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This is the preliminary program for the 2008 Joint Statistical
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| 401 | Wed, 8/6/08, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM | CC-204 |
| Robust Estimation for Skewed and Heavy-Tailed Distributions - Contributed - Papers | ||
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Biometrics Section, Section on Nonparametric Statistics |
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| Chair(s): Michael Pennell, The Ohio State University | ||
| 10:35 AM |
The Epsilon-Skew Laplace Distribution —  Hassan Elsalloukh, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
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| 10:50 AM |
Three-Step Estimation in Linear Mixed Models with Skew-T Distributions — Tianyue Zhou, sanofi-aventis; Xuming He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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| 11:05 AM |
On the Use of Optimal Discovery Procedure in Skewed Distributions — Igor Melnykov, Colorado State University, Pueblo
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| 11:20 AM |
Heavy-Tailed Distributions in Quantitative Trait Genetics — Serge Sverdlov, University of Washington
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| 11:35 AM |
Robust Estimation for Finite Mixture Regression Models with Random Effects via the Minimum Hellinger Distance Approach — Liming Xiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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| 11:50 AM |
A New Method for Estimating Regression Parameters with Repeated Runs — Howraa Majeed, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Hassan Elsalloukh, University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Shawki Shaker Hussain, University of Baghdad
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| 12:05 PM | Floor Discussion | |
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JSM 2008
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