 8:30 - 9:30 Opening ceremony and group photo
Plenary Talk I-S
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9:30 - 10:20 Chair: Jianqing Fan
Speaker: Iain Johnstone, Stanford University
Title: Large covariance matrices and random matrix theory
Plenary Talk II-A
 9:30 - 10:20 Chair: Jiaan Yan
 Speaker: Shige Peng, Shangdong University, China
 Title: G-normal distribution, G-Brownian motion and financial risk
 10:20 - 10:50 Tea break
Session 1-A: Stein's method
 Chair: Zhonggen Su, Organizer: Louis Chen
 10:50-11:25 Speaker: Louis Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
 Title: Discretized normal approximation
 11:25-12:00 Speaker: Aihua Xia, University of Melbourne, Australia
 Title: On negative binomial approximation to k-runs
Session 2-B: Biostatistics
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Chair: Suojin Wang
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10:50-11:25 Speaker: Yong Zhou
 Title: Estimating equations inference with missing data
11:25-12:00 Speaker: Kaifun Yu,
Title: estimation of primary and secondary parameters in a two-stage adaptive clinical trial
Session 3-C: Statistical applications
 Chair: Jin Cao

 10::50-11:25 Speaker: Yuan Li
 Title: Measuring risk aversion by ARCH-M model with varying coefficients
 11:25-12:00 Speaker: Zhen Wu
 Title: Some Properties on $Z$ for BSDEs and their applications in finance and optimal control problem
Session 4-D: Statistical theory and methodology
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Chair: Annie Qu
10:50-11:25 Speaker: Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania, USA
 Title: On Recovery of High Dimensional Sparse Signals via $l_1$ Minimization
 11:25-12:00 Speaker: Chunming Zhang, University of Wisconsin--Madison, USA
 Title: Isotropy-anisotropy test for brain imaging
12:10-1:15 Lunch at Shaw Science Hall
Afternoon June 11, 2008
Session 1-A1: High-dimensional probability
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Chair: Zhenqing Chen, Organizer: Wenbo Li
 1:30-2:05 Speaker: Wenho Li, University of Delaware, USA
Title: Gaussian inequalities and conjectures
 2:05-2:40 Speaker: Frank Gao, University of Idaho, USA
 Title: Entropy estimate of some shape-constrained function classes via small deviation probability
 2:40-3:15 Speaker Zhonggen Su, Zhejiang University
 Title Transition distributions of periodically weighted Plancherel Young diagrams
 3:15 – 3:45 Tea Break
Session 1-A2: Gaussian analysis
 Chair and Organizer: Yiming Xiao
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3:45-4:20 Speaker: Xiaoyu Hu
 Title: Limsup random fractals determined two independent L\'{e}vy processes
4:20-4:55 Speaker: Niels Jacob
 Title: Some Hilbert spaces associated with certain symmetric Levy processes
 4:55-5:30 Speaker: Dongsheng Wu,

 Title: TBA
Session 2-B: Biostatistics and high-dimensional data analysis
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Chair: Huixia Wang
 1:30-2:05 Speaker: Suojin Wang, USA
Title: A new semiparametric procedure for matched case-control studies with missing
 covariate data
 2:05-2:40 Speaker: Ping Ma, University of Illinois, USA
Title: Statistical journey to the center of the earth
 2:40-3:15 Speaker: Annie Qu, Oregon State University, USA
 Title: Efficient aggregate unbiased estimating functions approach for correlated data
 with missing at random
3:15-3:45 Tea Break
Session 2-B: Biostatistics and high-dimensional data analysis
 Chair: Ping Ma, Organizer: Xihong Lin
 3:45-4:20 Speaker: Tian Lu
 Title: Lasso regularized estimation for the accelerated failure time model
 4:20-4:55 Speaker: Yi Li,
 Title: Incorporating biological prior information in bioinformatics: analysis of array cgh
 data
 4:55-5:30 Speaker: June Luo
Title: TBD
Session 3-C1: Financial statistics
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Chair and Organizer: Rong Chen
 1:30-2:05 Speaker: Jianqing Fan, Princeton University, USA
Title: Sparse portfolio allocation: from short-constraint to lars
 2:05-2:40 Speaker: Yazhen Wang, University of Connecticut, USA
 Title: Modeling and analyzing high-frequency financial data
 2:40-3:15 Speaker: Ngai-Hang Chan, Chinese University of HongKong, HongKong
 Title: Quanto options and mixture exponential jump-diffusions
 3:15-3:45 Tea Break
Session 3-C2: Statistical imaging and simultaneous inference
 Chair and Organizer: Jiashun Jin
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3:45-4:20 Speaker: Felix Abramovich,
 Title: Bayesian testimation in the normal means problem
4:20-4:55 Speaker: Jian Zhang,
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Title: High dimensional variable selection via nonnegative garotte
 4:55-5:30 Speaker: Michael Nussbaum, Cornell University, USA
Title: Asymptotic error rates in quantum hypothesis testing

