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1 Program Schedule 2011 IISA Conference on Probability, Statistics, and Data Analysis April 21 24, 2011 Raleigh, NC, USA Department of Statistics Last revised on: April 18, 2011

2 2011 IISA Conference on Probability, Statistics, and Data Analysis: Program Schedule 5:30p.m. - 7:30p.m. Registration SAS Hall (2nd floor lobby) 6:00p.m. - 8:00p.m. Welcome Reception SAS Hall (2nd floor corridor) Thursday, April 21 8:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. Registration SAS Hall (2nd floor lobby) 8:00a.m. - 8:30a.m. Refreshments SAS Hall (2nd floor corridor) 8:30a.m. - 9:00a.m. Friday, April 22 Opening Ceremony SAS 2203 Chair: Peter Bloomfield, North Carolina State University H. N. Nagaraja, 2011 IISA President, Ohio State University Johnny Wynne, Dean of CALS, North Carolina State University Daniel Solomon, Dean of PAMS, North Carolina State University Ronald Wasserstein, Executive Director, American Statistical Association 2

3 Friday, April 22 9:00a.m. - 10:00a.m. Plenary Session I SAS 2203 Chair: Sujit Ghosh, North Carolina State University Comparative Effectiveness Research from a Statistician s Perspective Sally Morton, University of Pittsburgh 10:00a.m. - 10:30a.m. Refreshment Break SAS Hall (2nd floor corridor) 10:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. Exhibitors SAS :30a.m. - 12:00p.m. Special Invited Talks: Session I SAS 2203 Chair: Len Stefanski, North Carolina State University 10:30 Inference on Treatment Effects from a Randomized Clinical Trial in the Presence of Premature Treatment Discontinuation: The SYNERGY Trial Marie Davidian, North Carolina State University 11:15 Benchmarked Small Area Estimators Malay Ghosh, University of Florida Special Invited Talks: Session II SAS 1102 Chair: Howard Bondell, North Carolina State University 10:30 Nonparametric Statistics on Manifolds-By Examples and Applications Rabi Bhattacharya, University of Arizona 11:15 Bayesian Statistics in a Regulatory Environment: Innovative Statistics at the Food and Drug Administration Greg Campbell, U.S. Food and Drug Administration 3

4 Friday, April 22 I.1.1 Invited Session: Analysis of High Dimensional Data in Large-scale Genomic/Epidemiologic Studies SAS 2225 Organizer and Chair: Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan 10:30 Factor Partition Models for High-Dimensional Mixed Domain Data David Dunson, Duke University 11:00 Kernel Machine Approach to Risk Prediction with Genomewide Association Studies Tianxi Cai, Harvard University 11:30 Targeted Maximum Likelihood Based Super Learning: Assessing Effects in RCT and Observational Studies Mark van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley I.1.2 Invited Session: Random Networks and Statistical Physics Models SAS 2229 Organizer: Antar Bandyopadhyay, Indian Statistical Institute Chair: Rick Durrett, Duke University 10:30 Two Philosophies for Random Graphs and Networks: Local Weak Convergence and Scaling Limits Shankar Bhamidi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 11:00 Statistical Physics, Interpolation Method and Scaling Limits in Sparse Random Graphs David Gamarnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 11:30 On Complexity and Correctness of Bethe Approximation Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology I.1.3 Invited Session: Order Restricted Inference SAS 2235 Organizer: Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Southern Illinois University Chair: Bing Li, Pennsylvania State University 10:30 An Algorithm for Multivariate Isotonic Regression Xiaomi Hu, Wichita State University 11:00 Revisiting Constrained Parametric Regression Mary Meyer, Colorado State University 11:30 The Order-Restricted Homogeneous RC Model for Ordered Contingency Tables: Estimation and Testing for Fit Bhaskar Bhattacharya, Southern Illinois University 4

5 Friday, April 22 I.1.4 Invited Session: Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Environmental Data SAS 1216 Organizer: Sujit Sahu, University of Southampton Chair: Snigdhansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota 10:30 A Full-scale Approximation of Covariance Functions for Large Spatial Data Sets Huiyan Sang, Texas A&M University 11:00 Analysis of Sabine River Flow Data using Semiparametric Spline Modeling Soutir Bandyopadhyay, Lehigh University 11:30 Kernel Averaged Predictors for Spatio-temporal Processes Matthew Heaton, Duke University I.1.5 Invited Session: Statistics and Public Policy SAS 1108 Organizer and Chair: Tapan Nayak, George Washington University 10:30 An Early Step in Assessing an Estimate s Accuracy in the Presence of Competing Estimates Tommy Wright, U.S. Census Bureau 11:00 Development and Management of National Health Plans: Health Economics and Statistical Perspectives Pranab K. Sen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 11:30 Statistical Issues in Defense and National Security Aparna Huzurbazar, Los Alamos National Laboratory 12:00p.m. - 12:30p.m. Group Photo: At the Court of North Carolina (across the historic 1911 Building, 5 min walk from SAS Hall) 12:30p.m. - 1:30p.m. Boxed Lunch SAS :30p.m. - 3:30p.m. I.2.1 Invited Session: Random Media and Interacting Systems SAS 1102 Organizer and Chair: Sunder Sethuraman, Iowa State University 5

