The University of Maryland Math department is hosting a statistics symposium in honor of the 65th birthday
of Dr. Benjamin Kedem on July 30-31, 2009. Plenary talks will be given by
Dr. Emanuel Parzen and Dr. Peter Bloomfield. Talks will be held in Room 3206
in the Mathematics Building. Below is a tentative schedule. Please take a look
at the website for the symposium at http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~martin/symposium.html
for more information registration, hotel accommodations, meals, etc.
Registration is free for students. Hope you will plan on attending.
Agenda
for Symposium in Honor of Benjamin Kedem
3206
Math Department
Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology
University of Maryland, College Park
(subject to change
over the next few weeks)
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Thursday, July 30 |
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7:45 am |
Registration |
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8:20 am |
Introductory Remarks |
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8:30 am |
Emanuel Parzen -- United Applicable Statistics: Mid-distribution,
Mid- quantile, Mid p Confidence Intervals
Proportion p |
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9:30 am |
Break |
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Session
Chair: Victor De Oliviera |
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10:00 am |
Kostos Fokianos -- Linear and Loglinear
Poisson Autoregression |
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10:40 am |
Ta-Hsin Li -- LaPlace Periodogram and Beyond |
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11:20 am |
Anastasia Voulgaraki -- Estimation of Death Rates in U.S. States with
Small Subpopulations |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch |
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Session
Chair: Harry Pavlopolous |
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2:00 pm |
Neal Jeffries -- Odds Ratio Bias in Case-Control Studies Using
Robust Genetic Models |
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2:40 pm |
Jing Qin -- Statistical Methods for Analyzing Right-Censored
Length-Biased Data under Cox Model |
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3:20 pm |
James Troendle -- Empirical Likelihood and the Nonparametric
Behrens-Fisher Problem |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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7:00 pm |
Banquet at Holiday Inn, College
Park |
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Friday, July 31 |
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8:30 am |
Peter Bloomfield -- TBD |
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9:30 am |
Break |
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Session
Chair: James Troendle |
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10:00 am |
Victor De Oliviera -- Optimal Predictive Inference in Log-Gaussian
Random Fields |
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10:40 am |
Gerald North -- A Tale about Hockey Sticks |
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11:20 am |
Harry Pavlopolous -- Introducing a Fractional Integer-valued
Autoregressive Model for Time Series of Counts |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch |
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Session
Chair: Kostos Fokianos |
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2:00 pm |
Andrey Feuerverger -- TBD |
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2:40 pm |
Donald Martin -- Distribution of Statistics of Hidden State
Sequences Through the Sum-Product Algorithm |
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3:20 pm |
Ritaja Sur --
Classification of Eye Movement Data |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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