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214819
Sun, 7/30/2017, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM H-Key Ballroom 9
Asian Initiative: Career Development and Leadership Skills Workshop — Other Cmte/Business
ASA , Korean International Statistical Society , International Indian Statistical Association , International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Amarjot Kaur, Merck & Co., Inc.
Asian Initiative: Career Development and Leadership Skills Workshop David Morganstein, Westat
 
 

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Sun, 7/30/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-349
Cutting-Edge Statistical Methods for Modeling Disease Progression Processes — Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Kevin He, University of Michiga
2:05 PM Data-Driven Confidence Interval Estimation Incorporating Prior Information with an Adjustment for Skewed Data Li Zou, State University of New York At Buffalo ; Albert Vexler, State University of New York at Buffalo ; Alan Hutson, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
2:20 PM A Copula Model for Analysis of Gap Time Distributions and Illness-Death Processes Chia-Hui Huang
2:35 PM A Mechanistic Nonlinear Model for Censored and Mis-Measured Covariates in Longitudinal Models, with Application in AIDS Studies Hongbin Zhang, CUNY (SPH) ; Hubert Wong, CIHR CTN ; Lang Wu, UBC
2:50 PM Recurrent Event Data with Measurement Error and Informative Censoring Yu-Jen Cheng, National Tsing Hua University ; Hsiang Yu, National Tsing Hua University ; Ching-Yun Wang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
3:05 PM A Powerful Rare-Variant Association Test Zhongxue Chen ; Tong Lin, Peking University ; Kai Wang, University of Iowa
3:20 PM Characterization of Volatile Compounds in Cowart Muscadine Grape June Luo
3:35 PM An Empirical Bayesian Approach of Reliability Analysis Based on Wiener Degradation Processes Tsai-Hung Fan
 
 

57 * !
Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-337
Some Recent Developments and Applications of the Empirical Likelihood Method — Topic Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association , SSC , Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Organizer(s): Peisong Han, University of Waterloo
Chair(s): Peisong Han, University of Waterloo
4:05 PM Empirical Likelihood in Biased Sampling Problems Jing Qin, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
4:25 PM A New Scope of Penalized Empirical Likelihood with High-Dimensional Estimating Equations Chengyong Tang, Temple University ; Jinyuan Chang, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics ; Tong Tong Wu, University of Rochester
4:45 PM Proportional Likelihood Ratio Models for Competing Risks Chiung-Yu Huang, Johns Hopkins University ; Tony Sit, Chinese University of Hong Kong ; Gongjun Xu, University of Michigan
5:05 PM Multiply Robust Estimation for Causal Treatment Effect and Average Treatment Effect Among Treated When Treatment Heterogeneity Exists Lu Wang, University of Michigan ; Peisong Han, University of Waterloo ; Daniel Almirall, University of Michigan
5:25 PM Monitoring Test for One-Sided Multiple Quality Indices Guangyu Zhu, University of British Columbia ; JIahua Chen, University of British Columbia
5:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

59 * !
Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-338
Evidence-Generation via Big Data in the Real-World Setting — Topic Contributed Papers
Stats. Partnerships Among Academe, Indust. & Govt. Committee , Health Policy Statistics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section for Statistical Programmers and Analysts
Organizer(s): Kelly H. Zou, Pfizer Inc
Chair(s): Aiyi Liu, National Institutes of Health/NICHD
4:05 PM Automated Learning Techniques for Electronic Health Record (EHR) Unstructured Notes — Michael Sanky, Optum ; Balaji Ramesh, Optum
4:25 PM Evaluation the Quality of Electronic Health Record Data Ying Lu, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University School of Medicine ; Hui Wang, Palo Alto VA Health Care System ; Jennifer Shuwen Lee, Stanford University and VA Palo Alto Health Care System ; Phiip S Tsao, Stanford University and Palo Alto VA Health Care System
4:45 PM Leverage Real World Data to Support Drug Safety Surveillance: Cases Studies of the Applications Xiaofeng Zhou, Pfizer Inc ; Andrew Bate, Pfizer
5:05 PM Drug Safety and Comparative Effectiveness at Massive Scale Yuxi Tian, David Geffen School of Medicine At UCLA ; Marc A. Suchard, University of California, Los Angeles ; Martijn Schuemie, Janssen Research and Development
5:25 PM Combining Clinical and Nonclinical Big Data from Multiple Sources Javier Cabrera, Rutgers University ; Birol Emir, Pfizer Inc ; Demissie Alemayehu, Pfizer Inc
5:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

