The First Wu Xi International Statistics Forum # Q5 P/ v+ D5 I) N nJuly 17-19, 2011- f" _$ z9 _) n5 M# u0 b3 i
Hubin Hotel, Wu Xi, China 2 C0 _' p0 B) ]' M Z1 s- F" v8 w" {0 N: l" V
Conference Program C; K* T6 X6 q1 z- C i' i: iSunday, July 17th % @& C, X! y- i2 n7 X7 \4 N8 a5 G" I! i' j# z; `$ d
10:00 – 10:10 Opening remark (Jun Liu)" T/ Q; s* v% o! e3 V
10:10 – 10:20 Official remark) i. o/ [( u( Q9 b/ [6 N/ o+ ^& p3 ~' Z
10:20 – 10:30 Introduction to plenary speaker (Jun Liu) * f2 W$ N# L0 V0 u
10:30 – 11:30 Plenary Speech (Don Rubin): W2 [% l( Z* s! P V
( D3 R. L. `. [ E9 s/ Z9 y11:30 Lunch1 \. j U$ \1 f5 C7 l# u9 d
2 T9 G# K3 F9 z7 S, w. g1:00 – 3:00 Parallel session I % u% L, R/ u6 W7 q" I
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A (Chair: Min Tang):! }, x$ e3 D7 e" B
1:00 – 1:30 Adaptive Score Test for the Effects of Genetic Marker Sets 0 M( K5 s, [( _/ }. \
Xihong Lin / P" W$ o" F% F+ f1:30 – 2:00 On computation with the accelerated failure time model : a9 K5 O( \ E' ~* k* uYijian Huang9 Q$ R& z; r. c5 A4 d
2:00 – 2:30 A Rank-Based Test for the Comparison of Multidimensional Outcomes, z8 @* I' J$ {; f
Kai Fun Yu7 b- P6 a+ S0 x3 S& I6 r# s* t/ K
2:30 – 3:00 Extending the Scope of Partial F-Test to High Dimensional Data9 F! B$ p- t* ?: g8 D
Hansheng Wang 1 M4 d! h* I/ C7 `& f2 b p! n, t) R; k- ~
B (Chair: Jin Yong): ' b- h; m: j( |5 W& G1:00 – 1:30 TBA& W" {$ V% G; Y3 N( e! k7 C
Ying Yang `' [3 l$ j0 h* [' c. S# [: K1:30 – 2:00 Bayesian analysis of generalized semiparametric linear mixed models using the Dirichlet process prior and P-spline+ `$ _# @; r* Q
Niansheng Tang) q; M4 r( ?6 B0 E+ U
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 : Z, C" G" J9 tYihui Luan 9 H" r! H, C4 n- |/ v2:30 – 3:00 Structural dimensional reduction for high-dimensional data analysis# ?6 q, k& {% b7 x: f z
Jianhua Guo& M, v8 }5 G! d4 k# I. c& {5 Q$ @
3:00 – 3:15 Tea break " B& t) r% i# ~1 K/ o& i5 F 0 R& z+ a% P+ t( h4 q& }# R+ `# \8 F" W
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7 m i$ v4 n2 H' f% v- x+ RSunday, July 17th8 r0 L$ L" M6 x' }5 m# y
: V6 B W9 `0 U" e3: 15 – 5:15 Parallel session II) e2 \1 A* V; l
9 |8 w* T7 V. k; C2 ?9 c- h: T gA (Chair: Fangzhou Yao):' _5 n" t( p+ x5 A. |' O% w3 W
3:15 – 3:45 Genomic and Epigenomic Profiling to Understand Disease Risks * J) n; J9 u4 f3 ~Xiaole Liu9 N& o1 C9 G( Z* {+ ]
3:45 – 4:15 TBA7 |% v; b) g; o+ a* M
Xuegong Zhang : C9 r* Z# G. R: Q4:15 – 4:45 Combining Exploration and Exploitation Strategies in Adaptive MCMC for Bayesian Inference 4 }% s/ G) p& x, i7 l# fScott Schmidler" P% n, I/ o8 x+ N' @- P" u
4:45 – 5:15 A Bayesian clustering approach for partitioning the conformational space of biomolecules8 Q1 p" F( ?: X
Xiaodan Fan 9 U2 {( c) u1 ]$ B! |9 B. l$ z" E) q5 d1 ] V$ n' e. F; h
B (Chair: Wei Lan): , |( b3 \+ X, y/ b# R$ Z8 i: b3:15 – 3:45 TBA3 m& ~. E/ e8 U& Z) o7 r- O
Lijian Yang p" }, P3 V$ L0 X9 T
3:45 – 4:15 Instability of Predictability of Asset Returns- D- t+ o3 o* N3 \, c
