Twenty-One Statistics and Biostatistics Students Will Present at 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal, Canada
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The statistics department will be represented at the 2013 Joint Statistical Meetings in Montreal this summer by 21 of our graduate students! The students and their topics are listed below:
Robert Ashmead: “A Causal Framework for Intervention Evaluation with Survey Data”
Shasha Bai, joint with A. Shoben and H. Nagaraja: “Simultaneous Inference of Method Agreement and Rater Reliability Through General Clustered Repeated-Measures Data”
Casey Davis, joint with C. Hans and T. Santner: “Bayesian Analysis of Nonstationary Composite Gaussian Process Models”
Kevin Donges, joint with C. Calder and D. Wheeler, Virginia Commonwealth University: “A Simulation Study of the Effect of Study Duration on Modeling Environmental Risk of Cancer”
Alice Hinton, joint with H. Nagaraja: “Estimation of Misclassification Rates in Discriminant Analysis with Normal Populations”
Beom Seuk Hwang, joint with M. Pennell: “Semiparametric Bayesian Joint Modeling of Clustered Binary and Continuous Outcomes with Informative Cluster Size”
Yanan Jia, joint with C. Calder: "Bilinear Mixed Effects Models for Affiliation Networks"
Sungmin Kim, joint with T. Shi: “Scalable Spectral Algorithms for Community Detection in Directed Networks”
John Lewis, joint with S. MacEachern and Y. Lee: “Bayesian Inference via the Blended Paradigm”
Zhiyu Liang, joint with Y. Lee: “On the Effect of Centering Kernels in Kernel PCA”
Andrew Olsen, joint with R. Herbei: “Independent Approximate Draws from High-Dimensional Intractable Probability Distributions”
Mark Risser, joint with C. Calder: “A Nonstationary Spatial Covariance Regression Model”
Srinath Sampath, joint with J. Verducci: “How Stable Are Top Choices Over Time? An Investigation into Preferences Among Popular Baby Names in the United States”
Grant Schneider, joint with R. Herbei and P. Craigmile: “An Importance Sampling Approach for Exploring Likelihoods of Stochastic Differential Equations”
Danielle Sullivan, joint with R. Andridge: “Hot Deck Imputation of Nonignorable Missing Data with Sensitivity Analysis”
Katherine Thompson, joint with L. Kubatko: “Using Ancestral Information to Detect and Localize Quantitative Trait Loci in Genome-Wide Association Studies”
Staci White, joint with R. Herbei: “Quantifying Model Error in Posterior Distributions”
Zhiguang Xu, joint with S. MacEachern and X. Xu: “Modeling Non-Gaussian Stochastic Process with Bayesian Copula Method”
Jingjing Yan, joint with E. Kaizar and S. MacEachern: “Likelihood-Based Meta-Analysis: Conditional vs. Unconditional Approaches”
Jiangyong Yin, joint with X. Xu: “Regularized Portfolio Optimization Using Constrained Hierarchical Bayes Models”
Wenjun Zheng, joint with P. Craigmile: “Wavelet-Based Estimation for Stationary Gaussian Time Series”