation for Survey Data
Avinash C. Singh, NORC; Pin Yuan, Human Resource and Social Development Canada
4:05 PM
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Using Point and Intervalized Data in Occupational Employment Statistics Survey Estimates
David Salvatore Piccone, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Teresa Elizabeth Hesley, Bureau of Labor Statistics
4:20 PM
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Model Selection Approach for Mixture Complexity Estimation Using L2 Distance
Umashanger Thayasivam, Rowan University; T.N. Sriram, The University of Georgia
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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Assessment of Drug Effects in Xenograft Models Using Constrained Parametric Maximum Likelihood Estimations
Hong-Bin Fang, University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center
4:25 PM
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Large Gaussian Covariance Matrix Estimation with Markov Structures
Ming Yuan, Georgia Institute of Technology; Xinwei Deng, University of Wisconsin
4:35 PM
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Model Identification and Regression Estimation with a Diverging Number of Predictors
Zhan Wang, University of Minnesota; Yuhong Yang, University of Minnesota
4:35 PM
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Robust Small Area Estimation Using a Mixture Model
Julie Gershunskaya, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Parthasarathi Lahiri , University of Maryland
4:35 PM
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Nonparametric Variogram Estimation on the Sphere
Chunfeng Huang, Indiana University; Haimeng Zhang, Mississippi State University; Scott Robeson, Indiana University
4:35 PM
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Multiscale Nonparametric Spectrum Estimation with Missing Observations
Thomas C.M. Lee, University of California, Davis; Zhengyuan Zhu, Iowa State University
4:45 PM
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More for Less? Comparing Small-Area Estimation, Spatial Microsimulation, and Mass Imputation
Stephen John Haslett, Massey University; Geoffrey Jones, Massey University; Alasdair Dewar Noble, Massey University; Dimitris Ballas, University of Sheffield
4:50 PM
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Small-Area Estimation for Business Surveys
Wesley Yung, Statistics Canada; Susana Rubin-Bleuer, Statistics Canada; Sebastien Landry, Statistics Canada
4:50 PM
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Visualizing Model Uncertainty with Many Parameters
David W. Scott, Rice University
4:50 PM
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Small-Area Estimation with Measurement Error Using SIMEX
Trijya Singh, Texas A&M University; Trijya Singh, Texas A&M University
4:50 PM
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Discovering Sparse Covariance Structures with the Isomap
Amy Wagaman, Amherst College; Elizaveta Levina, University of Michigan
5:05 PM
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Integral Curve Estimation: Methodology and Applications to Diffusion Tensor Imaging
Lyudmila Sakhanenko, Michigan State University
5:05 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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Semiparametric Estimation and Selection for Nonstationary Spatial Covariance Functions
Nan-Jung Hsu, National Tsing-Hua University; Hsin-Cheng Huang, Academia Sinica; Ya-Mei Chang, CSIRO
5:05 PM
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Variance Modeling in the U.S. Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Program (SAIPE)
Sam Hawala, U.S. Census Bureau; Parthasarathi Lahiri , University of Maryland
5:05 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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Small-Area Estimation Approach to Estimating the Association Between Traffic-Generated Air Pollution and Early Childhood Respiratory Problems
Mine Cetinkaya, University of California, Los Angeles
5:20 PM
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Adaptive Estimation in High-Dimensional Response Surface Models via Iterative Thresholding Regularization
Samir Touzani, French Institut of Petroleum; Anestis Antoniadis, University Joseph Fourier; Daniel Busby, French Institut of Petroleum
5:20 PM
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An Estimation Method for Matrix Survey Sampling
Takis Merkouris, Athens University of Economics and Business
5:20 PM
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Nonparametric Autoregression and Volatility Estimation
Jin-Hong Park, College of Charleston
5:35 PM
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Monday, 08/02/2010
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Small-Area Estimation Using Geoadditive Models
Hongjian Yu, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research; Xianghang Shi, University of California, Los Angeles Center for Health Policy Research
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Application of a Fay-Modified Balanced Repeated Replication Method to the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)
Van Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics
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Analyzing Methods of Imputation
Scott Daniel Crawford, Texas A&M University
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How Does Unusual Local Weather Affect Public Opinion About Climate Change?