6 Friday, April 22 1:30 A Few Seedlings of Research Rick Durrett, Duke University 2:00 The Aldous Diffusion on Continuum Trees Soumik Pal, University of Washington 2:30 Quenched Free Energy and Large Deviations for Random Walks in Random Environments and Random Potentials Firas Rassoul-Agha, University of Utah 3:00 Non-explosiveness and Immortal Particle for a Catalytic Branching Process Min Kang, North Carolina State University I.2.2 Invited Session: Statistical Models for High Dimensional Data and Genomics SAS 2225 Organizer: Veera Baladandayuthapani, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Chair: Ana-Maria Staicu, North Carolina State University 1:30 Bayesian Hierarchical Models for RNA-Seq Data Yuan Ji, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center 2:00 Bayesian Ensemble Methods for Survival Prediction in Gene Expression Data Kim-Ahn Do, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center 2:30 Bayesian Model-based Methods for Analyzing RNA-seq Data Steve Qin, Emory University 3:00 Bayesian Hierarchical Functional Models for High-dimensional Genomics Data Veera Baladandayuthapani, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center I.2.3 Invited Session: Emerging Analytical Methods in Drug Development SAS 2229 Organizer: Amarjot Kaur, Merck Research Labs Chair: Mani Lakshminarayanan, Merck Research Laboratories 1:30 Use of Baseline Responses in 2x2 Crossover Trials Devan Mehrotra, Merck Research Laboratories 2:00 Bayesian Adaptive Design for Phase I/II Trials Yu Lou, GlaxoSmithKline 2:30 Analytical Methods for Non-Proportional Hazards Data Amarjot Kaur, Merck Research Laboratories 6

7 Friday, April 22 3:00 Likelihood Ratio Test based Methods for Signal Detection in Longitudinal Drug Safety Databases Ram Tiwari, U.S. Food and Drug Administration I.2.4 Invited Session: Small Area Estimation SAS 1216 Organizer: Partha Lahiri, University of Maryland, College Park Chair: Soutir Bandopadhyay, Lehigh University 1:30 Model Selection by Testing for the Presence of Small-Area Effects, and application to Area-Level Data Gauri Sankar Datta, University of Georgia 2:00 Estimation of Small Area Poverty Indicators Using Skew-Normal Linear Mixed Models Mamadou S. Diallo, Carleton University 2:30 The Extended Fay-Herriot model: a Nonparametric Small Area Framework Snigdhansu Chatterjee, University of Minnesota 3:00 A Bayesian Analysis of a Categorical Table with Nonignorable Nonresponse Balgobin Nandram, Worcester Polytechnic Institute I.2.5 Invited Session: Dimension Reduction and Variable/Model Selection Methods SAS 1108 Organizer and Chair: T. N. Sriram, University of Georgia 1:30 Bayesian and Non-Bayesian High Dimensional Model Selection: A Quick Survey of Basic Issues, Some Theory and Computation Jayanta K. Ghosh, Purdue University 2:00 On Hyperplane Alignment for Linear and Nonlinear Sufficient Dimension Reduction Bing Li, Pennsylvania State University 2:30 A Study of the Asymptotic Properties of the LASSO Estimator for Correlated Data Shuva Gupta, Northern Illinois University 3:00 Multivariate Association and Dimension Reduction: With an Environmental Application Ross Iaci, The College of William and Mary I.2.6 Student Paper Competition SAS

