The First Wu Xi International Statistics Forum8 N6 u1 n# s: u+ {* Q0 a k0 K2 ^
July 17-19, 2011 3 }- Z. z0 d) ?5 Y' E! R0 uHubin Hotel, Wu Xi, China 7 B. J% w, R% ^( ^* ^7 W4 i8 g, \/ p: h3 _8 Q6 M0 u R" D
Conference Program 9 u; O- g3 @: G+ ^! p5 }$ {Sunday, July 17th4 p F9 q! s9 m9 d
+ M8 o$ k4 g/ Y1 z3 D2 B% N7 k% r8 x10:00 – 10:10 Opening remark (Jun Liu) - o$ V3 i( d5 \" y, J% W- A) k10:10 – 10:20 Official remark + N, y0 Z# F. h$ L10:20 – 10:30 Introduction to plenary speaker (Jun Liu) ' j+ s1 Y2 `2 g: \10:30 – 11:30 Plenary Speech (Don Rubin) ( s. c, f9 X4 p" G; c- U: |) j$ C- B; w0 I
11:30 Lunch& A B, [5 v! T4 i; e* b
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1:00 – 3:00 Parallel session I - B8 r! [& d, n( z+ {
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A (Chair: Min Tang):: h1 U( H) {) B# r; X; E# Q! ^
1:00 – 1:30 Adaptive Score Test for the Effects of Genetic Marker Sets , W7 z o" Y5 JXihong Lin / W7 z( v5 Z7 P
1:30 – 2:00 On computation with the accelerated failure time model7 j$ [4 P& O# T! L7 @, s
Yijian Huang 6 |8 N; x4 G4 D6 B+ M, @8 ^- T2:00 – 2:30 A Rank-Based Test for the Comparison of Multidimensional Outcomes . _ A1 [: m# }( c5 {( G4 KKai Fun Yu % |7 W6 l9 r- s$ q# d& k0 l2:30 – 3:00 Extending the Scope of Partial F-Test to High Dimensional Data" N. C( U( g/ [, d, u
Hansheng Wang & o" R3 P& f! q/ E) s Z" K" ]# _, B$ i$ _B (Chair: Jin Yong): + ]1 H- b/ \, {6 T1:00 – 1:30 TBA9 e1 F& E+ _/ |* `, k' D; C; k
Ying Yang% }8 ]5 X3 c- z1 B3 w$ X" z% V
1:30 – 2:00 Bayesian analysis of generalized semiparametric linear mixed models using the Dirichlet process prior and P-spline 5 c1 U" }/ G, y4 _6 VNiansheng Tang ) f) {7 w' D$ D( E( H/ V4 t% P0 [, |, F2:00 – 2:30 Normal and Compound Poisson Approximations for the Number of PatternApproximations for the Number of Pattern Occurrences in High-throughput Sequence Reads3 j9 K; W4 \+ s1 k J( n
Yihui Luan; v& ^1 o0 f/ o, r. a4 I
2:30 – 3:00 Structural dimensional reduction for high-dimensional data analysis* G t- { E% D8 I Z# G* L* z8 Q3 l
Jianhua Guo7 n/ H& I/ H& q4 K5 \) ^2 [
3:00 – 3:15 Tea break8 w% k1 w# v0 w1 f# K' s" f
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0 {5 Y, N; M% x+ i7 _ , C. H+ e# b5 L. n: y$ t! x8 tSunday, July 17th ! S* y/ m8 f+ B* H7 U- o# {9 b 3 R2 }. Q1 j3 Y$ F) D C V* H6 W l3: 15 – 5:15 Parallel session II 6 ^/ ?# t/ B5 x0 d% N9 i6 f! [7 h0 N2 ~
A (Chair: Fangzhou Yao): 7 L) w# W+ d. J3 k3:15 – 3:45 Genomic and Epigenomic Profiling to Understand Disease Risks E" v# H7 G% V' G9 eXiaole Liu " y+ {1 r7 D! c. N0 W3:45 – 4:15 TBA4 U! e, S5 ^* J
Xuegong Zhang + ?; A R- }6 m4 l4:15 – 4:45 Combining Exploration and Exploitation Strategies in Adaptive MCMC for Bayesian Inference ( Y2 k: y, K- T2 iScott Schmidler1 \2 k( Q( b& N* R8 i7 E& G
4:45 – 5:15 A Bayesian clustering approach for partitioning the conformational space of biomolecules' L6 _( _' \. C* X; q3 t
Xiaodan Fan 9 P6 o; [' F( g# J0 p/ j3 T: O/ X$ x0 H% z$ ^$ v) m% e: r: n
B (Chair: Wei Lan): 5 L6 G+ D; ?" }( q9 H. y: K8 `3:15 – 3:45 TBA! V& x; m" H+ }
