Invited Speakers

• Alan Agresti - Department of Statistics, University of Florida (USA). Title: Some Perspectives about Generalized Linear Modeling.
• S. Ejaz Ahmed - Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Brock University (Canada). Title: Big data, big bias, small surprise!
• Dennis Cook - School of Statistics, University of Minnesota (USA). Title: Envelopes: Methods for efficient estimation in multivariate statistics.
• Sat Gupta - Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Greensboro (USA). Title: Ratio and regression estimation of finite population mean using optional randomized response models.
• Lynn LaMotte - LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health, New Orleans (USA). Title: Factor-effect formulations such that ANOVA effects can be tested with deleted-terms sums of squares.
• Emmanuel Lesaffre - Leuven Biostatistics and Statistical Bioinformatics Centre (Belgium). Title: Joint modeling of a multilevel factor analytic model and a multilevel covariance regression model.
• Yonghui Liu - Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Shanghai Finance University (China). Title: Influence diagnostics in a vector autoregressive model.
• Thomas Mathew - Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA). Title: Small Sample Asymptotics: Two Applications.
• Jamal Najim - LIGM, Université de Marne La Vallée (France). Title: Spiked Models in Large Random Matrices and two statistical applications.
• Muni S. Srivastava - Department of Statistical Sciences, university of Toronto (Canada). Titel: Test for the mean in a Growth Curve model for high dimensions.
• Yongge Tian - China Economics and Management Academy (CEMA), Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing (China). Title: Formulas, equalities and inequalities for covariance matrices of estimations under a general linear model.
• Julia Volaufova - LSU Health Sciences Center School of Public Health, New Orleans (USA). Title: Generalized R^2 in Linear Mixed Models.

Ericsson Session - Young Scientists Awards

• Maryna Prus - Otto-von-Guericke University, Germany
  Title: Linear Aspects in Random Coefficient Regression Models: Optimal Designs for different criteria.
• Jolanta Pielaszkiewicz - Linköping university, Sweden
  Title: Free Probability approach to Random Matrices -- Statement of alternative Free Moment - Cumulant relation formula
• Fatma Sevinç Kurnaz - Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
  Title: A Robust Liu Regression Estimator
• Alena Bachratá - Slovakia
  Title: Experimental Designs under Resource Constraints: Algorithmic Construction

This special session, Young Scientists Awards, is sponsored by Ericsson AB and Svenska Statistikfrämjandet.