Session 4-D: Nonparametric statistics and longitudinal data
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Chair and Organizer: Tony Cai
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1:30-2:05 Speaker: Peihua Qiu, University of Minnesota, USA
 Title: Local smoothing segmentation of spotted microarray images
2:05-2:40 Speaker: Tianxi Cai, Harvard University, USA
Title: Robust Methods for Evaluating the Incremental Value of New Markers for
Prediction
2:40-3:15 Speaker: Jamei Robbins, Harvard University, USA
Title: Higher order influence functions and minimax estimation of nonlinear functionals
3:15-3:45 Tea Break
Session 4-D: Nonparametric statistics and longitudinal data
 Chair and Organizer: Hulin Wu
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3:45-4:20 Speaker: Jiguo Cao
 Title: Statistical Inference for Dynamic models with the Generalized Profiling Method
4:20-4:55 Speaker: Yangqing Sun,
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Title: Robust inferences for semiparametric regression with longitudinal data
 4:55-5:30 Speaker: Yuedong Wang, University of California- Santa Barbara, USA
Title: Smoothing spline nonlinear nonparametric regression models
6:30-8:30 Reception/Dinner at Hua Zhong Cheng Restaurant
Session 1-A: SPDE and stochastic analysis
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Chair: Dongsheng Wu
 8:30-9:05 Speaker: Yimin Xiao
Title: Hitting Probabilities of Gaussian Random Fields with Applications to SPDEs
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9:05-9:40 Speaker: Zenghu Li
 Title: Stochastic equations of non-negative processes with jumps
9:40-10:15 Speaker: Zhiyuan Huang (Chinese)
 Title: Fractional noises and fields on gel'gand triple
 10:15-10:45 Tea Break
Session 1-A: SPDE and stochastic analysis
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Chair: Jin Feng, Organizer: Zhenqing Chen
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10:45-11:20 Speaker: Zhenqing Chen
 Title: Stationary distributions for diffusions with inert drift
11:20-11:55 Speaker: Hao Wang
Title: Local time for a class of interacting superprocesses
Session 2-B: Likelihood methods

