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655 Thu, 8/2/2012, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-Room 27B
Computational Bayes and MCMC — Contributed Papers
Section on Statistical Computing
Chair(s): Yi Fang Chen, AT&T
10:35 AM Population SAMC vs. SAMC: Convergence and Applications to Gene Selection Problems Mingqi Wu, Merck ; Faming Liang, Texas A&M University
10:50 AM Variable Transformation to Obtain Geometric Ergodicity in the Random-Walk Metropolis Algorithm Leif Johnson, Google
11:05 AM Perfect Sampling in the Dirichlet-Multinomial Hierarchical Model Nathan Stein, Harvard University ; Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
11:20 AM Bayesian Parameter Estimations in the Joint Co-Evolution Model of Social Behavior and Network Liping Tong, Loyola University Chicago ; David Shoham, Loyola University Medical Center
11:35 AM Detecting a Local Change in Brain Structures by the Matrix Normal Model Michelle Liou, Academia Sinica ; Wei-Chen Cheng, Academia Sinica ; Aleksandr A Simak, National Taiwan University ; Philip E. Cheng, Academia Sinica
11:50 AM Joint Models for Longitudinal Binary and Survival Data Yi-Ting Hwang, National Taipei University ; Tzu-Yin Lin, National Taipei University
12:05 PM Joint Inversion of Seismic and Electromagnetic Data Using Statistical Rock-Physics Models and Markov Random Fields Jinsong Chen, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ; Michael G. Hoversten, Chevron Energy Technology Company



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