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Sunday, 08/04/2013
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Methods of Computing Optimal Record-Linkage Parameters
William Yancey, US Census Bureau
2:25 PM
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Computational Methods for Large Spatial Temporal Data Sets
Huiyan Sang, TAMU; Bohai Zhang, Texas A&M University; Jianhua Z. Huang, Texas A&M University
2:30 PM
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A Powerful Bayesian Meta-Analysis Method to Integrate Multiple Gene Set Enrichment Studies
Min Chen, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; Miao Zang, PPD; Xinlei Wang, SMU; Guanghua Xiao, UT Southwestern Medical Center
2:35 PM
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Bayesian Inference in Censored Mixed-Effects Models Using Heavy-Tailed Distributions
Victor Lachos, University of Campinas; Dipak K. Dey, University of Connecticut; Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, University of Minnesota
2:45 PM
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Bayesian Analysis of Spatial Transformation Models with Applications in Neuroimaging Data
Michelle Miranda; Hongtu Zhu, UNC-Chapel Hill; Joseph G. Ibrahim, UNC
3:20 PM
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Parallel Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Nonparametric Mixture Models
Sinead Williamson, Carnegie Mellon University
4:25 PM
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A Bayesian Two-Part Latent Class Model for Longitudinal Government Expenditure Data: Assessing the Impact of Vertical Political Alliances and Political Support
Felipe Nunes
4:35 PM
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Monday, 08/05/2013
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Predicting the Geographic Distribution of Two Invasive Termite Species in Florida Using a Bayesian Logistic Model for Presence-Only Data
Francesco Tonini; Fabio Divino, University of Molise; Giovanna Jona Lasinio, University of Rome, La Sapienza; Hartwig Hochmair, University of Florida; Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, University of Florida
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Joint Nonlinear Mixed-Effects Models and Diagnostics for Censored HIV Viral Loads with CD4 Measurement Error
Mauricio Castro, University of Concepción; Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, University of Minnesota; Victor Lachos, University of Campinas
8:35 AM
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A Model for Estimation of Anonymous Visits on Websites
Julie Novak
9:05 AM
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Parameterizing Individual-Level Models of Infectious Disease Spread Using Sampling-Based Likelihood Approximations
Rajat Malik, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Guelph; Rob Deardon, University of Guelph; Grace Pui Sze Kwong, Department of Population Medicine, Ontario Veterinary College, University of Guelph
9:05 AM
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Bayesian Functional Regression Model for Analyzing Intracranial Pressure Data
Lu Wang, University of California, Los Angeles; Donatello Telesca, University of California at Los Angeles
9:20 AM
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The Theoretical Underpinnings of MCMC
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, University of Toronto
9:25 AM
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Bayesian Models for Integrative Analysis of High-Dimensional Genomics Data
Veera Baladandayuthapani, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Jeffrey S. Morris, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; wenting wang, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center; Kim-Ahn Do, MD Anderson Cancer Center
9:35 AM
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Bayesian Solutions to Missing Data Problems in a Consumer Payments Survey
Christopher Henry, Bank of Canada; Kyle Vincent, Bank of Canada
9:35 AM
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Convergence Assessment in Large Finite State Space MCMC with an Application to Bayesian Clustering
Masoud Asgharian, McGill University; Ioana Ada Coxma, University of Ottawa; Vahid Partovi Nia, École Polytechnique Montréal
10:05 AM
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Spatial Quantile Multiple Regression Using the Asymmetric Laplace Process
Kristian Lum, Virginia Tech; Alan E. Gelfand, Duke University
10:35 AM
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Massive Data, Massive Parallelization, and the Bayesian Self-Controlled Case Series
Marc A. Suchard, UCLA; Trevor Shaddox, UCLA; David Madigan, Columbia University
10:35 AM
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Preimage Reconstruction of Molecules with a Graph Kernel
Ryo Yoshida, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics; Hiroshi Yamashita, Graduate University for Advanced Studies; Yukito Iba, Institute of Statistical Mathematics; Tomoyuki Higuchi, Institute of Statistical Mathematics
10:50 AM
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Austerity in MCMC Land: Cutting the Metropolis-Hastings Budget
