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38 * !
Mon, 8/3/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 PM Virtual
Encouraging a Critical Mindset on Social Statistics — Topic Contributed Panel
International Statistical Institute, Committee on Women in Statistics, Section on Statistics and Data Science Education
Organizer(s): Anushka A Karkelanova, University of Kentucky
Chair(s): Anna Smith, University of Kentucky
10:05 AM Encouraging a Critical Mindset on Social Statistics Presentation
Panelists: Anushka A Karkelanova, University of Kentucky
Milo Schield, Augsburg University
Melissa Pittard, University of Kentucky
Amanda Ellis, Eastern Kentucky University
Emma Bojinova, University of Connecticut
11:40 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

98 * !
Mon, 8/3/2020, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM Virtual
Special Invited Session in the Honor of Professor C.R. Rao's Birth Centenary — Invited Papers
General Methodology, IMS, Biometrics Section, International Statistical Institute
Organizer(s): Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, Augusta University, Georgia, USA
Chair(s): Arni S.R. Srinivasa Rao, Augusta University, Georgia, USA
1:05 PM In Honor of a Great Statistical Scientist
David Cox, University of Oxford
1:35 PM To Celebrate the Centennial of a Remarkable Contributor to the Use of Statistics to Advance Science
Donald Rubin, Harvard University
2:05 PM One Hundred Years of Geometry
Bradley Efron, Stanford University
2:35 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

122 * !
Mon, 8/3/2020, 1:00 PM - 2:50 PM Virtual
Advances in Nowcasting of Macroeconomic Variables: New Methods and Applications — Topic Contributed Papers
Business and Economic Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, International Statistical Institute
Organizer(s): Baoline Chen, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Chair(s): Kyle Hood, Bureau of Economic Analysis
1:05 PM Nowcasting Advance Estimate of Quarterly Personal Consumption of Services in the U.S. National Accounts Presentation
Baoline Chen, Bureau of Economic Analysis; Kyle Hood, Bureau of Economic Analysis
1:25 PM Nowcasting Canadian GDP with Density Combinations
Tony Chernis, Bank of Canada; Taylor Webley, Bank of Canada
1:45 PM Nowcasting Macroeconomic Aggregates in Argentina: Comparing Different Approaches
Laura Inés D Amato, IIEP University of Buenos Aures; Emilio Blanco, Central Bank of Argentina; María Lorena Garegnani, Central Bank of Argentina; Fiorella D Dogliolo, Central Bank of Argentina
2:05 PM Nowcasting Industrial Production Using Unconventional Data Sources
Paolo Fornaro, Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
2:25 PM Real-Time Density Nowcasts of U.S. Inflation: A Model-Combination Approach
Saeed Zaman, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and University of Strathclyde; Edward S. Knotek II, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
2:45 PM Floor Discussion
 
 

161 * !
Tue, 8/4/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM Virtual
Advances in Forecasting of Macroeconomic Variables: New Methods and Applications — Topic Contributed Papers
Business and Economic Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, International Statistical Institute
Organizer(s): Kyle Hood, Bureau of Economic Analysis
Chair(s): Baoline Chen, Bureau of Economic Analysis
10:05 AM Quantile Density Combination: An Application to US GDP Forecasts
Knut-Are Aastveit, Norges Bank; Giulia Mantoan, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick; Saskia Are ter Ellen, Norges Bank
10:25 AM Cross-Temporal Forecast Reconciliation: Optimal Combination Method and Heuristic Alternatives Presentation
Tommaso Di Fonzo, University of Padova; Daniele Girolimetto, University of Padova
10:45 AM Measuring disagreement in probabilistic and density forecasts
Minchul Shin, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia; Ryan Cumings, US Census Bureau; Keith Sill, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
11:05 AM Forecasting Real GDP Growth with NIPA Aggregates: A Structural Time Series Approach
Kyle Hood, Bureau of Economic Analysis; Baoline Chen, Bureau of Economic Analysis; Thomas Triumbur, US Census Bureau
11:25 AM Weighted-Covariance Factor Decomposition of VARMA Models Applied to Forecasting Quarterly U.S. Real GDP at Monthly Intervals
Peter Zadrozny, Bureau of Labor Statistics; Baoline Chen, Bureau of Economic Analysis
11:45 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

444 !
Thu, 8/6/2020, 10:00 AM - 11:50 AM Virtual
Highlights from the Journal STAT — Topic Contributed Papers
SSC (Statistical Society of Canada), International Statistical Institute, Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science, WNAR
Organizer(s): Hao Helen Zhang, University of Arizona
Chair(s): Hao Helen Zhang, University of Arizona
10:05 AM Baum-Welch Algorithm on Directed Acyclic Graph for Mixtures with Latent Bayesian Networks
Jia Li, Penn State University; Lin Lin, The Pennsylvania State University
10:25 AM Penalized Euclidean Distance Regression
Daniel Vasiliu, College of William & Mary; Ian Dryden, University of Nottingham; Tanujit Dey, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital
10:45 AM Syncytial Clustering
Ranjan Maitra, Iowa State University; Israel A. Almodovar-Rivera, University of Puerto Rico
11:05 AM Clustering and Bi-Clustering for High-Frequency Financial Time Series Based on Mutual Information
Jian Zou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Haitao Liu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Nalini Ravishanker, University of Connecticut
11:25 AM From Causal Inference to Gene Regulation
Caroline Uhler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:45 AM Floor Discussion
 
 

586
Thu, 8/6/2020, 3:00 PM - 4:50 PM Virtual
Theoretical Investigations on Discrete Structure Recovery — Topic Contributed Papers
IMS, International Chinese Statistical Association, International Statistical Institute
Organizer(s): Anderson Ye Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
Chair(s): Zijian Guo, Rutgers The State University of NJ
3:05 PM Iterative Algorithm for Discrete Structure Recovery
Anderson Ye Zhang, University of Pennsylvania; Chao Gao, University of Chicago
3:25 PM Fast and Adaptive Iterative Hard Thresholding in High-Dimensional Linear Regression: A Non-Convex Algorithmic Regularization Approach Presentation
Mohamed Ndaoud, USC
3:45 PM Edgeworth Approximation to Network U-Statistics
Yuan Zhang, Ohio State University - Columbus, OH
4:05 PM Optimal Estimation in High-Dimensional Gaussian Mixtures
Natalie Doss, Yale University
4:25 PM SDP Relaxation for Clustering Under Gaussian Mixture Model: Hidden Integrality, Statistical Optimality and Semirandom Robustness
Yingjie Fei, Cornell University
4:45 PM Floor Discussion