Name: 2018 Joint Statistical Meetings
Start: 2018-07-28T07:00:00+00:00
End: 2018-08-02
Location: Vancouver Convention Centre

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CC = Vancouver Convention Centre F = Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver
* = applied session ! = JSM meeting theme

Activity Details

98 *	Mon, 7/30/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-West 224
New Developments in Bayesian Additive Regression Trees — Invited Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), National Institute of Statistical Sciences
Organizer(s): Rodney Sparapani, Medical College of Wisconsin
Chair(s): Robert McCulloch, Arizona State University
8:35 AM	Individualized Treatment for Time-To-Event Outcomes with BART Presentation Brent Logan, Medical College of Wisconsin
9:00 AM	Nonparametric Regression Models of Multilevel, Heterogeneous Treatment Effects: The National Study of Learning Mindsets Carlos Carvalho, University of Texas; Jared S Murray, University of Texas at Austin; Paul Richard Hahn, Arizona State University ; David Yeager, The University of Texas at Austin; Elizabeth Tipton, Columbia University
9:25 AM	Bayesian Regression Tree Ensembles That Adapt to Smoothness and Sparsity Presentation Antonio Ricardo Linero, Florida State University; Yun Yang, Florida State University
9:50 AM	Discussant: Prakash Laud, Medical College of Wisconsin
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

102 * !	Mon, 7/30/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-West 203
SAMSI-ASTRO: New Innovations and Challenges in Astrostatistics — Invited Papers
Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Astrostatistics Special Interest Group, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Organizer(s): Sujit Ghosh, North Carolina State Univ.
Chair(s): Richard Smith, Statistical Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
8:35 AM	Detecting Planets: Jointly Modeling Radial Velocity and Stellar Activity Time Series Presentation David Edward Jones, Duke University and SAMSI; David Stenning, Imperial College London; Eric Ford, Penn State University; Robert Wolpert, Duke University; Thomas Loredo, Cornell University; Xavier Dumusque, Observatoire Astronomique de l'Universite de Geneve
8:55 AM	Robust Pulsar Timing Inference with Non-Gaussian Distributions Presentation Hyungsuk Tak, SAMSI; Justin A. Ellis, West Virginia University; Sujit Ghosh, North Carolina State Univ.
9:15 AM	Investigating the Cosmic Web with Topological Data Analysis Presentation Jessi Cisewski-Kehe, Yale University
9:35 AM	Computer Model Calibration to Enable Disaggregation of Chemical Spectra David Stenning, Imperial College London
9:55 AM	Discussant: G. Jogesh Babu, Penn State University
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

230 * !	Mon, 7/30/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-West 223
Recent Advances in Nonexchangeable, Dependent, Random Partition and Feature Allocation Models — Topic Contributed Papers
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Organizer(s): Garritt L Page, Brigham Young University
Chair(s): Richard Warr, Brigham Young University
2:05 PM	Bayesian Space-Time Partitioning by Sampling and Pruning Spanning Trees Rosangela Loschi, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Leonardo Teixeira, Purdue University; Renato Assunção , Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
2:25 PM	Determinantal Point Process Mixtures via Spectral Density Approach Presentation Fernando Quintana, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile; Alessandra Guglielmi, Politecnico de Milano; Ilaria Bianchini, Politecnico de Milano
2:45 PM	Attraction Indian Buffet Distribution Presentation David Dahl, Brigham Young University; Richard Warr, Brigham Young University
3:05 PM	Exploiting Conjugacy to Build Time Dependent Feature Allocation Models Presentation Raffaele Argiento, Università di Torino; Ilaria Bianchini, Politecnico de Milano; Jim Edward Griffin, University of Kent
3:25 PM	Recent Advances in Dependent Random Partition Models Presentation Garritt L Page, Brigham Young University; Fernando Quintana, Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile
3:45 PM	Floor Discussion