Lijian Yang # {/ ?" |+ J: @/ G! u0 A3:45 – 4:15 Instability of Predictability of Asset Returns 2 k/ f& o$ w. ^9 gZongwu Cai 1 K' ?. w" Q2 w6 S, M# h2 ~; P4:15 – 4:45 Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Method for Copulas 5 { Q- a3 V9 ?0 N) EYongcheng Qi 5 m2 J: }( i3 _$ p i( s) y0 |4:45 – 5:15 Interval estimation for the tail index of a GARCH(1,1) model ' b5 Y7 |1 m; {Liang Peng, j% k) e3 a G7 |
1 D- ^/ Y9 [! b" r5 c5:30 – 8:00 Poster session and light refreshment + Z5 o4 `2 [; _: g# `) ^3 T- J+ ~9 ~4 m8 n& T3 v
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1 Q* @; c- w7 X# z& x1 kMonday, July 18th 6 w+ X! {+ z* X; t+ ~$ r4 T8 V( f0 p9 ^( v6 x
8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Sam Kou) 0 E$ [9 ~) h4 M) K7 j5 a9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Brad Efron) ' Z; v& n/ E, A3 c2 u) N3 ^5 `$ k9 R
10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break" u% a( X5 c. H/ N$ ?2 V
/ V' \# u2 v0 r2 M' m1 n4 E10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session III 8 p/ p$ B( [% i" l' ~9 }" f& d" x
A (Chair: Mengyang Gu):" R& x' o: c4 f$ O _8 M1 c' A
10:15 – 10:45 Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models 5 x+ |; G6 f9 h* A3 r. S9 P. oSamuel Kou , N$ b" Y# M3 B' W/ s' N10:45 – 11:15 Subsampling for Feature Selection 6 F. N% M3 s# c$ tJiayang Sun8 m C, O7 g7 h- f
11:15 – 11:45 On Hierarchical Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Social Network Analysis1 P0 Y( }7 W8 B
Chunlin Ji9 M! K$ A& c0 [0 Q: c
11:45 – 12:15 Penalized Least Squares Estimation with Weakly Dependent Data 3 x) _! Q. y/ ~0 n
Xin Tong8 z4 }& f. r+ M$ s, l
12:15 – 12:45 TBA , i3 [. T, Q! V k3 iMin Chen 7 ~9 h1 g4 }6 _, q- k ( V8 `( u9 n3 Q/ X5 R0 mB (Chair: Hirose Yoshihiro): * b) E H" L$ s10:15 – 10:45 Identification of candidate causal genes in complex diseases through an integrated analysis of genome-wide association study and expression quantitative trait locus mapping& t% v# w; o) L: ^: Y g
Hao Li 3 ^4 O( V. \$ ?7 y, H! O2 d0 j10:45 – 11:15 TBA " G9 t4 a4 K* O* Z, H1 kEdoardo Airioli; U; k2 a4 f6 L+ w {
11:15 – 11:45 TBA 1 _1 q6 L9 v! v2 `4 d; NYixue Li; W& S( y! v" X/ H6 d8 A$ @
11:45 – 12:15 Statistical modeling of RNA-Seq data: \- f* }3 V2 H0 h. Q5 ]
Wenxuan Zhong " L5 g' W; E. Y- D12:15 – 12:45 Generalized Semiparametric Regression Models with Smooth Variance Function, with Application to Medical Cost Data5 T# ~" d5 M+ @; Q7 m& [/ L" D+ y
Jinsong Chen1 Q. F6 c; C# A/ u7 K
: c: c+ v$ J+ e4 K( h0 q12:45 Lunch G+ ` z0 l- U+ b 7 o+ H% ?4 a6 S' l/ {7 Y0 Q6 }2:00 Excursion 1 m/ R9 F7 |# f' q- y4 ^/ H3 o6 @! z4 T. e0 k
. R8 \. F& s/ z! X6 {8 m8 S; eTuesday July 19th & p$ S+ h9 M4 f) c1 E* \4 k0 @& z( S1 e
8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Steve Qin) 6 f4 ~% g% I0 Q$ d* d( B9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Jianqing Fan) & D& p/ z% l8 r. s ' Y# v6 s, I+ h2 z10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break 6 }5 A7 ?- d7 Q* C7 z/ e2 m3 X2 E3 l+ u4 K: f
10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session IV 1 x0 y* N2 e' E% U0 a
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A (Chair: Rui Pan): ! N4 {6 A% o9 B) b10:15 – 10:45 TBA5 L e- E- V3 m1 n. I: x# j
Jun Shao : U3 O/ T1 X! T% d: o4 Z/ r
