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Keyword Search Criteria: Monte Carlo returned 74 record(s)
Sunday, 07/29/2018
A Hybrid Method of the Sequential Monte Carlo and the Edgeworth Expansion for Computation of Very Small P-Values in Permutation Tests
James Jian Yang, University of Michigan; Anne YuhPey Buu, University of Michigan


Monte Carlo Tree Search and AlphaZero: Past, Present, and Future
Michael Fu, Smith School of Business


A Hybrid Method of the Sequential Monte Carlo and the Edgeworth Expansion for Computation of Very Small P-Values in Permutation Tests
James Jian Yang, University of Michigan; Anne YuhPey Buu, University of Michigan
2:20 PM

Bayesian Inference for Phylogenetic Trees and Networks
Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University; Shijia Wang, Simon Fraser University; Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, University of British Columbia
2:45 PM

Monte Carlo Tree Search and AlphaZero: Past, Present, and Future
Michael Fu, Smith School of Business
3:00 PM

Spatio-Temporal Models for Big Multinomial Data Using the Conditional Multivariate Logit-Beta Distribution
Scott H. Holan, University of Missouri/U.S. Census Bureau; Jonathan R Bradley, Florida State University; Christopher K. Wikle, University of Missouri
4:05 PM

Probabilistic Analysis of Modified Risk Tobacco Product Effects on Population Health
Bill Poland, Certara; Sylvain Larroque, JT International SA
5:05 PM

Monday, 07/30/2018
Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference via Particle Gibbs Sampler with Ancestor Sampling
Shijia Wang, Simon Fraser University; Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University


Sequential Modeling of Spatial Temporal Image Data
Shufei Ge, Simon Fraser University; Shijia Wang, Simon Fraser University; Liangliang Wang, Simon Fraser University; Farouk Nathoo, University of Victoria


EAinference: An R Package for Simulation-Based Inference via Estimator Augmentation
Seunghyun Min, UCLA; Qing Zhou, UCLA


A Normalizing Function Emulation Approach for Doubly Intractable Distributions
Jaewoo Park, Pennsylvania State University; Murali Haran, Penn State University


HMC on Symmetric Spaces
Alessandro Barp, Imperial College London; Anthony Kennedy, The University of Edinburgh; Mark Girolami, Imperial College London


Bayesian Variable Selection of Stochastic Volatility Models in Financial Time Series
Feng Chi Liu


Continuous Tempering Through Path Sampling
Yuling Yao, Columbia Univ; Andrew Gelman, Columbia University


Classification Accuracy of Unsupervised Learning Methods with Discrete and Mixture Distributed Indicators: a Monte Carlo Simulation Study
Chi Chang


Pseudo-Marginal Markov Chain Monte Carlo via Random Riemann Sums for Stochastically Scaled Gaussian Vectors
Patrick Muchmore


Combining Predictive Mean Matching with the Penalized Spline of Propensity Prediction Method When Performing Multiple Imputation
Jay Xu; Roee Gutman, Brown University


An Exact Local Bouncy Particle Sampler Combined with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Algorithms for Continuous Time Markov Chains
Tingting Zhao, University of British Columbia; Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, University of British Columbia
8:35 AM

Robust Pulsar Timing Inference with Non-Gaussian Distributions
Hyungsuk Tak, SAMSI; Justin A. Ellis, West Virginia University; Sujit Ghosh, North Carolina State Univ.
8:55 AM

Multilevel Monte Carlo for Inference
Kody Law, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
9:35 AM

Bayesian Framework for Embedded Model Error Representation and Quantification
Khachik Sargsyan, Sandia National Labs/California; Xun Huan, Sandia National Labs/California; Habib Najm, Sandia National Labs/California
10:55 AM

Pseudo-Marginal Markov Chain Monte Carlo via Random Riemann Sums for Stochastically Scaled Gaussian Vectors
Patrick Muchmore
11:05 AM

Constructing a Synthetic Population for Community Profiling Using Publicly Available Data
Joshua Goldstein, Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory, Virginia Tech; David Higdon, Virginia Tech
11:15 AM

Beyond Random-Walk MCMC for Bayesian Phylogenetics
Frederick Matsen, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:35 AM

Combining Predictive Mean Matching with the Penalized Spline of Propensity Prediction Method When Performing Multiple Imputation
Jay Xu; Roee Gutman, Brown University
11:50 AM

Using Concomitant and Nested Simulation for Tail Risk Measure Estimation
Mingbin Feng, University of Waterloo
11:55 AM

Practical Bayesian Inference for Record Linkage
Brendan McVeigh, Carnegie Mellon University; Jared S Murray, University of Texas at Austin
2:45 PM

Variance Estimation Under Imputation Using the Rescaling Bootstrap
Christian Bruch, University of Mannheim
3:05 PM

