The First Wu Xi International Statistics Forum 1 @7 S' R' y7 C+ v0 a" a$ p! HJuly 17-19, 20113 L' V' z( Z3 G0 O. u# Q
Hubin Hotel, Wu Xi, China8 `5 a# R) | A) e B7 v K' Y( @
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Conference Program+ J Q0 ]# s0 m1 P. c3 _ p$ F
Sunday, July 17th2 _; F. l3 a8 G5 A
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10:20 – 10:30 Introduction to plenary speaker (Jun Liu) , ?4 r. \% U3 p9 o, s10:30 – 11:30 Plenary Speech (Don Rubin) . q) C0 G. q7 H' \ ' j2 o' \& u1 C, C: W11:30 Lunch ! O: {( w3 v5 C3 @' _& E9 N `9 n2 I0 w. b# ]1:00 – 3:00 Parallel session I / _: v+ q4 p* m7 g
q1 `. ], U! a8 d: lA (Chair: Min Tang):) h0 u7 _! i* H. l( I ^6 H
1:00 – 1:30 Adaptive Score Test for the Effects of Genetic Marker Sets % q- S! H9 B8 w7 E, RXihong Lin * m3 `. u- m9 l* X1:30 – 2:00 On computation with the accelerated failure time model 2 w! H; U% f: a2 v- sYijian Huang3 |& x: Z$ I; z7 o4 Y4 }
2:00 – 2:30 A Rank-Based Test for the Comparison of Multidimensional Outcomes : V% s( {3 _3 ?" N1 p5 E2 bKai Fun Yu. \/ B( ^7 p! n7 S. Z
2:30 – 3:00 Extending the Scope of Partial F-Test to High Dimensional Data+ i8 U) ^6 m: o u1 W, t
Hansheng Wang 0 u* h1 q4 l2 R# f' o
- L$ E* H" l4 T& VB (Chair: Jin Yong): ( Z" y' T& U; T1 a8 F- Q8 @1:00 – 1:30 TBA ! d% W" q6 ~6 g$ y' s, i# VYing Yang" W2 y, y( O& E+ ^! y! s3 n0 a* G3 F
1:30 – 2:00 Bayesian analysis of generalized semiparametric linear mixed models using the Dirichlet process prior and P-spline 9 Y; `7 @* k" ~Niansheng Tang 8 O7 ^2 ]$ U, ?$ h; G1 e y* @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 1 q# S* q1 M2 _% J9 K' d u/ XYihui Luan- e3 Y+ X: n* p) t
2:30 – 3:00 Structural dimensional reduction for high-dimensional data analysis ! P" E5 g! w/ ]5 d3 u6 l/ ?; t6 kJianhua Guo 4 w6 R: W. k! o% [) `) o3:00 – 3:15 Tea break ' s) Z5 P* |& Y5 [/ t! j/ \8 K m3 g: K1 m6 N: e% J
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Sunday, July 17th . K+ J3 t4 e3 _5 m( R& |+ M+ y5 D8 l) e4 b4 J1 C" g2 g
3: 15 – 5:15 Parallel session II7 C+ X+ B& Q; i
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A (Chair: Fangzhou Yao): 4 n* c& J7 X0 b% K/ Y2 L$ o* r3:15 – 3:45 Genomic and Epigenomic Profiling to Understand Disease Risks 1 n$ H, Y3 k0 O% F: l2 fXiaole Liu % O% e; o+ p% ^3:45 – 4:15 TBA9 L7 C6 P+ x: J8 w
Xuegong Zhang/ H7 @/ T0 ]8 [* Q5 R* s- I8 }7 _
4:15 – 4:45 Combining Exploration and Exploitation Strategies in Adaptive MCMC for Bayesian Inference ! L& L9 m+ x1 v% h2 [Scott Schmidler7 @1 z* o5 t5 C+ g' O8 {
4:45 – 5:15 A Bayesian clustering approach for partitioning the conformational space of biomolecules H: }( ~9 H2 V" e
Xiaodan Fan& I+ }, j- U- N& l
5 o& S- G, b& B8 UB (Chair: Wei Lan): 6 I% I% D" p' L8 w5 ]$ d3:15 – 3:45 TBA , Y0 ?$ O& [6 a: v6 V, [3 pLijian Yang8 j8 H7 x" o; `5 h. t; h( Z
3:45 – 4:15 Instability of Predictability of Asset Returns 2 j' V; a' t1 F K9 Y/ W& D/ \+ j& MZongwu Cai, t4 B. e* ]: _) J. T
4:15 – 4:45 Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Method for Copulas1 W0 W7 q0 W. x2 L
Yongcheng Qi9 E# v' h- K1 N* [3 M
