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Colorado Convention Center = “CC”, Hyatt = “HY”

429 Wed, 8/6/08, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-106
Bayesian Modeling of Extreme Events - Topic Contributed - Papers
Section on Risk Analysis, Section on Statistics and the Environment, Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut
Chair(s): Bani K. Mallick, Texas A&M University
    2:05 PM   Semiparametric Functional Estimation Using Quantile-Based Prior ElicitationElijah Gaioni, University of Connecticut; Dipak Dey, University of Connecticut; Mircea Grigoriu, Cornell University
    2:25 PM   Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Extreme Values Observed Over Space and TimeHuiyan Sang, Duke University; Alan Gelfand, Duke University
    2:45 PM   Bayesian Model Selection of the Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern Copula for Describing Two Generalized Extreme Value VariablesVered Madar, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
    3:05 PM   A Bayesian Framework for Adversarial Risk AnalysisJesus Rios, Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute; David Rios, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos; David Banks, Duke University
    3:25 PM   Thresholding for Multivariate Extreme ValuesKobi A. Abayomi, Duke University
     3:45 PM   Floor Discussion
 

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