 Chair: James Fu, Organizer: Feifang Hu
 8:30-9:05 Speaker: Mai Zhou, University of Kentucky, USA
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Title: Empirical likelihood for counting processes
 9:05-9:40 Speaker: Lixin Zhang, Zhejiang University, China
Title: Limit distributions of multi-color randomly reinforced urns
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9:40-10:15 Speaker: Feifang Hu,
 Title: Weighted likelihood and its applications
10:15-10:45 Tea Break
Session 2-B: Likelihood methods
 Chair: Mai Zhou
 10:45-11:20 Speaker: James Fu
 Title: Finite Markov chain imbedding and it's applicationto matching probability
 between two Maarkov dependent DNA sequences
 11:20-11:55 Speaker: Zhehen Jin
Title: Sequential analysis of censored data with linear transformation models
Session 3-C1: High-dimensional inference
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Chair and Organizer: Harrison Zhou
 8:30-9:05 Speaker: Jiashun Jin, Purdue University, USA
Title: Estimating the null parameters in large-scale multiple testing
 9:05-9:40 Speaker: Runze Li, Pennsylvania State University, USA
 Title: Weighted Wilcoxon-type smoothly clipped absolute deviation method
 9:40-10:15 Speaker: Dan Nettleton, Iowa State University, USA
 Title: A hidden markov model approach to testing multiple hypotheses on a directed acyclic graph
 10:15-10:45 Tea Break
Session 3-C2: Limiting Theory
 Chair: Frank Gao
 10:45-11:20 Speaker: Zhengyan Lin, Zhejiang University
 Title: m-dependent approximation and its applications
 11:20-11:55 Speaker: Wensheng Wang
 Title: Almost-sure path properties of anisotropic gaussian random fields
Session 4-D: Statistical theory and methodology
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Chair: Min Chen
 8:30-9:05 Speaker: Hengjian Cui
Title: Robust estimates for generalized partially linear varying-coefficient models
 9:05-9:40 Speaker: Liansheng Tan,
 Title: Testing the equality of two ordered multinomial proportions
 9:40-10:15 Speaker: Yihui Luan,

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Title: Optimization of detection power when controlling for false discovery rate (FDR) in large-scale multiple testing problems
10:15-10:45 Tea Break
Session 4-D: Statistical theory and methodology
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Chair: Lixing Zhu
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10:45-11:20 Speaker: Jun Liu, Harvard University, USA
 Title: Inference of patterns and associations using dictionary models
11:20-11:55 Speaker: Guohua Zou (C)
Title: Optimal Two-Stage Design with Given Power in Association Studies
Afternoon June 12, 2008
Conference tours:
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1:30-4:00 Boat trip at the West Lake
4:00-8:00 Tour trip at Song Town , dinner and show
Session 1-A: Dimension reduction and variable selection
 Chair and Organizer: Jianhui Zhou
 8:30-9:05 Speaker: Ker-Chau Li, UCLA, USA
 Title: Model selection, dimension reduction and liquid association: a trilogy via Stein's
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 lemma
 9:05-9:40 Speaker: Bing Li, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Title: Dimension reduction for non-elliptically distributed predictors
9:40-10:15 Speaker: Xiangroug Yin, University of Georgia, USA
Title: Sufficient mean dimension reduction and variable selection
 10:15-10:45 Tea Break
Session 1-A: Dimension reduction and variable selection
 Chair and Organizer: Runze Li
 10:45-11:20 Speaker: Naisyin Wang, Texas A& M University, USA
 Title: Selection of measurement error models in longitudinal covariate processes
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11:20-11:55 Speaker: Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania
 Title: Variable selection for time-varying coefficients models for genomic
11:55-12:30 Speaker: Yanyuan Ma,
 Title: Variable selection in measurement error models
Session 2-B1: Bayesian methods in contemporary statistics
 Chair: Feng Liang, Organizer: Linda Zhao