Bin Liu, Iowa State University
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Sample Weights in Survey Data
Katie Genadek, University of Minnesota
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Bridge Estimation: Estimator Hybridization for Efficiency and Robustness
Russell T. Shinohara, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Constantine Frangakis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
8:35 AM
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Some Large Sample Properties for Pairwise Likelihood-Based Estimators
Gongjun Xu, Columbia University; Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University
8:35 AM
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Regularization Approach to Nonparametric Estimation in Multivariate Mixtures
Michael Levine, Purdue University; David Hunter, Penn State; Didier Chauveau, Université d'Orléans
8:55 AM
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Statistical Models and Estimation Methods for Ordinal Longitudinal Data
Claudia Czado, Technische Universitaet Muenchen; Claudia Czado, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
9:05 AM
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An Evaluation of the N-Mixture Model for Pseudo-Replicated Count Data in Animal Abundance Estimation
Sherwin G. Toribio, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse; Brian R. Gray, U.S. Geological Survey
9:05 AM
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Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Mixtures with Partial Priors
Ji-Ping Wang, Northwestern University
9:15 AM
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Joint Estimation of Multiple Graphical Models
Jian Guo, University of Michigan; Elizaveta Levina, University of Michigan; George Michailidis, University of Michigan; Ji Zhu, University of Michigan
9:15 AM
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Software for Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation
Susan Gruber, University of California, Berkeley; Mark J. Van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley
9:20 AM
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Sample-Size Estimation for Detecting Trends in Repeated Surveys
Mark C. Otto, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
9:20 AM
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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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Sparse Multivariate Regression with Covariance Estimation
Adam Rothman, University of Michigan; Elizaveta Levina, University of Michigan; Ji Zhu, University of Michigan
9:35 AM
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Semiparametric Transformation Models for Multiple Biomarkers in ROC Analysis
Eunhee Kim, Brown University; Donglin Zeng, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:35 AM
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Generalized Linear Models with Censored Covariate Data
Ryan May, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Joseph G. Ibrahim, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Haitao Chu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9:50 AM
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Estimation of the Area Under ROC Curve with Censored Data
Lili Yao, Northwestern University; Qihua Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
9:50 AM
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Efficient Estimation and Model Selection for the Marginal Generalized Additive Model for Correlated Data
Lan Xue, Oregon State University; Peiyong (Annie) Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Jianhui Zhou, University of Virginia
9:55 AM
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Nonparametric Estimation of Copulae with Penalized Hierarchical Mixture Densities
Goeran Kauermann, University Bielefeld
9:55 AM
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Bayesian Generalized Method of Moments
Guosheng Yin, The University of Hong Kong
10:35 AM
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Penalized Estimation of Sparse High-Dimensional--Directed Acyclic Graphs
George Michailidis, University of Michigan
10:35 AM
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What Can We Do When EM Is Not Applicable? Self Consistency: A General Recipe for Semiparametric and Nonparametric Estimation with Incomplete and Irregularly Spaced Data
Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
10:35 AM
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Achieving the Benefits of Both an Internal Pilot and Interim Analysis in Small Samples
John A. Kairalla, University of Florida; Keith E. Muller, University of Florida; Christopher S. Coffey, The University of Iowa
10:35 AM
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Regularized REML for Estimation and Selection of Fixed and Random Effects in Linear Mixed-Effects Models
Sijian Wang, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Peter Song, University of Michigan; Ji Zhu, University of Michigan
10:35 AM
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Second-Order Inference for Nonstationary Time Series
Han Xiao, The University of Chicago; Weibiao Wu, The University of Chicago
10:35 AM
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Unsupervised MR Brain Images Segmentation Using Fuzzy C-Means Based on Fuzzy Sufficient Dimension Reduction
Han-Ming Wu, Tamkang University
10:50 AM
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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
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Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Variable Selection for Censored Regression
Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University; Lexin Li, North Carolina State University
11:05 AM
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Doubly Constrained Factor Models: Estimation and Applications
Henghsiu Tsai, Academia Sinica; Ruey S. Tsay, The University of Chicago
11:05 AM
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Penalized Likelihood-Tuned Density Estimator
Yeojin Chung, Penn State; Bruce G. Lindsay, Penn State
11:20 AM
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Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in Submodels Using Fisher Estimating Functions
Ryan Janicki, U.S. Census Bureau
11:20 AM
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Estimation of Faraday Rotation Measures of the Near Galactic Sky Using a Nonstationary Gaussian Process Model
Margaret Short, University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Philipp P. Kronberg, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Dave Higdon, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:20 AM
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Feature Selection for Censored Outcomes with Simultaneous Adjustment for Nonlinear Covariate Effect and Improved Risk Scores of Prostate Cancer Recurrence
Qi Long, Emory University; Brent Johnson, Emory University; Carlos S. Moreno, Emory University
11:35 AM
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Preliminary Test Estimation Procedures in Nonlinear Regression Models with Toxicological Application
Changwon Lim, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Pranab Kumar Sen, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Shyamal D. Peddada, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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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Modeling Multi-Time-Period State-Level Estimates for Wireless-Only, Wireless-Mostly, Landline-Mostly, and Landline-Only Households
Nadarajasundaram Ganesh, NORC; Michael Davern, NORC; Stephen Blumberg, National Center for Health Statistics; Julian Luke, National Center for Health Statistics; Michel Boudreaux, University of Minnesota, SHADAC
11:35 AM
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Multiple Comparisons in Searching for Local Signals
David Siegmund, Stanford University
2:05 PM
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Cox Regression Model with Time-Varying Coefficients in Nested Case-Control Studies
Mengling Liu, New York University School of Medicine; Wenbin Lu, North Carolina State University; Anne Zeleniuch-Jacquotte, New York University School of Medicine; Roy E. Shore, Radiation Effects Research Foundation
2:05 PM
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Bayesian Benchmarking with Applications to Small-Area Estimation
Rebecca Carter Steorts, University of Florida; Ghosh Malay, University of Florida; Gauri Datta, The University of Georgia
2:05 PM
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Adaptive Design for Sample Size Re-estimation in a Medical Device Trial of Spinal Cord Stimulation
Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov, Boston Scientific Corporation
2:05 PM
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High-Dimensional Adaptive Basis Density Estimation
Susan Buchman, Carnegie Mellon University; Ann Lee, Carnegie Mellon University; Chad Schafer, Carnegie Mellon University
2:05 PM
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Evaluating Screening Tests for Chlamydia trachomatis in the Absence of a Gold Standard Test
Alula Hadgu, CDC; Liangliang Wang, The University of British Columbia; Nandini Dendukuri, McGill University
2:20 PM
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Extended Structure-Preserving Estimation Method for Updating Small-Area Estimates of Poverty
Marissa Cinco Isidro, Massey University; Stephen John Haslett, Massey University; Geoffrey Jones, Massey University
2:20 PM
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Confidence Intervals for Median Cost Estimation with Censored Data
Hongwei Zhao, Texas A&M Health Science Center; Chen Zuo, Renmin University of China; Heejung Bang, Weill Cornell Medical College
2:25 PM
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Adaptive Sample Size Re-estimation When Interim Results Are Promising
Cyrus R. Mehta, Cytel Inc.