Tuesday, 07/31/2018
Generating Survival Times Using Cox Proportional Hazards Models with Cyclic Time-Varying Covariates
Yunda Huang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Lily Zhang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Zong Zhang, Interlake High School; Peter Gilbert, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center


Statistical Precision of Time-to-Event Endpoint in Single Arm Observational Study Using Monte Carlo Simulation
Meijing Wu, AbbVie; Hongwei Wang, AbbVie Inc; Yabing Mai, AbbVie, Inc; Dajun Tian, Chiltern


Causal Inference with Complex Surveys: a Comparison of Propensity Score Based Methods
Daniele Bottigliengo, Università degli Studi di Padova; Ileana Baldi, Università degli Studi di Padova; Corrado Lanera, Università degli Studi di Padova; Dario Gregori, Università degli Studi di Padova; Paola Berchialla, Università degli Studi di Torino


Predicting the Count of Tropical Storms with Bayesian Model Averaging
Joyee Ghosh, University of Iowa
8:50 AM

Bayesian Inference for Conditional Copulas Using Gaussian Process Single Index Models
Radu V Craiu, University of Toronto; Evgeny Levi, University of Toronto
9:00 AM

Flexible Stochastic Growth Models and Their Experimental Design
Nikolaos Demiris, Athens University of Economics and Business; Konstantinos Kalogeropoulos, London School of Economics; Nikolas Kantas, Imperial College London
10:35 AM

Bayesian Monte Carlo Method for Estimating Small Area Complex Parameters Under Unit-Level Models with Skew-Normal Errors
Mamadou Diallo; Balgobin Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; J. N. K. Rao, Carleton University
10:35 AM

Integrated Analysis of the Life-Cycle Interactions Between Health and Socioeconomic Status
Ivan Jeliazkov, University of California - Irvine; Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College
10:55 AM

Statistical Precision of Time-to-Event Endpoint in Single Arm Observational Study Using Monte Carlo Simulation
Meijing Wu, AbbVie; Hongwei Wang, AbbVie Inc; Yabing Mai, AbbVie, Inc; Dajun Tian, Chiltern
11:20 AM

Variational Hamiltonian Monte Carlo via Score Matching
Cheng Zhang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:25 AM

Flexible Bayesian Quantile Regression in Ordinal Models
Mohammad Arshad Rahman, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Shubham Karnawat, Credit Suisse
11:35 AM

AAA: Triple-Adaptive Bayesian Designs for the Identification of Optimal Dose Combinations in Dual-Agent Dose-Finding Trials
Jiaying Lyu, University of Chicago; Fudan University; Yuan Ji, NorthShore Univ. HealthSystem / The University of Chicago
11:55 AM

Causal Inference with Complex Surveys: a Comparison of Propensity Score Based Methods
Daniele Bottigliengo, Università degli Studi di Padova; Ileana Baldi, Università degli Studi di Padova; Corrado Lanera, Università degli Studi di Padova; Dario Gregori, Università degli Studi di Padova; Paola Berchialla, Università degli Studi di Torino
11:55 AM

A Conditional Test for Homogeneity of Several Order-Restricted Normal Mean Vectors
Madhurima Majumder, Bayer Pharmaceuticals; Michael McDermott, University of Rochester Medical Center
12:05 PM

Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis for Stochastic Frontier Production Function Model
Seongho Song, University of Cincinnati; Younshik Chung, Pusan National University; David Taesok Yi, Xavier University
2:05 PM

Computer Model Calibration of Static Systems Using Sequential Monte Carlo Methods
Murali Haran, Penn State University; Ben Seiyon Lee, Penn State University; Klaus Keller, Penn State University
2:25 PM

A New Diagnostic for MCMC Output Analysis
Nathan Lane Robertson, University of California, Riverside; James Flegal, University of California, Riverside
2:35 PM

Fully Bayesian Analysis of Hierarchical Count Regression Models
Jarad Niemi, Iowa State University; William Landau, Eli Lilly and Company; Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University
2:50 PM

Bayesian Inference for Multistate Step-and-Turn Animal Movement in Continuous Time
Alison Parton, University of Sheffield; Paul G Blackwell, University of Sheffield
2:55 PM

A Comparison of Bayesian and Monte Carlo Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding
Lawrence McCandless, Simon Fraser University; Paul Gustafson, University of British Columbia
2:55 PM

Wednesday, 08/01/2018
Estimating Efficacies of Supplementary Immunization Activities via Discrete Time Modeling of Disease Incidence Time Series
Qi Dong, University of Washington; Jon Wakefield, Univ of Washington; Kevin McCarthy, Institute for Disease Modeling; Niket Thakkar, Institute for Disease Modeling; Kurt Frey, Institute for Disease Modeling