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8:30-9:05 Speaker: Hongyu Zhao, Yale University
Title: Hierarchical models for signal transduction pathway analysis from single cell
 measurements
 9:05-9:40 Speaker: Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Title: Empirical Bayesian thresholding rules for normal mean problems
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9:40-10:15 Speaker: Dongchun Sun,
 Title: The formal definition of reference priors
10:15-10:45 Tea Break
Session 2-B2: General regression methods
 Chair: Zhongyi Zhu, Organizer: Xuming He
 10:45-11:20 Speaker: Huixia Wang,
 Title: Semiparametric quantile regression for longitudinal data
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11:20-11:55 Speaker: Lan Wang, University of Minnesota, USA
 Title: Estimation and model checking in censored quantile regression
11:55-12:30 Speaker: Jinguan Lin
 Title: Heteroscedasticity and correlation diagnostics for nonlinear regression models with
AR(1) and symmetrical errors
Session 3-C: Statistical theory and methodology
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Chair: Bing Li
 8:30-9:05 Speaker: Shuyuan He
Title: Autoregressive process with measurement errors
 9:05-9:40 Speaker: Jinde Wang,
 Title: Inequality constrained statistical problems and their applications in environmetrics and medical statistics
 9:40-10:15 Speaker: Zhongyi Zhu (Chinese)
 Title: Local asymptotics of marginal regression splines with longitudinal data
 10:15-10:45 Tea Break
Session 3-C: Statistical theory and methodology
 Chair: Feifang Hu, Organizer: Sam Kou
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10:45-11:20 Speaker: Xingzhong Xu,
 Title: Fiducial inference under nonparametric situations
11:20-11:55 Speaker: Liugen Xue (Chinese)
 Title: Empirical likelihood estimation for a single-index varying-coefficient model
 11:55-12:30 Speaker: Sam Kou, Harvard University
 Title: Multi-resolution inference of stochastic models from partially observed data
Session 4-D: Data analysis for complex problems
 Chair: Peihua Qiu, Organizer: Jiayang Sun
 8:30-9:05 Speaker: Heping Zhang, Yale University, USA

 Title: Joint modeling of time series measures and recurrent events and analysis of the effects of air quality on respiratory symptoms
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9:05-9:40 Speaker: Xiaofeng Wang, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, USA
 Title: Deconvolution estimation for the data with heteroscedastic measurement errors
9:40-10:15 Speaker: Regina Liu, Rutegers University, USA
 Title: Thresholding events of extreme in simultaneous monitoring of dependent risks
 10:15-10:45 Tea Break
Session 4-D: Data analysis for complex problems
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Chair: Ji Zhu
 10:45-11:20 Speaker: Jin Cao, Bell Lab, USA
Title: Estimating network statistics from distributed packet streams in high speed
 networks
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11:20-11:55 Speaker: Feng Liang, University of Illinios, USA
 Title: Dimension reduction and localization
11:55-12:30 Speaker: Jianhua Guo
Title: Improved propagation algorithm of Bayesian networks by decomposition
Afternoon June 13, 2008
Plenary Talk 3-A:
Chair: Tony Cai
 1:45-2:35 Speaker: Larry Brown, University of Pennsylvania, USA
 Title: Nonparametric empirical Bayes and compound Bayes estimation of independent normal means
Plenary Talk 4-B:
 Chair: Zhengyan Lin
 1:45-2:35 Speaker: Zhi-dong Bai, China
 Title: Random matrix theory anbd large dimensional data analysis
 2:35-3:00 Tea Break
Session 1-A: Statistical theory
 Chair: Ping Ma
 3:00-3:35 Speaker: Lixing Zhu
 Title: empirical likelihood for a varying coefficient partially linear model with diverging
 number of parameters
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3:35-4:10 Speaker: Qihua Wang
 Title: Statistical estimation in partlly-linear-varying-oefficient single-index model
4:10-4:45 Speaker: Jinwen Chen,
Title: TBD

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4:45-5:20 Speaker: Xizhi Wu
Title: China 's environment for statistical research
Session 2-B: Machine learning
 Chair: Feng Liang, Organizer: Xiaotong Shen
 3:00-3:35 Speaker: Ji Zhu, University of Michigan, USA
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Title: Partial correlation estimation by joint sparse regression models
 3:35-4:10 Speaker: Yufeng Liu, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Title: Probability-based large margin classifiers
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4:10-4:45 Speaker: Yuhong Yang, University of Minnesota, USA
 Title: Improving mle via a non-extensive information measure
4:45-5:20 Speaker: Zengjing Chen
 Title: g-expectations and nonlinear pricing
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Session 3-C: Staitsitcial theory
 Chair: Guohua Zou
 3:00-3:35 Speaker: Zhaojun Wang (Chinese)
 Title: Monitoring profiles based on nonparametric regression methods
 3:35-4:10 Speaker: Huazhen Lin
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Title: Direct semiparametric ROC regression with unknown link and baseline functions
 4:10-4:45 Speaker: Xinsheng Zhang
Title: Empirical likelihood estimation for ornstein-uhlenbeck type processes
 4:45-5:20 Speaker: Zhongxin Ye.
 Title: A counter party-risk model with attenuating function and its applications on pricing the credit derivatives
Session 4-D: Probability theory
 Chair: Zhi-dong Bai
 3:00-3:35 Speaker: Fuzhou Gong
 Title: Log-Sobolev inequalities on metric spaces
 3:35-4:10 Speaker : Jin Feng
 Title: Towards a statistical theory for 2-D turbulence, a large deviation and Hamilton-
Jacobi equation approach
 4:10-4:45 Speaker: Yingchao Xie (Chinese)
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Title: Global solutions of stochastic 2D Navier-Stokes equations with L\'{e}vy Noise
 4:45-5:20 Speaker: Xianping Guo
Title: Variance minimization for finite continuous-time Markov decision processes

