Multivariate methods

Organizer: Reza Modarres, George Washington University
Chair: Xiaohui Chan, Oregon State University
Time: Sunday, 10:00–11:30
Room: LInC  368


10:00-10:30

Robust goodness-of-fit tests based on the TL-moments

Osama Hussein, Alexandria University, Egypt


10:30-11:00

Poverty Index With Time Varying Consumption and Income Distributions

Krishna Kumar, Rockville-Analytics


11:00-11:30

Multidimensional Medians on the Minimal Spanning Tree

Reza Modarres, George Washington University

Some Recent Contributions in Biostatistics

Organizer: Claudio Fuentes, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University
Chair: Duo Jiang, Oregon State University
Time: Sunday, 10:00–11:30
Room: LInC 228


10:00-10:30

Bayesian Nonparametric Youden Index Regression

Adam Branscum, College of Public health and Humand Sciences, Oregon State University


10:30-11:00

Biomarker and Diagnostic Test Performance Bounds When a Gold Standard is Not Available

Sarah Emerson, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University


11:00-11:30

Marginal Likelihood Estimation of Negative Binomial Parameters with Applications to RNA-Seq Data

Claudio Fuentes, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University

Contributed session 2

Organizer: IISA
Chair: Subrata Kundu, George Washington University
Time: Sunday, 10:00–11:30
Room: LInC  350


10:00-10:15

Sensor fusion for normally distributed noise estimation by Snapshots techniques using foot and mouth diseases massive data sets in Karnataka State

Basavarajaiah DM, Veterinary College KVAFSU Hebbal, India


10:15-10:30

Partial Least Squares Regression with application in chemometric data

Basiru Yusuf, Jigawa State Polytechnic, Nigeria.


10:30-10:45

Modeling asymmetric bivariate data using mixtures of rotated copulas

Alphonce Bere, University of Venda


10:45-11:00

Consistent Modelling of Index and Volatility Derivatives with a Random Field Local Volatility Model

Boyu Wei, The University of Hong Kong


11:00-11:15

Transmuted Erlang-Truncated Exponential Distribution

Idika Okorie, University of Mancester, UK


11:15-11:30

Bayesian Regression with Errors from ESDIW Distribution

Ahmad Flaih, University of Alqadisiyah

Statistical Inference for Geometric Objects

Organizer: Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
Chair: Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
Time: Sunday, 11:30–13:00
Room: LInC 302


11:30-12:00

Asymptotic Theory for Density Ridges

Yen-Chi Chen, University of Washington


12:00-12:30

Local characterization of critical surfaces

Deniz Erdogmus, Northeastern University


12:30-13:00

Nonparametric confidence regions for level sets

Wolfgang Polonik, University of California at Davis

Inference on complex dependent data structures

Organizer: Wen (Rick) Zhou, Colorado State University
Chair: TBD
Time: Sunday, 11:30–13:00
Room: LInC 268


11:30-12:00

Piecewise Constant Models: A Tale about log n and loglog n

Fang Han, University of Washington


12:00-12:30

Two sample inference on a functional time series regression model and its application for intraday price curves

Ben Zheng, Colorado State University


12:30-13:00

Change-point detection for locally dependent data

Hao Chen, University of California, Davis

High-dimensional time series

Organizer: Ali Shojaie, University of Washington
Chair: Eric Fox, United States Environmental Protection Agency
Time: Sunday, 11:30–13:00
Room: LInC 314


11:30-12:00

Network Modeling of High-dimensional Time Series with Applications to System-wide Risk Monitoring

Sumanta Basu, Cornell University


12:00-12:30

Stochastic process modeling of spatiotemporal data, with applications in physical sciences

Adam Sykulski, University College London


12:30-13:00

Network Reconstruction From High Dimensional Ordinary Differential Equations

Ali Shojaie, University of Washington

Random Graphs and Networks

Organizer: Souvik Ghosh, LinkedIn
Chair: Srinivasan Balaji, George Washington University
Time: Sunday, 11:30–13:00
Room: LInC 368

11:30-12:00

Recommender Systems in a Network

Souvik Ghosh, LinkedIn

12:00-12:30

Regularization in Nonparametric Latent Variable Network Model Inference

Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya, Oregon State University

Speaker TBD

12:30-13:00

Time-varying networks estimation and dynamic model selection

Lan Xue, Oregon State University