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Program

9 July

2:00-5:00 Registration Mingde Main Building 1030

10 July

8:00-12:30 Runrun Shaw Conference Center

8:00-12:00 Registration

8:30-8:50 Group Photo

8:50-9:30 Opening Ceremony

9:30-10:10 Plenary Talk 1

• Speaker: Peter Bickel, University of California, Berkeley • Chair: Jianqing Fan, Princeton University • Title: Some Examples of Statistical Inference in Genomics

10:10-10:50 Plenary Talk 2

• Speaker: Lawrence D. Brown, University of Pennsylvania • Chair: Harrison H. Zhou, Yale University • Title: Valid Statistical Inference after Model Selection

10:50-11:10 Tea Break 11:10-11:50 Plenary Talk 3

• Speaker: Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University • Chair: Linda H. Zhao, University of Pennsylvania • Title: Longitudinal Mixed-membership Models for Survey Data on Disability

11:50-12:30 Plenary Talk 4

• Speaker: Peter G. Hall, University of Melbourne • Chair: Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania • Title: Clustering High-dimensional Data Using Evidence of Multimodality

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

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14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.1 Mingde Main Building0404 Topic: Ultra high Dimensional Modeling and Computation

• Organizer: Organization Committee • Chair: Xihong Lin, Harvard University • 1. Jianqing Fan, Princeton University, Refitted Cross-validation in Ultrahigh

Dimensional Regression • 2. Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania, Optimal Estimation of a Large

Covariance Matrix • 3. Jun Liu, Harvard University, Naive Bayes Variable and Interaction Selection

14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.2 Mingde Main Building0405

Topic: Adaptive Designs and Clinical Trials

• Chair and Organizer: Feifang Hu, University of Virginia • 1. Jun Shao, University of Wisconsin – Madison, A Theory for Testing

Hypotheses under Covariate-adaptive Randomization • 2. Xiao-Hua Andrew Zhou, University of Washington, A Procedure for

Evaluating Predictive Accuracy of Biomarkers for Selecting Optimal Treatment • 3. Feifang Hu, University of Virginia, Response-adaptive Randomized Clinical

Trials: Overview and Future

14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.3 Mingde Main Building0407

Topic: Biological Network

• Chair and Organizer: Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley • 1. Edo Airoldi, Harvard University, Network Statistics and Processes on

Networks • 2. Hongzhe Li, University of Pennsylvania, Network-based Analysis of eQTL

Data • 3. Minghua Deng, Peking University, Modular Analysis of the Weighted

Genetic Interaction Network

14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.4 Mingde Main Building0409

Topic: Financial Statistics I

• Organizer: Per Mykland, University of Chicago • Chair: Qiwei Yao, London School of Economics • 1. Rong Chen, Rutgers University, Yield Curve with a Threshold Driving

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• 2. Yingying Fan, University of Southern California, Variable Selection in Linear Mixed Effects Models

• 3. Xinghua Zheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, On the Estimation of Integrated Covariance Matrices of High Dimensional Diffusion Processes

14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.5 Mingde Main Building0411

Topic: Recent Trends in Statistical Theory

• Chair: Maozai Tian, Renmin University of China • 1. Hans Nyquist, University of Stockholm, Sweden, Minimax Designs of

Experiments. • 2. Ping Wu, Air Force Radar Academy, Parameter Estimation for the Linear

Model with Linear Restrictions. • 3. Maozai Tian, Renmin University of China, Locally Adaptive Quantile

Regression and Its Applications. • 4. Pen-Hwang Liau, Pi-Hsiang Huang, Department of Mathematics, National

Kaohsiung Normal University, Kaohsiung, Construct Two-per-block Designs in 2k and 2k-p Plans.

14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.6 Mingde Main Building0413

Topic: Economical and Social Statistics I

• Chair: Yongjin Jing, Renmin University of China • 1. Changjiang Xu, University of Western Ontario, Generalized Information

Criteria for Model Selection with Penalized Maximum Likelihood Estimation. • 2. Jianping Zhu, Xiamen University, The Development of High-frequency

Financial Data Mining on Research Ideas. • 3. Yonghong Xu, Xiamen University, The Conception of Statistical Data

Quality and the Framework of Data Evaluation. • 4. Zhongyu Wang, Zhengquan Zhao, Harbin Institute of Technology, Study on

Teaching Methods of Exploring Econometrics.

