The First Wu Xi International Statistics Forum ) I1 F/ Y! \; g+ k( |7 b- dJuly 17-19, 2011 ( }7 E2 d" r: K# V4 d6 s4 pHubin Hotel, Wu Xi, China$ _4 d* L. v3 H) m
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Conference Program 1 D+ t* [* F! j8 {+ wSunday, July 17th 0 ~% K* o! A$ [2 Q1 Y& w4 f , R: M7 {# N( M0 J" M$ x10:00 – 10:10 Opening remark (Jun Liu) 1 K7 R$ V2 @1 p, O/ q- _0 z3 N10:10 – 10:20 Official remark% a0 J8 S% h. |
10:20 – 10:30 Introduction to plenary speaker (Jun Liu) . | W m; D0 r. s6 m10:30 – 11:30 Plenary Speech (Don Rubin)4 B9 x! b$ {# @, V
3 x* r( T3 a/ ?9 w: l8 R9 W5 v11:30 Lunch 4 n8 S7 O+ O, _ q. o ) V2 O3 d, Y, f4 z7 l1:00 – 3:00 Parallel session I $ `6 ^( o! b+ M2 s: k' |
1 f% E, f, q7 E: u+ cA (Chair: Min Tang):7 T6 u/ W* _4 J3 V$ V# Y
1:00 – 1:30 Adaptive Score Test for the Effects of Genetic Marker Sets 1 G/ g! m2 F/ m3 w1 `( U7 OXihong Lin ( z- Y$ E9 ~/ ~8 n2 v) p1 u& u0 b1:30 – 2:00 On computation with the accelerated failure time model $ m0 v2 j. P+ q0 ?3 EYijian Huang8 v0 E5 c' k5 b1 S! _
2:00 – 2:30 A Rank-Based Test for the Comparison of Multidimensional Outcomes& G3 r! y& a3 A( i% `7 o
Kai Fun Yu5 E: E+ y' f6 u) Q( n; L
2:30 – 3:00 Extending the Scope of Partial F-Test to High Dimensional Data 5 X* z4 c/ ]9 X5 s$ Q C# ?Hansheng Wang # \8 M, d9 h8 s 9 }0 n1 U$ G- R6 |2 I4 oB (Chair: Jin Yong): . K" ^' P9 h% w6 K1:00 – 1:30 TBA) K$ l+ J; K! C) @3 Q( b' O
Ying Yang% s! O4 \8 l& O+ O
1:30 – 2:00 Bayesian analysis of generalized semiparametric linear mixed models using the Dirichlet process prior and P-spline) }, P r& }. {# }- C+ q3 `( }# O
Niansheng Tang+ b& ~5 Y3 w! X
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) X& w$ d! B a
Yihui Luan 9 `2 z+ Q5 K# L W8 }- |) o2:30 – 3:00 Structural dimensional reduction for high-dimensional data analysis0 f. K o/ i. C
Jianhua Guo) k; }) L8 L3 o- i
3:00 – 3:15 Tea break $ E, @5 ~3 o. P; `$ ^$ h* e ( G# |' \5 \! s& f% }% z+ Z$ A ! p) f. X- [; e4 f `4 i5 ~, V/ K' U6 J- d# n7 K2 p, ]& l
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Sunday, July 17th0 z! ]8 h; \* b G# r- U2 J
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3: 15 – 5:15 Parallel session II( V7 |+ Y Q6 S
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3:15 – 3:45 Genomic and Epigenomic Profiling to Understand Disease Risks 3 R4 U' m: B' oXiaole Liu 7 V9 J# K& O ~3:45 – 4:15 TBA . ^' ]4 p! ?( }# SXuegong Zhang o4 x0 z4 z2 \& G' G, A* @4:15 – 4:45 Combining Exploration and Exploitation Strategies in Adaptive MCMC for Bayesian Inference0 j& V8 x( h3 R+ x; v% R6 u
Scott Schmidler * P, H6 I3 H K! w; [4:45 – 5:15 A Bayesian clustering approach for partitioning the conformational space of biomolecules5 w% b4 H- P* T8 |4 C
Xiaodan Fan$ m2 I' D- R+ Y/ g# S
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B (Chair: Wei Lan):) q. d) t* E0 E* {
3:15 – 3:45 TBA / _; I# Y, C& p6 S+ P# l/ `& h+ oLijian Yang+ {3 s; ]! M( Z
3:45 – 4:15 Instability of Predictability of Asset Returns " z- l: q b' G# ~7 H9 AZongwu Cai ! d; B' [9 X$ l5 t4:15 – 4:45 Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Method for Copulas + w' ~ g7 z+ p$ iYongcheng Qi : \! }0 o$ h7 d$ B5 X4:45 – 5:15 Interval estimation for the tail index of a GARCH(1,1) model % B% n) U: e. c8 L, ~, ]2 Q2 i NLiang Peng $ i, D: R$ p: E0 h3 F) _& }: N* q% }- G7 ?