2:25 PM
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Model Diagnosis of Mixed Linear Models
Winfried Stute, University of Giessen
2:30 PM
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A New Likelihood-Based Density Estimation Method
Ilya Shvartsman, Penn State Harrisburg
2:35 PM
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An Adaptive Noninferiority Study
Pilar Lim, Johnson & Johnson; Qing Liu, Johnson & Johnson; Rosanne Lane, Johnson & Johnson; Barry Schwab, Johnson & Johnson; Allan Sampson, University of Pittsburgh
2:45 PM
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Variance Estimation for Decision-Based Estimators with Application to the Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll
Yang Cheng, U.S. Census Bureau; Slud Eric, University of Maryland; Carma Hogue, U.S. Census Bureau
2:50 PM
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Estimation in ARCH Models with Missing Data: Applications to Latin-American Capital Markets
Natalia Bahamonde, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaiso
2:50 PM
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Alternative Sample Approach for the Annual Survey of Public Employment and Payroll
Casey Corcoran, U.S. Census Bureau; Yang Cheng, U.S. Census Bureau
3:05 PM
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Variable Importance Estimation in a Kaiser Permanente Database
Sherri Rose, University of California, Berkeley; Bruce Fireman, Kaiser Permanente; Mark J. Van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley
3:05 PM
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Estimation of the Term Structure from a DSGE Model
Siddhartha Chib, Washington University in St. Louis
3:20 PM
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A Geostatistical Approach to Disease Mapping for Aggregated Count Data Using GLMMs
Lauren Hund, Harvard University; Brent A. Coull, Harvard School of Public Health
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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Constrained Estimation with Distorted Data by the Least-Squares Criterion
Luis Frank, University of Buenos Aires
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On the Repeated Estimation of Survival Time Quantiles for a Time-to-Event Study in Follow-Up Stage
Sunhee Kwon Ro, Onyx Pharmaceuticals; Yu-Lin Chang, Onyx Pharmaceuticals
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Graphical Models for Spatial Data: Interpretations and Estimation
Alix I. Gitelman, Oregon State University; Kathryn Mary Irvine, Montana State University; Xuan Che, Oregon State University
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Asymptotic Properties of Parameter Estimation in Ordinary Differential Equations by Generalized Profiling Approach
Peisi Yan, Yale University; Harrison Huibin Zhou, Yale University
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Estimation of Mean Vector Based on Stein Estimator
Tianyuan Tang, The University of Hong Kong
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Estimation in Hierarchical Models with Incomplete Ordinal Response and Ordinal Covariates
Yong Zhang, University of Michigan; Trivellore Raghunathan, University of Michigan
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Model Selection for Causal Parameters in Structural Mean Models Based on a Quasi-Likelihood
Masataka Taguri, The University of Tokyo; Yutaka Matsuyama, The University of Tokyo; Yasuo Ohashi, The University of Tokyo
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Estimation of Cellular and Genetic Diversity
Elza Erkip, Polytechnic Institute of New York University; Mithat Gonen, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
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Sample-Size Estimation for the Interaction Between Two Binary Covariates in a Cox Proportional Hazard Regression Model
Abu Minhajuddin, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; Xian-Jin Xie, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas
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Optimizing a Testing Procedure Based on Kernel Density Estimation for Comparing Two Treatments
Sibabrata Banerjee, Merck & Co., Inc.; Sunil Dhar, New Jersey Institute of Technology; Farid Kianifard, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation; Hanzhe Zheng, Merck & Co., Inc.; Venkata Sasikiran Goteti, Merck & Co., Inc.
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An Inhibitory-Excitatory Approach for the Analysis of the Neural Spike Train
Reza Ramezan, University of Waterloo; Paul Marriott, University of Waterloo; Shojaeddin Chenouri, University of Waterloo
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Estimation of Periodontal Disease Incidence in the Presence of Diagnostic Error
Anthony J. Parker, Medical University of South Carolina; Elizabeth H. Slate, Medical University of South Carolina
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Analyzing Cognitive Testing Data with Extensions of Item Response Theory Models
Jonathan Gruhl, University of Washington; Elena A. Erosheva, University of Washington; Paul K. Crane, University of Washington
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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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2003 National Survey of College Graduates Nonresponse Bias Analysis
Michael White, U.S. Census Bureau
9:05 AM
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Estimation in an Additive Transformation Model for Multistate Models
Dorota M. Dabrowska, University of California, Los Angeles
9:05 AM
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Bayesian Nonparametric Intensity Estimation for Inhomogeneous Spatial Point Processes
Yu Ryan Yue, Baruch College, CUNY; Ji Meng Loh, AT&T Labs - Research
9:15 AM
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Imputation-Based Efficient Estimation Procedures for Length-Biased Data Under Semiparametric Regression Models
Hao Liu, Baylor College of Medicine; Jing Qin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; Yu Shen, MD Anderson Cancer Center
9:15 AM
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Outliers in GARCH Models and the Estimation of Risk Measures
Helena Veiga, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Aurea Grané, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
9:20 AM
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Estimation of Treatment Effect Following a Clinical Trial with Adaptive Design
Xiaolong Luo, Celgene Corporation; Peter Ouyang, Celgene Corporation
9:20 AM
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Least Squares Estimation of Two Ordered Monotone Regression Curves
Kaspar Rufibach, University of Zurich; Fadoua Balabdaoui, Universite Paris-Dauphine; Filippo Santambrogio, Universite Paris-Dauphine
9:20 AM
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Bayesian Estimation of Pair Copula Constructions with Discrete Margins
Anastasios Nicholas Panagiotelis, Technische Universitaet Muenchen; Claudia Czado, Technische Universitaet Muenchen
9:20 AM
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Nonparametric Bayesian Estimation of an Unknown Dose
Bahman Shafii, University of Idaho; William James Price, University of Idaho
9:35 AM
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Partial Envelopes: A Focused Method for Efficient Estimation in Multivariate Linear Regression
Zhihua Su, University of Minnesota; Ralph Dennis Cook, University of Minnesota
9:35 AM
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A Frailty-Model-Based Approach to Estimating the Age-Dependent Penetrance Function of a Gene Mutation Using Family-Based Study Designs
Yun-Hee Choi, The University of Western Ontario; Laurent Briollais, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute
9:35 AM
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Application of Small-Area Estimation Methods to Emergency Department Data from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
