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             Wed, 8/11/2021,
                3:30 PM -
                5:20 PM  
         
        
            
            
                
                    Virtual 
                
             
         
     
    
        
            Machine Learning and Variable Selection — Contributed Speed 
         
     
    
        
            Section on Statistical Computing  
         
     
    
    
        
            Chair(s): Mikael  Kuusela, Carnegie Mellon University 
         
     
    
            
                
                    
                 
             
        
                    
                        
                            3:35 PM 
                         
                        
                            Robust Boosting for Regression Problems 
                            
                             
                            Xiaomeng  Ju, University of British Columbia ; Matias   Salibian-Barrera, University of British Columbia 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            3:40 PM 
                         
                        
                            WITHDRAWN: On Model-Based Clustering of Directional Data with Heavy Tails and Outliers 
                            
                             
                            Yingying  Zhang, University of South Alabama; Volodymyr  Melnykov, University of Alabama; Igor  Melnykov, University of Minnesota Duluth 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            3:45 PM 
                         
                        
                            Performance of a Genetic Algorithm for DeGroot Opinion Diffusion Model Parameter Estimation Under Assumption Violations 
                            
                             
                            Kara Layne Johnson, Montana State University ; Jennifer L. Walsh, Medical College of Wisconsin; Yuri A. Amirkhanian, Medical College of Wisconsin; Nicole Bohme Carnegie, Montana State University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            3:50 PM 
                         
                        
                            Fast Statistical Leverage Score Approximation in Kernel Ridge Regression 
                            
                             
                            Yifan  Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ; Yun  Yang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            3:55 PM 
                         
                        
                            Linear Regression with Mismatched Data: Local Search with Theoretical Guarantees 
                            
                             
                            Haoyue  Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Rahul  Mazumder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:00 PM 
                         
                        
                            A Statistical Testing Procedure for Validating Class Labels 
                            
                             
                            Melissa  Key, STAT COE ; Ben  Boukai, IUPUI School of Science; Susanne  Ragg, University of Florida Health 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:05 PM 
                         
                        
                            A Minimum Penalty for Multivariate Regression  
                            
                             
                            Brad  Price, John Chambers College of Business and Economics, West Virginia University ; Ben  Sherwood, School of Business, University of Kansas 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:10 PM 
                         
                        
                            The 2015 Chinese Stock Market Bubble and Crash 
                            
                             
                            Min  Shu, University of Wisconsin Stout; Wei  Zhu, Stony Brook University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:15 PM 
                         
                        
                            Unfolding the Instantaneous Effect of Each Probability Process in a Mixture Stochastic Process 
                            
                             
                            Asif Shams Adnan, East West University ; Mian Arif Shams Adnan, Bowling Green State University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:20 PM 
                         
                        
                            Clustering of Longitudinal Curves via a Penalized Method and EM Algorithm 
                            
                             
                            Xin  Wang, Miami University  
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:30 PM 
                         
                        
                            Variable Selection for Spatially Varying Coefficient Models 
                            
                             
                            Jakob A. Dambon, University of Zurich ; Fabio  Sigrist, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts; Reinhard  Furrer, University of Zurich 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:35 PM 
                         
                        
                            Model Selection for Zero-Inflated Generalized Linear Models 
                            
                             
                            Abdulla Al Mamun, Gonzaga University ; Sudhir   Paul, University of Windsor 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:40 PM 
                         
                        
                            An R-Squared Approach to Tuning Parameter Selection in Penalized Estimation 
                            
                             
                            Julia C. Holter, North Carolina State University ; Jon  Stallrich, North Carolina State 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:45 PM 
                         
                        
                            Lasso-Regularized Local Smoothing for Longitudinal Analysis with Time-Varying Coefficient Models 
                            
                             
                            Xiaoyang  Ma, NHLBI, NIH; Georgetown University ; Colin O Wu, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health; Xin  Tian, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:50 PM 
                         
                        
                            Model Selection in Algebraic Pattern Recognition 
                            
                             
                            Qida  Ma, Microsoft ; David  Kahle, Baylor University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            4:55 PM 
                         
                        
                            A Highly Efficient Group Elastic Net Algorithm with an Application to Function-on-Scalar Regression 
                            
                             
                            Tobia  Boschi, Penn State University ; Matthew  Reimherr, Penn State University; Francesca  Chiaromonte, Penn State University 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            5:00 PM 
                         
                        
                            On Functional Linear Regression with Smooth/Sparse Penalties 
                            
                             
                            Rebecca Marie North, North Carolina State University ; Jon  Stallrich, North Carolina State 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            5:05 PM 
                         
                        
                            Improving Variable Selection in Linear Models Using the Select Boost Algorithm 
                            
                             
                            Myriam  Maumy, Université de technologie de Troyes ; Frederic  Bertrand, Université de technologie de Troyes 
                         
                     
                
                    
                        
                            5:10 PM 
                         
                        
                            A Von Mises-Fisher Clustering Modeling for the Inference of Orientational Preferences of Protein Domains with Scattering Data 
                            
                             
                            Seyed Morteza  Najibi, Lund University ; Ingemar  Andre, Lund University