14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.7 Mingde Main Building0415

Topic: Survival Analysis

• Chair: Xiaoling Lu, Renmin University of China • 1. Prasong Kitidamrongsuk, Assumption University Hua Mak Campus,

Discriminating Among the Families of Lifetime Distributions Used in Reliability.

• 2. Megan Othus, Fred Hutch, Marginalized Frailty Models for Multivariate Survival Data

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• 3. Bojuan Zhao, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Longitudinal Modeling of Age-specific Mortality.

• 4. Xi Luo, University of Pennsylvania, Average Case Analysis of Sparse Multivariate Regression under Noise.

14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.8 Mingde Main Building0416 Topic: Financial High Frequency Data Analysis

• Chair: Bo Zhang, Renmin University of China. • 1. Bing-Yi Jing, Xin-Bing Kong, etc. HKUST, Is There Evidence for the High

Frequency Data Being Purely Discontinuous? • 2. Zhi Liu, etc., HKUST, Telling Whether a Process Jumps When the

Observations are Contaminated • 3. Dedi Rosadi, Gadjah Mada University, INDONESIA, Testing for

Independence in Heavy Tailed Time Series: Empirical Application in France

14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.9 Mingde Main Building0417

Topic: Life Insurance, Pension and Social Security

• Chair: Xiaojun Wang, Renmin University of China. • 1. Shibin Song, Lizhi Feng, etc. SUN YAT-SEN University, Public Debt of

Medical Security System: Is China Following in America’s Footsteps? • 2. Jianwei Gao, North China Electric Power University, The Actuarial Analysis

of Tax Privilege Policy for Occupational Pension Plan. • 3. Yan Luo, Hunan University, Optimal Strategy of Insurer Based on Stochastic

Differential Game. • 4. Xiaojun Wang, Renmin University of China, The Outgo Risk of Chinese

Social Pension System.

14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 1.10 Mingde Main Building0418

Topic: Economical and Social Statistics II

• Chair: Jingping Li, Renmin University of China • 1. Guofu Peng, Lingzhi Zhang, etc., Hebei University of Economics and

Business, Reasonable Assessment of RMB Exchange Rate Based on the Bertrand Game Model

• 2. Jingping Li, Renmin University of China, An Empirical Accounting of Urban Land-use-right Assignment as Rent in China.

• 3. Minxue Gao, Xiaojuan Xu, Renmin University of China, Introducing Foreign Commercial Presence into Statistical System of International Trade ——The Case Study and Reevaluation for China.

• 4. Yanming Wang, Zhoughui Wang, Xiaohua Liu, Shandong Institute of Business and Technology, Research on Evaluation Method of China Enterprise Statistical Capacity.

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15:30-15:50 Tea Break 15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.1 Mingde Main Building0404 Topic: High-dimensional Modeling

• Chair and Organizer: Jinchi Lv, University of Southern California • 1. Gareth James, University of Southern California, Variable Selection Using

Adaptive Non-linear Interaction Structures in High dimensions • 2. Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota, On L0-regularization in

High-dimensional Regression • 3. Ji Zhu, University of Michigan, Extracting Communities from Networks

15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.2 Mingde Main Building0405 Topic: Social and Biological Networks

• Organizer: Joseph Chang, Yale University • Chair: David Pollard, Yale University • 1. David Hunter, Penn State University, Bayesian Inference for Contact

Networks Given Epidemic Data • 2. Eric Xing, Carnegie Mellon University, Dynamic Network Analysis: Model,

Algorithm, Theory, and Application • 3. Joseph Chang, Yale University, Recent Common Ancestors of Mankind

15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.3 Mingde Main Building0407 Topic: Semi-parametric and Causal Inference

• Chair and Organizer: Tianxi Cai, Harvard University • 1. Xiaohong Chen, Yale University, On Efficient Estimation and Inference of

Functionals of Semiparametric Conditional and Unconditional Moment Models • 2.Tyler VanderWeele, Harvard University, Causal Inference for Gene-gene and

Gene-environment Interactions • 3. Lu Tian, Stanford University, A General Efficiency Augmentation Method

15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.4 Mingde Main Building0409 Topic: Survival Analysis

• Organizer: Michael Korosok, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • Chair: Megan Othus, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center • 1. Jason P. Fine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Analysis of

Recurrent Episodes Data: the Length-Frequency Tradeoff • 2. Jianguo Sun, University of Missouri, The Additive Hazard Model for

Informatively Interval-censored Failure Time Data

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• 3. Yi Li, Harvard University, Principled Sure Independence Screening for Cox Models with Ultra-high-dimensional Covariates

15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.5 Mingde Main Building0411

Topic: Economical and Social Statistics III

• Chair: Wuyi Zeng, Xiamen University • 1. Yiwen Liu, Hunan University, Research of Factors on China's Regional

Differences in Energy Efficiency -Based on Partial Least-squares Regression Analysis.