Anoop Korattikara Balan, University of California; Yutian Chen, University of California, Irvine; Max Welling, University of Amsterdam
11:05 AM
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Practical Bayesian Computation in Clinical Trials
Karen Lynn Price, Eli Lilly and Company; Fang Chen, SAS Institute Inc.; Baoguang Han, Eli Lilly and Company
11:15 AM
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Integrated Modelling of European Migration: Age and Sex-Specific Estimates
Peter W.F. Smith, University of Southampton; Arkadiusz Wisniowski, University of Southampton
11:35 AM
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Classification of Disease States Under a Mixed-Effects Hidden Markov Model with Application to a Smoking Cessation Clinical Trial
Jesse Raffa, University of Washington; Joel A. Dubin, University of Waterloo
11:35 AM
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Bayesian Mixture Model--Based Clustering with Unknown Number of Components
Taiyeong Lee, SAS Institute Inc.; Jaeseok Kim, Samsung Electronics; Yongdai Kim, Seoul National University
12:05 PM
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MCMC for Co-Ancestry in Pedigrees and Populations
Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington
2:05 PM
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Repulsive Parallel MCMC for Motif Discovery
Hisaki Ikebata, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies; Ryo Yoshida, The Institute of Statistical Mathematics
2:20 PM
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Relative Fixed-Width Stopping Rules for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Simulations
James M. Flegal, University of California, Riverside
2:25 PM
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Adjusting for Recapture Uncertainty: Improved Abundance Estimates from Capture-Recapture Surveys
Stacy Edmondson, Colorado State University
2:25 PM
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Efficient Bayesian Inference for Multivariate Factor Stochastic Volatility (SV) Models
Gregor Kastner, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business; Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business; Hedibert Freitas Lopes, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
2:50 PM
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A Latent Mixture Approach to Modeling Zero-Inflated Bivariate Ordinal Data
Rajendra Kadel, Univ of South Florida; Gatachew Dagne, University of South Florida
2:50 PM
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A Model for the Detection of Abnormal Regions in Quantitative Cerebral Maps with Application to Myelin Water Fraction Maps
Sandra Milena Hurtado Rúa, Weill Medical College of Cornell University
3:05 PM
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Exact MCMC Using Approximations
Radu Herbei, The Ohio State University
3:05 PM
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis for Bird Migration Phenology
Ali Arab, Georgetown University; Jason Courter, Taylor University
3:05 PM
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Advances in MCMC for Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Models
John Hughes, University of Minnesota
3:25 PM
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Tuesday, 08/06/2013
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MCMC Clustering and Its Convergence Issues
Namdar Homayounfar; Masoud Asgharian, McGill University; Vahid Partovi Nia, École Polytechnique Montréal
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Independent Approximate Draws from High-Dimensional Intractable Probability Distributions
Andrew Olsen, The Ohio State University; Radu Herbei, The Ohio State University
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Linchpin Variables
Felipe Acosta Archila, University of Minnesota; Galin Jones, University of Minnesota
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Bayesian Analysis of Nonstationary Composite Gaussian Process Models
Casey Davis; Christopher Hans, Ohio State University; Thomas Santner, Ohio State University
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Simulation Based Nearest Neighbor Entropy Estimation for (Adaptive) MCMC Evaluation
Didier Chauveau, CNRS; Pierre Vandekerkhove, University Marne la Vallée - CNRS
8:35 AM
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Empirically Comparing the Performance of Local MCMC Algorithms with Pools of Proposals
Mylène Bédard, Université De Montréal
8:50 AM
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Local Step Size Adaptation for Hamiltonian MCMC
Matthew Douglas Hoffman, Adobe Research
9:05 AM
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Continual Reassessment Method with Bayesian Variable Selection in Phase I Clinical Trails
Zhenyu Zhao, Northwestern University
9:05 AM
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Learning Hierarchical Models
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, University of Toronto
9:35 AM
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Ergodicity of Adaptive MCMC Algorithms
Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, University of Toronto
10:35 AM
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Recent Research on Deep Learning for AI
Yoshua Bengio, U. Montreal
11:00 AM