8 Friday, April 22 Organizer: N. Balakrishnan, McMaster University and N. Kannan, University of Texas, San Antonio Chair: N. Kannan, University of Texas, San Antonio 1:30 Threshold Estimation Based on a p-value Framework in Dose Response and Regression Settings Atul Mallik, University of Michigan 2:00 Nonparametric Least Squares Estimation of a Multivariate Convex Regression Function Emilio Seijo, Columbia University 2:30 Statistical Inference for Dynamic Systems Governed by Differential Equations with Applications to Toxicology Siddhartha Mandal, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 3:00 High Dimensional Classification & Variable Selection : Comparison Density Approach Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay, Texas A&M University C.1.1 Contributed Talks : Session 1 SAS 2235 Chair: Donald Martin, North Carolina State University 1:30 Adaptive Fractional Polynomial Modeling George J. Knafl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1:45 Bayesian Proportional Hazards Model for Current Status Data with Monotone Splines Bo Cai, University of South Carolina 2:00 Modeling and Forecasting Malaria and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever Incidence and Prevalence in Northern Thailand Wattanavadee Sriwattanapongse, Chiangmai University 2:15 On the Determination of Optimal Manpower Reserve at Three Nodes in Series Ramaiyan Elangovan, Annamalai University 2:30 Pitman Closest Estimators Based on Convex Linear Combinations of Two Order Statistics Katherine Davis, University of Manitoba 2:45 Submodel Selection in Linear Regression Kashid D. N., Shivaji University 3:00 A Control Chart for Multivariate Autoregressive Processes A. A. Kalgonda, The New College, Kolhapur (Affiliated to Shivaji University, Kolhapur), India 8

9 Friday, April 22 3:15 Bivariate Zero Inflated Power Series Distribution, M. K. Patil, PVP Mahavidyala, India 3:30p.m. - 4:00p.m. Refreshment Break SAS Hall (2nd floor corridor) 4:00p.m. - 6:00p.m. I.3.1 Invited Session: Recent Advances in Empirical Likelihood and Resampling Methods SAS 2225 Organizer: Sanjay Chaudhury, National University of Singapore Chair: Arindam Chatterjee, Indian Statistical Institute 4:00 An Empirical Likelihood Approach To Goodness of Fit Testing Anton Schick, Binghamton University 4:30 Penalized Empirical Likelihood and Growing Dimensional General Estimating Equations Cheng Yong Tang, National University of Singapore 5:00 Exact exponential bounds for generalized empirical likelihood Patrice Bertail, University Paris-Ouest 5:30 An Empirical Likelihood Based Approach to Incorporate Sampling Weights and Population Level Information Sanjay Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore I.3.2 Invited Session: Use of Graphics in Data Analyses SAS 2229 Organizer and Chair: Amarjot Kaur, Merck Research Laboratories 4:00 Statistical Inference for Visual Methods for Exploratory Data Analysis Dianne Cook, Iowa State University 4:30 Dynamic Software Solutions for Clinical Data Analysis, Review and Reporting Michael O Connell, TIBCO 5:00 Interactive Statistical Graphics for Data Exploration Heike Hofmann, Iowa State University 5:30 Understanding Clinical Trial Data through Graphical Exploration Mani Lakshminarayanan, Merck Research Laboratories 9

10 Friday, April 22 I.3.3 Invited Session: Statistical Methods in Life-testing and Reliability SAS 2235 Organizer: Tony Ng, Southern Methodist University Chair: Judy Wang, North Carolina State University 4:00 Some Nonparametric Precedence-type Tests Based on Progressively Censored Samples and Evaluation of Power Ram C. Tripathi, University of Texas at San Antonio 4:30 Bayesian Planning and Inference of a Progressively Censored Sample from Linear Failure Rate Distribution Ananda Sen, University of Michigan 5:00 Parametric Inference for System Lifetime Data with Signatures Available Tony Ng, Southern Methodist University 5:30 Optimal Progressive Type-II Censoring Schemes for Nonparametric Confidence Intervals of Quantiles David Han, University of Texas at San Antonio I.3.4 Invited Session: Stochastic Dynamics SAS 1108 Organizer: Amarjit Budhiraja Chair: Charles Smith, North Carolina State University 4:00 On the Chaotic Character of the Stochastic Heat Equation Matthew Joseph, University of Utah 4:30 Burgers Equation with Poissonian Forcing Yuri Bakhtin, Georgia Institute of Technology 5:00 Recent Results on Preferential Attachment Graphs Sunder Sethuraman, Iowa State University 5:30 Elliott-Kalton Stochastic Differential Games Associated with the Infinity Laplacian Amarjit Budhiraja, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill I.3.5 Invited Session: Govindarajulu Memorial Session SAS 1216 Organizer: Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University Chair: H.L. Koul, Michigan State University 4:00 Fixed-Width Confidence Interval Based on a Minimum Hellinger Distance Estimator T. N. Sriram, University of Georgia 10