• 2. Xinhua He, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Some Remarkable Discrepancies in China’s GDP Accounting.

• 3. Wuyi Zeng, Xiamen University, The Research on the Basic Issues of Government’s Statistical Data Quality.

• 4. Li he, China Research Institute for Science, Popularization Research on Population Science Literacy in Xiaoguan Communities, Chaoyang District, Beijing.

15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.6 Mingde Main Building0413

Topic: Economical and Social Statistics IV

• Chair: Yanyang Yan, Hunan University • 1. Weiwei Ouyang, Wuhan University, Analysis of the Main Factors Affecting

the Quantity of Private Cars in China. • 2. Yamin Liang, Xiaowei Yang, Gansu Political Science and Law Institute,

Empirical Study on the Relations between Chinese Urbanization and the Crime Rate--cointegration Analysis in Considering Structural Break.

• 3. Yanyang Yan, Meizhe Song, Hunan University, The Empirical Study on the Interactions within the 3E System and the Influence Factors.

• 4. Xiulin Geng, Nanjing University, About the Diagnoses among the Multiple Quality Characteristics and Multi-causal Relationships Based on PLSPM

15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.7 Mingde Main Building0415

Topic: Economical and Social Statistics V

• Chair: Tinggan Yang, Shanghai Institute of Finance • 1. Chao Qu, School of Statistics Dongbei University of Finance and Economics,

A Study of Information Industry Classification Based on the Research of ISIC Rev.4.

• 2. Wei Zhang, Guangying Liu, etc. , Nanjing Audit University, Financial Intermediaries, Hedging and Risk Management.

• 3. Chang Hong, Xiamen University, Analysis on the Survey of the Rural-urban Education Difference.

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• 4. Jiajuan Liang and William S. Y. Pan, University of New Haven, A MATLAB-Aided Method for Teaching Calculus-based Business Mathematics.

15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.8 Mingde Main Building0416

Topic: Stochastic Financial Models

• Chair: Bingyi Jing, HKUST • 1. Tao Bi, Bo Zhang, Renmin University of China , Optimal Combinations of

Realized Measures Based on Lasso. • 2. Xinbing Kong, HKUST, Is It Necessary to Add a Diffusion Term onto a Pure

Jump Model? • 3. Hui Gong, Shanghai Lixin University of Commerce, Based on EGARCH

Model to Analyses Stock Returns of Apple Inc.

15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.9 Mingde Main Building0417

Topic: Risk Management and Life Insurance

• Chair: Rongming Wang, East China Normal University • 1. Xiangyang Huang, Renmin University of China, Sources-of-earning

Analysis by Life Insurers in China: Practice and Actuarial Guidelines. • 2. Jingping Yang, Peking University, A Class of Multivariate Copulas with

Bivariate Frechet Marginal Copulas. • 3. Rongming Wang, East China Normal University, Risk-minimizing Hedging

Strategies for Unit-linked Life Insurance Contracts under a Regime Switching Levy Model.

• 4. Bojuan Barbara Zhao, Xiangliang Liang, etc. , Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, The End of Decreasing Fertility in China? An Application of a Modified Lee-Carter Model

15:50-17:20 Parallel Session 2.10 Mingde Main Building0418

Topic: Machine Learning and Bayesian Networks

• Chair and Organizer: Jianhua Guo, Northeast Normal University. • 1. Xiaofei Wang, Northeast Normal University, Finding the Minimal Set for

Collapsible Graphical Models. • 2. Ping He, Peking University, Conditional Independence Test for Binary Data

and Its Applications on DAG Learning. • 3. Binghui Liu, Jilin University, The Collapsibility and Decomposition of the

Likelihood Ratio Tests for Graphical Models. • 4. Pingfen Xu, Northeast Normal University, An Improved Iterative

Proportional Scaling Procedure for Gaussian Graphical Models.