Vladislav M. Beresovsky, National Center for Health Statistics; Cathy Burt, National Center for Health Statistics; Van Parsons, National Center for Health Statistics; Nathaniel Schenker, National Center for Health Statistics
9:35 AM
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A Re-examination of the Analysis of Prevalent Cohort Survival Data
Marco Carone, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Masoud Asgharian, McGill University; Daniel O. Scharfstein, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
9:35 AM
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A Penalized Pointwise Likelihood Approach for m-Year Precipitation Return Values Estimation Based on Regional Climate Model Output
Jun Zhang, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute; Wei Zheng, Eli Lilly and Company
9:35 AM
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Estimation of Mercury in Fish
Pepi Lacayo, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
9:35 AM
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On Testing a General Linear Hypothesis Under Heteroscedasticity and Its Application
Hubert Janpeing Chen, National Cheng Kung University
9:50 AM
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Correcting for Bias in Estimating Proportions Using Group Testing
Graham Hepworth, The University of Melbourne; Ray Watson, The University of Melbourne
9:55 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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Assessing the Impact of Missing Data on Variance Estimates for the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey: Insurance Component (MEPS-IC)
Matthew Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau; Anne Kearney, U.S. Census Bureau
10:05 AM
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Admissibility of Naive Estimator Under LINEX Loss in a Two-Stage Design
AnqiI Sun, University of Florida; Mark Yang, University of Florida
10:05 AM
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A Selective Overview and New Perspectives on Nonparametric Classification
Richard Samworth, University of Cambridge
10:35 AM
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Sample Size Re-estimation in Crossover Trials
Adina Soaita, Pfizer Inc.; Byron Jones, Pfizer Inc.; Jerry J. Weaver, Pfizer Inc.
10:35 AM
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Sampling from Partially Ordered Judgment Subsets
Omer Ozturk, The Ohio State University
10:35 AM
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Optimal Estimation and Testing in Econometrics
Werner Ploberger, Washington University in St. Louis
10:35 AM
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Longitudinal Data Analysis: Tackling Dropouts and Those Pesky Outliers
Devan V. Mehrotra, Merck Research Laboratories; Xiaoming Li, Merck Research Laboratories; Jiajun Liu, Merck Research Laboratories
10:50 AM
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Quantile Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo
James M. Flegal, University of California, Riverside
10:50 AM
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Constrained Nonparametric Estimation Using Ranked-Set Sampling with a Covariate
Jesse Frey, Villanova University
10:55 AM
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Generalized Method of Moments with Tail Trimming
Jonathan B. Hill, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Eric Renault, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
11:05 AM
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Weight Calibration across Subject-Specific Samples in the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Jennifer Kali, Westat; Tom Krenzke, Westat; Keith Rust, Westat; John Burke, Westat
11:05 AM
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Data Mining in Radiation Portal Monitoring
Tom Burr Burr, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Michael Hamada, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Nicolas Hengartner, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Kary Myers, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Picard Richard, Los Alamos National Laboratory
11:05 AM
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Change-Point Analysis of Survival Data with Application in Clinical Trials
Xuan Chen, sanofi pasteur; Michael Baron, The University of Texas at Dallas
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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Exact REML Estimation Procedure in the Spatial Probit Normal Model for Binary Outcomes
Cristian Meza, Universidad de Valparaiso; Rolando De la Cruz, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Susana Eyheramendy, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; Felipe Osorio, Universidad de Valparaiso
11:20 AM
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Evaluating the Effect of Early vs. Late ARV Regimen Change After Failing on an Initial Regimen: Results from the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Study A5095
Li Li, Emory University; Brent Johnson, Emory University; Joseph Eron, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Heather Ribaudo, Harvard University; Roy Gulick, Cornell University
11:20 AM
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Inference About Clustering and Parametric Assumptions in Variance Covariance Estimation
Mikko Packalen, University of Waterloo; Tony Wirjanto, University of Waterloo
11:20 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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Remarks on Robust Nonparametric Imputation
Philip E. Cheng, Academia Sinica
11:35 AM
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Concordance Measures: Estimation Methods and Potential Bias Due to Censoring
Norberto Pantoja, Harvard School of Public Health/FDA; Rebecca Betensky, Harvard School of Public Health
11:35 AM
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A Reexamination of Daily Temperature Data
David James Thomson, Queen's University
11:50 AM
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Properties of a Block Bootstrap Under Long-Range Dependence
Young Min Kim, Iowa State University
11:50 AM
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Nonidentifiability Issue in Meta-Analysis in the Presence of Publication Bias
Peter Song, University of Michigan; Youna Hu, University of Michigan; Meihua Wu, University of Michigan
11:55 AM
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Estimation Bias in Complete-Case Analysis in Crossover Studies with Missing Data
Fang Liu, Merck Research Laboratories
2:05 PM
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Multiple Frame Sample Design and Estimation for the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses - Theory, Implementation, and Assessment
Ralph DiGaetano, Westat; Jim Green, Westat; Jay Clark, Westat; Marshall Fritz, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2:05 PM
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Functional Coefficient Autoregressive Models for Nonlinear Time Series
Alireza Tahai, Mississippi State University; Mehrzad Netadj, Mississippi State University
2:05 PM
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Shrinkage Nonparametric Estimation of Median Survival Time from Censored Data
Mohammad Hossein Rahbar, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Weiwei Wang, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston; Jing Ning, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
2:05 PM
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A Shrinkage Approach to Fixed Effects Estimation of Nonlinear Panel Data Models
Dalia A. Ghanem, University of California, San Diego
2:05 PM
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On the Estimation of the Determinants of Technical Inefficiency in the Stochastic Frontier Production Function Model
Seongho Song, University of Cincinnati; Chansoo Kim, Kongju National University; David Taesok Yi, Xavier University; Younshik Chung, Pusan National University
