The First Wu Xi International Statistics Forum4 S# p8 g7 b+ O6 b& N6 g
July 17-19, 2011 - W3 d- d1 A+ G( I8 Q# `Hubin Hotel, Wu Xi, China- D& j- g8 \) f; l
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Conference Program * u) E1 }+ k8 h7 ]Sunday, July 17th 6 p: U5 \) `: Z% J) U( w# {. W: X P$ p. U% t+ a8 w- m
10:00 – 10:10 Opening remark (Jun Liu) 8 N, V1 \: W2 r. T2 t10:10 – 10:20 Official remark5 ^5 V9 g0 m& R$ [' t# Y
10:20 – 10:30 Introduction to plenary speaker (Jun Liu) , Q E) D8 w. |# Z7 g f
10:30 – 11:30 Plenary Speech (Don Rubin)9 }* _ r/ t! |0 f" @( P' X; J9 Z
/ v3 M. p* r1 i6 d) X/ j3 [7 d11:30 Lunch . A" M; o m% P4 b5 o% m H9 ^ $ i6 c, J& _8 H- s* i1:00 – 3:00 Parallel session I r3 Y" K. i4 K/ I
. T/ ^! t! |: lA (Chair: Min Tang): 8 d& o* f8 ~( k/ }) ?1:00 – 1:30 Adaptive Score Test for the Effects of Genetic Marker Sets / D+ M y5 e. ~. p7 w6 S, h W4 YXihong Lin 0 y5 \, n3 R+ s* M6 d! N4 g1:30 – 2:00 On computation with the accelerated failure time model2 W* L9 z% p N ?" H# Q
Yijian Huang2 h" S7 P& Q: H& E/ a O
2:00 – 2:30 A Rank-Based Test for the Comparison of Multidimensional Outcomes7 m) x! w+ n3 E6 F, i
Kai Fun Yu* U7 j5 R: H$ H/ y% A: {0 ^
2:30 – 3:00 Extending the Scope of Partial F-Test to High Dimensional Data; C& {: m) p! ~5 X& G% Z
Hansheng Wang ! N: ?; R0 Z, B( f3 [0 c ! e/ J' K% Q8 i8 lB (Chair: Jin Yong):' D3 k: v' L* U6 }* d- |
1:00 – 1:30 TBA) ]/ V" g% V/ R+ _9 l8 u& I4 e
Ying Yang a" C) z( `+ Q% N( w. g) B/ P
1:30 – 2:00 Bayesian analysis of generalized semiparametric linear mixed models using the Dirichlet process prior and P-spline 9 l% c; V" A( C6 C, O4 kNiansheng Tang6 u$ T' b5 C5 Z( G% S; ]
2:00 – 2:30 Normal and Compound Poisson Approximations for the Number of PatternApproximations for the Number of Pattern Occurrences in High-throughput Sequence Reads 4 Y1 C' x* \( x8 @( C. |: pYihui Luan5 A+ Y3 B) h- e( B) Y
2:30 – 3:00 Structural dimensional reduction for high-dimensional data analysis L2 s& f3 s- zJianhua Guo. S! v" N& W9 t" g4 g/ c: w
3:00 – 3:15 Tea break: @. ^+ @, f" k. ]/ U# ?