17:30 Conference Banquet F.S. Grand Banquet

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11 July

8:00-12:30 Run run Shaw Conference Center

8:30-9:10 Plenary Talk 5

• Speaker: Zhiming Ma, Chinese Academy of Sciences • Chair: Xuming He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Title: Probability and Statistics Problems Arising from Internet IR

9:10-9:50 Plenary Talk 6

• Speaker: Lawrence Shepp, Rutgers University • Chair: Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley • Title: How NOT to Do Statistics

9:50-10:10 Tea Break 10:10-10:50 Plenary Talk 7

• Speaker: David O. Siegmund, Stanford University • Chair: Xihong Lin, Harvard University • Title: Detecting Simultaneous Change-points in Aligned Sequences

10:50-11:30 Plenary Talk 8

• Speaker: Michael S. Waterman, University of Southern California • Chair: Jun Liu, Harvard University • Title: Eulerian Graphs and Reading DNA Sequences

11:30-12:10 Plenary Talk 9

• Speaker: Wing Hung Wong, Stanford University • Chair: Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota • Title: Optional Polya Tree and Bayesian Inference

12:10-13:30 Lunch Break the North Canteen 13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.1 Mingde Main Building0404 Topic: Financial Statistics II

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• Chair and Organizer: Yingying Fan, University of Southern California • 1. Yingying Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Vast

Volatility Matrix Estimation Using High Frequency Data for Portfolio Selection • 2. Qiwei Yao, London School of Economics, Modelling High-dimensional

Volatilities • 3. Pengsheng Ji, Cornell University, Phase Diagram for Variable Selection and

Non-optimal Regions for L1 and L0 Penalization Methods

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.2 Mingde Main Building0405 Topic: Asymptotic Theory

• Organizer: Mark Low, University of Pennsylvania • Chair: Zheyang Wu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute • 1. Ian McKeague, Columbia University, Power under Local Alternatives for

Generalized Estimating Equations • 2. David Pollard, Yale University, Maximum Likelihood in an

Infinite-dimensional Exponential Family • 3. Mark Low, University of Pennsylvania, Estimation of a Nonsmooth

Functional

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.3 Mingde Main Building0407 Topic: Statistics in Medical and Healthcare Studies

• Chair and Organizer: Ming Yuan, Georgia Institute of Technology • 1. Haiyan Huang, University of California, Berkeley, A Bayesian Approach to

Transforming Public Gene Expression Repositories into Disease Diagnosis Databases

• 2. Hongyu Zhao, Yale University, Weighted Random Subspace Method for High Dimensional Data Classification

• 3. Joseph Wu, University of Hong Kong, A Serial Cross-sectional Serologic Survey of 2009 Pandemic (H1N1) in Hong Kong: Implications for Future Pandemic Influenza Surveillance

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.4 Mingde Main Building0409

Topic: Multivariate Statistics

• Chair: Jing Li, University of Minnesota • 1. Chao Liu, Beihang University, Some Statistical models Based on Sparse

Principal Components Analysis and its application. • 2. Jing Li, University of Minnesota, An Introduction to the Directional

Dependence in the Copula Regression Setting.

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• 3. Yang Li, Danhui Yi, etc., Renmin University of China, Modeling Longitudinal Multiple-Endpoints Data with Iterative Estimating Equations.

• 4. Xiaoqing Ai, Beijing University of Technology, The Improvement of Random Sampling when Extreme Value Exists

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.5 Mingde Main Building0411

Topic: High-dimensional Data Analysis

• Chair: Songxi Chen, Peking University • 1. Zhidong Bai, National University of Singapore and Northeast China Normal

University, On Corrections of Classical Multivariate Tests for High-dimensional Data

• 2. Hansheng Wang, Peking University, On Factor Profiling for Ultra High Dimensional Variable Selection.

• 3. Songxi Chen, Peking University and Iowa State University, Tests for High Dimensional Covariance Matrices.

• 4.Yuexiao Dong, Temple University, Dimension Reduction for the Conditional K-th Moment via Central Solution Space

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.6 Mingde Main Building0413

Topic: Risk Management and Non-life Actuarial Models I

• Chair: Leping Liu, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics • 1. Zhigang Xie, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Actuarial

Studies for General Insurance Solvency Standards. • 2. Zhengyan Xiao, Renmin University of China, Distribution of Earthquake

Damage in Different Risk Regions in China • 3. Yanting Zheng, Jingping Yang, etc., Peking University, Approximation of

Bivariate Copulas by Convex Sums of Distributions with Bivariate Frechet Copulas.

