245  
         
        
             Wed, 8/11/2021,
                10:00 AM -
                11:50 AM  
         
        
            
            
                
                    Virtual 
                
             
         
     
    
        
            SLDS CSpeed 4 — Contributed Speed 
         
     
    
        
            Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science  
         
     
    
    
        
            Chair(s): Nathaniel  O'Connell, Wake Forest School of Medicine 
         
     
    
            
                
                    
                 
             
        
                    
                        
                            10:05 AM 
                         
                        
                            A Generalization of the Lomax Distribution and Applications to the Cancer Patient Data 
                            
                             
                            Sher B Chhetri, University of South Carolina Sumter ; Denzyl   Lastimoso, University of South Carolina Sumter; Cory  Ball, Oak Ridge National Lab, TN 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:10 AM 
                         
                        
                            Statistical Convergence Rates for Knothe-Rosenblatt Coupling Estimators 
                            
                             
                            Nicholas  Irons, University of Washington ; Zaid  Harchaoui, University of Washington; Soumik  Pal, University of Washington; Meyer  Scetbon, CREST, ENSAE 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:15 AM 
                         
                        
                            Tree Boosting for Learning Probability Measures 
                            
                             
                            Naoki  Awaya, Duke University ; Li  Ma, Duke University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:20 AM 
                         
                        
                            Stein’s Paradox for Sample Eigenvectors 
                            
                             
                            Alexander  Shkolnik, University of California, Santa Barbara  
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:25 AM 
                         
                        
                            A model-agnostic hypothesis test for community structure and homophily in networks 
                            
                             
                            Eric  Yanchenko, North Carolina State University ; Srijan  Sengupta, North Carolina State University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:30 AM 
                         
                        
                            Mutually Exciting Point Process Graphs for Modeling Dynamic Networks 
                            
                             
                            Francesco  Sanna Passino, Imperial College London ; Nick  Heard, Imperial College London 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:35 AM 
                         
                        
                            Latent Factor Model for Multivariate Functional Data 
                            
                             
                            Ruonan  Li, North Carolina State University ; Luo  Xiao, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:40 AM 
                         
                        
                            Parameter Estimation for Stochastic McKean-Vlasov Equations 
                            
                             
                            Louis  Sharrock, Imperial College London ; Nikolas  Kantas, Imperial College London; Grigorios  Pavliotis, Imperial College London; Panos  Parpas, Imperial College London 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:45 AM 
                         
                        
                            The Bethe Hessian and Information Theoretic Approaches for Online Change-Point Detection in Network Data 
                            
                             
                            Jiarui  Xu, Oregon State University ; Neil  Hwang, City University of New York - Bronx Community College; Sharmodeep  Bhattacharyya, Oregon State University; Dr. Shirshendu  Chatterjee, City University of New York 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            10:50 AM 
                         
                        
                            Spectral Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Complete and Partial Network Data 
                            
                             
                            Bolun  Liu, Department of Statistics, University of Washington ; Shane   Lubold, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; Tyler  McCormick , University of Washington 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            11:00 AM 
                         
                        
                            Testing the constant curvature assumption of networks, with applications in efficient network seeding 
                            
                             
                            Shane   Lubold, Department of Statistics, University of Washington  
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            11:05 AM 
                         
                        
                            Robust Persistence Diagrams Using Reproducing Kernels 
                            
                             
                            Siddharth  Vishwanath, Penn State University ; Kenji  Fukumizu, Institute of Statistical Mathematics; Satoshi  Kuriki, Institute of Statistical Mathematics; Bharath  Sriperumbudur, Penn State University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            11:10 AM 
                         
                        
                            Robust Multiple Regression  
                            
                             
                            Zhipeng  Wang, Rice University ; David  Warren Scott, Rice University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            11:15 AM 
                         
                        
                            A Random Forest Method with Variable Selection for Developing Prediction Models for Binary Outcomes with Clustered and Longitudinal Data 
                            
                             
                            Jaime Lynn  Speiser, Wake Forest School of Medicine  
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            11:20 AM 
                         
                        
                            A Robust Birnbaum-Saunders Regression Model Based on Asymmetric Heavy-Tailed Distributions 
                            
                             
                            Rocío  Maehara, Universidad del Pacífico ; Filidor  Vilca, Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Heleno  Bolfarine, Universidade de Sao Paulo; Narayanaswamy  Balakrishnan, McMaster University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            11:25 AM 
                         
                        
                            Robust Criterion for Multicollinear Factor Selection  
                            
                             
                            Kimon  Ntotsis, University of the Aegean  ; Alex  Karagrigoriou, University of the Aegean ; Andreas  Artemiou, Cardiff University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            11:30 AM 
                         
                        
                            An Exact Solution to the Univariate Behrens-Fisher Problem and Its Extension 
                            
                             
                            Jiajuan  Liang, BNU-HKBU United International College ; Guoliang  Tian, Southern University of Science and Technology; Man-Lai  Tang, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong ; Jing  Yang, Tianjin Medical University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            11:35 AM 
                         
                        
                            Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets 
                            
                             
                            Stephen  Bates, UC Berkeley