Program of the sessions
Organizer: C.R. Rao, Distinguished Lukacs Professor
Local organizer: G.J. Szekely
Friday, April 24
Morning session Room
115 Olscamp Hall
9-9:10 Inauguration
Charles R. Middleton, Provost and Vice
President for Academic Affairs
9:10-10:00 C. R. Rao
A review of canonical coordinates for multivariate
data reduction and an alternative to correspondance analysis
10:00-10:20 Tea/Coffee
Break
10:20-11:10 H. Toutenburg,
A. Fieger, C. Heumann, V.K. Srivastava and G.Trenkler
Regression modelling with fixed effets--missing
values and other problems
11:10-12:00 D. Sprott and
V. T. Farewell
The analysis of subject specific agreement
12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
Afternoon session Room 220 Mathematical Sciences
Building
1:30-2:20 L. Le Cam
Statistical estimation with quadratic loss: the
role of dimension
2:20-2:50 N. Balakrishnan
Start-up demonstration testing and applications
2:50-3:20 J. Sethuraman
Good approximations to Dirichlet processes
3:20-3:50 K.R. Shah, N.K.
Mandal, and B.K. Sinha
Comparision of control vs. test treatments
3:50-4:20 Tea/Coffee Break
4:20-4:50 J. Wesolowski
Sketches of probabilistic dilation equation
4:50-5:40 J. N. K. Rao
Inference from sample survey data: some current
issues
5:40-6:30 G. S. Maddala
Econometrics in the 21st century
Evening meal Best Western Falcon Plaza,
Bishop Room
7:00 Mixer
All participants and their guests are invited
Saturday, April 25
Morning session Room 220 Mathematical
Sciences Building
8:00-8:50 D. Geman and Y. Amit
Statistical learning and visual recognition
8:50:-9:30 S. Geman
Probability models for objects and images of
objects
9:30-10:00 S. Iyengar
Diffusion models for neural activity: inference
and computation
10:00-10:20 Tea/Coffee Break
10:20-11:10 U. Grenander
11:10-11:40 J. N. Srivastava
Some classes of fundamental problems in
statistical experimental design, multivariate analysis and sampling theory
11:40-12:10 N. Singpurwalla
Some recent developments in hardware and
software reliability
12:00-1:30 Lunch Break
Afternoon session Room 220 Mathematical Sciences Building
1:30-2:00 B. Li
Nonparametric and semiparametric estimating
equations
2:00-2:30 M. S. Srivastava
Multivariate regression with singular covariance
matrix
2:30-3:00 V. Mandrekar
Stability theory for stochastic PDE's
3:00-3:30 G. J. Szekely
Degenerate, conditional, and increasing
order U-statistics
3:30-3:50 Tea/Coffee Break
3:50-4:20 T. P. Hettmansperger
Minimum distance, M, and R-estimation in the
linear model
4:20-5:10 G. Yang
Censoring and random truncation: a survey of
some recent developments
5:10-6:00 N. Reid
Higher order asymptotics: costs and benefits
Evening meal Kaufmann's at the Lodge
restaurant
7:00 Banquet (invited guests)
8:00 After-dinner talk: G. P. Patil
Statistical approaches to multiscale assesement
of landscapes and watersheds with satellite
and synoptic multivariate geospatial data
Sunday, April 26
Morning session Room 220 Mathematical
Sciences Building
8:00-8:50 C.M. Cuadras and
J. Fortiana
The importance of geometry in multivariate analysis
and some applications
8:50-9:40 A. Agresti
Categorical data analysis in the twenty-first
century
9:40-10:10 G. J. Babu
Asymptotic theory for random permutations with
applications to genetics
10:10-10:40 P.K. Pathak , G.J. Babu
and C.R. Rao
Second order corrections of the sequential bootstrap
10:40-11:00 Tea/Coffee Break
11:00-11:30 S. Peddada, J. Zhang
and A. Rogol
Estimation of parameters in nonlinear regression
models
11:30-12:20 A. Bera
Testing with misspecified models: a review of
the literature and problems for the future