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2002 Fall Southeastern Section Meeting
Orlando, FL, November 9-10, 2002
Meeting #982

Associate secretaries:
John L Bryant, AMS bryant@math.fsu.edu

Special Session on The Likelihood Inferences in Statistics

  • Saturday November 9, 2002, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on The Likelihood Inferences in Statistics, I
    Room 110, Business Administration
    Organizers:
    Jian-Jian Ren, University of Central Florida jren@mail.ucf.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Likelihood-Based Confidence Regions for Ratios of Regression Coefficints in Linear Models.
      Malay Ghosh*, University of Florida
      Gauri Sankar Datta, University of Georgia
      Dalho Kim, Kyungpook National University
      (982-62-13)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Weighted Likelihood Estimating Equations.
      Marianthi - Markatou*, NSF/Columbia University
      (982-62-126)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Empirical likelihood methods with heavy tails.
      Liang Peng*, Georgia Institute of Technology
      (982-62-10)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      A statistical model for off-line signature recognition.
      Ian W McKeague*, Florida State University
      (982-62-33)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Estimation of Sums of Unobservable Random Variables.
      Cun-Hui Zhang*, Rutgers University
      (982-62-100)

  • Saturday November 9, 2002, 2:30 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
    Special Session on The Likelihood Inferences in Statistics, II
    Room 110, Business Administration
    Organizers:
    Jian-Jian Ren, University of Central Florida jren@mail.ucf.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Monotone functions: Non-standard limit theory for the likelihood ratio statistic.
      Moulinath Banerjee*, University of Michigan
      (982-62-154)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Estimation and Testing for Monotone Functions in Gaussian White Noise.
      Jon A. Wellner*, University of Washington
      (982-62-63)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Modified likelihood ratio test for finite mixture models in the presence of a structure parameter.
      Jiahua Chen*, University of Waterloo
      John D. Kalbfleisch, University of Michigan
      (982-62-80)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Mapping Quantitative Trail Loci from a Genetic Linkage Map.
      Myron N Chang*, Statistics Dept., University of Florida
      Rongling Wu, Statistics Dept., University of Florida
      Samuel S Wu, Statistics Dept., University of Florida
      George Cassella, Statistics Dept., University of Florida
      (982-62-15)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      The In-and-Out-of-Sample (IOS) Likelihood Ratio Test for Model Misspecification.
      Brett Presnell*, University of Florida
      Dennis D Boos, North Carolina State University
      (982-62-67)
    • 5:00 p.m.
      Testing Exponentiality Against Likelihood Ratio Behavior Using Kernel Methods.
      Ibrahim A. Ahmad*, University of Central Florida
      Hicham M. Al-Nachawati, King Saud University
      Mahmoud I. Hendi, King Saud University
      (982-62-14)

  • Sunday November 10, 2002, 8:00 a.m.-10:20 a.m.
    Special Session on The Likelihood Inferences in Statistics, III
    Room 110, Business Administration
    Organizers:
    Jian-Jian Ren, University of Central Florida jren@mail.ucf.edu

    • 8:00 a.m.
      Empirical Likelihood Inference in Linear Regression for Right Censored Survival Data.
      Gang Li*, University of California at Los Angeles
      (982-62-61)
    • 8:30 a.m.
      Cox Proportional Hazards Model with Additional Information on the Baseline.
      Mai Zhou*, University of Kentucky
      (982-62-69)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      On Empirical Likelihood for a Semiparametric Mixture Model.
      Fei Zou*, Department of Biostatistics, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Jason P Fine, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
      Brian S Yandell, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin at Madison
      (982-62-106)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Diagnostics for Empirical Likelihood Inference.
      Nicole A. Lazar*, Carnegie Mellon University
      (982-62-17)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Convergence theory for margin-based classifiers via penalization.
      Xiaotong Shen*, The Ohio State University
      (982-62-12)
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