319	Tue, 7/31/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-West 120
Highlights from Bayesian Analysis — Invited Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Organizer(s): Bruno Sanso, University of California Santa Cruz
Chair(s): Murali Haran, Penn State University
10:35 AM	Bayesian Spectral Modeling for Multivariate Spatial Distributions of Elemental Concentrations in Soil Presentation Maria Antonia Terres, The Climate Corporation; Montserrat Fuentes, Virginia Commonwealth University; Dean Hesterberg, North Carolina State University; Matthew Polizzotto, North Carolina State University
11:00 AM	Highlights from Bayesian Analysis Presentation Christopher C Drovandi, Queensland University of Technology; Kerrie Mengersen, Queensland University of Technology; Michael Evans, University of Toronto; David J Nott, National University of Singapore
11:25 AM	Variational Hamiltonian Monte Carlo via Score Matching Cheng Zhang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
11:50 AM	Sequential Bayesian Analysis of Multivariate Count Data Presentation Tevfik Aktekin , University of New Hampshire; Nick Polson, University of Chicago ; Refik Soyer , George Washington University
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

330 * !	Tue, 7/31/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-East 19
Bayesian Analysis of Latent Variable Models in Economics — Topic Contributed Papers
Business and Economic Statistics Section, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Organizer(s): Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College
Chair(s): Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College
10:35 AM	Testing Axioms of Stochastic Discrete Choice Using Population Choice Probabilities Presentation William McCausland, Universite De Montreal; Anthony Marley, University of Victoria; Clintin Davis-Stober, University of Missouri
10:55 AM	Integrated Analysis of the Life-Cycle Interactions Between Health and Socioeconomic Status Ivan Jeliazkov, University of California - Irvine; Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College
11:15 AM	Learning-Based Inflation Expectations in an Unobserved Components Model Srikanth Ramamurthy, Loyola University Maryland
11:35 AM	Flexible Bayesian Quantile Regression in Ordinal Models Mohammad Arshad Rahman, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Shubham Karnawat, Credit Suisse
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

421	Tue, 7/31/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM	CC-West 218
Advances in Bayesian Modeling and Inferential Methods — Contributed Papers
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), SSC
Chair(s): Xinyi Xu, The Ohio State University
2:05 PM	Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis for Stochastic Frontier Production Function Model Presentation Seongho Song, University of Cincinnati; Younshik Chung, Pusan National University; David Taesok Yi, Xavier University
2:20 PM	Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Multivariate Processes in Phylodynamics Using Stochastic Differential Equations James Faulkner, University of Washington; Vladimir N. Minin, University of California, Irvine
2:50 PM	Bayesian Generalized Smoothing Spline ANOVA with Dimension Reduction Presentation Chin-I Cheng, Central Michigan University; Paul Speckman, University of Missouri-Columbia
3:05 PM	Complexity Results for MCMC Derived from Quantitative Bounds Jun Yang, University of Toronto; Jeffrey S Rosenthal, University of Toronto
3:20 PM	Floor Discussion

470 !	Wed, 8/1/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-East 17
Recent Theoretical Advancements for MCMC Algorithms — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Organizer(s): James Flegal, University of California, Riverside
Chair(s): Galin Jones, University of Minnesota
8:35 AM	Convergence Complexity Analysis of Albert and Chib's Algorithm Presentation Qian Qin, University of Florida; James P. Hobert, University of Florida
8:55 AM	MCMC for High-Dimensional Bayesian Regression Presentation Dootika Vats
9:15 AM	Multivariate Output Analysis for Markov Chain Monte Carlo James Flegal, University of California, Riverside
9:35 AM	Selection of Proposal Distributions for Multiple Importance Sampling Presentation Vivekananda Roy, Iowa State University; Evangelos Evangelou, University of Bath
9:55 AM	Floor Discussion

472 * !	Wed, 8/1/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-East 14
Junior Research in Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling of Complex or Unknown Populations — Topic Contributed Papers
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Organizer(s): Roberta De Vito
Chair(s): Roberta De Vito
8:35 AM	Bayesian Nonparametric Mixed Effects Models in Microbiome Data Analysis Boyu Ren, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
8:55 AM	Bayesian Non and Semiparametric Methods for Structured Sequential Data Abhra Sarkar, University of Texas at Austin
9:15 AM	Hierarchical Infinite Latent Factor Models Elizabeth Lorenzi, Duke University; Ricardo Henao, Duke University; Katherine Heller, Duke University
9:35 AM	Black Box Variational Inference Presentation Rajesh Ranganath, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
9:55 AM	Floor Discussion