11 Friday, April 22 4:30 A Nonparametric Method to Estimate the Number of Component Processes Subrata Kundu, George Washington University 5:00 Fisher Information in Censored Samples from the Downton Bivariate Exponential Distribution H. N. Nagaraja, Ohio State University 5:30 Open for reminiscences, tributes and comments from the audience I.3.6 Panel 1: Statistics Education SAS 1218 Organizer: Sujit Ghosh and Kim Weems, North Carolina State University Moderator: Kim Weems, North Carolina State University Herle McGowan, North Carolina State University Jackie Dietz, Meredith College Jeff Thompson, SAS Institute Kim Weems, North Carolina State University I.3.7 Panel 2: External Grants : Funding Opportunities, Initiatives, and Beyond SAS 1102 Organizer: Sujit Ghosh and Subhashis Ghoshal, North Carolina State University and Soumen N. Lahiri, Texas A&M University Chair and Moderator: Ram Tiwari, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Sastry Pantula, National Science Foundation Misrak Gezmu, National Institute of Health, NIAID Tommy Wright, U.S. Census Bureau 6:15p.m. - 8:00p.m. IISA General Body Meeting (with refreshments in the lobby) SAS 2203 Chair: H. N. Nagaraja, Ohio State University IISA Executive Board Meeting (closed to members) SAS 2203 Chair: H. N. Nagaraja, Ohio State University 11

12 Saturday, April 23 8:30a.m. - 5:00p.m. Registration SAS Hall (2nd floor lobby) 8:30a.m. - 9:00a.m. Refreshments SAS Hall (2nd floor corridor) 9:00a.m. - 10:30a.m. Saturday, April 23 Special Invited Talks - Session III SAS 2203 Chair: Brian Reich, North Carolina State University 9:00 Soil Mapping for Very Large Datasets Noel Cressie, Ohio State University 9:45 The Search for Missing Heritability and Some Statistical Problems Nilanjan Chatterjee, National Cancer Institute I.4.1 Invited Session: Probability and its applications SAS 2225 Organizer: Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University Chair: Soumik Pal, University of Washington 9:00 Optimal Buffer Size and Dynamic Rate Control for a Queueing Network with Reneging in Heavy Traffic Arka Ghosh, Iowa State University 9:30 A Strong Law for the Rate of Growth of Long Latency Periods in Cloud Computing Service Souvik Ghosh, Columbia University 10:00 Diffusion Limits and Optimal Scaling of Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms Natesh S. Pillai, Harvard University I.4.2 Invited Session: Bayesian biostatistics SAS 2229 Organizer and chair: Peter Mueller, University of Texas at Austin 9:00 Toxicity Profiling of Engineered Nanomaterials Donatello Telesca, University of California, Los Angeles 12

13 Saturday, April 23 9:30 Bayesian Semiparametric Analysis of Two-phase Studies of Gene-Environment Interaction Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan 10:00 A Bayesian Semiparametric Model for the Analysis of Sequence Counts Data Michele Guindani, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center I.4.3 Invited Session: Multiple Testing SAS 2235 Organizer: Sanat Sarkar, Temple University Chair: Yichao Wu, North Carolina State University 9:00 Adaptive BH Procedures Controlling the FDR Under Positive Dependence and Improved Power Sanat Sarkar, Temple University 9:30 Mixture Gatekeeping Procedures with Clinical Trial Applications Ajit Tamhane, Northwestern University 10:00 Adaptive FWER and FDR Control under Block Dependence Wenge Guo, New Jersey Institute of Technology I.4.4 Invited Session: Recent Advances in Threshold Estimation SAS 1216 Organizer: Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan Chair: Bodhi Sen, Columbia University 9:00 Level Set Estimation from Projection Measurements Rebecca Willett, Duke University 9:30 On Threshold Estimation Problem in Visual Field Analysis Debashis Mondal, University of Chicago 10:00 Inference for Change-Point Parameters Under Varying Degrees of Model Misspecification Moulinath Banerjee, University of Michigan I.4.5 Invited Session: Statistical Methods for Very High-Dimensional Problems SAS 1108 Organizer: Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo! Inc. Chair: Subrata Kundu, George Washington University 9:00 Bayesian Modeling for Collaborative Filtering at Yahoo! Liang Zhang, Yahoo! Inc. 13