• 4. Baige Duan, Nankai University, Mack Model in Claims Reserving and its R Implementation

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.7 Mingde Main Building0415

Topic: Analysis and Comparison of Productivity

• Chair: Ruoen Ren, Beihang University • 1. Haitao Zheng, Ruoen Ren, Beihang University, Assessing China's Industrial

Competitiveness by TFP Level Comparison with Japan: 1995-2006. • 2. Huayin Yu, Malin Song, Anhui University of Finance and Economics,

Evaluation of Agriculture-Related Enterprises' Productivity Based on Portfolio Measurement-Data Envelopment Analysis Models.

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• 3. Linlin Sun, Beihang Universtiy, The Contribution of ICT to China Economic Growth.

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.8 Mingde Main Building0416

Topic: Economical and Social Statistics VI

• Chair: Xinhua He, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences • 1. Shiguo Liu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, The Latest Progress on

Balance of Payment Statistics and China's Recent Practice. • 2. Xiaoer Liu Xiamen University, Comparison on Statistical Data Quality

between China and US Based on DQAF. • 3. Yu Jin, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, The New

Development of the Quality of Public Sector Statistics. • 4. Shiying Yang, Capital University of Economics and Business, The Review of

Theoretical Analysis Concerning Environmental Kuznets Curve and Re-thinking of its Existence in China.

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.9 Mingde Main Building0417

Topic: Biostatistics

• Chair: Dong Yi, Third Military Medical University • 1. Yazhou Wu, Dong Yi, etc., Third Military Medical University, Methods of

Gene Regulatory Network Model for Expression Data of Temporal Gene. • 2. Jun Ma, Chang-ping Li, etc., Tianjin Medical University, Logistic Regression

Analyses of Risk Factors and Predictiving Peripheral Neuropathy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.

• 3. Manyu Wong, Yingsi Yang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Three Estimators for Poisson Regression Model with Measurement Error.

• 4..Wheyming T. Song and Samping Chuang, National Tsing Hua University, Davis Senior High School, Davis, California, USA, A Finite-Memory Algorithm of Batch Means Estimators in Estimating the Variance of the Sample Mean in Statistical Experiments

13:30-15:00 Parallel Session 3.10 Mingde Main Building0418

Topic: Nonparametric Regression

• Chair: Yong Zhou, Chinese Academy of Sciencess • 1. Yanyan Ren, Shandong University, Local Government Investment, Limited

Access and Economic Growth—Evidence from Chinese Provincial Panel Data.

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• 2. Huazhen Lin, Sichun University, A Nonparametric Estimation of the Infection Curve.

• 3.Shangyu Xie, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wavelet Analysis of Change-points in a Non-parametric Regression with Heteroscedastic Variance.

• 4. Yinguo Li, Xiaoqun He, Renmin University of China, Clustering Method for Panel Data.

15:00-15:20 Tea Break 15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.1 Mingde Main Building0404 Topic: Optimalities in High Dimensional Estimation

• Organizer: Harrison Zhou, Yale University • Chair: Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania • 1. Zheyang Wu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Penalized Model Selection

and Asymptotic Minimaxity. • 2. Ming Yuan, Georgia Institute of Technology, Sparse Regularization for High

Dimensional Additive Models • 3. Harrison Zhou, Yale University, Some Recent Work Inspired by Le Cam's

Theory

15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.2 Mingde Main Building0405 Topic: Ubiquitous Gaussian Models

• Chair and Organizer: Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania • 1. Samuel Kou, Harvard University, Optimal Shrinkage Estimation in

Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models • 2. Feng Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Classify Data

Clouds: Hierarchical Gaussianization for Image Classification • 3. Tao Shi, Ohio State University, Statistical Modeling of AIRS Level 3

Quantization Data

15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.3 Mingde Main Building0407 Topic: Recent Developments on Machine Learning

• Chair and Organizer: Xiaotong Shen, University of Minnesota • 1. Rui Song, Colorado State University, Nonparametric Independence

Screening in Sparse Ultra-High Dimensional Feature Space • 2. Jinchi Lv, University of Southern California, Non-Concave Penalized

Likelihood with NP-Dimensionality

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• 3. Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley, Spectral Clustering and the High-Dimensional Stochastic Block Model

15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.4 Mingde Main Building0409 Topic: Statistical Genomics

• Chair and Organizer: Hongyu Zhao, Yale University • 1. Zehua Chen, National University of Singapore, A Two-stage Penalized

Logistic Regression Approach to Case-control Genome-wide Association Studies

• 2. Jianhua Guo, Northeast Normal University, Genome-Wide Association Studies Using Haplotype Clustering with A New Haplotype Similarity.

