Sixth North American New Researchers Conference University of California, Davis July 29 - August 1, 2003

Session schedule consisting of talks by the new researchers.
Each talk is 12 minutes in length with 3 minutes for questions.
MUII, where all talks are given, will have an overhead projector, PC laptop computer, and LCD projector.

Each title below is linked to the abstract of the talk.
See the schedule page for the complete conference schedule.

Tuesday July 29

  Session 1: Image and signal processing
   2:30 - 3:30 pm

• Vera Bulaevskaya, Carnegie Mellon University
  "A Penalized Likelihood Approach to Magnetic Resonance Image Reconstruction"
• Martin Lindquist, Columbia University
  "Mathematical and Statistical Problems Relating to Functional MRI"
• Carlos Morales, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  "Multifractal Spectra and Smoothness estimation"
• Jayson D. Wilbur, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
  "Bayesian unwarping for images of electrophoretic gels"

• Ji Meng Loh, Columbia University
  "Clustering in the Universe"
• Louis T. Mariano, RAND
  "Measurement Covariates in Repeated Measure Latent Variable Models"
• Iain Pardoe, University of Oregon
  "Measuring Consumer Preference for Socially Responsible Products: An Application of the Multinomial Adjacent-Categories Logit Random Effects Model"
• Steve C. Wang, Swarthmore College
  "Statistical Modeling of Mass Extinctions"

Wednesday July 30

  Session 3: Biostatistics I: Survival analysis and multilevel modeling
   9:00 - 10:00 am

• Rema Raman, University of California, San Diego
  "Mixed-Effects Regression Models for Three level Ordinal Response Data with Heterogeneous Variances"
• Danielle Harvey, University of California, Davis
  "Correlated event times with a common unobserved covariate: a use of instrumental variables in survival analysis"
• Fotios Siannis, University Forvie Site, UK
  How misleading inferences can be in survival analysis if we wrongly assume ignorable censoring"
• Susanne May, University of California, San Diego
  "A tractable approach to determining the degrees of freedom for some goodness-of-fit statistics for the Cox proportional hazards model"

  Session 4: Financial statisticis
   10:30 - 11:30 am

• Min Li, California State University, Sacramento
  "Term Structure Estimation with Bayesian Adaptive Regression Splines"
• Anna Amirdjanova, University of Michigan
  "Stochastic vorticity model and associated nonlinear filtering problems"
• Lan Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
  "The determination of time-varying volatility"
• Zhengjun Zhang, Washington University
  "Extremal Financial Risk Models and Portfolio Optimization"

  Session 5: Statistical Computing
   2:30 - 3:30 pm

• Kerrie Nelson, University of South Carolina
  "Comparison of iterative bias correction with other methods for estimation in generalized linear mixed models"
• Xiaogang Su, University of Central Florida
  "Tree-Augmented Regression (TAR) Analysis"
• Wolfgang Jank, University of Maryland
  "Ascent-Recovering Monte Carlo EM"
• Sonia Jain, University of California, San Diego
  "Splitting and Merging Mixture Components of a Nonconjugate Dirichlet Process Mixture Model"

  Session 6: On the mathematical side: Nonparametrics, statistical inference, and approximations
   3:50 - 5:00 pm

• Vladimir Pozdnyakov, University of Connecticut
  "A Robust Nonparametric Repeated Significance Test"
• Samir Lababidi, National Cancer Institute, NIH
  "Some Nonparametric Estimation Problems using Indirect Observations with Gaussian Noise"
• Rosaria Ignaccolo, Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy
  "Functional tests of fit for dependent data"
• Roshan Josephy Vengazhiyil, Georgia Institute of Technology
  "Adaptive Bayesian Designs for Stochastic Approximation"

Thursday July 31

  Session 7: Biostatistics II: Statistical inference
   9:00 - 10:00 am

• Lehana Thabane, McMaster University, Canada
  "Bayesian Estimation of the Number Needed to Treat (NNT)"
• Joey Lin, San Diego State University
  "Exact confidence intervals for simple difference under inverse sampling"
• Rhonda J. Rosychuk, University of Alberta, Canada
  "Estimation issues in a Two-State Latent Markov Process in the Presence of Misclassification"
• Ming Ji, San Diego State University
  "Hypothesis Testing of A Change Point in Cognitive Decline Among Alzheimer's Disease Patients"

  Session 8: Statistical modeling for spatio and/or temporal data
   10:30 - 11:30 am

• Matthew J. Hayat, NIH
  "Bayesian Methods for Longitudinal Data"
• Hernando Ombao, University of Illinois
  "The SLEX Approach to Pattern Recognition in Non-Stationary Time Series"
• Jun Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  "A Nonparametric Procedure for Analyzing Repeated-Measures of Spatially Correlated Data"
• Sudipto Banerjee, University of Minnesota
  "Modelling Replicated Spatial Data Using Spatially-Varying Growth Curves"

  Session 9: Statistical methods in application II: Mining for equilibrated turkeys
   2:30 - 3:30 pm

• Jacob Oleson, Arizona State University
  "Bayesian estimation in small areas under pre- and post-stratification"
• Jerome P. Reiter, Duke University
  "Disclosure Limitation by Releasing Multiply-Imputed, Public-Use Microdata"
• Yuguo Chen, Duke University
  "Sequential Importance Sampling for Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium"
• Virginia Wheway, The Boeing Company
  "Boosting Extensions to Find Anomaly Structure in Data"

  Session 10: Design, model selection, and inference
   3:50 - 5:00 pm

• Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Florida
  "Sequential Bayesian Design For Case-Control Studies"
• Florentina Bunea, Florida State University
  "The Consistency of the FDR Estimator"
• Hao Helen Zhang, North Carolina State University
  "Component Selection and Smoothing Operator Models"
• Vanja Dukic, University of Chicago
  "Estimation of variance after model selection"