14 Saturday, April 23 9:30 Predicting Response Rates in Display Advertising Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo! Inc. 10:00 BARN: Bayesian Additive Regression Network Sounak Chakraborty, University of Missouri-Columbia I.4.6 Invited Session: Some Recent Research in Statistical Image Analysis SAS 1102 Organizer: Peihua Qiu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Chair: Dianne Cook, Iowa State University 9:00 Object Oriented Data Analysis J. S. Marron, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 9:30 Efficient Bias Correction For MRI Image Denoising Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 10:00 3-D Image Denoising By Local Smoothing And Nonparametric Regression Peihua Qiu, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities 10:30a.m. - 11:00a.m. Refreshment Break SAS Hall (2nd floor corridor) 10:00a.m. - 5:00p.m. Exhibitors SAS :00a.m. - 12:00p.m. Plenary session II SAS 2203 Chair: David Dunson, Duke University Statistical Inference of Protein Structure and Function Michael Jordan, University of California, Berkeley 12:00p.m. - 1:00p.m. Boxed Lunch SAS

15 Saturday, April 23 1:00-3:00p.m. I.5.1 Invited Session: Statistical Methods for Genomic Data SAS 2225 Organizer and chair: Sanjay Shete, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center 1:00 A Monte Carlo Test of Linkage Disequilibrium for Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms Hongyan Xu, Georgia Health Sciences University 1:30 Using Ascertainment for Targeted Resequencing to Increase Power to Identify Causal Variants Michael Swartz, University of Texas, School of Public health 2:00 Estimation of Odds Ratios of Genetic Variants for the Secondary Phenotypes Associated with Primary Diseases Jian Wang, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center 2:30 Capturing Species at a Certain Abundance Level in a Multi-Species Assemblage with Unknown Heterogeneity Kaushik Ghosh, University of Nevada, Las Vegas I.5.2 Invited Session: Statistical Methods for Complex Data Structures SAS 2229 Organizer: Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University Chair: Deepak Agarwal, Yahoo! Inc. 1:00 Functional Factor Analysis For Periodic Data Surajit Ray, Boston University 1:30 Towards Statistical Modeling of Shapes of Elastic Functions, Curves and Surfaces Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University 2:00 An Adaptive Particle Allocation Scheme for Off-line Sequential Importance Sampling Algorithms Anindya Bhadra, Texas A&M University 2:30 Spectral Analytic Comparisons for Data Augmentation Vivekananda Roy, Iowa State University I.5.3 Invited Session: Resampling and Nonparametric Statistics SAS 2235 Organizer: Bodhi Sen, Columbia University Chair: Patrice Bertail, University Paris-Ouest 1:00 Testing for Modality, Residual Empirical Process and Weighted Sums for Time Varying Processes Wolfgang Polonik, University of California at Davis 15

16 Saturday, April 23 1:30 Higher Order Properties of the Bootstrap for Adaptive Lasso Estimators Arindam Chatterjee, Indian Statistical Institute 2:00 Bootstrap in Some Non-standard Problems Bodhi Sen, Columbia University 3:00 Floor Discussion I.5.4 Invited Session: Topics in Multivariate Analysis SAS 1102 Organizer: Dayanand N. Naik, Old Dominion University Chair: P. K. Sen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1:00 Some Recent Results on High-Dimensional Approximations with Computable Error Bounds Y. Fujikoshi, Hiroshima University 1:30 Testing The Structure Of The Covariance Matrix With Fewer Observations than the Dimension M. S. Srivastava, University of Toronto 2:00 On Pearson s Correlation Gabor J Szekely, National Science Foundation 2:30 Estimation of Parameters in the Context of Repeated Canonical Correlation Analysis Dayanand N. Naik, Old Dominion University I.5.5 Invited Session: Hierarchical Models for Rich Spatially Structured Data SAS 1108 Organizer: Sudipto Banerjee, University of Minnesota Chair: Huiyan Sang, Texas A&M University 1:00 Space-time Data Fusion Under Error in Computer Model Output: an Application to Modeling Air Quality Veronica Berrocal, University of Michigan 1:30 Nonparametric Spatial Models for Periodontal Disease Data with Spatially- Varying Non-random Missingness Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Medical University of South Carolina 2:00 A Finite-Dimensional Construction of a Max-stable Process for Spatial Extremes Brian Reich, North Carolina State University 2:30 A Multivariate Spatial Zero-inflated Poisson Model for Fish Species Richness Estimation in Gulf of Maine Xia Wang, National Institute of Statistical Sciences 16