5:30 – 8:00 Poster session and light refreshment ' _ H' T3 u- H7 C ) `- r( }. T; m+ J3 s4 J7 d. a! q+ n; o* q# c% K6 X0 z, J7 c! ]# q: j+ m* y6 ^
6 m7 U* B: ^4 G5 A9 j( v# bMonday, July 18th % \/ M1 r: r& F! j2 }4 [- n " S$ e/ C+ L- Z& K8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Sam Kou) J2 F% Z3 G! W) f9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Brad Efron)' X9 R2 {, M k# x% P
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10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break2 J. C" s7 b/ ?* S r) g
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10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session III - W: X! Q7 z7 g- R
1 K' q. V1 l- o- X: Y* ~0 X- R; ]A (Chair: Mengyang Gu): " E5 c) |# d0 e5 m3 i" A8 L w10:15 – 10:45 Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models ' n. g; o' v8 N" n, P2 SSamuel Kou ; t0 R# F" i( l2 ~10:45 – 11:15 Subsampling for Feature Selection+ S* A1 @- \$ } ?$ e
Jiayang Sun % |, P2 r9 j# z/ w11:15 – 11:45 On Hierarchical Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Social Network Analysis0 y r% _9 U8 L' a( B7 W1 A
Chunlin Ji ; C/ z) g0 W- w: q# Q1 d4 {7 Q" B11:45 – 12:15 Penalized Least Squares Estimation with Weakly Dependent Data 2 r! s5 D( x) u. h" H3 m& ?Xin Tong 1 a) o3 g: x/ H& a; O2 U12:15 – 12:45 TBA 4 \; S7 Q; g4 N6 J. B) tMin Chen 5 `( d+ d0 ?7 X# t6 z8 B( u+ B8 S9 r
B (Chair: Hirose Yoshihiro):- B" G: I* C) B6 V$ T6 X0 A( m5 }8 `
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 mapping ( W$ R7 J! p/ ?* _9 lHao Li % V0 s' r7 A% o- I( S. i8 B* S/ k10:45 – 11:15 TBA 4 ~7 q9 p1 y; X1 DEdoardo Airioli% O) \8 D2 U( x x% g7 C/ o, y
11:15 – 11:45 TBA : K: c0 [4 s7 n8 K$ b5 {' s' H$ S, rYixue Li/ @! n; a; X/ m( p- w
11:45 – 12:15 Statistical modeling of RNA-Seq data % v6 x. g0 q% _: S4 Z$ r3 V! A) i U6 bWenxuan Zhong h. C* B/ _/ v6 |- d: p
12:15 – 12:45 Generalized Semiparametric Regression Models with Smooth Variance Function, with Application to Medical Cost Data/ ^" z* g- q2 _7 g. s
Jinsong Chen ) S- x+ I9 I; ]/ G/ r4 i! B' s( ]
12:45 Lunch # H+ I/ `% V0 Q' p- t 7 X* z& T9 o, _/ v- D. b& q. P2:00 Excursion& V9 l! E* ~$ x6 S5 D
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* ]4 ]7 ~# r3 h& nTuesday July 19th! ~' K! k8 I9 [, s1 V( Q2 f
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8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Steve Qin) 4 x3 y S7 S5 `: ? w% ^; p
9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Jianqing Fan) $ I: Y- c3 j+ G% l( I$ ^3 W% D7 }* l) K7 ]
10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break " f9 T; s' Y" n( U& L 8 l# s" A& q. b, ]' u( x; F1 t( e10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session IV 3 \9 m" W, w) P3 a2 { d* G" ?0 o/ n
A (Chair: Rui Pan):4 C n [- w" |+ I; p
10:15 – 10:45 TBA 0 \: H; l6 `% @9 W# ^9 e/ [3 BJun Shao + m1 F9 h- E* r0 r9 p10:45 – 11:15 On choosing the size of data perturbation in adaptive model selection via penalization$ `, A1 D8 \2 f/ o