61
Sun, 7/30/2017, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-325
New Developments in Complex Time Series Data — Topic Contributed Papers
IMS , Business and Economic Statistics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Han Xiao, Rutgers University
Chair(s): Dong Wang, Princeton University
4:05 PM A NEW APPROACH to DIMENSION REDUCTION for MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES Xiaofeng Shao, University of Illinois, At Urbana-Champaign
4:25 PM Constrained Factor Model for High-Dimensional Matrix-Variate Time Series Yi Chen, Rutgers Univ Statistics Dept ; Rong Chen, Rutgers University
4:45 PM GRADIENT-BASED STRUCTURAL CHANGE DETECTION for NON-STATIONARY TIME SERIES M-ESTIMATION Zhou Zhou, University of Toronto
5:05 PM White Noise Test for High-Dimensional Time Series Han Xiao, Rutgers University
5:25 PM Baxter's Inequality and Sieve Bootstrap for Random Fields Jens-Peter Kreiss, TU Braunschweig ; Marco Meyer, TU Braunschweig ; Carsten Jentsch, University of Mannheim
5:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

214624
Sun, 7/30/2017, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM H-Peale AB
ICSA Board Meeting — Other ICW
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Gang Li, Johnson & Johnson
 
 

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Mon, 7/31/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-344
New Statistical Methods with Distributed and Parallel Algorithms — Invited Papers
Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Statistical Computing
Organizer(s): Xiaoming Huo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chair(s): Manjari Narayan, Stanford University
8:35 AM Embracing Blessing of Massive Scale in Big Data Guang Cheng, Purdue ; Stanislav Volgushev, Univ of Toronto ; Shih-Kang Chao, Purdue
9:05 AM High-Dimensional Non-Standard Regression Hui Zou, University of Minnesota
9:35 AM Discussant: Xiaoming Huo, Georgia Institute of Technology
10:05 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

135 * !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-343
Novel Non/Semiparametric Developments for Risk Perception with Censored and/or Missing Data — Invited Papers
Section on Risk Analysis , Health Policy Statistics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Jiwei Zhao, State University of New York at Buffalo
Chair(s): Guan Yu, State University of New York at Buffalo
10:35 AM A Nonparametric Approach for Partial Areas Under ROC Curves — Hanfang Yang, Renmin Univeristy of China ; Kun Lu, Princeton University ; Yichuan Zhao, Georgia State University
10:55 AM Risk Prediction from the Combination of Longitudinal Biomarkers Subject to Informative Missingness Jiwei Zhao, State University of New York at Buffalo
11:15 AM Testing Causative Hypotheses in Nonparametric Models with a Mismeasured or Coarsened Confounder Wang Miao, Peking University ; Lan Liu, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities
11:35 AM Estimation of the Cumulative Incidence Function Under Multiple Dependent and Independent Censoring Mechanisms — Judith Lok, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health ; Shu Yang, North Carolina State University ; Brian Sharkey, NA ; Michael Hughes, Harvard
11:55 AM Semiparametric Odds Ratio Model for Multivariate Survival Times Hua Yun Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

137 * !
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-341
New Advances in Statistical Methods for Complex Data — Invited Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association , Lifetime Data Analysis Interest Group , Section on Risk Analysis
Organizer(s): Kevin He, University of Michiga
Chair(s): Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland
10:35 AM Regression Analysis of Multivariate Failure Time Data Ross L Prentice, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Shanshan Zhao, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
11:05 AM Signal Detection from Large Drug Safety Databases Ram Tiwari, FDA/CDER/OT/OB
11:35 AM Regression Analysis of Interval-Censored Failure Time Data in the Presence of Informative Censoring (Tony) Jinaguo Sun, University of Missouri
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