• 3. Yu Zhang, Penn State University, Fast and Accurate False Positive Control in Genome-wide Association Studies.

15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.5 Mingde Main Building0411

Topic: Statistical Models I

• Chair: Yongcheng Qi, University of Minnesota Duluth • 1. Yongcheng Qi, University of Minnesota Duluth, A Modified Likelihood

Method for Generalized Pareto Distributions. • 2. Zhigang Ouyang, Qing Xi, East China Jiaotong University, The Estimation of

Cointegrating Smooth Transition Regressions Model. • 3. Wei Gao, Xi'an University of Finance and Economics, Generalized Directed

Acyclic Graphs Models for the Identification of Nonlinear VAR Models. • 4. Yu Wang, Renmin University of China, The Exploratory Study of Quality

Evaluation of Sensitive Data.

15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.6 Mingde Main Building0413

Topic: Risk Management and Non-life Actuarial Models II

• Chair: Zhigang Xie, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics • 1. Lianzeng Zhang, Nankai University, Lognormal Models for Loss Reserving

and Its Application Using Bootstrap. • 2. Leping Liu, Tianjin University of Finance and Economics, Estimating

Bayesian Credit Interval for Loss Reserve Models. • 3. Zhigang Wang, Inner Mongolia Finance and Economics College, Application

on Non-Parameter Quantile Estimation in the Solvency Margin of China Non-life Companies.

• 4. Shengwang Meng, Lu Zhibo, Wang Bo, Renmin University of China, Credibility Models Based on Generalized Linear Models.

15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.7 Mingde Main Building0415

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Topic: Regression analysis I

• Chair: Zhongyi Zhu, Fudan University • 1. Jinhong You, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,

Varying-Coefficient Multidimensional Cluster Data Regression Models. • 2.Weimin Qian, Tongji University, Testing Serial Correlation for Partially

Nonlinear Models

• 3. Zhongyi Zhu，Fudan University, Joint Mean-Covariance Models With

Applications To Longitudinal Data In Partially Linear Model. • 4. Rongxian Yue, Shanghai Normal University, Optimal Designs for

Multiresponse Regression Models.

15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.8 Mingde Main Building0416

Topic: Economical and Social Statistics VI

• Chair: Faqi Shi, National Bureau of Statistics of China • 1. Dezhi Liu, Benhua Wang, Shijiazhuang University of Economics,

Construction of County Green GDP Accounting System and its application—Take the Jingxing Mining Area, Shijiazhuang City as Example.

• 2. Haiying Wu, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Ownership-Based Accounting of National Foreign Trade Balance.

• 3. Zhan Cao, Yantai Nanshan University, A Self-Organising Model of Shareholders in a Securities Market.

• 4. Faqi Shi, National Bureau of Statistics of China, Study on How to Align GDP Estimates in Non-Census Years with Those in the Census Years

15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.9 Mingde Main Building0417

Topic: Statistical Inference with Missing Data

• Chair: Guohua Zou, Chinese Academy of Sciences • 1.Qihua Wang, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese

Academy of Sciencess , New Estimation with Minimum Trace of Asymptotic Covariance Matrix in Surrogate Outcome Regression Problems

• 2. Niansheng Tang, Department of Statistics, Yunnan University, Bayesian Case Influence Measures for Models with Missing Data.

• 3. Jian Tao, Northeast Normal University, Bayesian Estimation of the Multidimensional Graded Response Model with Nonignorable Missing Data.

• 4. Guohua Zou, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciencess, Imputation for Missing Data under PPSWR Sampling.

15:20-16:50 Parallel Session 4.10 Mingde Main Building0418

Topic: Regression analysis II

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• Chair: Hengjian Cui, Beijing Normal University. • 1. Ying Yang, Tsinghua University, Modelling Time Dependent Overdispersion

in Longitudinal Count Data. • 2. Yingan Liu, Nanjing Forestry University, Statistical Analysis of Regression

Models with Time Serial Errors. • 3. Xia Chen, Shanxi Normal University, Empirical Likelihood for Generalized

Linear Models with Missing Responses at Random. • 4.Dehui Wang, Jilin University,

Statistical Analysis of Integer-valued Time Series

16:50-17:10 Tea Break 17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.1 Mingde Main Building0404 Topic: Statistical Methodology

• Chair and Organizer: Xuming He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • 1. Yuguo Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Multiset

Sampler • 2. Roger Koenker, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Additive

Models for Quantile Regression • 3. Alan Welsh, Australian National University, Extra Zeros in Count Data

