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2012 Spring Central Section Meeting
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
March 30 - April 1, 2012 (Friday - Sunday)
Meeting #1081

Associate secretaries:

Georgia Benkart, AMS benkart@math.wisc.edu

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Special Session on Mathematical Statistics

• Friday March 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, I
  Room 4012, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas talata@math.ku.edu
  

  • 4:00 p.m.
    Distribution-Free Test in Tobit Mean Regression Model.
    Weixing Song*, Kansas State University
    (1081-62-208)
  • 4:30 p.m.
    Generalized Likelihood Inference in the Multivariate Normal for Heterogeneous Data.
    Ibrahim A. Ahmad, Oklahoma State University
    Lichi Lin*, Oklahoma State University
    (1081-62-248)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 9:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, II
  Room 4012, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas talata@math.ku.edu
  

  • 8:30 a.m.
    Bayes Estimation via Filtering Equation for Partially-observed Heston Stochastic Volatility Model with Marked Point Process Observations.
    Brent Bundick, Boston College
    Yong Zeng*, University of Missouri at Kansas City
    (1081-62-202)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Bayes Factors for One-Way ANOVA.
    Paul L. Speckman*, University of Missouri
    Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri
    (1081-62-302)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Nonparametric Regression Model with Tree-structured Response.
    Yuan Wang, Colorado State University
    J.S. Marron, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Burcu Aydin, HP Labs
    Alim Ladha, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Elizabeth Bullitt, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
    Haonan Wang*, Colorado State University
    (1081-62-255)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal Spatial Sampling Design and Wireless Sensor Networks.
    Zhengyuan Zhu*, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
    (1081-62-144)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Compactly supported covariance matrix models with application to spatial covariance tapering.
    Juan Du*, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University
    Chunsheng Ma, Department of Mathematics, Statistics, & Physics, Wichita State University
    Samuel Seth Demel, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University
    (1081-62-299)
• Saturday March 31, 2012, 2:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, III
  Room 4012, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas talata@math.ku.edu
  

  • 2:30 p.m.
    Algebraic aspects of graphical models.
    Seth Sullivant*, North Carolina State University
    (1081-62-151)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Optimal rate for a queueing system in heavy traffic with superimposed On-Off arrivals.
    Arka P. Ghosh*, Iowa State University
    (1081-60-152)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Sequential maximum likelihood estimation for reflected Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes.
    Chihoon Lee*, Colorado State University
    Jaya Bishwal, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
    Myung Hee Lee, Colorado State University
    (1081-62-132)
  • 4:00 p.m.
    Variable selection under dependence.
    Bhaskar Bhattacharya*, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
    (1081-62-89)
• Sunday April 1, 2012, 9:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Mathematical Statistics, IV
  Room 4012, Wescoe Hall
  Organizers:
  Zsolt Talata, University of Kansas talata@math.ku.edu
  

  • 9:30 a.m.
    On the de la Garza phenomenon: a new approach of studying optimal design for nonlinear models.
    Min Yang*, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
    (1081-62-243)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    A more powerful test procedure for multiple hypothesis testing.
    Shunpu Zhang*, University of Nebraska Lincoln
    Huann-Sheng Chen, National Cancer Institute
    (1081-62-97)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    A Distribution-Free Test to Detect General Dependence and High Dimensional Variable Selection.
    Girly Ramirez, Kansas State University
    Haiyan Wang*, Kansas State University
    (1081-62-117)

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