150 *
Mon, 7/31/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-311
Recent Advances for Modeling Neuroimaging Data — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics in Imaging , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): Fengqing Zhang, Drexel University
Chair(s): Jiangtao Gou, Hunter College of CUNY
10:35 AM Discovering Linked Dimensions of Psychopathology and Dysconnectivity in High-Dimensional Brain Networks Theodore Satterthwaite, Univ of Pennsylvania ; Cedric H Xia, UPenn ; Rastko Ciric, University of Pennsylvania ; Zongming Ma, University of Pennsylvania ; Russell Taki Shionhara, UPenn ; Richard Betzel, UPenn ; Monica E Calkins, UPenn ; Phillip A Cook, UPenn ; Angel Garcia de la Garza, UPenn ; Tyler M Moore, UPenn ; David Roalf, University of Pennsylvania ; Kosha Ruparel, University of Pennsylvania ; Daniel H Wolf, UPenn ; Raquel E Gur, University of Pennsylvania ; Ruben C Gur, University of Pennsylvania ; Danielle S Bassett, UPenn
10:55 AM Discovery of Structural Brain Imaging Markers of HIV-Associated Outcomes Using Connectivity-Informed Regularization Approach Jaroslaw Harezlak, Indiana University School of Public Health ; Damian Brzyski, Indiana University ; Marta Karas, Indiana University ; Joaquin Goni, Purdue University ; Beau Ances, Washington University School of Medicine ; Timothy Randolph, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:15 AM Segmentation of Longitudinal Images Using Total Variation Regulation Yuan Wang, Washington State University
11:35 AM Computational Learning Methods for Neuroimaging Data Analysis Don Hong, Middle Tennessee State Univ ; Xin Yang, Southern Arkansas University ; Jingsai Liang, Middle Tennessee State University
11:55 AM An Integrative Model for Assessing Multimodal Neuroimaging Signatures of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Fengqing Zhang, Drexel University ; Xin Niu, Drexel University
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

279 * !
Tue, 8/1/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-348
Nonparametric Tests and Estimations for Clustered Data: It Is Essential for Non-Normal Data — Topic Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Nonparametric Statistics , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology
Organizer(s): Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland
Chair(s): Yujing Jiang, University of Connecticut
8:35 AM Estimation of Rank Correlation for Clustered Data Bernard Rosner, Harvard Medical School ; Robert Glynn, Harvard Medical School
8:55 AM Wilcoxon Rank-Based Tests for Clustered Data with R Package Clusrank Jun Yan, University of Connecticut ; Yujing Jiang, University of Connecticut ; Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland ; Xin He, University of Maryland, College Park ; Bernard Rosner, Harvard Medical School
9:15 AM Covariate-Adjusted Aligned Rank-Sum Test for Clustered Data with Informative Intra-Cluster Group Size Somnath Datta, University of Florida ; Sandipan Dutta, Duke University
9:35 AM Pearson's Chi-Square Test and Rank Correlation Inferences for Clustered Data Joanna Shih, National Cancer Institute ; Michael Fay, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
9:55 AM Incorporate Clustering Effects for the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test: The Cluswilcox Command Xin He, University of Maryland, College Park ; Jing Zhang, University of Maryland, College Park ; Mei-Ling Ting Lee, University of Maryland ; Bernard Rosner, Harvard Medical School
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

314
Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-329
Recent Advances in High-Dimensional Inferences — Invited Papers
IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): Ming Yuan, University of Wisconsin
Chair(s): Ming Yuan, University of Wisconsin
10:35 AM Overlapping clustering with LOVE Florentina Bunea, Cornell
11:00 AM Adaptive Prediction in Additive Models Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University
11:25 AM Rate-Optimal Perturbation Bounds for Singular Subspaces with Applications to High-Dimensional Data Analysis Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania ; Anru Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:50 AM Robust Covariate-Adjusted Multiple Testing Jianqing Fan, Princeton University ; Wen-Xin Zhou, Princeton University ; Koushiki Bose, Princeton University ; Han Liu, Princeton University
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

317
Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-310
Integration Approaches and Methods for Deciphering Genotype-Phenotype Mapping Toward Precision Medicine — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics , Biometrics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Chuanhua Julia Xing, XPrecision
Chair(s): Xuefeng Wang, Stony Brook
10:35 AM 4. Bayesian Integrative Model for Deciphering High-Dimensional Genotype-Phenotype Map Chuanhua Julia Xing, XPrecision ; Andrew Raim, U.S. Census Bureau
10:55 AM Dissecting Genetic Architecture of Complex Diseases Through Integrated Genomic Analysis Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
11:15 AM Confidence Intervals for Heritability via Haseman-Elston Regression Tamar Sofer, University of Washington, Department of Biostatistics
11:35 AM Polygenic Risk Modeling Techniques to Incorporate LD, Functional Annotations of SNPs And/Or Multiple Phenotypic Information Using Genome-Wide Association Study Summary-Level Data Ting-Huei Chen, Université Laval ; Nilanjan Chatterjee, Johns Hopkins University ; Jianxin Shi, National Cancer Institute
11:55 AM Robust Genetic Prediction of Complex Traits with the Latent Dirichlet Process Regression Models Xiang Zhou, University of Michigan ; Ping Zeng, University of Michigan
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

