The First Wu Xi International Statistics Forum + p+ s% X6 B0 E; _" c$ B; _7 [9 ]0 iJuly 17-19, 2011. H1 X8 p' c: |; Y. Q
Hubin Hotel, Wu Xi, China+ k& T: E2 ]0 Z
" X5 l+ d( a( B# M8 q: s2 RConference Program % ?4 o$ R5 U! z# G& P6 dSunday, July 17th1 L* p. i& T8 b/ v
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10:10 – 10:20 Official remark+ H& F( f2 Z( K' C9 T a; U* f+ l8 |
10:20 – 10:30 Introduction to plenary speaker (Jun Liu) ! Q$ x1 z# b9 h/ n+ e10:30 – 11:30 Plenary Speech (Don Rubin) ) D( d; x" L% H/ h9 X# R ' }1 t b/ y& {9 V( C11:30 Lunch/ L# e% k$ a" d
5 I+ S0 Y: d9 l' r/ L/ t1:00 – 3:00 Parallel session I 0 \% h& g% e3 U, P
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A (Chair: Min Tang):5 r* O8 _( n0 u2 A& Q9 a
1:00 – 1:30 Adaptive Score Test for the Effects of Genetic Marker Sets 1 N3 r( v9 ~; ?! z1 W8 Q$ j' F
Xihong Lin 3 L8 \3 H: ?: V7 w0 j; G
1:30 – 2:00 On computation with the accelerated failure time model % {& Y* l) z, x) w5 M- TYijian Huang * X. R" ]2 ^. l" q' m8 h( X: \2:00 – 2:30 A Rank-Based Test for the Comparison of Multidimensional Outcomes % S/ {1 M& G* GKai Fun Yu$ A& `) L4 W, T# ?1 j* H
2:30 – 3:00 Extending the Scope of Partial F-Test to High Dimensional Data ) B! e8 o/ ]: ^) }- M8 p. |Hansheng Wang + k- R" s) Y Z' H
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B (Chair: Jin Yong):$ X; m# g7 X8 D
1:00 – 1:30 TBA ! q" ~( S; k8 y) C6 {5 sYing Yang 4 c: `2 k5 [4 x7 y+ m' `3 f1:30 – 2:00 Bayesian analysis of generalized semiparametric linear mixed models using the Dirichlet process prior and P-spline5 Y" ^1 Z( u8 c
Niansheng Tang( l) l9 ^+ ?) T# e3 X6 e' I
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 3 b" t5 A. q& t, {$ {) X' RYihui Luan 4 o: a; A& B1 \% n( c2:30 – 3:00 Structural dimensional reduction for high-dimensional data analysis / X4 q" ?# F4 m" `9 ZJianhua Guo" U- z5 m6 u C- \& J) N+ ?
3:00 – 3:15 Tea break# ]4 y/ F' K! m( j& r: C2 l3 ?
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Sunday, July 17th 9 Z' L" f; ~, A 2 r5 v& n" }$ | f) l3: 15 – 5:15 Parallel session II 2 ^) _, h4 I5 M: _3 K: \ 4 I/ {! w9 d" C: j" E' L; |$ F9 H, sA (Chair: Fangzhou Yao): K8 [; B! }0 H/ {; P0 @- t
3:15 – 3:45 Genomic and Epigenomic Profiling to Understand Disease Risks 6 x! |+ z: L1 e3 |! TXiaole Liu 3 k% Q* e R( M8 |, |' N0 ~. _3:45 – 4:15 TBA % N' f7 U% F0 F/ y1 I' j" Y" FXuegong Zhang& r& f# c& U( v5 w
4:15 – 4:45 Combining Exploration and Exploitation Strategies in Adaptive MCMC for Bayesian Inference % R7 B- b$ T$ l; MScott Schmidler* }7 A- X: [( x6 I. S! W
4:45 – 5:15 A Bayesian clustering approach for partitioning the conformational space of biomolecules ) ]4 p9 A. D1 T' H$ b6 DXiaodan Fan ' D4 _8 Z) o$ `) T0 a% B3 F; J- ]) m4 M
B (Chair: Wei Lan):/ @2 x. m# ^9 ?4 C, b, u' A
3:15 – 3:45 TBA 9 J# [) Y* x: R* o: L2 ~+ _Lijian Yang( L2 y1 G7 l) {) g4 b
3:45 – 4:15 Instability of Predictability of Asset Returns$ T0 H x5 f" I$ m* h8 j) V; r
Zongwu Cai / E0 z: s/ u. J* P' L4:15 – 4:45 Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Method for Copulas; @6 n# e) N/ C; e
Yongcheng Qi4 V/ F! s5 h& H* N
4:45 – 5:15 Interval estimation for the tail index of a GARCH(1,1) model ) Q" a3 _" U* NLiang Peng 5 H, I; Y' Z/ k5 P. U/ s 6 a4 B" k" n& Z0 T5:30 – 8:00 Poster session and light refreshment R/ t/ v9 B# |+ A0 y$ x& ^
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1 `" N4 j0 R8 O) j 1 g( O+ v7 J% [( `8 d9 @2 U- eMonday, July 18th7 Z' |' @9 E( G& @' W
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8:50 – 9:00 Introduction to plenary speaker (Sam Kou) & Z+ ~6 r5 V: o/ M; F9:00 – 10:00 Plenary Speech (Brad Efron) 8 @- U6 y* m- D5 U9 z8 k4 @+ ]/ n+ C( o
10:00 – 10:15 Tea Break3 C. R' m# t2 u e' \0 p7 [) B. J3 ]/ ]
+ F5 [5 f8 G% L10:15 – 12:15 Parallel session III 6 _# F! O C! W; \& w9 a6 O6 J. r! t, B e$ Q8 O$ }6 L
A (Chair: Mengyang Gu): L/ x2 @1 X# n8 ]6 C0 _* W' n10:15 – 10:45 Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models " n! ` v# R) DSamuel Kou+ W( h- @- y4 q, B1 w9 x
10:45 – 11:15 Subsampling for Feature Selection + z* ^! x' q$ y. \% fJiayang Sun $ e _9 ]* X$ [+ g1 p. g6 [2 Y11:15 – 11:45 On Hierarchical Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Social Network Analysis # n, z4 \" Q' d EChunlin Ji 9 O9 `' R9 Y6 D& {11:45 – 12:15 Penalized Least Squares Estimation with Weakly Dependent Data ( @: r3 n7 {! O" M) E* _Xin Tong " t$ G7 s8 p, p: V/ f! t+ D12:15 – 12:45 TBA q0 s/ \) k* X0 d, V0 PMin Chen 2 `" E9 x( r# [* h$ K1 Z( Y2 @& U5 ^' b
B (Chair: Hirose Yoshihiro): ' U; o8 d' H4 }3 Q10:15 – 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 7 o2 E) \0 p0 J" _; y2 ?: G2 MHao Li7 w; H" X/ G% a! s
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Edoardo Airioli + J" Q3 p) p8 N9 {$ b5 c11:15 – 11:45 TBA , x* h! ]/ J+ P4 E0 L g& yYixue Li6 ^. K) M, M* O4 J- g8 `$ Q
11:45 – 12:15 Statistical modeling of RNA-Seq data 6 W1 a i" [8 Q& V }# ^Wenxuan Zhong ' z7 v2 h& q: ~" I) O7 h12:15 – 12:45 Generalized Semiparametric Regression Models with Smooth Variance Function, with Application to Medical Cost Data) w6 `" B: W# A" r" M
Jinsong Chen, [: v. _" P& ?- O+ O