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Embedding Combinatorial Structures as Gibbs Distributions for Faster Approximation of Normalizing Constants
Mark Lawrence Huber, Claremont McKenna College
11:05 AM
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A Mean Field Variational Bayes to the Selection of Linear Models
John Ormerod
12:05 PM
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Bayesian Nonparametric Spectral Density Estimation
Ori Rosen, Univ of Texas at El Paso; Sally Wood, Melbourne Business School; Robert Kohn, University of New South Wales
2:05 PM
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Monte Carlo Confidence Intervals
Yves Atchade, Statistics Department, University of Michigan
2:05 PM
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Monitoring Joint Convergence of MCMC Samplers Using Cluster-Based Partitions
Douglas VanDerwerken, Duke University; Scott C. Schmidler, Duke University
2:50 PM
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Comparing the Efficiency of Adaptive MCMC Algorithms
Scott C. Schmidler, Duke University
3:05 PM
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On MCMC Procedure for Bayesian Empirical Likelihood
Sanjay Chaudhuri, National Univ. of Singapore; Teng Yin
3:05 PM
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Bayesian Model Assessment in Factor Analysis with Incomplete Data
Ren He, UCLA; Juwon Song, Korea University; Thomas R. Belin, UCLA Department of Biostatistics
3:20 PM
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Bayesian Statistical Modeling in Python Using PyMC
Christopher Fonnesbeck, Vanderbilt University; John Salvatier, University of Washington
3:20 PM
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Wednesday, 08/07/2013
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Simulation Studies for Dengue Transmission and Within-Host Immune Responses
Alexander Kirpich, University of Florida; Yang Yang, University of Florida; Ira Longini, University of Florida
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Statistical Analysis of Serial Dilution Assays Using Estimating Functions and Data Cloning
Subhash Lele, University of Alberta
8:35 AM
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Designing Sampling Schemes for Population-Level Infectious Disease Studies
Nadia Bifolchi; Rob Deardon, University of Guelph; Zeny Feng, University of Guelph
8:50 AM
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An ANOVA Test for Parameter Estimability Using Data Cloning
Dave Campbell, Simon Fraser University; Subhash Lele, University of Alberta
8:55 AM
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Overlapping Astronomical Sources
David Jones, Harvard University; Vinay Kashyap, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; David van Dyk, Imperial College London
9:20 AM
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A Bayesian Approach to an Ocean Circulation Problem
Seo-eun Choi; Fred W. Huffer, Florida State University; Kevin G Speer, Florida State University
10:05 AM
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Monotone Function Estimation for Computer Experiments
Shirin Golchi, Simon Fraser University; Derek Bingham, Simon Fraser University; Hugh A. Chipman, Acadia University; Dave Campbell, Simon Fraser University
10:35 AM
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Approximate Bayesian Computation Algorithms for Estimating Network Model Parameters
Stephane Aris-Brosou, University of Ottawa
11:35 AM
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Bilinear Mixed Effects Models for Affiliation Networks
Yanan Jia, Ohio State University; Catherine A. Calder, Ohio State University
2:20 PM
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Will the Real Steve Fienberg Please Stand Up? Getting to Know a Population from Multiple Incomplete Files
Rob C. Hall, Carnegie Mellon University; Rebecca C. Steorts, Carnegie Mellon University; Stephen E. Fienberg, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
2:25 PM
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Toward HPD Regions from MCMC Samples
Robert L Wolpert, Duke University
3:05 PM
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Some Advances on Bayesian Record Linkage and Inference for Linked Data
Andrea Tancredi, Sapienza University of Rome; Brunero Liseo, University of La Sapienza
3:05 PM
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Thursday, 08/08/2013
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Erasing Errors Due to Alignment Ambiguity When Estimating Positive Selection
Benjamin Redelings, Duke University
9:15 AM
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Bayesian Clustering Using MCMC Sampling
Mahroo Vahidpour, Polytechnique Montréal; Vahid Partovi Nia, École Polytechnique Montréal
11:35 AM
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A Robust Bayesian Estimate of the Concordance Correlation Coefficient
Dai Feng, Merck & Co., Inc.; Richard Baumgartner, Merck & Co., Inc.; Vladmir Svetnik, Merck & Co., Inc.
11:35 AM
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Intrinsic Analysis of Gaussian and Latent Gaussian Data
Andrew Womack, University of Florida
11:55 AM
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