American Mathematical Society
Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting
Binghamton, NY, October 11-12, 2003
Special Session in "Statistics"
Organizers:
Room 323, Student Wing
Saturday October 11, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Chair of the session: Richard M. Dudley,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 8:30 a.m.
A new construction for skew multivariate distribution.
Dipak K Dey*, University of Connecticut
Junfeng Liu, University of Connecticut
- 9:05 a.m.
Normalization and significant analysis of cDNA micro-arrays
using within-array replications.
Jianqing Fan*, Princeton University
- 9:40 a.m.
On Likelihood Ratio Analysis Under Non-standard Conditions.
Yongzhao Shao*, New York University
- 10:15 a.m.
The large deviation principle for M--estimators.
Miguel A Arcones*, Binghamton University
Saturday October 11, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Chair of the session: Michael Nussbaum, Cornell University
- 2:30 p.m.
Another approach to asymtotics and bootstrap of
randomly trimmed means.
Zhiqiang Chen*, William Paterson University
Evarist Gine, University of Connecticut
- 3:05 p.m.
Bootstrap and Central Limit Theorem,
when they are in tune and when they are not.
Dragan Radulovic*, Florida Atlantic University
- 3:40 p.m.
Nearly universal location and scatter
parameters.
Richard M. Dudley*, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- 4:15 p.m.
Estimating Default Risk Premia from Default Swap and EDF Data.
Antje Berndt*, Cornell University
Rohan Douglas, New York, NY
Darrell Duffie, Stanford University
Mark Ferguson, New York, NY
David Schranz, New York, NY
- 4:50 p.m.
A Martingale Approach to Scan Statistics.
Vladimir Pozdnyakov*, University of Connecticut
Joseph Glaz, University of Connecticut
Martin Kulldorff, Harvard Medical School
Michael Steele, University of Pennsylvania
- 5:25 p.m.
On the Number of Signals.
Pinyuen Chen*, Syracuse University
Sunday October 12, 2003, 8:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Chair of the session: Cun-Hui Zhang, Rutgers University
- 8:30 a.m.
Poissonization of Statistical Experiments.
Mark G Low*, Department of Statistics University of Pennsylvania
Michael Nussbaum, Cornell University
Sara Van de Geer, University of Leiden
Harrison H Zhou, Cornell University
- 9:05 a.m.
Contour regression: a general approach to dimension reduction.
Bing Li*, Pennsylvania State University
Hongyuan Zha,
Pennsylvania State University
Francesca Chiaromonte, Pennsylvania State University
- 9:40 a.m.
Combining Information From Independent Sources Through Confidence Distributions.
Kesar Singh*, Rutgers University
Minge Xie, Rutgers University
William E Strawderman, Rutgers University
- 10:15 a.m.
Asymptotic equivalence of spectral density estimation and Gaussian white noise.
Michael Nussbaum*, Cornell University
Harrison H. Zhou, Cornell University
Sunday October 12, 2003, 2:30 p.m.-5:55 p.m.
Chair of the session: Kesar Singh, Rutgers University
- 2:30 p.m.
Asymptotic Analysis of A Two-Way Semiparametric Regression Model for Microarray Data.
Jian Huang, University of Iowa
Cun-Hui Zhang*, Rutgers University
- 3:05 p.m.
On efficient estimation of parameters in functional partly linear regression models.
Hanxiang Peng*, University of Mississippi
Hawking Wang, University of Mississippi
- 3:40 p.m.
Aysmptotics of the Theil-Sen estimator in simple linear regression model with a random covariate.
Xueqin Wang*, University of Mississippi
- 4:15 p.m.
Maximum bias curves for M-estimates of regression with general scale.
Jose R. Berrendero, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Beatriz V.M. Mendes, Universidade Federal do Rio Janeiro
David E. Tyler*, Rutgers
Ruben H. Zamar, University of British Columbia