17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.2 Mingde Main Building0405 Topic: Longitudinal Data Modeling

• Chair and Organizer: Peter Song, University of Michigan • 1. Xihong Lin, Harvard University, Statistical Methods for Association

Analysis of Genome-wide Sequencing Studies for Rare Variants • 2. Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Model Selection of

Correlation Structure for Clustered Data • 3. Peter Song, University of Michigan, Selection of Fixed and Random Effects

through Doubly Penalized REML

17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.3 Mingde Main Building0407

Topic: Methods in Error Prone Measurements

• Organizer: Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania • Chair: Haipeng Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • 1. Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University, Density Estimation for a

Non-Gaussian Random Variable Observed with Measurement Error - Applications to Dietary Assessment

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• 2. Jiayang Sun, Case Western Reserve University, New Approach to Estimation for Data with General Measurement Error

• 3. Linda Zhao, University of Pennsylvania, Learning from Crowds

17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.4 Mingde Main Building0409

Topic: Design and Process Control

• Organizer：Zhaojun Wang, NanKai University • 1.Runchu Zhang , Nankai University, A Theory of General Minimum

Lower-order Confounding • 2. Mingyao Ai, Peking University, Nested Lattice Samples for Computer

Experiments. • 3. Kaibo Wang, Tsinghua University, A Variable-Selection-based Multivariate

EWMA Chart for Process. • 4. Changliang Zou, Nankai University, Statistical Process Control for Profile

Monitoring with Within-profile Correlations.

17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.5 Mingde Main Building0411

Topic: Statistical Models II

• Chair: Jianping Zhu, Xiamen University • 1.Chunrong Ai, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, A Unified

Theory of Functional Coefficients Models • 2. Xinyu Zhang, Alan T.K. Wanb and Guohua Zou, Chinese Academy of

Sciencess Model Averaging by Cross Validation. • 3. Yong Zhou, Alan T.K. Wan and Shangyu Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences

and Shanghai Universtiy of Finance and Economics, Efficient Estimation and Inference for Quantile Regression with Varying-Coefficient Models with Censoring.

• 4.Xiaoling Lu, Fan Xia, etc., Renmin University of China, Kim's Model or Bhat's Model for Time-use Decision.

17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.6 Mingde Main Building0413

Topic: Statistical Diagnostics

• Chair: Lei Shi, Yunnan University • 1.Yinglei Lai, The George Washington University, On the Adaptive Partition

Approach to the Detection of Multiple Change-points. • 2.Shunpu Zhang, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Sequence Comparison Using

Multi-Order Markov Chains. • 3.Lei Shi, Yunnan University, Stepwise Local Influence and Its Applications.

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• 4.Haiming Lin,Zifang Du, Renmin University of China, When Principal Component Analysis Obtains More Satisfactory Results?

17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.7 Mingde Main Building0415

Topic: Theory of Estimation

• Chair: Wong Man-Yu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. • 1.Ali Shadrokh, Hassan Pazira, Department of Statistics, Payame Noor

University of Tehran, Iran, Estimation of Parameters of the Exponentiated Gamma Distribution in the Presence of Outlier

• 2.Kani Chen and Yuanyuan Lin, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Efficient Estimation of Censored Linear Regression Model.

• 3.Nan Lin, Ruibin Xi, Washington University in St. Louis and Harvard Medical School, Aggregated Estimating Equation of the U-statistics Type

• 4.Wong Man-Yu, Yang Yingsi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology , Three Estimators for Poisson Regression Model with Measurement Error

17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.8 Mingde Main Building0416

Topic: Time Series

• Chair: Richard Song, Humboldt University zu Berlin & University of California, Berkeley.

• 1. Pradthana Minsan and Pachitjanut Siripanich, National Institute of Development Administration, Permutation Test for Partial Regression Coefficient on First-order Autocorrelation.

• 2.R. J. Bhansali, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Nonelinear Long Memory Time Series Models

• 3.Richard Song, Humboldt University zu Berlin & University of California , Berkeley, Nonstationary Time Series Modelling with Generalized Semiparametric Factor Dynamics

17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.9 Mingde Main Building0417

Topic: Economical and Social Statistics ⅤII

• Chair: Xiulin Geng, Nanjing University • 1. Xicang Zhao, Jiangsu University, Research on the Statistical Indicator

System of Enterprise Intellectual Property. • 2. Yilin Wu, Jacques Mairesse, etc. Renmin University of China,

Employment Growth, Export and Innovation in China: A Firm Level Comparison across Regions, Industries, Ownership Types and Size Classes.

