Computational Advances in Hypothesis Testing

Tue, Aug 5, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM Room CC-104E Music City Center

Semhar MichaelChair

Section on Statistical Computing

7 Presentations

Distfreereg: A New R Package for Distribution-Free Parametric Regression Testing

8:35 AM - 8:50 AM

Co-authors: Jesse Miller, Jesse Miller

goodness-of-fit testing regression distribution-free testing R package

Efficient Nonparametric Two-Sample Hypothesis Testing Methods for Large Networks via Subsampling

8:50 AM - 9:05 AM

Co-authors: Kaustav Chakraborty, Srijan Sengupta (North Carolina State University), Kaustav Chakraborty, Yuguo Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Two-sample hypothesis testing Network model Nonparametric testing Subsampling Time efficient algorithm Random Dot Product Graph

False Discovery Control with a Tuning Parameter

9:05 AM - 9:20 AM

Co-authors: Nasrine Bendjilali (Rowan University), Wei-Min Huang (Lehigh University), Nasrine Bendjilali (Rowan University)

False discovery rate Multiple testing procedures Benjamini-Hochberg Tuning parameter

Improved confidence intervals based on combined information in univariate calibration

9:20 AM - 9:35 AM

Co-authors: Md Monzur Murshed (university of Louisiana at Lafayette), Md Monzur Murshed (university of Louisiana at Lafayette), Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy

Combined tests; Controlled calibration; Fisher's test; Maximum likelihood estimates

Inference on Two-Parameter Negative Binomial Distributions: One- and Two-Sample Problems

9:35 AM - 9:50 AM

Co-authors: Md Mahadi Hasan (Murray State University), Md Mahadi Hasan (Murray State University), Kalimuthu Krishnamoorthy (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)

over-dispersion powers score test standardized LRT type I error

Inside Out: Externalizing Assumptions in Data Analysis as Validation Checks

9:50 AM - 10:05 AM

Co-authors: Sherry Zhang (The University of Texas at Austin), Roger Peng (University of Texas, Austin), Sherry Zhang (The University of Texas at Austin)

data analysis data validation diagnostics

MCMC-CE: Efficient Bayes Factor Estimation for Bayesian Hypothesis Testing with Non-conjugate Priors via the Cross-Entropy Method

10:05 AM - 10:20 AM

Co-authors: Yang Shi (Wayne State University), Yang Shi (Wayne State University), Devin Lundy (Augusta Univeristy), Vy Ong (Wayne State University), Yin Wan (Wanye State University)

Marginal likelihood Cross-entropy method Markov chain Monte Carlo Bayes factor Bayesian model averaging Bayesian linear regression