IMS/ENAR Spring 2002 Program

IMS SPECIAL INVITED PAPER SESSION:
Chair/Introducer: Nidhan Choudhuri, Case Western Reserve University

Speakers: 1. Rob Kass, Carnegie Mellon University
  Title: Bayesian Curve-Fitting and Neuron Firing Patterns:
  The Problem of Neural Coding From a Statistician's Perspective
  2. Robert L Wolpert, Duke University
  Title : L'evy Random Fields and Statistical Inverse Problems
  Discussants: Tilmann Gneiting & Julian Besag, University of Washington

IMS INVITED PAPER SESSIONS:

Session 1: Clustering and Mixture Modeling Applications
Organizer and Chair: David W. Scott, Rice University

Speakers: 1. Bruce Lindsay, Penn State University
  Co-author: Changxuan Mao, Penn State U.
  Title: Heterogeneity in population size models
  2. Carey Priebe, The Johns Hopkins University
  Title: Class Cover Catch Digraphs for Latent Class
  Discovery in Gene Expression Monitoring
  3. Guenther Walther, Stanford University
  Title: Mixture Analysis for Flow Cytometry
Discussant: David Scott, Rice University

Session 2: Recent Advances in Dimension Reduction for Regression
Organizer: Dennis Cook, University of Minnesota
Chair: Efstathia Bura, George Washington University

Speakers: 1. Dennis Cook, University of Minnesota
  Title: Overview of Dimension Reduction Ideas and Methods for Regression
  2. Bing Li, Penn State University
  Title: Statistical Inference for the Central Mean Space
  3. Francesca Chiaromonte, Penn State University
  Title: Extending Dimension Reduction to Regressions with Categorical Predictors

Session 3: Semiparametric models in survival analysis
Organizer and Chair: Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University

Speakers: 1. Alex Tsodikov, University of Utah
  Title: A generalized self-consistency approach to semiparametric survival models
  2. Jason Fine, University of Wisconsin
  Title: Comparing non-nested Cox models
  3. Kani Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  Title: Semiparametric analysis of transformation models

Session 4: Some Recent Developments and Applications of Random Partition Distributions
Organizer: Hemant Ishwaran, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Chair: Ramani Pillai, University of Illinois

Speakers: 1. Hemant Ishwaran, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  Title: Generalized Chinese Restaurant Processes
  Partitions, and Applications to Finite Mixture Models
  2. Fred M. Hoppe, McMaster University
  Title: Continuous time processes, Bayesian models, and partition structures
  3. Lancelot F. James, Johns Hopkins University
  Title: Random partition structures and Bayesian models
  4. Simon Tavare, University of Southern California
  Title: Poisson-Dirichlet approximations for random permutations:
  a tale of three couplings

Session 5: Applications of Function Estimation
Organizer and Chair: Catherine Loader, Bell Lab, Lucent

Speakers: 1. Colin Wu, Johns Hopkins University
  Title: Covariate centering and scaling in varying-coefficient models
  with repeated measurements
  2. Lyndia C. Brumback and Mary J. Lindstrom, U of Wisconsin
  Title: Self-modeling with flexible, random time transformations
  3. Jianqing Fan and Run-Ze Li, UNC and Penn State U
  Title: Variable selection for Cox's proportional hazards model and frailty model

Session 6: Monte Carlo In Action
Organizer: Jun Liu, Harvard University
Chair: Scott Schmidler, Duke University
(ENAR co-sponsors this IMS session)

Speakers: 1. Rong Chen, The University of Illinois at Chicago
  Title: Advance Sequential Monte Carlo and their Applications
  in Nonlinear/Non-Gaussian Dynamic Systems
  2. John Huelsenbeck, University of Rochester
  Title: Bayesian inference of phylogeny using Markov chain Monte Carlo
  3. Matthew Stephens, University of Washington
  Title: The haplotyping problem - a Bayesian method

Session 7: New Software
Organizer and Chair: Heping Zhang, Yale University
Chair: Hongtu Zhu, Yale University

Speakers: 1. Catherine Loader, Bell Lab, Lucent
  Title: Simultaneous Confidence Bands
  2. Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University
  Title: Interactive Projection Pursuit
  3. Charles Kooperberg, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle WA
  Co-author: Ingo Ruczinski, Johns Hopkins University
  Title: Logic Regression

Session 8: Statistics in Brain Mapping
Organizer: Keith Worsley, McGill University
Chair: Song Yang, Texas Tec University

Speakers: 1. Moo K. Chung, McGill University
  Title: Statistical morphometry in neuroanatomy
  2. Chris Genovese, Carnegie Mellon University
  Title: Bayesian analysis of fMRI time series
  3. Ziad S. Saad, NIMH
  Title: Estimating the Variability of BOLD-FMRI Response Delays


IMS CONTRIBUTED PAPERS SESSIONS

Session 1: Statistics in Medical Sciences and Methodology
Chair: Jun Zhu, University of Wisconsin

Speakers: 1. Yi Li, Harvard School of Public Health
  Title: The Use of Frailty Hazard Models for Unrecognized Heterogeneity that Interacts with Treatment: Considerations of Efficiency and Power
  2. Samuel S. Wu, University of Florida
  Title: A Multivalent Pairing Model of Linkage Analysis in Autotetraploids
  3. Song Yang, Texas Tech University
  Title: Combining Asymptotically Normal Tests
  4. John E Kolassa, Rutgers University
  Title: Small Sample Confidence Regions for Exponential Families
  5. Samad Hedayat, University of Illinois at Chicago
  Title: Adding More Observations to Saturated D-optimal Resolution III Two-level Factorial Designs
  6. Heng Li, University of Rochester
  Title: Constrained Linear Group Symmetry Models

Session 2: Analysis of Imaging and Spatial Data (combined with ENER papers)
Speakers: 1. Vera L. Bulaevskaya, University of Minnesota
  Title: A Bayesian Approach to MRI Image Reconstruction

Session 3: Anlaysis of Gene Expression Data (combined with ENER papers)
Speakers: 1. Jorg Rahnenfuhrer, Nebraska Informatics Center for the Life Sciences
  Title: Robust Microarray Image Analysis Through Pixel Clustering

Session 4: Anlaysis of Recurrent Event Data (combined with ENER papers)
Speakers: 1. Edsel A Pena, University of South Carolina, Columbia
  Title: A General Class of Models for Recurrent Events

Contributed Posters (combined with ENAR's)
Authors: 1. Jianwei Chen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Title: Nonparametric Modeling of Auxiliary Covariate Data in the Generalized Linear Mixed Models

ENAR Sessions Co-sponsored by IMS

One Presentation Rule: one presentation or discussion per person.