Session 5 - E :
 Chair: Zhi Geng
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1:30 – 1:45 Chunsheng Ma
 Title: Why isotropy is so popular in spatial statistics
1:45 – 2:00 Wei Yan
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Title Boundaries of causal effects under a non-ignorable missing mechanism
 2:00 – 2:15 Zhengyuan Jia
Title: Use principal component analysis for studying investment risk of listed power
 company
 2:15 – 2: 30 Yinglei Lai
Title: Genome-wide co-expression based prediction of differential expression
 2:30 – 2:45 Xinmin Li
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Title Fiducial intervals for ratios of variance components in two-fold nested designs
 2:45 – 3:00 Zhi Geng
Title Surrogate paradox
 3:00 – 3:15 Shan Sun
 Title Smooth quantitle estimations under strong mixing: NASC on bandwidth for weak
 convergence
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3:15 – 3:45 Tea Break
 Chair : Chunsheng ma
3:45 – 4:00 Ke Deng
Title A dynamic-programming-based method in delay and loss tomography
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4:10 – 4:15 Xiaojing Wang
 Title Semiparametric varying-coefficient partly linear model with auxiliary covariates
4;15 – 4:30 Chunfeng Huang
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Title Spectral density estimation through a regularized inverse
 4:30 – 4:45 Fuxia Cheng
Title Nonparametric estiamtion of the density of innovations in ARCH(P)
 4:45 – 5:00 Qin Shao
 Title Nonparametric trend estimation for periodic autoregressive time series
 5:00 – 5:15 Jianxin Yin
 Title Nonparametric covariance model
 5:15 – 5:30 Jinfang Tian
 Title The distribution of Realized Volatility and Forecasting: Based on the Stock Market of China

Dinner at Huazhongcheng
Chair : Wenqing He
 8:30 -8:45 A. Bakilizi
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Title: Distribution free tests for symmetry
 8:45 – 9:00 A. Feuerverger
Title Optimal uniform deconvolution
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9:00 – 9:15 Lakho Muhammad Hanif
 Title Projective properties of non-regular factorial designs
9:15- 9:30 Kulwant Singh Kapoor
 Title Agreement analysis method in case of continuous variable
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9:30-9:45 Zaretzki Russell
 Title The adaptive ridge selector
9:45 -10:00 Jin Xu
 Title Robustified MANOVA with applications in detecting differentially expressed genes from oligonucleotide arrays
 10:00- 10:15 Yingying Li
 Title Rounding errors and volatility estimation
 10:15 – 10:45 Tea Break
Chair : Jin Xu
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 10:45- 11:00 Xiaoling Lu
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Title Modelling the repeat viewing and viewing intensity of TV programs
 11:00 – 11:15 Xuewen Lu
Title Weighted least squares methods for censored linear models
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11:15 – 11:30 Xi Luo
 Title Relaxed greedy pursuit for L1 penalized least squares and loglikelihood
11:30 – 11:45 Qiang Wu
 Title Mixture modeling with applications to integrative analysis of post-mortem tissue studies in Schizophrenia
11:45 – 12:00 Wenqing He
Title The use of intra-class based criteria for quality control in microarray studies
Lunch at Shaw Science Hall