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Sunday, July 17th $ L9 v# y3 W: \: F* E4 H% J2 D, Z+ I' M; L" o# P# c4 b: m
3: 15 – 5:15 Parallel session II; t" v* p) L1 I4 ^* n# }6 x
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A (Chair: Fangzhou Yao):# _; T0 E2 s6 V Q: ?& s3 O8 ]
3:15 – 3:45 Genomic and Epigenomic Profiling to Understand Disease Risks 9 v5 w R" }; V% N4 I2 tXiaole Liu d+ b! d7 _: N0 C5 H" i
3:45 – 4:15 TBA ! r7 D0 e6 f0 K( K" sXuegong Zhang* J& Y2 n2 }! z1 J' W' A
4:15 – 4:45 Combining Exploration and Exploitation Strategies in Adaptive MCMC for Bayesian Inference1 N0 H" m) y7 r* ]+ N3 k
Scott Schmidler. p+ V7 C& n4 o; m; y R- C' X# W7 s
4:45 – 5:15 A Bayesian clustering approach for partitioning the conformational space of biomolecules # |6 _- T- v3 @' y# gXiaodan Fan # E( c4 @0 R% ]9 V* T" D t( V; Y( z# ?6 L0 T9 k% f o
B (Chair: Wei Lan):7 k2 |# E. N8 c5 |% j! c
3:15 – 3:45 TBA! H; r/ x" F# b2 M) g1 O" t; d
Lijian Yang! r$ n" t7 A5 L' B
3:45 – 4:15 Instability of Predictability of Asset Returns. l8 A/ B7 d2 ~
Zongwu Cai; ]. l/ v, o& m/ W
4:15 – 4:45 Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Method for Copulas ) } a/ E5 D1 FYongcheng Qi ' i) e0 _+ M7 V7 E) ], ^4:45 – 5:15 Interval estimation for the tail index of a GARCH(1,1) model ; R9 q* r- _& e: M2 v+ Y( rLiang Peng 1 N3 O2 o+ J6 o# o# U2 C- N4 S( H. B; p- Q1 t/ b
5:30 – 8:00 Poster session and light refreshment ! R) z% a( I* b4 j/ P% @) k4 B! C ' O4 ~! \$ k# n$ F- f+ s & T" E, V7 M! e" L' i% M$ x# o% z 8 I& a/ y3 s0 P" A1 b8 l. sMonday, July 18th r. Q4 {6 ~7 }' a+ W/ R$ a
; D8 v; O3 h% h10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break / h: }$ T8 Y3 X/ f" M1 e7 ]4 z" @) D 2 V4 K' T0 |& d' y/ n0 K* a10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session III 1 E5 @9 L9 `1 Z
7 {- b) l# g6 A5 ~4 x% V' | QA (Chair: Mengyang Gu): 8 h5 m% H9 O" F2 k2 @: w10:15 – 10:45 Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models+ u6 E% ]* d. R! S9 u
Samuel Kou: C- \, c! S# O& z G! k) m: }
10:45 – 11:15 Subsampling for Feature Selection: Y* n/ x1 \1 p# F8 O. X3 W9 q
Jiayang Sun5 V' ^( J$ C9 D6 S( P* D9 n2 O9 F
11:15 – 11:45 On Hierarchical Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Social Network Analysis9 ^& x& }8 W( e, i5 K
Chunlin Ji # R# J& V2 b( ^' s) p+ s7 z11:45 – 12:15 Penalized Least Squares Estimation with Weakly Dependent Data ! _! Y; F, Q: C# A$ \4 l0 }Xin Tong * l" t) d! c6 f- c! Q4 D12:15 – 12:45 TBA " l- T! [. i9 ^- ?0 D0 n; NMin Chen8 O9 x! D6 @7 N* T2 p) M
! P9 x- m3 F. B( _3 oB (Chair: Hirose Yoshihiro): . l/ V) y0 r6 A8 T10:15 – 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& p9 _7 {3 }6 P
Hao Li 7 H! Y- W& O, S2 t R* g10:45 – 11:15 TBA ! M( q: A/ v, k9 _6 D8 |Edoardo Airioli$ P6 Q0 R- K3 @' P1 M
11:15 – 11:45 TBA 6 R6 l7 Y) E, Y" w. x% [: bYixue Li 2 v% m+ M) A$ M" M8 L11:45 – 12:15 Statistical modeling of RNA-Seq data+ s9 V1 H: V; I# g% H4 i$ W
Wenxuan Zhong8 G$ p) @* l1 n. b
12:15 – 12:45 Generalized Semiparametric Regression Models with Smooth Variance Function, with Application to Medical Cost Data- j3 g e4 V; S% x( W/ K% L
Jinsong Chen2 P3 o2 x$ b+ x1 R. z
2 D6 ?# U t+ ^5 g) f. y12:45 Lunch9 T( k8 l7 j3 c1 V. z+ c
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2:00 Excursion * h D" t2 v: m9 S4 H ( e& U! p" X& v, f0 @ ' x/ [5 H+ J4 v8 `0 E
Tuesday July 19th % ^7 Q' Q2 l; d7 n* }5 P, K9 I) {+ Z' x4 @6 g
8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Steve Qin) 2 }9 |7 \! O1 l; X