4:45 – 5:15 Interval estimation for the tail index of a GARCH(1,1) model # ?. `% j$ y' Y3 e0 M c C9 uLiang Peng & t8 y6 `" Y7 _1 v) Z# H2 P2 T 3 s3 @- _) T- R5:30 – 8:00 Poster session and light refreshment ' t5 `. z) _. X" o0 R; b* |" s/ }, W. u1 n" F! q
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Monday, July 18th ) g# O5 z% z; u/ d8 C& F4 k 1 K3 J3 }6 a7 o1 ^8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Sam Kou) $ e4 A% _4 R3 N1 P7 |1 S; ^9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Brad Efron) " N! [1 x+ t a 9 l. f) X5 n' K* I10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break 2 G( d4 a$ U! j 3 q* k& u$ C5 T+ }- c10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session III , ~. a% X/ ?1 M% ^ j
2 c* z( A6 g. [. T1 K6 dA (Chair: Mengyang Gu):1 [# G2 t% Z8 p2 m5 Z: n4 z2 W
10:15 – 10:45 Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models 4 N5 X( d% B7 H) s4 P; w( H# USamuel Kou/ p; U% B3 B) j3 y o$ q+ U" ~6 k
10:45 – 11:15 Subsampling for Feature Selection a# O9 U" A& ~Jiayang Sun , M! n5 ~( ]; F/ b& s" d6 ^' N11:15 – 11:45 On Hierarchical Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Social Network Analysis- {+ Q" n& y) T0 J# O
Chunlin Ji3 `2 |; @4 L) a% u0 U7 b H
11:45 – 12:15 Penalized Least Squares Estimation with Weakly Dependent Data % @; f- t# A" y' \Xin Tong' d# v$ Y, A9 X b
12:15 – 12:45 TBA 7 Z5 \( |8 X; L! v o5 x% jMin Chen % J7 E0 `! ]. _! K& X. y$ T, S) k7 ]0 K* A# r, ?
B (Chair: Hirose Yoshihiro): 0 W3 \% O7 T# D; W5 D* T: m1 k10:15 – 10:45 Identification of candidate causal genes in complex diseases through an integrated analysis of genome-wide association study and expression quantitative trait locus mapping 3 d6 @) S3 N5 `Hao Li" Y7 W" N$ i. O
10:45 – 11:15 TBA 1 \* I+ K) [+ y' @/ N1 rEdoardo Airioli 2 N) X- e9 ?8 i3 w( D. A, H1 v4 j7 S11:15 – 11:45 TBA / O# q4 u4 y0 T8 h3 [+ QYixue Li 5 p- E1 t4 B2 u+ w. c3 N11:45 – 12:15 Statistical modeling of RNA-Seq data |8 d2 I7 O/ P6 o. H
Wenxuan Zhong 1 A' O- \' v( h/ f U t8 e, q8 {12:15 – 12:45 Generalized Semiparametric Regression Models with Smooth Variance Function, with Application to Medical Cost Data 4 s* ?- v! v6 I( e0 A; m+ J/ t0 tJinsong Chen# O" C9 [: P# |0 R; l
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12:45 Lunch 8 j0 C+ ~5 i! a9 I" D; M- i1 ?3 h) C( n2 Y6 P/ d6 @
2:00 Excursion' Y7 T* N% j1 R4 u
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8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Steve Qin) * b$ ~' }6 T# Y" F% {( m M8 I4 \! Q9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Jianqing Fan)9 U% a* T( M- l1 A' j
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10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break * L& J. i& R$ [. r8 U$ C2 T& Q; J5 [* n& k4 x) g5 W; m
10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session IV : `6 L/ U/ f# Z9 T9 W1 k: f$ ~
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A (Chair: Rui Pan):) ^- R/ x- @/ e( f( n2 p0 w
10:15 – 10:45 TBA ; ^( h- W+ k, m L4 cJun Shao 1 _4 y$ n/ C! V# ~# U) V
10:45 – 11:15 On choosing the size of data perturbation in adaptive model selection via penalization! P) J1 a2 w" y5 M+ h* \) G3 F
Hung Chen* z: v! C$ I7 q; ^8 w5 O) I# \ Y" ?