Chair : Dianliang Deng
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8:30 -8:45 Wichai Chattinnawat
Title: Modeling variations of an internal quality assessment scores of Thai university: a
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 case study of Rajabhat Universities
 8:45 – 9:00 Choon-peng Tan
Title Bounds for universal portfolios with side information in a discretized market
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9:00 – 9:15 Myron Chang
 Title
9:15- 9:30 Hansheng Wang
 Title Sliced regression for dimension reduction
9:30-9:45 Shusong Jin
Title On the integer-valued GARCH process
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9:45 -10:00 Samuel Wu
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Title Step-up tests for number of active effects in orthogonal saturated designs
 10:00- 10:15 Yunbei Ma
Title Semiparametric varying-coefficient regression model for survival data
10:15 – 10:45 Tea Break
Chair : Hansheng Wang
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10:45- 11:00 Litan Yan
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Title Integration with respect to fractional locla times with hurst index 1/2< H < 1
 11:00 – 11:15 Xinghua Zheng
Title Critical branching random walks and spatial epidemics
11:15 – 11:30 Nana Luan
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Title Hausdorff measure of the image and graph of bifractional Brownian motion
 11:30 – 11:45 Li Liu
Title Precise large deviations for dependent random variables with heavy tails
 11:45 – 12:00 Zongming Ma
 Title Accuracy of the Tracy-Widom limit for extreme eigenvalues in white Wishart matrices
 12:00 – 12:15 Jin Zhang
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Title Generalized least squares cross-validation in kernel density estimation
 12:15 – 12:30 Dianliang Deng
Title Asymptotic properties of the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation for doubly interval-censored failure time data
Lunch at Shaw Science Hall

Chair : Yi Zhang
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3:00 – 3:15 Yang Zhao
Title Likelihood methods in randomized trials with noncompliance and subsequent
 nonresponse
 3:15 – 3:30 Hualong Zeng
Title The impulse effect of monetary policy on asset prices: a study of the interactive
 correaltions among interest rate, housing prices and stock prices
 3:30 – 3:45 ShibinSu
Title Research on probability measurement model in risk based on evidence theory
 3:45 – 4:00 Xia Zhao
 Title Death assumption for fractions of a year based on rational interpolating method and
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 its application in actuarial science
4:00 – 4:15 Liang Li
A semiparametric joint model for longitudinal and survival data with application to hemodialysis study
 4:15- 4:30 Meihua Geng
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Title The growth optimal portfolio in finite discrete market
 4:30 - 4:45 Yi Zhang
Title Approximation of tail probability of Poisson shot noise processes with heavy-tailed
 marks
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4:45 – 5:00 Yuguo Han
 Title Two-sample permutation test for location parameters when sample size is small
5:00 – 5:15 Liyuan Li
Title On block thresholding in wavelet regression with long memory correlated noise
Session 6 - F
Chair : Jingjing Wu
 3:00 – 3:15 Yang Jin
 Title Nonlinear autoregressive models with heavy-tailed innovation
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3:15 – 3:30 Degui Li
 Title Semiparametric additive models
3:30 – 3:45 Yue Fang
 Title Time series regression with autoregressive and heteroskedastic
 3:45 – 4:00 Yongge Tian

 Title On consistency, natural restrictions and estimability under general growth curve models
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4:00 – 4: 15 Jingjing Wu
 Title Robust empirical Bayes tests for discrete distributions
4:15- 4:30 Hong Wang
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Title Probabilistic models on fish size selectivity
 4:30 - 4:45 Hongjian Zhu
Title Sequential monitoring response-adative random clinical trails
 4:45 – 5:00 Jiawei Liu
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Title Modeling the covariance structure of longitudinal data by a generalized AIC
 5:00 – 5:15 Guoyou Qin
Title Robust empirical likelihood inference for longitudinal data