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120 Mon, 7/30/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-West 208
SPEED: Nonparametric Statistics: Estimation, Testing, and Modeling — Contributed Speed
Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Chair(s): Scott Colwell, University of Guelph
Poster Presentations for this session.
8:35 AM Quantile Function Modeling Applied to Time Between Healthcare-Associated Infection Events

Jonathan R Edwards, Center for Disease Control & Prevention
8:40 AM Model Class Reliance: Variable Importance Measures for Any Machine Learning Model Class, from the

Aaron Fisher, Harvard University; Cynthia Rudin, Duke University; Francesca Dominici, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
8:45 AM Random Conditional Histogram Based Density Estimation with Applications in Probabilistic Forecasting

Rui Li, North Carolina State University; Howard D Bondell, University of Melbourne; Brian Reich, North Carolina State University
8:50 AM Tangent Field and Multi-Fractional Brownian Motion with Applications on Stock Indices
Jinqi Shen, University of Michigan; Tailen Hsing, University of Michigan
8:55 AM Consistent Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Gamma Distributions Based on Empirical Hankel Transforms
Elena Hadjicosta, Penn State University; Donald Richards, Penn State University
9:00 AM Convergence Rates of a Partition Based Bayesian Multivariate Density Estimation Method
Linxi Liu, Columbia University; Dangna Li, Stanford University; Wing Hung Wong, Stanford University
9:05 AM A Bootstrap-Based Test for Distributional Symmetry in SO(3)

Ulrike Genschel, Iowa State University; Daniel Nordman, Iowa State University; Stephen Vardeman, Iowa State University; Yalin Rao, Iowa State University
9:10 AM Approximate Inference for Large Non-Gaussian Spatial Data

Daniel Zilber, Texas A&M University; Matthias Katzfuss, Texas A&M University
9:15 AM Quantile-Optimal Treatment Regimes with Censored Data
Yu Zhou, University of Minnesota; Lan Wang, University of Minnesota; Rui Song, North Carolina State University
9:20 AM Multiple Imputation Using Denoising Autoencoders

Lovedeep Gondara
9:30 AM Coverage Probability of Empirical Likelihood for Dependent Data
Guangxing Wang, University of California, Davis; Wolfgang Polonik, University of California, Davis
9:35 AM Semiparametric Regression for Measurement Error Model with Heteroscedastic Error
Mengyan Li; Yanyuan Ma, Penn State University; Runze Li, Penn State University
9:40 AM Estimation of Regression Function Using Shannon's Entropy

Yi Mao, University of California, Riverside; Aman Ullah, University of California, Riverside
9:45 AM Wasserstein Gradients for the Temporal Evolution of Probability Distributions

Yaqing Chen, University of California, Davis; Hans Mueller, UC Davis
9:50 AM Constrained Bayesian Inference Through Posterior Projections
Sayan Patra, Duke University; David B Dunson, Duke University
9:55 AM A DCp Criterion for Nonparametric First Derivative Estimation

Sisheng Liu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Richard Charnigo, University of Kentucky; Cidambi Srinivasan, University of Kentucky
10:05 AM Statistical Methods for the Analysis of Ventilator-Free Days

Charity Morgan