2:20 PM
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Regression Adjustment and Stratification by Propensity Score in Treatment Effect Estimation
Jessica Amelia Myers, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Thomas Louis, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2:25 PM
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Incorporating Sampling Bias in Analyzing Bivariate Survival Data with Interval Sampling and Application to HIV Research
Hong Zhu, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Mei-Cheng Wang, The Johns Hopkins University
2:25 PM
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Optimal Designs for Dose-Finding Studies
Frank Bretz, Novartis Pharma
2:30 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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Detecting Signal in High-Dimensional Genetic Data
Julia Salzman, Stanford University
2:45 PM
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Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimation for a Semiparametric Mixture Model with Two-Sample Censored Data
Yayuan Zhu, University of Calgary; Xuewen Lu, University of Calgary; Jingjing Wu, University of Calgary
2:50 PM
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Linear Mixed Model Selection for False Discovery Rate Control in Microarray Data Analysis
Cumhur Yusuf Demirkale, University of Florida; Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University; Tapabrata Maiti, Michigan State University
2:55 PM
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Estimating the Size of the Nonimmigrant Population Residing in the United States
Bryan C. Baker, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
3:05 PM
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Interval Estimation in Two-Stage, Drop-the-Losers Clinical Trials with Flexible Treatment Selection
Dan Neal, University of Florida; George Casella, University of Florida; Mark Yang, University of Florida; Samuel S. Wu, University of Florida
3:05 PM
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Entropy and Divergence Estimation for High-Dimensional Data
Kumar Sricharan, University of Michigan; Raviv Raich, Oregon State University; Alfred O. Hero, University of Michigan
3:05 PM
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Causal Effect Estimation Allowing Covariate Measurement Error Using Propensity Score
Yi Huang, University of Maryland Baltimore County; Karen Bandeen-Roche, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3:05 PM
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Inference for Treatment Efficacy on Survival Probability in Randomized Clinical Trials with Noncompliance
Ying Zhou, University of California, Los Angeles
3:05 PM
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Benchmark Dose Estimation in Environmental Risk Assessment: From Cancer to Genetic Toxicity and Beyond
Walter W. Piegorsch, The University of Arizona
3:20 PM
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Generalized Point Estimation with Application to Small Response Estimation
Sam Weerahandi, Pfizer Inc.
3:20 PM
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Wednesday, 08/04/2010
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Binary Data Regression Models: Small-Sample and Large-Sample Features
Roland C. Deutsch, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; John M. Grego, University of South Carolina; Brian Habing, University of South Carolina; Walter W. Piegorsch, The University of Arizona
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Minimum Quantile Distance Estimation of Quantiles Using Linear Combinations of Standard Quantile Functions as Models
Dean H. Fearn , California State University, East Bay; Elliott Nebenzahl, California State University, East Bay
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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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An Alternating Estimation Approach to Combine Optimal Scaling and SEM
Patrick Mair, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business; Jan De Leeuw, University of California, Los Angeles; Peter M. Bentler, University of California, Los Angeles
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Comparison of Estimation Methods for Logistic Regression Models with Multiple Random Effects Between Statistical Packages
Yoonsang Kim, Institute of Health Research and Policy; Young-Ku Choi, Institute of Health Research and Policy; Sherry Emery, Institute of Health Research and Policy
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Bayesian Goodness-of-Fit Test and Semiparametric Generalization with Measurement Data
Angela Schoergendorfer, University of Kentucky; Adam J. Branscum, University of Kentucky; Timothy Edward Hanson, University of Minnesota
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Dirichlet Processes for Quantal Response Equilibrium Models: Examination of Pegged Exchange Rate Policies
Anton H. Westveld, University of Nevada at Las Vegas; Kevin M. Quinn, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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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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A More Computationally Efficient Model Selection Method for Regularized Discriminant Analysis
John Ramey, Baylor University
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On Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices
Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania
8:35 AM
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Estimators Based on Data-Driven Generalized Weighted Cramer-von Mises Distances Under Censoring, with Applications to Mixture Models
Eric Beutner, Maastricht University
8:35 AM
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Nonparametric Estimation of Time Trend for Recurrent Events Data
Bo Henry Lindqvist, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
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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Estimation of Minimum Mortality Rates and Excess Mortality from Regional Data
Ronald Gangnon, University of Wisconsin
8:50 AM
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Strategies for Pulling the Goalie in Hockey
David Beaudoin, Universite Laval; Tim B. Swartz, Simon Fraser University
8:50 AM
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Probability-Proportional-to-Size Sampling from a Rare Population
Jens Olofsson, Örebro University
8:50 AM
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Estimation and Comparison of Seasonally Adjusted CPI-U Standard Errors with Official CPI-U Standard Errors
Owen Shoemaker, Bureau of Labor Statistics
8:50 AM
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G-Estimation of Structural Nested Model Parameters for Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes: Looking for Problems
Erica E.M. Moodie, McGill University
8:55 AM
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Problems in Shape-Constrained Function Estimation Involving Correlated Errors
Mary Meyer, Colorado State University
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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Sure Screening and Refitted Crossvalidation for Ultra High-Dimensional Statistical Inferences
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University; Shaojun Guo, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ning Hao, Princeton University
9:05 AM
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Comparison of Variance Estimation Methods Using PPI Data
Andy Sadler, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Helen Chen, Bureau of Labor Statistics
9:05 AM
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Estimation of an Epidemic Curve During an Outbreak: A Classification Approach
