Kedem Symposium

Agenda for Symposium in Honor of Benjamin Kedem

3206 Math Department
Glenn L. Martin Institute of Technology
University of Maryland, College Park

Thursday, July 30
7:45 am	Registration
8:20 am	Introductory Remarks
8:30 am	Emanuel Parzen -- United Applicable Statistics: Mid-distribution, Mid- quantile, Mid p Confidence Intervals Proportion p
9:30 am	Break
Session Chair: Victor De Oliviera
10:00 am	Kostas Fokianos -- Linear and Loglinear Poisson Autoregression
10:40 am	Ta-Hsin Li -- LaPlace Periodogram and Beyond
11:20 am	Anastasia Voulgaraki -- Estimation of Death Rates in U.S. States with Small Subpopulations
12:00 pm	Lunch
Session Chair: Harry Pavlopolous
2:00 pm	Neal Jeffries -- Odds Ratio Bias in Case-Control Studies Using Robust Genetic Models
2:40 pm	Jing Qin -- Statistical Methods for Analyzing Right-Censored Length-Biased Data under Cox Model
3:20 pm	James Troendle -- Empirical Likelihood and the Nonparametric Behrens-Fisher Problem
4:00 pm	Adjourn
7:00 pm	Banquet at Holiday Inn, College Park
Friday, July 31
8:30 am	Peter Bloomfield -- Modeling the Variance of a Time Series
9:30 am	Break
Session Chair: James Troendle
10:00 am	Victor De Oliviera -- Optimal Predictive Inference in Log-Gaussian Random Fields
10:40 am	Gerald North -- A Tale about Hockey Sticks
11:20 am	Harry Pavlopolous -- Introducing a Fractional Integer-valued Autoregressive Model for Time Series of Counts
12:00 pm	Lunch
Session Chair: Kostos Fokianos
2:00 pm	Donald Martin -- Distribution of Statistics of Hidden State Sequences Through the Sum-Product Algorithm
2:40 pm	Ritaja Sur -- Classification of Eye Movement Data
3:20 pm	Guanhua Lu -- Asymptotic Theories for Multiple-Sample Semiparametric Density Ratio Models
4:00 pm	Adjourn