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Special Sessions

June 1984

I know what you did in that party in June 1984! A special session organized by Professor Simo Puntanen, University of Tampere, Finland, to celebrate 30 years of the Polish-Nordic column spaces. Speakers:
  • Barbara Bogacka - Queen Mary, University of London, UK
  • Jan Hauke - Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland
  • Augustyn Markiewicz - Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
  • Simo Puntanen - University of Tampere, Finland
  • Dietrich von Rosen - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

Small Area Estimation

A special session on small area estimation (SAE) will be organzied by Professor Stephen Haslett, Massey University, New Zealand. Speakers:
  • Geoffrey Jones - Massey University, New Zealand
    Title: "Hard" versus "soft" predictions from unit-level models for small area estimation of proportions
  • Timo Schmid - Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
    Title: Bias correction of robust small area estimators under spatial correlation
  • Innocent Ngaruye - Linköping university, Sweden
    Title: Small Area Estimation for multivariate repeated measures data
  • Stephen Haslett - Massey University, New Zealand
    Title: Small area estimation methods and their links to linear and linear mixed models

Computation-Intensive Methods in Regression Models

A special session on Computation-Intensive Methods will be organized by Professor Müjgan Tez, Marmara University, Turkey. Speakers:
  • Seçil Yalaz Toprak - Dicle University, Turkey
    Title: Semiparametric Regression in the Presence of Measurement Error
  • Esra Emiroglu - Istanbul University, Turkey
    Title: An alternative approach to solve the Lad-Lasso problem
  • Öyküm Esra Askin - Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
    Title: Gamma frailty for the exponential-zero truncated poisson distribution
  • Deniz Inan - Marmara University, Turkey
    Title: A Comparison of compound poisson class distributions
  • Birsen Eygi Erdogan - Marmara University, Turkey
    Title: Prediction of Turkish Bank Failures using Panel Factor Logistic Regression
  • Özlem Türkşen - Ankara University, Turkey
    Title: Optimization of Compartment Models by Using Metaheuristic Approaches
  • Esra Akdeniz-Duran - Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey
    Title: Efficiency of the Generalized Difference-based Liu Estimator in Partially Linear Models with Correlated Errors
  • Sellahattin Aydogdu - Yildiz Technical University, Turkey
    Title: Bootstrap approach in parallel analysis to determine non-zero canonical correlations

The use of Kronecker Product in Statistical Modeling

A special session on the use of Kronecker Product in Statistical Modeling will be organized by Associate Professor Anuradha Roy, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA. Speakers:
  • Tsung-I Lin - National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
    Title: Multivariate skew-normal linear mixed models for multi-outcome longitudinal data.
  • Wan-Lun Wang - Feng Chia University, Taiwan
    Title: Estimation in Multivariate t Nonlinear Mixed-effects Models with Missing Outcomes.
  • Katarzyna Filipiak - Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
    Title: Hypothesis testing for a separable covariance structure with AR(1) under the two-level multivariate model
  • Daniel Klein - P.J. Safarik University, Slovakia
    Title: Multivariate data with block compound symmetry covariance structure

Bayesian Inference for Complex Problems

A special session on Bayesian Inference for Complex Problems will be organzied by Professor Mattias Villani, Linköping University, Sweden. Speakers:
  • Michael Goldstein - Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham, UK
    Title: Bayes linear uncertainty analysis for complex computer models
  • Camila Caiado - Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham, UK
    Title: Bayesian uncertainty analysis for tipping points modelled by computer simulators
  • Patrik Waldmann - Linköping university, Sweden
    Title: SIS-BEN: an efficient two-stage approach for high dimensional analysis of correlated data
  • Måns Magnusson - Linköping university, Sweden
    Title: A Supervised Topic Models for Textual Data using a Multivariate probit model

Statistics in Life Sciences

A special session on Statistics in Life Sciences will be organzied by Dr Miguel Fonseca, New University of Lisbon, Portugal. Speakers:
  • Paulo Rodrigues - New University of Lisbon, Portugal
    Title: Robust singular value decomposition with application to multi-location plant breeding trials.
  • Francisco Carvalho - New University of Lisbon, Portugal
    Title: Mean Driven Balance and Uniformly Best Linear Unbiased Estimators
  • Marcin Przystalski - Coboru research centre for cultivar testing, Poland
    Title: Hypothesis testing in variance components with constraints
  • Miguel Fonseca - New University of Lisbon, Portugal.
    Title: Estimation and Hypothesis Testing in k-Level Multivariate Data

Statistical Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data

A special session on Statistical Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data will be organzied by Associate Professor, Tatjana Pavlenko, Department of Mathematics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. Speakers:
  • Natalia Stepanova - Carleton University, Canada
    Title: A new class of goodness-of-fit tests with applications to the problem of detecting sparse heterogeneous mixtures
  • Jose Sanchez - University of Gothenburg and Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Title: Joint estimation of transcription networks and expression in cancer with applications to classification
  • Rebecka Jörnsten - University of Gothenburg and Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Title: Network Component Resolution and Cancer Landscapes
  • Patrik Ryden - Umeå University, Sweden
    Title: Structure learning for improved classification accuracy for high-dimensional omics data
  • Annika Tillander - Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
    Title: Higher criticism for estimating proportion of non-null effect in high-dimensional multiple comparison

Linear models applied to complex problems

A special session on Linear models applied to complex problems will be organzied by Professor Thomas Holgersson, Jönköping University, Sweden. Speakers:
  • Chengcheng Hao - Stockholm University, Sweden
    Title: Explicit influence analysis for count data under AB--BA crossover trials
  • Yuli Liang - Stockholm University, Sweden
    Title: Hypothesis testing in multilevel models with block circular covariance structures
  • Matias Quiroz - Stockholm University and Sveriges Riksbank, Sweden
    Title: Speeding Up MCMC by Efficient Data Subsampling
  • Bertil Wegmann
    Title: Bayesian inference for heteroscedastic Rician time series with applications to fMRI

Design and Analysis of Experiments

A special session on Design and Analysis of Experiments will be organzied by Professor Augustyn Markiewicz, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland. Speakers:
  • Anthony Atkinson - London School of Economics, United Kingdom
    Title: Optimum Designs for Two Treatments with Unequal Variances
  • Barbara Bogacka - Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom
    Title: Optimum Dose Regimen in Clinical Trials
  • Dilip Ghosh - Saurashtra University, India
    Title: Study on partially balanced complete diallel crosses plans
  • Augustyn Markiewicz - Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland
    Title: On sufficiency of quadraticly sufficient statistics in possibly mixed model















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