Elaine O. Nsoesie, Virginia Tech; Richard Beckman, Virginia Tech; Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech
9:05 AM
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Optimal G-Estimation Mediation Analyses Under Departure from Sequential Ignorability
Rongmei Zhang, University of Pennsylvania; Marshall M. Joffe, University of Pennsylvania; Thomas R. Ten Have, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
9:15 AM
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Consistency in Multidivariate Convex Regression
Emilio Francisco Seijo, Columbia University; Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
9:15 AM
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Confidence Interval Estimation for Inter-Rater Reliability in a Two-Factor Random-Effects Design
Joseph C. Cappelleri, Pfizer Inc.; Kelly H. Zou, Pfizer Inc.; Carmen Arteaga, Pfizer Inc.; Naitee Ting, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
9:20 AM
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The Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Estimating the Size of HIV At-Risk Populations in Bangladesh
Le Bao, University of Washington; Adrian E. Raftery, University of Washington; Amala Reddy, UNAIDS Regional Support Team Asia-Pacific
9:20 AM
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Causal Effect Estimation Using Instrumental Variable Approaches for Log-Linear Structural Nested Mean Models in the Presence of Unmeasured Confounding
Chia-Hao Wang, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine; Marshall M. Joffe, University of Pennsylvania; Thomas R. Ten Have, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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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Bootstrap Variance Estimation in the Presence of Imputed Data
Christian Léger, Université de Montréal; Zeinab Mashreghi, Université de Montréal; David Haziza, Université de Montréal
9:35 AM
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Coverage Assessment in the 2011 UK Census
Owen Abbott, Office for National Statistics UK; James Brown, Institute of Education
9:50 AM
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Interval Estimation of Epidemiological Indices for Data Sampled from Clusters: A Review and an Extension
Tasneem Zaihra, University of New Brunswick; Sudhir Paul, University of Windsor
9:50 AM
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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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A Finite Sample Study of a New Adaptive Nonparametric Method for Quantal Bioassay in Diverse Models
Lizhen Lin, The University of Arizona; Rabi Bhattacharya, The University of Arizona
10:35 AM
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New Bayesian Nonparametric Mixture Models
Stephen Graham Walker, University of Kent; Ramses Mena, IIMAS-UNAM
10:35 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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Bayesian ROC Curve Estimation Under Binormality with the Partial Gold Standard
Jiezhun Gu, Duke Clinical Research Institute; Subhashis Ghosal, North Carolina State University
10:35 AM
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Optimal Estimation of Multidimensional Normal Means with Unknown Variances
Xu Han, Princeton University; Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania
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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Density Estimation for Data Measured with General Measurement Errors
Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University
10:35 AM
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Mutation Rate Estimation and Classification of Driver and Passenger Genes in Cancer
Jie Ding, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Giovanni Parmigiani, Harvard University; Xiaogang Zhong, The Johns Hopkins 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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A Comparison of the Results of Intent-to-Treat, per-Protocol, and g-Estimation in the Presence of Nonrandom Treatment Changes in a Time-to-Event Noninferiority Trial
Yutaka Matsuyama, The University of Tokyo
10:55 AM
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Evaluation of Methods for Second-Stage Variance Estimation for the Drug Abuse Warning Network Survey
Rong Cai, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Kathy Poneleit, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
11:05 AM
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Regularized Variance Estimation and Variance Stabilization of High-Dimensional Data
Jean-Eudes J. Dazard, Case Western Reserve University; J. Sunil Rao, Case Western Reserve University
11:05 AM
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Automatic Smoothing Parameter Selection for Nonparametric Function Estimation with Clustered and Longitudinal Data
Jianhua Huang, Texas A&M University; Ganggang Xu, Texas A&M University
11:15 AM
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Variance Estimation for a Small Number of PSUs
Hyunshik Lee, Westat
11:20 AM
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Drawing Statistical Inferences from International Census Data
Lara L. Cleveland, University of Minnesota; Michael Davern, NORC; Steven Ruggles, University of Minnesota/MN Population Center
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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Advancing Statistical Methodology for USDA Surveys and Their Analysis
Jianqiang (Jay) Wang, National Institute of Statistical Sciences ; Scott Holan, University of Missouri; Balgobin Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute ; Criselda Toto, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Wendy J. Barboza, National Agricultural Statistics Service; Edwin Anderson, National Agricultural Statistics Service
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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Bayesian Estimation of Humpback Whale Population Abundance and Movement Patterns in Northern Southeast Alaska
Albert Noble Hendrix, R2 Resource Consultants, Inc.
11:35 AM
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Time Series Modeling of Official Statistics with Two-Stage Benchmarking
Richard Tiller, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Danny Pfeffermann , Hebrew University
11:50 AM
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Simulation of Incorporating the Variance from Missing Data in Census Coverage Measurement (CCM) Variance Estimates
Richard Griffin, U.S. Census Bureau
11:50 AM
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Online Forecasting and Prediction of Spacio-Temporal Processes with Dynamic Covariance Estimation
Dave Zes, University of California, Los Angeles
11:50 AM
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Improved Horvitz-Thompson Estimation of Model Parameters from Stratified Case-Control Samples
Norman Breslow, University of Washington
2:05 PM
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Two Approaches to Design Effects
Matthias Ganninger, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences; Sabine Häder, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences; Siegfried Gabler, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
2:05 PM
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Some Applications of the Nonparametric Regression Model to Air Pollution Data
Javier Olaya, Universidad del Valle
2:05 PM
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Bayesian Nonparametric Longitudinal Data Analysis with Embedded Autoregressive Structure: Application to Hormone Data
Wesley Johnson, University of California, Irvine; Fernando Quintana, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
2:05 PM
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Statistical and Clinical Characteristics of Composite Endpoint in Clinical Studies
Jeng Mah, Regulatory and Clinical Research Institute, Inc.