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Jianqing Fan) / `" y1 ~" F' M4 o6 N / l0 w: _# T1 U; G10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break2 J2 T" p( Z* d; L% \ c, @
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10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session IV / F1 K: y2 r4 `4 f
8 q4 _/ q. o& i8 N$ T7 k @A (Chair: Rui Pan): 0 t9 ]/ [* Y9 K10:15 – 10:45 TBA - l3 V3 `2 L: p5 A, w) _Jun Shao 8 f- Q1 @* C) g; \' y/ j' K
10:45 – 11:15 On choosing the size of data perturbation in adaptive model selection via penalization9 K0 x4 x/ ~" t' ?0 r
Hung Chen ! j" o( I/ N/ t# k$ g11:15 – 11:45 Determining probability of germline mutations in family-based sequencing studies9 T0 {; b( z* C5 a# m
Wenyi Wang ; ]0 Y; h' I, j: M8 n11:45 – 12:15 Nonparametric Inference of Hemodynamic Response for fMRI data with Inhomogeneous Variances through Kernel Smoothing ) b$ D( p' e7 I1 q: MTingting Zhang * l( @ z% N" [/ H9 `* d3 F" f2 f/ g6 o6 d
B (Chair: Wenbao Yu):0 T+ g1 p- i h- i
10:15 – 10:45 Generalized Measures of Correlation for Asymmetry, Nonlinearity in Economic Study and Beyond & R4 I" a( f9 H+ oZhengjun Zhang, p6 x0 x9 R3 [% `
10:45 – 11:15 Model Selection Principles in Misspecified Models 2 J5 [+ F# e8 M. X" KJinchi Lv C3 t7 g; M: X& ?/ c11:15 – 11:45 Statistical Analysis and Inference for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data 0 n0 P$ {& d, @- t% ]Chunming Zhang! c v) Y, A! D; W3 A8 G, M
11:45 – 12:15 Analysis of Zero-Inflated Count Data from an In Vivo Genotoxicity Test 0 t1 \ p7 `# L" R1 Z3 e, z$ NSusan Portugal$ f3 @7 e' C7 M& |- ^3 U x
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12:15 Lunch 9 D& N* B% o/ \* J5 P% o ! m; D2 ] e) j/ C8 H & R" Y0 Z, P% f+ v1 C8 `Tuesday July 19th ) m+ Q' { H8 f 3 u) q- P$ z* g4 N" u+ j' t% A2:00 – 4:30 Parallel session V ) o, _/ C" W: `0 l4 I& Z6 T$ d5 N" Y' {- M& m6 t
A (Chair: Mingche Su):0 C: V! B% J' }% b6 |% f' L
2:00 – 2:00 Quantile Regression for Analyzing Heterogeneity in Ultra-high Dimension8 V# k: M4 R- V( D& N$ ]; y0 j2 c+ x
Runze Li$ n5 J: i4 Z3 L/ ~& t
2:30 – 3:00 High Dimensional Multinomial Clustering$ Y7 i5 \6 F6 K: B9 ]8 m, x6 o8 q
Jin Cao ; e- L; @: E& n& P3:00 – 3:30 Detecting Subclusters in Outliers * ]" x8 V; k$ o x4 W# H3 c
Dongseok Choi . ^" G& Y, \/ R- w3:30 – 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 * a1 B7 [; N2 z5 |* }* H7 MChengwu Yang- F" N/ r3 d( s7 ]0 H+ D
4:00 – 4:30 Improve estimation efficiency of marginal proportional hazards model by a partitioning method0 d3 M6 O( M' ^- Y6 K4 F5 o
Wenjun Cui- ?" Q2 ?. `# V3 W0 o; F
4:30 – 5:00 Bayesian Multivariate Ordinal Probit Analysis of China's Consumer Confidence Index Data : c& Q' W4 g5 W1 P; d- uJunni Zhang2 P# ]9 D& N, J9 W
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B (Chair: Yuxiang Liu):: c# k/ i5 J" f
2:00 – 2:00 Functional Additive Regression |& Q3 r8 f& n% p. n7 J* a& |Yingying Fan- q7 ~$ \( U t. q' A' ?
2:30 – 3:00 Robust empirical Bayes inference by conditioning on rank with application to microarray data ' G* P9 `( b4 UJason Liao , |) ^3 P+ ]. T# r3 I3:00 – 3:30 Estimation for the Single-index Models with Random Effects & j# R" d* z; ]2 zZhen Pang B2 R# ~2 B1 \; G3:30 – 4:00 Nonlinear time series & n$ i5 A: q& q
Fuxia Cheng ' c3 ^0 Y n$ H. ]4:00 – 4:30 Jackknife empirical likelihood methods for risk measures and related quantities7 _, R$ z. d6 `$ g/ j! a* h5 t
Ruodu Wang9 i8 f2 `! e* Z8 D3 \
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5:00 Banquet ! X7 p# ~+ b- z; E1 `
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