11:15 – 11:45 Determining probability of germline mutations in family-based sequencing studies" P) `! n1 [# c7 S- t1 \
Wenyi Wang 3 {- q0 S- n0 Y& O11:45 – 12:15 Nonparametric Inference of Hemodynamic Response for fMRI data with Inhomogeneous Variances through Kernel Smoothing+ g, ?7 b( F+ b( K. y
Tingting Zhang ) M9 p) p- ?$ ?0 Y1 E0 e G% S. S3 n6 o0 _3 C; @
B (Chair: Wenbao Yu):2 @2 f* c, c# q4 t
10:15 – 10:45 Generalized Measures of Correlation for Asymmetry, Nonlinearity in Economic Study and Beyond 6 i. |+ M# ~7 @' ?* }Zhengjun Zhang8 J: k/ j0 J, U3 f
10:45 – 11:15 Model Selection Principles in Misspecified Models , L) y7 O9 V8 W- DJinchi Lv 5 M. G" M: n, V# e8 L ?8 W# Y11:15 – 11:45 Statistical Analysis and Inference for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data1 @- d- }8 l5 p2 ~. a1 g! D
Chunming Zhang , v B, g& ?9 H n' U, r11:45 – 12:15 Analysis of Zero-Inflated Count Data from an In Vivo Genotoxicity Test 0 B! D: \5 r+ [7 @" H+ n7 e) ]Susan Portugal & y5 c+ f7 X% x0 R$ s9 i2 L / s! c- e9 i' h& a8 r H12:15 Lunch3 d }) O! C D1 Y8 P$ O* n4 O
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2:00 – 4:30 Parallel session V % w W% C0 s" U, q/ `0 W: z. y 0 g& A) A0 L/ r9 M: M6 G0 B9 l$ hA (Chair: Mingche Su): 8 q$ D5 k# o: M* p# ]+ v2:00 – 2:00 Quantile Regression for Analyzing Heterogeneity in Ultra-high Dimension 8 p& H- O5 U ^5 }6 d4 TRunze Li# A" G/ _4 Z: u4 T5 j, {
2:30 – 3:00 High Dimensional Multinomial Clustering " S5 Y" B: e* ? {2 lJin Cao! u3 J- z0 M$ p! i
3:00 – 3:30 Detecting Subclusters in Outliers ' J" `* G W4 J5 q7 M5 f; c
Dongseok Choi" p' {" L, o3 R. P1 Y
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 # h8 g, d& a8 b; K2 XChengwu Yang ; I+ p, Y/ {+ j, x7 P4:00 – 4:30 Improve estimation efficiency of marginal proportional hazards model by a partitioning method: R% s L" d) X0 p+ n6 N9 ^
Wenjun Cui0 y7 t+ L; J8 Y, F) n
4:30 – 5:00 Bayesian Multivariate Ordinal Probit Analysis of China's Consumer Confidence Index Data ; k ]5 x" W$ Z( C, }Junni Zhang % o0 z+ X; \0 S4 J6 @' [6 c, `. D8 q2 K1 f- O
B (Chair: Yuxiang Liu): 4 S# H: ^+ C; _( m2:00 – 2:00 Functional Additive Regression ( S9 X" \( w# o5 }; e( \" [Yingying Fan' |: p6 K9 @2 ?, R
2:30 – 3:00 Robust empirical Bayes inference by conditioning on rank with application to microarray data 1 G0 I2 L1 Y; kJason Liao * a* N; P/ r7 R- y' B0 u% L8 U2 A0 R3:00 – 3:30 Estimation for the Single-index Models with Random Effects) F0 H' n+ ^0 }2 r6 }
Zhen Pang ' t1 K& Y: r( H) h% O! i, ]3:30 – 4:00 Nonlinear time series 0 g4 \9 A; S: h! R" F
Fuxia Cheng 9 {* y; M# N, s; B5 U: G; @% @' d4:00 – 4:30 Jackknife empirical likelihood methods for risk measures and related quantities7 e- V% k6 b9 W0 l! b
Ruodu Wang 0 C$ ]4 d+ g9 p; s9 a) Z8 [1 ~( |% _6 B
5:00 Banquet : U0 S; `9 C: g 2 Z8 T: y' Q! R 0 r2 H) F( F) `% k