17 Saturday, April 23 I.5.6 Invited Session: Recent Advances in High Dimensional Data Analysis SAS 1216 Organizer and chair: Hao Helen Zhang, North Carolina State University 1:00 A ROAD to Classification in High Dimensional Space Feng Yang, Columbia University 1:30 Median Cross Validation for Complex Models and Heavy Tailed Errors Bertrand Clarke, University of Miami 2:00 Variable Selection in Semiparametric Regression Model for Right Censored Data Pang Du, Virginia Tech 2:30 High Order Laplace Approximation for Statistical Inference of Dependent Data Zhengyuan Zhu, Iowa State University I.5.7 Invited Session: Using Geometry in Analyzing Structured High- Dimensional Data SAS 1218 Organizer: David Dunson, Duke University Chair: Susmita Datta, University of Louisville 1:00 Multiscale Geometric Analysis of Noisy Low-dimensional Point Clouds in High Dimensions Mauro Maggioni, Duke University 1:30 A Tale of Two Manifolds Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University 2:00 Simplex Factor Models for Multivariate Unordered Categorical data Anirban Bhattacharya, Duke University 2:30 Bayesian Closed Surface Fitting Through Tensor Products Debdeep Pati, Duke University 3:00p.m. - 4:30p.m. Refreshments And Posters (SAS Hall 2nd floor Corridor) LIST OF CONTRIBUTED POSTER PRESENTERS: 1. Likelihood Ratio Tests for Continuous Monotone Hazards with Unknown Change Point Dong-Yun Kim, Virginia Tech University 2. Efficient Gaussian Process for Large Data Sets Anjishnu Banerjee, Duke University 17

18 Saturday, April Feature Extraction and Model Based Clustering in CBIR Sayantan Banerjee, North Carolina State University 4. Generalized Fiducial Inference for Normal Mixed Linear Models Jessi Cisewski, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 5. Conditions for Equivalence Between Mallows Distance and Convergence to Stable Laws Chang Chung Yu Dorea, Universidade de Brasilia 6. Analysis of Mortality Rates of Virginia: A Bayesian Approach Rasika Jayatillake, Old Dominion University 7. Bounds on Correlations for Multinomial Random Vectors with Specified Marginals Raghavendra R. Kurada, Old Dominion University 8. Variational Bayesian Canonical Correlation Analysis for the Integrated Analysis of Genetical Systems Biology Data Yan Ling, Virginia Tech 9. Likelihood Inference for Lognormal Data with Left Truncation and Right Censoring with an Illustration Debanjan Mitra, McMaster University 10. The Effect of Noise on the Fitzhugh-Nagumo Neuronal Model Chales Eugene Smith, North Carolina State University 11. Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Directional Data Using the Projected Normal Distribution Fangpo Wang, Duke University 12. Testing the Structural Stability of Temporally Dependent Functional Observations and Applications to Climate Data Xianyang Zhang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 13. Model Selection and Estimation in Generalized Additive Models Dong Wang, North Carolina State University 14. Title: N/A Seonjoo Lee, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 3:15p.m. - 3:45p.m. Meeting of North Carolina Chapter of the American Statistical Association (for NC-ASA members only) SAS

19 Saturday, April 23 4:30p.m. - 5:30p.m. Plenary Talk III SAS 2203 Chair: H.L. Koul, Michigan State University Large Deviations S. R. S. Varadhan, New York University 5:35p.m.-6:45p.m. Award presentation and Felicitation SAS 2203 Chair: Sastry Pantula, National Science Foundation Speech by Bimal Roy, Director, Indian Statistical Institute Felicitation to Prof. C. R. Rao and Prof. P. K. Sen IISA Award presentations 6:45p.m.-7:15p.m. Transportation from SAS Hall to McKimmon Center (1101 Gorman Street Raleigh, NC 27606, Distance: 2 miles) 7:30p.m.-9:30p.m. Conference Banquet: Presented by Sitar Indian Cuisine (Vegetarian and Non-vegetarian choices available) 8:30p.m-8:50p.m. Speech: John Sall, SAS Institute 9:30p.m.-10:00p.m. Transportation from McKimmon Center back to Hotels (Distance: 2 miles) 19

