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50th Anniversary SRC: June 1-4, 2014 Galveston, Texas
 

Poster Submissions

Monday, June 2, 2014   /    Abstract Booklet – pdf

Poster #1
A Statistical Simulation of Differential Prior Knowledge and Whole-group Instruction on Student Achievement
Steven LeMire
Poster #2
A Bayesian Analysis of Bioassay Experiments
Luis Leon Novelo
Poster #3
Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation for Dynamic Treatment Regimes with Sequential Transition Times

Yanxun Xu
Poster #4
A Score-type Test for Heterogeneity in Zero-inflated Models in a Stratified Population
Guanqun Cao
Poster #5
On Some Recent Results on Recurrent Events Modelling
Akim Adekpedjou
Poster #6
Application of Dempster-Shafer Theory to Radiotherapy Data Analysis

Yanyan He
Poster #7
Signed Rank Inference via the Empirical Likelihood
Huybrechts F. Bindele
Poster #8
Weighted Adaptive Multiple Decision Functions for False Discovery Rate Control
Josh Habigr
Poster #9
Regression Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Irregular and Informative Observation Times
Yong Chen
Poster #10
Minimum Distance Regression Model Checking when Responses are Missing at Random
Xiaoyu Li
Poster #11
Multiple Comparison Procedures for Several Binomial Proportions

Jie Peng
Poster #12
A Latent-Class Mixture Model for Incomplete Data with Application to a Trauma Transfusion Study
Sangbum Choi
Poster #13
DNA Ploidy Cytology is a Cost-Effective Alternative for Cervical Screening

Kalatu Davies
Poster #14
A Spatio-Temporal Nonparametric Bayesian Variable Selection Model of fMRI Data for Clustering Correlated Time Courses

Michele Guindani
Poster #15
Algebraic Statistics in R: Discrete Multivariate Analysis and The Algstat Package
David Kahle
Poster #16
Parallel Inference for Massive Distributed Spatial Data Using Low-Rank Models
Matthias Katzfuss
Poster #17
Modeling Spatial Dependence in Methylation Pattern Inheritance
Karlene Nicole Meyer
Poster #18
The Impact of Temperature of Mortality in Ludhiana City, India: A Time Series Analysis
Suresh Sharma
Poster #19
Linear Dimension Reduction for Multiple Multivariate Skew-Normal Densities
Phil Young
Poster #20
Generalized ANOVA for Concurrently Modeling Mean and Variance within a Longitudinal Data Setting
Hui Zhang
Poster #21
Estimation of a Proportion Using Inverse Sampling When the Data is Subject to False-Positive Misclassification
Kent Riggs
Poster #22
Local Dependence in Random Graph Models: Characterization, Properties, and Statistical Inference

Michael Sweinberger

 

Monday, June 2, 2014   /    Abstract Booklet – pdf

Poster S1:
Non-Parametric Estimation of Bivariate Survival Function
Hemalika Abeysundara
Poster S2:
Finite Mixture Modeling of Gaussian Regression Time Series with Application to Dendrochronology
Semhar Michael
Poster S3:
Resampling-based Multiple Comparisons for Generalized Linear Models
Josephine Akosa
Poster S4:
Influence Functions-Based Empirical Likelihood Inferences for Lorenz Curve
Bing Liu
Poster S5:
Masking and Swamping Robustness of Mahalanobis Distance Outlier Identifiers for Multivariate
Shanshan Wang
Poster S6:
A Multivariate Dynamic Approach to Statistical Calibration
Derick Rivers
Poster S7:
Semiparametric Analysis of Panel Count Data Using EM Algorithm
Bin Yao
Poster S8:
Modeling Distributions of Reads for Leukemic Cells DNA through Mixture of Poisson Distributions
Nicolas Flores Castillo
Poster S9:
Analyzing Leveraged ETF Behavior Using Nonparametric Density Estimation
Matthew Ginley
Poster S10:
Randomized Response with Markov Dependency: A Bayesian Model
Michelle Marcovitz
Poster S11:
Structured Variable Selection Using the Exclusive Lasso
Frederick Campbell

 

Tuesday, June 3, 2014    /    Abstract Booklet – pdf

Poster S12:
A Novel Nonparametric Two-Sample Hypothesis Test Using Geometric Formulations
Zhengwu Zhang
Poster S13:
Comparing Singular Value Decomposition, Principal Component Analysis, & Non-negative Matrix Factorization
Janitha Hapuwitharana
Poster S14:
Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Confidence Interval for Medical Cost with Censored Observation