340
Tue, 8/1/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-348
New Advances in Analysis of Social Science Research — Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Yanming Li
10:35 AM Foot Traffic Network Analysis on Location-Based Social Media Yufan Liu, Dun & Bradstreet ; Wenhao Pan, University of Georgia
10:50 AM Nonparametric Estimation for Extreme-Value Copula Functions via Constrained Spline Regressions Yang Li, Renmin University of China ; Yichen Qin, University of Cincinnati ; Siqi Xiang, Renmin University of China ; Jun Yan, University of Connecticut
11:05 AM Threshold Degradation Chien-Yu Peng, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica ; Ya-Shan Cheng, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica
11:20 AM On Bayesian Safety Monitoring Hal Li, Merck Research Laboratories ; William Wang, Merck
11:35 AM Conditional Distribution of Runs and Patterns and Their Applications Tung-Lung Wu, Mississippi State University
11:50 AM MIXING CONVERGENCE RATES of RENEWAL and FIRST PASSAGE TIMES PROCESSES Ningning Wang ; Jordan Crabbe, University of Cincinnati
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

378 !
Tue, 8/1/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-309
Statistics in Biosciences Special Invited Papers: Genomics, Metagenomics, and Imaging — Invited Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Statistics in Imaging , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Organizer(s): Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
Chair(s): Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
2:05 PM Some Thoughts on Clustering and Its Applications Wing Hung Wong, Stanford University
2:30 PM Models for Microbial Community Population Structure Curtis Huttenhower, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Emma Schwager, Harvard School of Public Health ; Boyu Ren, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health ; Eric A Franzosa, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2:55 PM Integrative Association Analysis of Multiple Genomics Platforms Danyu Lin, University of North Carolina
3:20 PM Bayesian Quantile Functional Regression for Biomedical Imaging Data Jeffrey S. Morris, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

448 * !
Wed, 8/2/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-336
The Essential Role of Statistics in Modeling Complex Data in Business and Economics — Invited Papers
Section on Statistics in Marketing , Business and Economic Statistics Section , International Chinese Statistical Association , Statistics in Business Schools Interest Group
Organizer(s): Wenjiang Fu, University of Houston
Chair(s): Xiaotong T Shen, University of Minnesota
8:35 AM Spectral Methods Meet EM: a Provably Optimal Algorithm for Crowdsourcing Xi Chen, NYU
9:00 AM Modeling Smart WiFi Tracking Data and Customer Purchase Conversion Jason Duan, University of Texas at Austin
9:25 AM Trend of the US Family Income and Assets - a Bumpy Ride Around the Millennium Wenjiang Fu, University of Houston
9:50 AM Betting on Low Volatility Zhaogang Song, Johns Hopkins University ; Lai Xu, Syracuse Univeristy ; Nicola Fusari, Johns Hopkins University
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

488
Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-349
Hypothesis Testing When Signals Are Rare and Weak — Invited Papers
Section on Risk Analysis , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Zheng Ke, University of Chicago
Chair(s): Lingzhou Xue, The Pennsylvania State University
10:35 AM Testing of Mediation Effects in Genome-Wide Studies: Testing a Large Number of Composite Null Hypotheses Xihong Lin, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health
11:00 AM Covariate Assisted Variable Ranking Zheng Ke, University of Chicago
11:25 AM Fast Precision Matrix Estimation by Partial Correlation Screening Jiashun Jin, Carnegie Mellon University ; Zheng Ke, University of Chicago ; Shengming Luo, Carnegie Mellon University
11:50 AM Optimal variable selection and noisy adaptive compressed sensing Mohamed Ndaoud, CREST-ENSAE, École Polytechnique ; A.B. Tsybakov, CREST-ENSAE
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

