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490 Wed, 8/12/2015, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-618
Theory and Foundations — Contributed Papers
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Chair(s): Gregory Watson, UCLA
8:35 AM The Inverse Weibull Distribution as a Failure Model Under Various Loss Functions and Based on Progressive First-Failure Censored Data Amal Helu, Carnegie Mellon University Qatar ; Hani Samawi, Georgia Southern University
8:50 AM An Improved Upper Bound for the Bond Percolation Threshold of the Cubic Lattice John Wierman, The Johns Hopkins University
9:05 AM Admissibility of the Usual Confidence Set for the Mean of a Univariate or Bivariate Normal Population: The Unknown-Variance Case Hannes Leeb, University of Vienna ; Paul Kabaila, La Trobe University
9:20 AM Finite Sample Properties of Tests Based on Prewhitened Nonparametric Covariance Estimators David Preinerstorfer, University of Vienna
9:35 AM Network Cross-Validation for Determining the Number of Communities in Network Data Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University ; Kehui Chen, University of Pittsburgh
9:50 AM Causal Inference for Ordinal Outcomes Alexander Volfovsky, Harvard University ; Edo Airoldi, Harvard University ; Donald B. Rubin, Harvard University
10:05 AM Floor Discussion




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