2:05 PM
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Probabilistic Approach to Editing
Maiki Ilves, Örebro University
2:20 PM
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Finite Memory Estimation of Infinite Memory Processes
Zsolt Talata, The University of Kansas; Imre Csiszar, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2:25 PM
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Small-Area Estimation of U.S. Health Disparities
Tanja Srebotniak, Ecologic Institute; Christopher J.L. Murray, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Ali Mokdad, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation; Rafael Lozano, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
2:25 PM
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A Continuous Time List Capture Model for Internet Threats
Rhiannon Weaver, Carnegie Mellon University
2:35 PM
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Imputation Variance Estimation Protocols for the NAS Poverty Measure: The New York City Poverty Measure Experience
Frank Potter, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; Eric Grau, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; John Czajka, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; Mark Levitan, NYC Center for Economic Opportunity
2:45 PM
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Estimation of Spatio-Temporal Relative Animal Density from Line Transect Data with Clustering and Censoring
Geof Givens, Colorado State University
2:45 PM
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Nonparametric Estimation of Concordance Probability with Censored Data
Mithat Gonen, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Glenn Heller, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Qianxing Mo, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
2:45 PM
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Semiparametric Pseudo-Maximum-Likelihood Estimation Exploiting Gene-Environment Independence for Population-Based Case-Control Studies with Complex Sampling
Barry I. Graubard, National Cancer Institute; Yan Li, The University of Texas at Arlington
2:55 PM
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Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation of Regression Models in Event History Analysis
Pierpaolo De Blasi, University of Turin/Collegio Carlo Alberto
3:05 PM
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Statistical Challenges and Issues Related to Multiregion Trials
Sibabrata Banerjee, Merck & Co., Inc.; Lucy Shneyer, Merck & Co., Inc.
3:05 PM
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A Self-Consistent Approach for Nonparametric Spectral Density Estimation with Missing Data
Zhengyuan Zhu, Iowa State University; Thomas C.M. Lee, University of California, Davis
3:05 PM
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Accurate Parameter Estimation Using High-Dimensional Astrophysical Data
Joseph William Richards, Carnegie Mellon University
3:05 PM
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Applying Alternative Variance Estimation Methods for Totals Under Raking in SOI's Corporate Sample
Valerie Testa, IRS; Kimberly Henry, IRS; Richard Valliant, University of Maryland
3:05 PM
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Nonparametric Endogenous Poststratification Estimation
Jay Breidt, Colorado State University; Mark Dahlke, Colorado State University; Jean Opsomer, Colorado State University; Ingrid Van Keilegom, Université Catholique de Louvain
3:20 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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Estimation of Odds Ratio with Rare Event Case: A Simulation Study Based on Hospitalized Flu Vaccine Study
Qingxia Chen, Vanderbilt University; Yuwei Zhu, Vanderbilt University; Helen K.B. Talbot, Vanderbilt University; Marie R. Griffin, Vanderbilt University; Kathryn M. Edwards, Vanderbilt University
3:20 PM
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Thursday, 08/05/2010
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A Random Coefficients Model for Regional Coexpression Associated with DNA Copy Number Aberrations
Wessel Van Wieringen, VU University Medical Center
8:35 AM
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Random Group Variance Estimators for Survey Data with Imputation
Qi Tang, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jun Shao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
8:35 AM
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Applying a Family Equalization Adjustment to Weighting for the Current Population Survey
Andrew Zbikowski, U.S. Census Bureau
8:35 AM
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An Improved Method for Constructing Confidence Intervals for Quantiles from Survey Data
Akhil Vaish, RTI International; Babubhai Shah, SAFAL Institute
8:50 AM
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Adjusting for Baseline Measurements in Crossover Studies
Chengcheng Liu, Merck & Co., Inc.; Lingling Han, Merck & Co., Inc.; Xiaodong Li, Merck & Co., Inc.; Peng Sun, Merck & Co., Inc.
8:50 AM
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Sample Size Re-estimation for a Time-to-event Endpoint Based on Stratified Analysis
Liang Chen, Pfizer Inc.
8:50 AM
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The Impact of Measurement Error in Auxiliary Variables on Model-Based Estimation of Finite Population Totals: A Simulation Study
Brady West, Institute for Social Research
8:55 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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Estimation of Multiple Noncrossing Quantile Regression Functions
Yufeng Liu, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Yichao Wu, North Carolina State University
9:00 AM
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Multilevel Models and Small-Area Estimation in the Context of Vietnam Living Standards Surveys
Dominique Haughton, Bentley University; Phong Nguyen, General Statistics Office, Hanoi; Irene Hudson, University of South Australia; John Boland, University of South Australia
9:05 AM
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Constrained Estimation of Cell-Only Households by Block Group Using Iterative Calibration
Mansour Fahimi, Marketing Systems Group; Paul Rappoport, Centris; Kevin Babyak, Centris; David Malarek, Marketing Systems Group
9:05 AM
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Inference with Transposable Data: Modeling the Effects of Row and Column Correlations
Genevera I. Allen, Stanford University; Rob Tibshirani, Stanford University
9:15 AM
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Adaptive Sample Size Re-Estimation in Oncology Trials
Pralay Mukhopadhyay, Bristol-Myers Squibb
9:20 AM
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Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Volatility with High-Frequency Data
Dacheng Xiu, Princeton University
9:25 AM
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Higher-Order Influence Functions and Minimax Estimation of Nonlinear Functionals
James Robins, Harvard School of Public Health
9:35 AM
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Estimation and Model Selection in a Class of Semiparametric Models for Longitudinal Data
Jialiang Li, National University of Singapore
9:35 AM
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Nonparametric Estimation of the Covariate-Specific ROC Curve]{Nonparametric Estimation of the Covariate-Specific ROC Curve in Presence of Ignorable Verification Bias
Danping Liu, University of Washington; Xiao-Hua Zhou, University of Washington
9:35 AM
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Estimation of Average Treatment Effect in Causal Inference Using Exponential Tilting Models
Ming Zhou, Iowa State University; Jae-Kwang Kim, Iowa State 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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On Sample Sizes in a Longitudinal Survey
Andrew Vogt, Georgetown University; Dhiren Ghosh, Synectics for Management Decisions Inc.
