Twenty-Four Statistics Department Graduate Students Will Present at the 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings in San Diego This Summer
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The statistics department will be represented by 24 of our graduate students at the 2012 JSM in San Diego this summer:
Stephen Bamattre, joint with J. Verducci: “Tau Path Test for Subpopulation Dependency: Basics, Extensions and Examples”
Tayler Blake: “Nonparametric Covariance Estimation for Functional Data with Shrinkage Toward Stationary Models”
Jonathan Bradley, joint with N. Cressie and T. Shi: “Model Selection for Very Large Spatial Data Sets”
Dao-Peng Chen: “Statistical Power for Detecting Several Epigenetic Factors Using RNA-Seq Data”
Tian Chen, joint with T. Shi and E. Stasny: “Judgment Post-Stratification Estimation of a Population Proportion with High Missing Data Rate”
David Gerard, joint with J. Verducci and Stephen Bamattre: “Probability of Concordance Monster (PoC-Mon) Devours Discordance on and off the Tau Path”
Jeffrey Gory, joint with H. Sweeney (North Carolina State University): “Comparison of Internal Model Validation Methods for Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction to Find Genetic Heterogeneity Models”
Alice Hinton, joint with H. Nagaraja and B. Rovin (OSU College of Medicine): “A Discriminant Function for Renal Inflammatory Activity Associated with Lupus Nephritis”
Beom Seuk Hwang, joint with M. Pennell: “Semiparametric Bayesian Joint Modeling of a Binary and Continuous Outcome with Applications in Toxicological Risk Assessment”
Hang J Kim (SBSS Student Paper Competition Winner), joint with S. MacEachern: “The Generalized Multiset Sampler: Theory and Its Application”
Sungmin Kim, joint with T. Shi: “Decomposition of a Sparse Directed Graph”
John Lewis, joint with S. MacEachern and Y. Lee: “Robust Inference via the Blended Paradigm”
Zhiyu Liang, joint with Y. Lee: “Demystifying Feature Mapping via Kernels”
Liang Niu, joint with S. Lin: “Mixture Models for Estimation and Inference in Basic Science and Mixture Modeling for Identifying Spatial Interactions of Chromatins”
Lira Pi, joint with H. Nagaraja: “Connections Between Fisher Information in Censored Samples from Folded and Unfolded Distributions”
Srinath Sampath, joint with J. Verducci: “Is There a Partial Consensus Ordering Among Rankings?”
Aritra Sengupta, joint with N. Cressie: “A Hierarchical GLM for Cloud Data Using the Spatial Random Effects Model”
Anthony Sgambellone, joint with O. Ozturk and E. Stasny: “The Discarded Information of Ranked-Set Sampling and Judgment Post-Stratification”
Agniva Som, joint with C. Hans and S. MacEachern: “Bayesian Modeling with Prior Information on the Strength of Regression”
Danielle Sullivan, joint with R. Andridge: “Hosmer-Lemeshow Goodness-of-Fit Test for Multiply Imputed Data”
Szu-Yu Tang, joint with J. Hsu: “Testing for Efficacy in Multiple Genetic Subgroups”
Meng Wang, joint with S. Lin: “Logistic Bayesian Lasso for Detecting Rare Haplotypes Using Family Trios”
Zhiguang Xu, joint with S. MacEachern, and X. Xu: “Nonparametric Bayesian Modeling of Non-Gaussian Time Series with Conditional Heteroskedasticity”
Jingjing Yan, joint with S. MacEachern and C. Wu (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics): “A Robust Latent Cusum Chart for Monitoring Business Customer Attrition”