511
Wed, 8/2/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-304
High-Dimensional Data Analytics: Theory and Applications — Contributed Papers
International Chinese Statistical Association
Chair(s): Yuan Yang, University of Michigan
10:35 AM Estimation of AUC via Heterogeneous Box-Cox Transformations Xiaoyu Cai, The George Washington University ; Aiyi Liu, National Institutes of Health/NICHD ; Zhaohai Li, George Washington University
10:50 AM Online Learning for Multi-Class Classification with Applications to Communication Network Traffic Management Henry Lu, National Chiao Tung University
11:05 AM A Two-Sample Mean Test for China Haze Pollution Data Over Time Shuyi Zhang, Peking University ; Yumou Qiu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln ; Song Xi Chen, Peking University; Iowa State University
11:20 AM Optimal Designs for Binary Response Models with Multiple Nonnegative Variables Mong-Na Lo Huang, National Sun Yat-Sen Univ ; Shih-Hao Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University ; Cheng-Wei Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University
11:35 AM Bayesian Estimation of the Q Matrix in Cognitive Diagnosis Models Yinghan Chen
11:50 AM Statistical Rare Variants Analysis by Integrating Biological Annotations with Applications to Autism Spectrum Disorder Disease Shengtong Han, University of Chicago ; Nicholas Knoblauch, University of Chicago ; Yubin Xie, University of Chicago ; Yuwen Liu, University of Chicago ; Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University ; Xin He, University of Chicago
12:05 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

555 * !
Wed, 8/2/2017, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-304
Statistical Analysis of Epigenetics Data — Invited Papers
American Association for the Advancement of Science , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Statistics in Epidemiology , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Organizer(s): Lei Liu, Northwestern University
Chair(s): Lihui Zhao, Northwestern University
2:05 PM Regularized Estimation in Sparse Multivariate Regression for High-Dimensional DNA Methylation Data Lei Liu, Northwestern University ; Haixiang Zhang, Tianjin University ; Grace Yoon, Northwestern University ; Yinan Zheng, Northwestern University ; Lifang Hou, Northwestern University ; Wei Zhang, Northwestern University ; Andrea Baccarelli, Columbia University
2:30 PM The MiAge Calculator: a DNA Methylation-Based Mitotic Clock Calculator of Human Tissue Types Shuang Wang, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
2:55 PM Global Prediction of Chromatin Accessibility Using RNA-Seq from Small Number of Cells Hongkai Ji, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
3:20 PM Accounting for Tumor Purity Improves Cancer Subtype Classification from DNA Methylation Data Hao Wu, Emory University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

214625
Wed, 8/2/2017, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM H-Key Ballroom 123
ICSA General Member Meeting — Other ICW
International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Gang Li, Johnson & Johnson
 
 

605 *
Thu, 8/3/2017, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-339
Recent Statistical Advance in Functional Genomics — Topic Contributed Papers
ENAR , International Chinese Statistical Association , Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics
Organizer(s): Qunhua Li, Penn State University
Chair(s): Trish Goedecke, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
8:35 AM Assessing Reproducibility of Hi-C Chromatin Loops Using Irreproducible Discovery Rate Regression Qunhua Li ; Feipeng Zhang, Penn State University ; Tao Yang, Penn State University
8:55 AM Decision Making in Hierarchical Multi-Label Classification (HMC) Problems with Applications to Disease Diagnosis Haiyan Huang, Univ of California at Berkeley
9:15 AM Functional Impact of Epigenomic Variation Between Individuals Kasper Hansen, Johns Hopkins Biostatistics
9:35 AM Matched Bipartite Community Detection with Node Covariates Jingyi Li, UCLA ; Zahra S. Razaee, UCLA ; Arash A. Amini, UCLA
9:55 AM Statistical Methods for Interrogating Promoter-Enhancer Interactions Originating from Repetitive Regions Using Hi-C Data Sunduz Keles, University of Wisconsin-Madison ; Ye Zheng, University of Wisconsin
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

631
Thu, 8/3/2017, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-308
Recent Developments in Statistical Inference Using Distance Correlation and Related Dependence Metrics — Invited Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics , IMS , International Chinese Statistical Association
Organizer(s): Xiaofeng Shao, University of Illinois, At Urbana-Champaign
Chair(s): Xiaofeng Shao, University of Illinois, At Urbana-Champaign
10:35 AM Applications of Distance Correlation to Time Series Richard A. Davis, Columbia University ; Muneya Matsui, Nanzan University ; Thomas Mikosch, University of Copenhagen ; Phyllis Wan, Columbia University
11:00 AM Why Classical Measures of Dependence Do Not Satisfy Their Natural Axioms? Gabor J Szekely, National Science Foundation
11:25 AM Conditional Mean and Quantile Dependence Testing in High Dimension Xianyang Zhang, Texas A&M University ; Shun Yao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Xiaofeng Shao, University of Illinois, At Urbana-Champaign
11:50 AM A New Class of Measures for Testing Independence Xiangrong Yin, University of Kentucky ; Qingcong Yuan, University of Kentucky
12:15 PM Floor Discussion
 
 
 
 
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