A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Effects of Ignoring Measurement Non-Invariance on the Standard Error for Mean Difference Testing
Scott Colwell, University of Guelph; Theodore J Noseworthy, York University


Simulation-Based Uncertainty Quantification for Optimal Estimation Remote Sensing Retrievals
Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Jonathan Hobbs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
8:35 AM

Convergence Complexity Analysis of Albert and Chib's Algorithm
Qian Qin, University of Florida; James P. Hobert, University of Florida
8:35 AM

MCMC for High-Dimensional Bayesian Regression
Dootika Vats
8:55 AM

Multivariate Output Analysis for Markov Chain Monte Carlo
James Flegal, University of California, Riverside
9:15 AM

Estimating Efficacies of Supplementary Immunization Activities via Discrete Time Modeling of Disease Incidence Time Series
Qi Dong, University of Washington; Jon Wakefield, Univ of Washington; Kevin McCarthy, Institute for Disease Modeling; Niket Thakkar, Institute for Disease Modeling; Kurt Frey, Institute for Disease Modeling
9:20 AM

A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Effects of Ignoring Measurement Non-Invariance on the Standard Error for Mean Difference Testing
Scott Colwell, University of Guelph; Theodore J Noseworthy, York University
9:30 AM

Genome-Wide Gaussian Process Regression for Survival Time Prediction
Aaron J. Molstad, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Wei Sun, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Li Hsu, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
9:50 AM

Estimating the Optimal Number and Location of Cut Points in Survival Analysis
Chung Chang, National Sun Yat-sen University
11:05 AM

Flexible Dynamic Modeling of Correlation and Covariance Matrices for Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis
Babak Shahbaba, UCI; Andrew James Holbrook, UC Irvine; Gabriel Elias, UC Irvine; Norbert J. Fortin, UC Irvine; Hernando Ombao, UC Irvine; Shiweil Lan, CalTech
11:15 AM

AAA: Triple-Adaptive Bayesian Designs for the Identification of Optimal Dose Combinations in Dual-Agent Dose-Finding Trials
Yuan Ji, NorthShore Univ. HealthSystem / The University of Chicago; Jiaying Lyu, Fudan Universtiy
11:35 AM

Bayesian Nonparametrics for Evolutionary Model Selection
Mandev Gill
11:55 AM

Inference on the Future State of the Climate Through Combining Multiple Interdependent Climate Model Outputs with Observations Using Bayesian Hierarchical Models
Huang Huang, SAMSI; Dorit Hammerling, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Bo Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Richard Smith, Statistical Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
2:20 PM

Unified Estimation Methods for Unnormalized Models Using Auxiliary Distributions
Masatoshi Uehara, Harvard Unversity; Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
2:35 PM

Teaching Markov Chains Using Java Applets
Jeffrey S Rosenthal, University of Toronto
2:45 PM

Thursday, 08/02/2018
A Hierarchical Bayesian Markov-Dependent Model for Lifetime Persistence and Recurrence of Major Depressive Episodes
Chenyang Gu, Harvard Medical School; Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard University Medical School; Ronald Kessler, Harvard Medical School
8:35 AM

Extended Ensemble Kalman Filters for High-Dimensional Hierarchical State-Space Models
Jonathan Stroud, Georgetown University; Matthias Katzfuss, Texas A&M University; Christopher K. Wikle, University of Missouri
9:15 AM

Latent Space Approaches to Community Detection in Dynamic Networks
Yuguo Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Daniel Sewell, University of Iowa
9:15 AM

Estimating Clusters from Multivariate Binary Data via Hierarchical Bayesian Boolean Matrix Factorization
Zhenke Wu, University of Michigan; Livia Casciola-Rosen, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Antony Rosen, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Scott Zeger, Johns Hopkins Biostatistics
9:20 AM

Spatial Modeling of Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data from a Cocaine Addiction Study
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University; Zhou Lan, North Carolina State University; Brian Reich, North Carolina State University; Joseph Guinness, NC State University
9:55 AM

Bayesian Logistic Regression Model for Sub-Areas
Lu Chen, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Balgobin Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
10:50 AM

Bayesian Analysis with Orthogonal Matrix Parameters
Michael Jauch, Duke University; Peter Hoff, Duke University; David B Dunson, Duke University
11:05 AM

Efficient and Principled Score Estimation
Arthur Gretton, UCL
11:25 AM

Bayesian Single-Index Model for Bounded Mental Health Response with Functional Covariates
Debajyoti Sinha, Florida State University; STUART LIPSITZ, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL
11:50 AM

Fast Maximum Likelihood Inference for Spatial Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Yawen Guan, The Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute; Murali Haran, Penn State University
11:50 AM