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