Hung Chen" [- f$ i! r* o: f l- H7 A
11:15 – 11:45 Determining probability of germline mutations in family-based sequencing studies$ Q1 r1 y& M! x+ ]0 g- ~1 c5 R
Wenyi Wang ( ?1 F+ R$ ^1 m3 O; p
11:45 – 12:15 Nonparametric Inference of Hemodynamic Response for fMRI data with Inhomogeneous Variances through Kernel Smoothing5 _# [ j+ D5 b% I; S, r6 j4 x
Tingting Zhang + `* e b8 T$ \5 k- Z) C " ?" D7 V/ V, i* T9 x( h$ @% c' C; K2 AB (Chair: Wenbao Yu): 0 O# L$ |; Z+ m! w- D) c10:15 – 10:45 Generalized Measures of Correlation for Asymmetry, Nonlinearity in Economic Study and Beyond" ?! f5 S ]/ T# A( d
Zhengjun Zhang ) Y+ N4 M: w& q. E l9 G10:45 – 11:15 Model Selection Principles in Misspecified Models6 g# ~5 U- ?1 \0 `' C+ g) U$ v
Jinchi Lv + Q" Z# M# C2 B9 L11:15 – 11:45 Statistical Analysis and Inference for Diffusion Tensor Imaging Data) I0 k+ V) n* x! @5 k+ ?
Chunming Zhang " p+ y4 Z( a$ h2 v% r+ ^11:45 – 12:15 Analysis of Zero-Inflated Count Data from an In Vivo Genotoxicity Test " n$ C v# Q5 _ _4 k1 M" p$ kSusan Portugal % B- C1 P9 U& ]# _* k + h1 B k8 [3 n8 o7 [' \12:15 Lunch 5 M `$ n* ?$ t4 k 2 T" \; ]. u O' i: S7 O `' A+ s 0 z N' Q. V0 p3 e. B
Tuesday July 19th( w: j9 c: ]. \& f( c9 C
0 ^% I3 O( M2 \ _7 M, w2:00 – 4:30 Parallel session V % E5 u2 p, Z; \
/ T* G5 v* h. W; l n8 ~+ T; S7 zA (Chair: Mingche Su): : l' {; c2 ]$ O: g! F2:00 – 2:00 Quantile Regression for Analyzing Heterogeneity in Ultra-high Dimension % k! ~/ t& n( v0 WRunze Li # N3 H, x, R8 I( X0 {' W( [* `2:30 – 3:00 High Dimensional Multinomial Clustering; D2 m# r P, ?. f0 N: n
Jin Cao . U7 B2 c, T5 {3:00 – 3:30 Detecting Subclusters in Outliers + t! W! R0 e4 rDongseok Choi2 o3 x7 |- d% J7 G
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 , t! j: C* B" H+ K6 F' }: ^Chengwu Yang% x4 n# U) H; ~8 Z, K
4:00 – 4:30 Improve estimation efficiency of marginal proportional hazards model by a partitioning method + s6 V0 b* z/ i* E* j \Wenjun Cui 4 q4 u) S9 \3 v9 W8 n9 S8 x+ ~4:30 – 5:00 Bayesian Multivariate Ordinal Probit Analysis of China's Consumer Confidence Index Data 5 t! J: S" z, R1 tJunni Zhang- ]! ^4 H, A4 N. [+ M4 T3 W1 c% E
% W' s B7 c( WB (Chair: Yuxiang Liu): : ^/ {* T, G! m) n7 n V: n2:00 – 2:00 Functional Additive Regression! U6 S8 a2 W3 k d% V
Yingying Fan # l8 e5 n1 M0 s4 W2:30 – 3:00 Robust empirical Bayes inference by conditioning on rank with application to microarray data; _+ @% d- E% z( J2 E% F
Jason Liao # P, Z' Z0 ^. x, {' |3:00 – 3:30 Estimation for the Single-index Models with Random Effects : j- b+ s' a6 \) `0 jZhen Pang. [! B% x( ?; K* T3 ?! I
3:30 – 4:00 Nonlinear time series $ s8 T/ G) ]! C5 dFuxia Cheng& A0 o) O3 ` E
4:00 – 4:30 Jackknife empirical likelihood methods for risk measures and related quantities4 u4 x% h* ?% l( O4 Q/ j
Ruodu Wang, z& W: c' H& P9 `