Jenny Jeyarajah
Poster S15:
Simultaneously Optimized Follow-Up Designs Using a Pareto Front Approach
Robert D. Leonard
Poster S16:
Prediction of Lower Bounds for the Number of Sampling Points for Approximating Shapes of Planar Contours
Chalani Prematilake
Poster S17:
Within-cluster Resampling Methods for Clustered Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Data
Zhuang Miao
Poster S18:
Stable Estimation in Dimension Reduction
Wenbo Wu
Poster S19:
Standard Error Estimation for Mixed Flood Distributions with Historic Maxima
Kaiwen Mai
Poster S20:
Hierarchical Group Testing for Multiple Infections

Peijie Hou
Poster S21:
A Spatial Copula Approach to Fully Bayesian Nonparametric Survival Analysis

Haiming Zhou
Poster S22:
A Prediction Interval Estimator for the Original Response when Using Box-Cox Transformations
Michael Walker
Poster S23:
Spatial Multilevel Modeling with Functional Coefficients: Application to Canopy Vegetation Percentage of Plour Rangeland
Hossein Moradi Rekabdarkolaee
Poster S24:
Logistic Regression Models for Classification of Protein Binding Ligands
Iresha Premarathna
Poster S25:
Robust Variable Selection in Functional Linear Models
Jasdeep Pannu
Poster S26:
A Novel Pairwise Conditional Likelihood Ratio Test in a Semiparametric Model for vQTL Mapping
Chuan Hong
Poster S27:
Ulta-high Dimensional Single-Index Prediction Models
Guannan Wang
Poster S28:
The Effect of Exposure to Air Toxics on Age of Diagnosis and Subtype of Childhood Leukemia – A Joint Modeling Approach
Ting-Yu Chen
Poster S29:
Sample Size Determination for Regularized Logistic Regression-based Classification
Sandra Safo
Poster S30:
Bayesian Sample Size Determination for Informative Hypotheses: The Dimension Effect
Kristen Tecson
Poster S31:
Comparison of Student Success in Undergraduate Online Classes and Traditional Lecture Classes
Nai-En Tang
Poster S32:
An Analysis of a Large-scale Biomedical Database
W. Duncan Wadsworth
Poster S33:
Methods for Analyzing Attribute-Level Best-Worst Discrete Choice Experiments
Amanda Working
Poster S34:
Bayesian Analysis of Multi-type Recurrent Events and Dependent Termination with Nonparametric Covariate Function
Li-AN Lin
Poster S35:
A Transport Redundancy Approach to Spatial Clustering
Mingyue Gao
Poster S36:
Jackknife Empirical Likelihood for Estimating Variance without Estimating Mean Function
Yuan Liu
Poster S37:
Recursively Chained Mixed Graphical Models
Yulia Baker
Poster S38:
Time Series Covariance Estimation via Spectral Density
Oleg Melnikov
Poster S39:
Statistical Pattern Recognition using Gaussian Copula
Sumen Sen
Poster S40:
Robust Group Variable Selection Methods
Kristin Lilly
Poster S41:
Nonparametric Statistics Methods for Medical Diagnostic Markers with Right Censored Data
Yueheng An
Poster S42:
An Effective Discrete Approximation for High-Contrast Condensed Media
Daria Kurzanova
Poster S43:
Bayesian Network Meta-Analysis with Correlated Outcomes Subject to Publication Bias: Application to a Systematic Reviews of Alcohol Dependence
Yulun Liu
Poster S44:
Jackknife Emprical Likelihood for the Accelerated Failure Time Model with Cencored Data
Maxime Bouadoumou
Poster S45:
A Stochastic EM Algorithm for System Lifetime Data with Known Signature
Yandan Yang
Poster S46:
Nonparametric Bootstrap test for Equality of Extrinsic Mean Reflection Shapes in Large vs Small Populations of Acrosterigma Magnum Shells
Ruite Guo
Poster S47:
Nonlinear Time Series for Modeling Ancient Climates
Justin Sims
Poster S48:
Numerical Inversion of SRNFs for Efficient Elastic Shape Analysis of Star-Shaped Objects

Qian Xie
Poster S49:
Goodness of Fit Testing with Missing Data
Justin Chown
Poster S50:
Comparison of Haplotype-based Statistical Tests for Disease Association with Rare Variants
Ananda Datta
Poster S51:
Detecting Rare Haplotype-Environment Interaction without the Assumption of Gene-Environment Independence
Yuan Zhang
Poster S52:
Effect of Racial and Ethnic Characteristic on Consistency of Reported Smoking Behavior

Huang Huang
Poster S53:
Asymptotic Properties of Silvernan’s Smoothed Functional Principal Components
Gamage Pemantha Lakraj
Poster S54:
Disparities in Cervical Survival Between Asian American and White Women
Van Nghiem
Poster S55:
A New Approach of Genetic-based EM Algorithm for Mixture Models
Sachith Abeysundara
Poster S56:
Local-Aggregate Modeling for Big-Data via Distributed Optimization: Applications to Neuroimaging
Yue Hu