501	Wed, 8/1/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-East 19
Advances in MCMC and Computational Statistics — Invited Papers
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Organizer(s): Mylene Bedard, University de Montreal
Chair(s): Jeffrey S Rosenthal, University of Toronto
10:35 AM	Local Search for Optimality in RWM- and MALA-Within-Gibbs Mylene Bedard, University de Montreal
11:05 AM	Rapid and Torpid Mixing of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Presentation Aaron Smith, University of Ottawa
11:35 AM	Dynamic Pricing and Matching in Ride-Sharing Dawn Woodard, Uber
12:05 PM	Floor Discussion

507 * !	Wed, 8/1/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-East 14
Bayesian Data Science and Statistical Science — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, SSC
Organizer(s): Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chair(s): Rajesh Ranganath, NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Science
10:35 AM	Polynomial Approximate Sufficient Statistics for Scalable Bayesian Inference Presentation Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:55 AM	Robust Clustering Using Power Posteriors: Calibration and Inference Presentation Jeffrey Miller, Harvard School of Public Health; David B Dunson, Duke University
11:15 AM	Inferring Social Structure from Continuous-Time Interaction Data Bailey Fosdick, Colorado State University; Wesley Lee, University of Washington; Tyler McCormick, University of Washington
11:35 AM	Probabilistic Programming with Non-Parametric Bayesian Model Discovery in BayesDB Presentation Vikash Mansinghka; Feras Saad, MIT
11:55 AM	Discussant: Nicholas Foti, University of Washington
12:15 PM	Floor Discussion

601 * !	Thu, 8/2/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-West 122
Prior Specifications for Finite Bayesian Mixture Models — Invited Papers
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA), Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Organizer(s): Mario Peruggia, The Ohio State University
Chair(s): Mario Peruggia, The Ohio State University
8:35 AM	Jeffreys Priors and Alternative Noninformative Solutions for Location-Scale Mixtures Presentation Christian Robert, Universite Paris-Dauphine; Clara Grazian, University of Oxford
9:00 AM	Anchored Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Models Presentation Deborah Kunkel, The Ohio State University; Mario Peruggia, The Ohio State University
9:25 AM	Heterogeneous Reciprocal Graphical Models Yang Ni, UT Austin; Peter Müller, University of Texas Austin; Yitan Zhu, NorthShore University HealthSystem; Yuan Ji, NorthShore Univ. HealthSystem / The University of Chicago
9:50 AM	Discussant: Bettina Grün, Johannes Kepler Universität
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

611 !	Thu, 8/2/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM	CC-West 203
Nonparametric Priors for Exchangeable Data and Beyond — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, IMS, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Organizer(s): Igor Pruenster, Bocconi University
Chair(s): Igor Pruenster, Bocconi University
8:35 AM	Epsilon-Approximations to the Pitman-Yor Process Presentation Pierpaolo De Blasi, University of Turin
8:55 AM	A Bayesian Semiparametric Regression Model for Joint Analysis of Microbiome Data Juhee Lee, UC Santa Cruz; Marilou Sison-Mangus, Unversity of California, Santa Cruz
9:15 AM	Bayesian Analysis of Multiple-Sample Data Antonio Lijoi, Bocconi University
9:35 AM	On Some Applications of Sums of Exchangeable Random Variables Ramses Mena, Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico
9:55 AM	Global Mean-Field Variational Bayes for Density Regression Presentation Tommaso Rigon, Bocconi University; Daniele Durante, Bocconi University
10:15 AM	Floor Discussion

653 * !	Thu, 8/2/2018, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM	CC-West 213
Advances in Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling and Computation for Complex Data — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Organizer(s): Li Ma, Duke University
Chair(s): Pierpaolo De Blasi, University of Turin
10:35 AM	Robustness and Nonparametric Bayesian Methods Presentation Steve MacEachern, The Ohio State University
10:55 AM	Density estimation via hierarchies of nonparametric priors Presentation Igor Pruenster, Bocconi University
11:15 AM	Survival Models with Compound Random Measures Presentation Fabrizio Leisen, University of Kent
11:35 AM	Recursive Bayesian Predictive Distributions Presentation Stephen Walker
11:55 AM	Floor Discussion

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