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216514
Sun, 7/29/2018, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM F-Terrace Room
RSS Fellows Reception — Other ICW
Royal Statistical Society
Organizer(s): David Spiegelhalter, President, Royal Statistical Society
 
 

112 *
Mon, 7/30/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-West 122
Smoothing for Spatially and Temporally Indexed Data — Topic Contributed Papers
Royal Statistical Society, Section on Nonparametric Statistics, ENAR, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science
Organizer(s): Philip Reiss, University of Haifa
Chair(s): Michael Lavine, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
8:35 AM Some Model-Building Tools for Gaussian Processes, Using an Approximate Form of the Restricted Likelihood
Presentation
Maitreyee Bose, University of Washington; James S. Hodges, University of Minnesota; Sudipto Banerjee, UCLA School of Public Health
8:55 AM Flexible Group Difference Tests for Age-Varying Distributions
Presentation
Philip Reiss, University of Haifa
9:15 AM Lagged Hierarchical Semiparametric Models for Task-Based Dynamic Functional Connectivity (DFC)
Presentation
Jaroslaw Harezlak, Indiana University Bloomington; Zikai Lin, Indiana University; Maria Kudela, Takeda Pharmaceuticals; Brandon Oberlin, Indiana University School of Medicine; Joaquin Goni, Purdue University; David A Kareken, Indiana University School of Medicine; Mario Dzemidzic, Indiana University School of Medicine
9:35 AM Methods for Large Scale Smooth Space Time Modeling
Presentation 1 Presentation 2
Simon Wood
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

219 !
Mon, 7/30/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-West 118
Seeing the World as a Missing Data Problem: Celebrating 40 Years of Multiple Imputation — Invited Papers
Social Statistics Section, Survey Research Methods Section, Royal Statistical Society, SSC
Organizer(s): Robin Mitra, University of Lancaster
Chair(s): Robin Mitra, University of Lancaster
2:05 PM Nonparametric Multiple Imputation for Bridging Between Different Industry Coding Systems
Jörg Drechsler, Institute for Employment Research; Birgit Pech, Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg
2:30 PM Multiple Imputation for Adaptive Survey Design
Presentation
Trivellore Raghunathan, University of Michigan
2:55 PM A Robust Multiple Imputation Approach to Causal Inference with Confounding by Indication
Presentation
Roderick J Little, University of Michigan; Tingting Zhou, University of Michigan; Michael Elliott, University of Michigan
3:20 PM Discussant: Donald Rubin, Harvard University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

280 !
Tue, 7/31/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-East 19
Leading the Stream: Novel Methods for Streaming Data — Invited Papers
Business and Economic Statistics Section, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Royal Statistical Society
Organizer(s): Idris Eckley, Lancaster University
Chair(s): Hernando Ombao, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
8:35 AM Automated Bayesian Inference for Large-Scale Datastreams
Presentation
Trevor Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
9:00 AM Sequential Change-Point Detection Based on Nearest Neighbors
Hao Chen, University of California, Davis
9:25 AM Multiscale Models for Continuous Time Interaction Data
Tyler McCormick, University of Washington; Wesley Lee, University of Washington; Rumi Chunara, New York University
9:50 AM Efficient Detection of Anomalies Within Streaming Data
Alexander Fisch, Lancaster University; Idris Eckley, Lancaster University; Paul Fearnhead, Lancaster University
10:15 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

293 * !
Tue, 7/31/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-East 14
Curve Estimation Under Dependence — Topic Contributed Papers
Royal Statistical Society
Organizer(s): Sucharita Ghosh, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
Chair(s): Kevin J. Keen, University of Northern British Columbia
8:35 AM Nonparametric Multivariate Density Estimation Under Dependence
Presentation
Jan Beran, University of Konstanz
8:55 AM Finding Hotspots
Presentation
Sucharita Ghosh, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
9:15 AM Change-Point Problem Fro Long Memory Stochastic Volatility Models
Presentation
Rafal Kulik, University of Ottawa
9:35 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

387
Tue, 7/31/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-West 213
Foundations of Data Science — Invited Papers
IMS, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, Royal Statistical Society, SSC
Organizer(s): Sofia C Olhede, University College London
Chair(s): Sofia C Olhede, University College London
2:05 PM A Statistical View on Optimal Transport: Inference, Algorithms, Applications
Axel Munk, University of Goettingen; Joern Schrieber, Department for Mathematics and Computer Science; Max Sommerfeld, Department for Mathematics and Computer Science; Carla Tameling, Department for Mathematics and Computer Science
2:30 PM Large Numbers of Explanatory Variables
Heather Battey, Imperial College London; David Cox, Nuffield College
2:55 PM A Fast Algorithm with Minimax Optimal Guarantees for Topic Models with an Unknown Number of Topics
Presentation
Florentina Bunea, Cornell Univeristy
3:20 PM Discussant: Patrick J Wolfe, Purdue University
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

573 * !
Wed, 8/1/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-West 120
Design of Experiments for Stochastic Process Models — Topic Contributed Papers
Royal Statistical Society, Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, Quality and Productivity Section
Organizer(s): James McGree
Chair(s): David Woods, University of Southampton
2:05 PM Efficient Construction of Bayes Optimal Designs for Stochastic Process Models
Presentation
Richard Boys, Newcastle University
2:25 PM Bayesian Design for Intractable Models
Presentation
Antony Overstall, University of Southampton
2:45 PM Developments of the Synthetic Likelihood Approach for Bayesian Design for Models with Intractable Likelihoods
James McGree
3:05 PM Optimal Bayesian Design for Models with Intractable Likelihoods via Machine Learning Methods
Presentation
Christopher C Drovandi, Queensland University of Technology; Markus Hainy, QUT
3:25 PM Optimal Design for Queueing Systems: Maximal Information by Appropriate Measurement on Queues
Ben Parker, University of Southampton
3:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

629
Thu, 8/2/2018, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM CC-West 218
New Developments in Nonparametric and Semiparametric Statistics — Contributed Papers
Section on Nonparametric Statistics, Royal Statistical Society, ENAR
Chair(s): Qing Wu, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
8:35 AM Fair Inference Through Semiparametric-Efficient Estimation Over Constraint-Specific Paths
Presentation
Nima Hejazi, Group in Biostatistics, UC Berkeley
8:50 AM Measuring Lexical Dispersion in Corpus Linguistics
Presentation
Brent Burch, Northern Arizona University; Jesse Egbert, Northern Arizona University; Douglas Biber, Northern Arizona University
9:05 AM A First-Order Multiresolution Analysis of Point Processes
Presentation
Youssef Taleb, Imperial College London; Edward A K Cohen, Imperial College London
9:20 AM A Flexible Zero-Inflated Regression Model
Eric Roemmele; Derek S. Young, University of Kentucky
9:35 AM Wavelet Coherence for Multivariate Point Processes
Presentation
Edward A K Cohen, Imperial College London; Alex J Gibberd, Imperial College London
9:50 AM An Integrated Bayesian Nonparameteric Method for Clustering of High-Dimensional Mixed Data
Chetkar Jha, University of Missouri; Subharup Guha, University of Florida
10:05 AM CRSP: Modeling Stochastically Intransitive Relationships Between NBA Teams
Ryan Patrick Alexander McShane, Southern Methodist University; Ian Harris, Southern Methodist University