10:45 – 11:15 On choosing the size of data perturbation in adaptive model selection via penalization 2 w' T$ `. x6 A/ M6 w$ YHung Chen3 E& S0 N, m8 N8 I$ h! }+ S; B
11:15 – 11:45 Determining probability of germline mutations in family-based sequencing studies + d8 V( z0 h0 D4 X9 p7 wWenyi Wang ) f' k3 F! m7 W. i& b11:45 – 12:15 Nonparametric Inference of Hemodynamic Response for fMRI data with Inhomogeneous Variances through Kernel Smoothing+ G6 `: X1 X/ {" c6 r: \2 A# A0 i+ ^
Tingting Zhang ' p" O4 S$ n( K; H) D) Y$ o% @4 L# d5 T* d
B (Chair: Wenbao Yu):& ^" ~1 j$ }1 }1 Y
10:15 – 10:45 Generalized Measures of Correlation for Asymmetry, Nonlinearity in Economic Study and Beyond # f- W/ E. x& i% j+ X3 WZhengjun Zhang/ E" d, p9 r }( ~% Q: c1 k
10:45 – 11:15 Model Selection Principles in Misspecified Models 0 X5 @2 e4 U1 V! X) |Jinchi Lv 5 @3 o; A9 l0 @; \6 I# N11:15 – 11:45 Statistical Analysis and Inference for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data0 J5 ~3 _7 ]0 b, g. g! t9 o0 |
Chunming Zhang % u( s1 g3 N6 Z* g11:45 – 12:15 Analysis of Zero-Inflated Count Data from an In Vivo Genotoxicity Test " b5 P) U8 {) j8 w6 f7 g" L% F5 ASusan Portugal4 ^6 c/ E5 a* T! A, ~! [% D
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12:15 Lunch 0 v0 y8 R6 [, B( X" g; e4 a2 ~! x' {; x- ^' [. Z- \8 L1 M
# K& v( s9 i0 p8 D' c) @Tuesday July 19th/ x- g6 Q) A* G$ S! k' O
; ^ c2 e+ r$ f G4 ^2:00 – 4:30 Parallel session V 3 ]. v+ l3 M- Y6 o' x: | 5 {+ }3 ?' R, C" W( ]+ d9 MA (Chair: Mingche Su): & N3 p- {' R5 F% z# | z2:00 – 2:00 Quantile Regression for Analyzing Heterogeneity in Ultra-high Dimension- C7 v( S- |- A" L
Runze Li" v- g7 h6 T2 W
2:30 – 3:00 High Dimensional Multinomial Clustering % Y& Q( i4 R2 I- m& X. ]Jin Cao ' I/ A7 U$ k# L/ K* I3:00 – 3:30 Detecting Subclusters in Outliers 2 @1 `6 w9 I2 N9 h. Z' O R" y
Dongseok Choi* d9 w) n) j; W0 |5 X
3:30 – 4:00 Application of multiple-indicator multiple-causes (MIMIC) models detected and adjusted for measurement bias in racial difference of religiosity between black and white older Americans : O& D2 s; C% s. [3 s7 l3 FChengwu Yang, @1 X- q# P3 K* M$ o5 y2 t
4:00 – 4:30 Improve estimation efficiency of marginal proportional hazards model by a partitioning method + ?' i( _: Y6 M8 H# z+ x; s6 L( ^Wenjun Cui ! U* [& c8 E3 h& D+ V& I( L4:30 – 5:00 Bayesian Multivariate Ordinal Probit Analysis of China's Consumer Confidence Index Data : w4 ]: Y% v9 u. D% c8 [6 X" gJunni Zhang( f' t4 l8 F/ X1 ^
" G! C. j7 i# ~& @B (Chair: Yuxiang Liu): 1 s( N5 v" a: ?" ^9 }2:00 – 2:00 Functional Additive Regression " i9 \. j3 h _$ m4 m @! e) iYingying Fan: j6 y2 {7 f3 [( n
2:30 – 3:00 Robust empirical Bayes inference by conditioning on rank with application to microarray data( |- k1 l: J% N3 N& J; U; k! e
Jason Liao " z( r6 F6 ~# h, a/ j+ k* w! ]3:00 – 3:30 Estimation for the Single-index Models with Random Effects4 L' K# F6 c) M: O
Zhen Pang : D' q; v' d3 ^3:30 – 4:00 Nonlinear time series & T9 s7 ?- E( d; J' j5 U
Fuxia Cheng 6 `* G: m c- M$ B, y. `* i8 c4:00 – 4:30 Jackknife empirical likelihood methods for risk measures and related quantities ! t: N3 H7 {; h/ H9 KRuodu Wang . N3 e. S) t. U' M8 p) _: w: R8 I+ S8 ^& L r
5:00 Banquet ! I8 }- p& f: f1 w/ C, {8 s' ?: z" N6 e, \" t