Zongwu Cai 6 J9 j; o5 A1 q' Q% Z o! f4:15 – 4:45 Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Method for Copulas $ x* F. @" N# x( M0 c7 l: lYongcheng Qi+ e( e# a# {$ T' o
4:45 – 5:15 Interval estimation for the tail index of a GARCH(1,1) model! S3 e* [ _3 k! x- i* C9 s# ^6 B _, ] |
Liang Peng9 ?) c2 u5 x% |8 f- W" V
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5:30 – 8:00 Poster session and light refreshment1 l/ E- I4 L' z, |6 H& [1 v- O; T
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Monday, July 18th+ a1 l- @1 R" U" t, a
9 d# |8 ~7 m5 a5 C! V5 X# n4 Y, M8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Sam Kou) & A) x8 t5 H: @# j6 `. }9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Brad Efron) 2 S% h0 N0 N! ] H- r0 \6 d& K ( W5 l3 E' g& Q, m: \6 ~) k% i10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break 6 d y& Y) X1 o, M% |7 D # X! p: ]& N7 f10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session III 0 J- H# T+ }2 Q/ P7 b
- ]+ a$ q; d" G, PA (Chair: Mengyang Gu):% G0 @6 x* F+ a/ j/ }2 X
10:15 – 10:45 Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models $ Y. v! Z% m, E3 P* N4 F" B g; tSamuel Kou % L6 r1 A' e9 g& D+ v5 N10:45 – 11:15 Subsampling for Feature Selection: l2 u& {5 P% d* M
Jiayang Sun, ^1 w T4 ?1 ^0 M! @0 A2 W- t# d& {
11:15 – 11:45 On Hierarchical Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Social Network Analysis 8 P9 R$ d: }* e" [* n7 y& H# u& kChunlin Ji6 o; q* d9 _- X: e, U7 L
11:45 – 12:15 Penalized Least Squares Estimation with Weakly Dependent Data " `3 @/ u* v( F, FXin Tong : q7 X! Q8 f c% O8 V4 p3 l i12:15 – 12:45 TBA " o* g: j: @9 r: gMin Chen ~( ?) t6 _$ ?& n& X
9 h) \7 t; B# SB (Chair: Hirose Yoshihiro):& ]8 s, @* J/ Z) W; g
10:15 – 10:45 Identification of candidate causal genes in complex diseases through an integrated analysis of genome-wide association study and expression quantitative trait locus mapping7 }! w7 S, b% O; W$ {; f% w
Hao Li + Y$ }5 |# ^" Z6 P, }- N10:45 – 11:15 TBA' }* i- n# P- V0 T/ }2 d1 x
Edoardo Airioli1 D9 {, m8 [, [
11:15 – 11:45 TBA1 r6 W" N8 k- t7 D
Yixue Li: N0 X; e; q$ Y2 S$ c9 G( X- A) O5 a
11:45 – 12:15 Statistical modeling of RNA-Seq data h9 i! k2 o) _2 P& x7 A% ^
Wenxuan Zhong5 j( ` y6 C4 ]1 A' x
12:15 – 12:45 Generalized Semiparametric Regression Models with Smooth Variance Function, with Application to Medical Cost Data 5 {7 {; y5 o; C0 c0 e. Q8 s/ i6 iJinsong Chen 3 S) |" ?1 y- R% n9 y4 I3 `0 e6 u% a/ w( W
12:45 Lunch t5 Q! ?& @4 L* ]6 Y
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Tuesday July 19th $ O: } s( r. f. f( c7 `9 D( v7 d* I
8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Steve Qin) 2 Q) I8 U0 a3 h! v" P9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Jianqing Fan) + }9 u7 ^: E% p8 n* G, G, d$ u0 v& Q. H
10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break 2 c6 \# @, a* K, f, m2 `0 Z2 c; S ) R% n G( d1 u$ y6 E. t1 N10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session IV . D. [: H. H8 _4 X* n/ y% l % g) q+ \( W5 c. JA (Chair: Rui Pan):8 U. g) B& y3 K' }9 F- v
10:15 – 10:45 TBA5 D3 o- e4 y2 w" ^" _3 G& h+ r, I! g
Jun Shao , [7 Z. F% [% [6 Y