20 Sunday, April 24 8:00a.m. - 8:30a.m. Refreshments SAS Hall (2nd floor corridor) 8:30a.m. - 10:00a.m. I.6.1 Invited Session: Sunday, April 24 Advances in Networks and Graphical Markov Models SAS 1102 Organizer and Chair: Sanjay Chaudhury, National University of Singapore 8:30 Sequences of Regressions and Their Independences Nanny Wermuth, Chalmers/Gothenburg University 9:00 Identifiability of Linear Structural Equation models Mathias Drton, University of Chicago 9:30 Identifiability of Large Phylogenetic Mixture Models Seth Sullivant, North Carolina State University I.6.2 Invited Session: Time Series and Econometrics SAS 1218 Organizer: Anindya Roy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Chair: Tang Chengyong, National University of Singapore 8:30 A Bayesian Approach to Seasonal Adjustment of Long Memory Time Series Scott Holan, University of Missouri 9:00 Testing for Mean in High Dimensional Gaussian Time Series Deepak Ayyala, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 9:30 Weakly Dependent Times Series and Application to Extremes S. Prohl, Princeton University I.6.3 Invited Session: Statistics in Sports SAS 2229 Organizer and Chair: Paramjit Gill, University of British Columbia 8:30 Duckworth-Lewis and Twenty20 Cricket Tim Swartz, Simon Fraser University 9:00 Loser s Hex: An Evaluation of NFL Team Drafting Performance Michael E. Schuckers, St. Lawrence University 20

21 Sunday, April 24 9:30 Bayesian Modelling and Computation for One-day Cricket Saman Muthukumarana, University of Manitoba I.6.4 Invited Session: Design of Experiments and Non-parametrics SAS 2235 Organizer: Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University Chair: Gauri Sankar Dutta, University of Georgia 8:30 Optimum Designs in Linear Mixture Model with Synergistic Effects Bikas K. Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 9:00 Measuring Asymmetry Prakash N. Patil, University of Birmingham, UK 9:30 A Unified Approach for Nonparametric Evaluation of Agreement in Method Comparison Studies Pankaj Choudhury, University of Texas at Dallas I.6.5 Invited Session: Nonparametrics and Semi-parametrics SAS 1108 Organizer: Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University Chair: Anton Schick, Binghamton University 8:30 An Estimating Equation Approach for Analyzing Dependent Over-dispersed Count Data N. Rao Chaganty, Old Dominion University 9:00 Nonparametric Shewhart-type Synthetic Control Charts D. T. Shirke, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, India 9:30 Floor discussion I.6.6 Invited Session: Testing SAS 1216 Organizer: Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University Chair: Anindya Bhadra, Texas A&M University 8:30 A Generalized Bivariate Scale-invariant Test for Location based on Slopes Sunil Mathur, University of Mississippi 9:00 Exact Tests of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium via Algebraic Statistics and Markov Bases M. B. Rao, University of Cincinnati 9:30 Floor discussion 21

22 Sunday, April 24 I.6.7 Invited Session: Probability and Financial Mathematics SAS 2225 Organizer: Tao Pang, North Carolina State University Chair: Min Kang, North Carolina State University 8:30 Voter Models and Their Scaling Limits Krishnamurthi Ravishankar, State University of New York at New Paltz 9:00 Two Dimensional Stochastic Singular Control Via Dynkin Game and Dirichlet Form Yipeng Yang, University of Missouri-Columbia 9:30 Portfolio Optimization with CVaR: A Copula Based Method Tao Pang, North Carolina State University 10:00a.m. - 10:30a.m. Refreshments SAS Hall (2nd floor corridor) 10:30a.m. - 12:30p.m. I.7.1 Invited Session: Statistics for Bioinformatics SAS 1102 Organizer: Somnath Datta and Susmita Datta, University of Louisville Chair: Helen Zhang, North Carolina State University 10:30 Estimating and Improving Power in Genome-Wide Association Studies Vasyl Pihur, Johns Hopkins University 11:00 Genomic Applications of Multivariate Multiple Testing Procedures Debashis Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University 11:30 Isotropic Order Among a Core Set of Cell-cycle Transcripts is Conserved Between Budding and Fission Yeast Shyamal Peddada, NIEHS 12:00 Predicting Patient Survival from Proteomic Profile using MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry Data Susmita Datta, University of Louisville I.7.2 Invited Session: Statistics for Images and Complex Data SAS 2225 Organizer: Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University Chair: Hua Zhou, North Carolina State University 22

