Emanuel Parzen memorial session

Organizer: Soumen Lahiri, North Carolina State University
Chair: Soumen Lahiri, North Carolina State University
Time: Saturday, 14:30–16:00
Room: LInC 228

14:30-15:15

Applications of Distance Correlation to Time Series

Richard Davis, Columbia University

15:15-16:00

Nonparametric Data Science

Deep Mukhopadhyay, Temple University

Recent Advances in Dimensionality Reduction

Organizer: Yoonkyung Lee, Ohio State University
Chair: Wenbo Wu, University of Oregon
Time: Saturday, 14:30–16:00
Room: LInC 302

14:30-15:00

Selecting the number of principal components: estimation of the true rank of a noisy matrix

Yunjin Choi, Stanford University

15:00-15:30

Supervised Dimensionality Reduction for Exponential Family Data with an Application to Electronic Health Records

Andrew Landgraf, Battelle Memorial Institute

15:30-16:00

Informative predictor subspace: Construction and estimation

Jae Keun (Peter) Yoo, Ewha Womans University, Korea

Shape Constrained Inference II

Organizer: Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
Chair: Adityanand Guntuboyina, University of California, Berkeley
Time: Saturday, 14:30–16:00
Room: LInC 268

14:30-15:00

Denoising Flows on Trees

Sabyasachi Chatterjee, University of Chicago

15:00-15:30

Effective Dose estimation via Single Index Models

Hanna  Jankowski, York University

15:30-16:00

On Multivariate Convex Regression

Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University

Statistics in Climate Sciences

Organizer: Ansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota
Chair: Somak Dutta, Iowa State University
Time: Saturday, 14:30–16:00
Room: LInC 314

14:30-15:00

A Bayesian model for forecasting precipitation extremes under climate change

Evan Kodra, risQ Inc

15:00-15:30

Compression and Conditional Emulation of Climate Model Output

Dorit Hammerling, NCAR

15:30-16:00

On a resampling-based method for evaluating climate model outputs

Ansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota

Variable Selection Approaches and Applications in Public Health

Organizer: Saonli Basu, University of Minnesota
Chair: Saonli Basu, University of Minnesota
Time: Saturday, 14:30–16:00
Room: LInC 368

14:30-15:00

Conditional Screening for Ultra-high Dimensional Covariates with Survival Outcomes

Hyokyoung Grace Hong, Michigan State University

15:00-15:30

Variable selection for genetic data in the presence of hierarchical structure

Lin Zhang, University of Minnesota

15:30-16:00

A Composite Group Penalization for Grouped Variable Selection with Prior Information

Yuan Jiang, Oregon State University

Recent statistical advances in genetic mapping of complex traits

Organizer: Duo Jiang, Oregon State University
Chair: Duo Jiang, Oregon State University
Time: Saturday, 14:30–16:00
Room: LInC 210

14:30-15:00

Statistical Methods for Testing Cross-Phenotype Effects of Rare Variants

Michael Epstein, Emory University

15:00-15:30

A Unified Framework for Variance Component Estimation with Summary Statistics in Genome-wide Association Studies

Xiang Zhou, University of Michigan

15:30-16:00

Association test across multiple traits

Baolin Wu, University of Minnesota

Statistical Challenges in Clinical Trial: Trend and Innovation

Organizer: Satrajit Roychoudhury, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Chair: Satrajit Roychoudhury, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Time: Saturday, 14:30–16:00
Room: LInC 345

14:30-15:00

Impact of Adaptive Design on Pharmaceutical Portfolio Optimization

Zoran Antonijevic, Amgen, Inc.

15:00-15:30

Using Power Contours to Assess the Sensitivity of Clinical Trial Design Assumptions

Richard Zink, JMP Life Sciences, SAS Institute

15:30-16:00

Improved group sequential clinical trial designs when comparing two interventions using two time-event outcomes

Toshimitsu Hamasaki, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center

Inference from regression models

Organizer: N. Rao Chaganty, Old Dominion University
Chair: Joyee Ghosh, University of Iowa
Time: Saturday, 14:30–16:00
Room: LInC 350

14:30-15:00

Regression models for analyzing inflated Bivariate count data that occur in health care.

N. Rao Chaganty, Old Dominion University

15:00-15:30

Spatial Meta Kriging

Rajarshi Guhaniyogi, University of California, Santa Cruz

15:30-16:00

Model-robust Inference for Continuous Change Point Models

Youyi Fong, University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center