10:45 – 11:15 On choosing the size of data perturbation in adaptive model selection via penalization; Q* F# Z0 s2 j( G
Hung Chen * i P9 O6 ^9 W) A11:15 – 11:45 Determining probability of germline mutations in family-based sequencing studies1 H$ y; Y& A/ b1 ` g6 ~6 a+ Y
Wenyi Wang t5 b0 J0 b( r$ |0 l9 \# q: }
11:45 – 12:15 Nonparametric Inference of Hemodynamic Response for fMRI data with Inhomogeneous Variances through Kernel Smoothing* ?5 G+ O6 r! K# \1 ^
Tingting Zhang4 P9 }; T+ b5 W
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B (Chair: Wenbao Yu):3 v4 t: ~0 o- b' l8 h$ a4 R9 }9 [
10:15 – 10:45 Generalized Measures of Correlation for Asymmetry, Nonlinearity in Economic Study and Beyond+ c4 P1 B+ P: t K% K
Zhengjun Zhang3 j4 a8 j& z- R: {( f- c% A8 B
10:45 – 11:15 Model Selection Principles in Misspecified Models8 [0 u- M; c- L8 }& q
Jinchi Lv2 G! N0 o( V; {: T, {
11:15 – 11:45 Statistical Analysis and Inference for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data 9 D& t) B, n# C3 KChunming Zhang8 M; P6 E1 _. d
11:45 – 12:15 Analysis of Zero-Inflated Count Data from an In Vivo Genotoxicity Test ' ^9 ^2 d T: N( z5 P2 P `$ P
Susan Portugal0 }0 s, w4 B, ^+ @5 c
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' f0 L5 l) y. T6 O$ _Tuesday July 19th) |5 m% F) \) K8 O5 m) l4 G) u( F/ K
1 h1 ]* ~6 c. _3 j2:00 – 4:30 Parallel session V , c# Y- c2 k* ]. ~8 V% a. [' `" `" J6 \! _# l
A (Chair: Mingche Su): " u' D! r5 |3 V" o7 W# s8 C2:00 – 2:00 Quantile Regression for Analyzing Heterogeneity in Ultra-high Dimension4 f- u4 L- B; W% m4 h! Z" J! m# S' X9 X
Runze Li , Q4 k @* C, S+ |0 u2:30 – 3:00 High Dimensional Multinomial Clustering; C5 _/ t- S7 d% o* q: n# r
Jin Cao& b4 n/ R8 D6 _' U* \0 `
3:00 – 3:30 Detecting Subclusters in Outliers % R: C& u6 C T. @) L! oDongseok Choi# E* E A7 n5 i8 Q1 r0 e
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+ c2 V$ B; ^: M* h
Chengwu Yang6 Y1 b% S! A7 _% _: B+ R
4:00 – 4:30 Improve estimation efficiency of marginal proportional hazards model by a partitioning method 9 {. }# m% Y* k0 r/ i- b7 nWenjun Cui / g$ r; u3 F; d4:30 – 5:00 Bayesian Multivariate Ordinal Probit Analysis of China's Consumer Confidence Index Data ! w2 W, Q! O! S P* W. `- x. xJunni Zhang' M$ w6 U! c8 @8 {) \$ }4 D$ O, J
' {$ V5 i7 w2 g- K# X/ H! NB (Chair: Yuxiang Liu): : T; F. ^& P& N e6 B2:00 – 2:00 Functional Additive Regression: `7 s3 }( C1 t+ }7 X: v
Yingying Fan ( D$ R" v; q4 A/ t. ~2:30 – 3:00 Robust empirical Bayes inference by conditioning on rank with application to microarray data + ]- l' Z, |# t# s# l/ h3 LJason Liao7 _; J) l( c- }6 u. D- {; z
3:00 – 3:30 Estimation for the Single-index Models with Random Effects$ d5 X! {* {$ x) z# q: H
Zhen Pang ; I7 k4 y& |4 I7 J# [ U7 l; ~3:30 – 4:00 Nonlinear time series ) D' U( e+ D" I) R9 UFuxia Cheng 7 I0 d2 ^7 ? v0 L2 \; {% D9 n4:00 – 4:30 Jackknife empirical likelihood methods for risk measures and related quantities ; L3 m& @) M. R5 pRuodu Wang # `0 T4 z' O9 ?' y: { 3 ^0 h: T( j5 _5 w) E5:00 Banquet . V3 H0 V4 _4 L6 N; u% b q& c+ d. K v4 y + t* P5 Y7 m( s3 x, u+ E