23 Sunday, April 24 10:30 Application of Wavelets in Quantification of Protein Co-localization in Intensity Images of Variable Dimension Nitai Mukhopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University 11:00 Inferences for Bivariate Negative Binomial Models with Applications to Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trials Mallikarjun Rettiganti, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences 11:30 Exact Test of Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium in Case-Parent Triad Designs a la Fisher via Algebraic Statistics S. Kasala, University of North Carolina at Wilmington 12:00 Bayes and the Contrapositive Sudip Bose, The George Washington University I.7.3 Invited Session: Recent Advances in High-Dimensional Statistics SAS 2229 Organizer: Debashis Paul, University of California at Davis Chair: Debashis Mondal, University of Chicago 10:30 Bayesian Regularization via the Graph Laplacian Prior Fan Li, Duke University 11:00 Regularized Hotelling s T 2 for High-Dimensional Hypothesis Tests Debashish Paul, University of California at Davis 11:30 Statistical Methods for Analyzing Tissue Microarray Images Algorithmic Scoring and Co-training Donghui Yan, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 12:00 Two Stage Adaptive Lasso for Instrument Selection Estimation? Mehmet Caner, North Carolina State University I.7.4 Invited Session: Biostatistics SAS 2235 Organizer: Arnab Maity, North Carolina State University Chair: M. B. Rao, University of Cincinnati 10:30 Estimating Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Shared Decision Rules across Stages: An Extension of Q-learning Bibhas Chakraborty, Columbia University 11:00 A Non-parametric Approach for Comparing Survival Distributions with Propensity Score Adjustment Nandita Mitra, University of Pennsylvania 11:30 Joint Modeling of Multiscale Longitudinal and Time to Event Data: An Application to Prospective Pregnancy Studies Rajeshwari Sundaram, The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 23

24 Sunday, April 24 12:00 Floor discussion C.7.5 Contributed Talks: Session 2 SAS 1216 Chair: Surya Tokdar, Duke University 10:30 Single Factor Transformation Priors for Density Regression Suprateek Kundu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 10:45 Bayesian Nonparametric Regression Models for Right-censored Data Muhtarjan Osman, North Carolina State University 11:00 Doubly-Inflated Poisson (DIP) and Related Regression Models Manasi S. Sheth, Old Dominion University 11:15 Inverse-Probability Weighted Estimating Equations for Analyzing Secondary Phenotypes in Case-Control Genetic Association Studies Chuanhua Julia Xing, Duke University 11:30 A Method of Construction a Multiple Increment-Decrement Life Table of HIV Population Manoj K. Varshney, University of Delhi, India 11:45 Quality Improvement through Third-order Slope-rotatable Designs over all Directions G. V. S. R. Anjaneyulu, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, India 12:00 Exploring New Models for Population Prediction in Detecting Demographic Phase Change for Sparse Census Data Arindam Gupta, University of Burdwan, India 12:15 Estimation of Square of Location Parameter of an Exponential Distribution with Known Coefficient of Variation Harshada Joshi, Pune University, India C.7.6 Contributed Talks: Session 3 SAS 1218 Chair: Nitai Mukhopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University 10:30 A Functional Central Limit Theorem for Empirical Processes under a Strong Mixing Condition Cristina Tone, University of Louisville 10:45 Large Time Behaviors of Quantum Markov Semigroups Harry Chang, U.S. Army Research Office 11:00 ROC Modelling for Some of the Life Distributions Sudesh Pundir, Pondicherry University, India 11:15 The Lomax Distribution as a Failure Model Under Various Loss Amal Helu, University of Jordan 24

25 Sunday, April 24 11:30 Data management, Design and Analysis challenges in The Prevention of Perinatal Sepsis (PoPs) Randomized Control Trial, Soweto, South Africa Locadiah Kuwanda, University of Witswatersrand 11:45 S Distributions Ahmad Reza Soltani, Kuwait University 12:00 A General Class of Nonparametric Subset Selection Procedures Narinder Kumar, Panjab University, India 12:15 Shape Restricted Regression with Multivariate Bernstein Polynomials Jiangdian Wang, North Carolina State University C.7.7 Contributed Talks: Session 4 SAS 1220 Chair: Ramaiyan Elangovan, Annamalai University, India 10:30 On Form-invariance of Weighted Distributions and Their Statistical Manifolds Makarand Ratnaparkhi, Wright State University 10:45 Inference for Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution Prasanta Basak, Pennsylvania State University at Altoona 11:00 Pairwise Maximum Likelihood Procedure for Estimating Shift in Two- Sample Location Problem Feridun Tasdan, Western Illinois University 11:15 Bootstrap Based Preliminary Test Estimation for the Parameter of Power Series Distribution K. M. Nalawade, Shivaji University, India 11:30 Generalised Gumble Distributions and Minification Processes Sr. Alice Thomas, Calicut University, India 11:45 Nonparametric Inference Using Additional Information Pitambar Y. Patil, Shivaji University, India 12:00 A Class of Tests for Exponentiality Against NBUE Alternatives M.Z. Anis, Indian Statistical Institute 12:15 Floor discussion 12:45p.m. - 1:00p.m. Vote of Thanks/Closing Remarks SAS :00p.m.-1:30p.m. Boxed Lunch SAS