10:05 AM
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Current Developments in Small-Area Estimation at Statistics Canada
Michel Arsene Hidiroglou, Statistics Canada
10:35 AM
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Measuring Elusive Populations with Multiple Systems Estimation: A Case Study in Casanare
Kristian Lum, Duke University; Megan Price, Benetech; Patrick Ball, Benetech
10:35 AM
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How Many Iterations Are Sufficient for Semiparametric Estimation?
Guang Cheng, Purdue University
10:35 AM
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A Semiparametric Estimation of Mean Function with Nonignorable Missing Data
Cindy Long Yu, Iowa State University
10:35 AM
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Reducing Parameter Estimation Bias for Data with Missing Values Using Simulation Extrapolation
YU-YI Hsu, Iowa State University; Yongming Qu, Eli Lilly and Company; Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University
10:35 AM
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Spatial Shrinkage Estimation of Diffusion Tensors in Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data
Tao Yu, National University of Singapore
10:35 AM
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Bayesian Estimation and Hypothesis Testing of AutoRegressive Models under a Reference Prior
Shawn Ni, University of Missouri; Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri
10:35 AM
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Estimation in State-Space Models with Exogenous Covariates and Missing Data
Arlene Naranjo, University of Florida; Mildred M. Maldonado-Molina, University of Florida; Kelli A. Komro, University of Florida; A. Alexandre Trindade, Texas Tech University; George Casella, University of Florida
10:50 AM
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Sample Size Planning to Obtain Narrow Confidence Intervals for the RMSEA
Ken Kelley, University of Notre Dame; Keke Lai, University of Notre Dame
10:50 AM
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Approximating High-Dimensional Simulations in Low-Dimensional Space, with Application to Microarray Prediction Error Estimation
Kevin Dobbin, The University of Georgia
10:50 AM
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A Simulation Study on the Effects of Increasing the Number of Capture Periods in Closed Population Capture-Recapture Models with Heterogeneity
Jose Sanqui, Appalachian State University; Ross Gosky, Appalachian State University
10:50 AM
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Design and Trial Operational Considerations for a Phase II Two-Stage Adaptive Trial
Weili He, Merck & Co., Inc.; Madhuja Mallick, Merck & Co., Inc.; Yevgen Tymofyeyev, Merck & Co., Inc.; James A. Bolognese, Cytel Inc.
10:55 AM
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Modeling Placebo Response via Infinite Mixtures
Thaddeus Tarpey, Wright State University
11:00 AM
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Structural Properties of Optimum Designs and Their Interrelations in Model Identification and Discrimination for 2 ^m Factorial Experiments
Subir Ghosh, University of California, Riverside; Mike Huang, University of California, Riverside
11:05 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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Robust Gaussian Graphical Lasso
Hokeun Sun, University of Pennsylvania
11:05 AM
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A New Construction of Triogram Model
Huijun Pan, Texas A&M University; Jianhua Huang, Texas A&M University
11:15 AM
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Spatial Scan Statistics with Overdispersion
Tonglin Zhang, Purdue University
11:15 AM
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Some Reasons to Smile: Implied Volatilities in Presence of Pricing Error
Zheng Xu, Iowa State University; Song X. Chen, Iowa State University/Peking University
11:20 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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Simulating the Characteristics of Populations at the Small-Area Level: New Validation Techniques for a Spatial Microsimulation Model in Australia
Azizur Rahman, University of Canberra; Ann Harding, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling; Robert Tanton, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling; Shuangzhe Liu, National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling
11:35 AM
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Point and Interval Estimations for Difference of Two Proportions in Incomplete Matched-Paired Data Using Expectation-Maximization Algorithm
Adeniyi J. Adewale, Merck & Co., Inc.; Benjamin B. John, EdgeServe LLC
11:50 AM
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Thresholded Projection Estimator for the Mean Function in Functional Data
Florentina Bunea, Florida State University; Marten Wegkamp, Florida State University; Andrada Ivanescu, East Carolina University
11:55 AM
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Kernel Estimation of Time Series: An Asymptotic Theory
Weibiao Wu, The University of Chicago; Yinxiao Huang, The University of Chicago; Yibi Huang, The University of Chicago
11:55 AM
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The Effect of Spatial Confounding on Covariate Estimation
Garritt Page, Duke University; Yajun Liu, University of Missouri; Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri
11:55 AM
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Approximate Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Diffsuion Processes
Song X. Chen, Iowa State University/Peking University; Jing-Yuan Chang, Peking University
11:55 AM
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Estimation of Confidence Intervals for the Log-Normal Mean
Lingmin Zeng, MedImmune; Lanju Zhang, MedImmune; Harry Yang, MedImmune
12:05 PM
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