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• 3. Ruijun Xing, Yanyun Zhao, Renmin University of China, Study on the Growth Path & Factor Effects of China's New Industrialization.

• 4.Yuhuan Sun, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Real Estate Hedonic Price Index Construction-Based on Empirical Test of the Commodity Housing Market in Dalian

17:10-18:40 Parallel Session 5.10 Mingde Main Building0418

Topic: Statistical Models

• Chair: Jingxiao Zhang, Renmin University of China, • 1.Feng Z, Wong W, Gao X and Schenkel F, University of Guelph, University of

Toronto, York University, University of Guelph, Generalized Genetic Association Study with Samples of Related Individuals

• 2.Xin Dang, University of Mississippi, Projection Based Scatter Depth Functions and Associated Scatter Estimators

• 3. Chao Yu, Jingxiao Zhang, Renmin University of China, Bayesian Approach to Markov Switching Stochastic Volatility Model with Jumps.

• 4. Tahani A. Abushal, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Applied Science, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia, Bayesian Prediction Based on Doubly Censored Order Statistics from a Class of Distributions.

18:50 Dinner the North Canteen

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8:30-10:00 Parallel Session 6.1 Jourlism Mingde Building0403 Topic: High Dimensional Data Analysis

• Organizer: Lie Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology • Chair: Rui Song, Colorado State University • 1. Peter Radchenko, University of Southern California, Variable selection using

Adaptive Non-linear Interaction Structures in High dimensions • 2. Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University, A Compressed PCA Subspace Method for

Anomaly Detection in High-dimensional Data • 3. Jie Peng, University of California, Davis, High-dimensional Network

Inference with Applications in Genomics

8:30-10:00 Parallel Session 6.2 Mingde Main Building0417 Topic: Analysis of Neuroimaging Data

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• Organizer: Chunming Zhang, University of Wisconsin-Madison • Chair: Nan Lin, Washington University in St. Louis • 1. Martin Lindquist, Columbia University, Functional Data Analysis, Causal

Inference and Brain Connectivity • 2. Seonjoo Lee, Haipeng Shen and Young Truong, University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill, Independent Component Analysis Involving Autocorrelated Sources with an Application to Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

• 3. Y. Michelle Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Statistical Analysis for Structural and Functional Brain Images

8:30-10:00 Parallel Session 6.3 Mingde Main Building0418 Topic: Causal Inference in Observational Studies

• Organizer: Bo Lu, Ohio State University • Chair: Yuguo Chen, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • 1. Kosuke Imai, Princeton University, A Bayesian Measurement Model of

Political Support for Endorsement Experiments, with Application to the Militant Groups in Pakistan

• 2. Bo Lu, Ohio State University, Causal Inference in Repeated Cross-Sectional Observational Studies

• 3. Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania, Causal Inference for Continuous Time Processes When Covariates Are Observed Only at Discrete Times

8:30-10:00 Parallel Session 6.4 Business School,Mingde Building0407 Topic: Resampling Methods in Statistical Learning

• Organizer: Peter Buehlmann, ETH Zürich • Chair: Xi Luo, University of Pennsylvania • 1. Francis Bach, Ecole Normale Superieure, High-Dimensional Non-Linear

Variable Selection • 2. Xuming He, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Wild Bootstrap for

M Estimators of Linear Regression • 3. Yichao Wu, North Carolina State University, An Ordinary Differential

Equation Based Solution Path Algorithm

8:30-10:00 Parallel Session 6.5 Mingde Main Building1016

Topic: Statistical Inference

• Chair: Jing Bing-Yi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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• 1. A.Asgharzadeh and M. Abdi, University of Mazandaran, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran, Joint Condence Regions for the Parameters of the Weibull Distribution Based on Records

• 2. Chi-Chung Wen, Tamkang University, Cox Regression for Current Status Data with Missing Covariates

• 3. Jing Bing-Yi, Liu Zhi, Kong Xin-Bing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Telling whether a Process Jumps When the Observations are Contaminated

• 4. Nissim Ben David and Evyatar Ben David, Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel, Estimating Soccer Results in the Israeli League.

8:30-10:00 Parallel Session 6.6 Mingde Main Building 1030

Topic: Semiparametric Methods in Survival Analysis

• Chair: Liuquan Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences • 1. Shaojun Guo, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS ,

Variance Estimation Using Refitted Cross-validation in Ultrahigh Dimensional Regression.

• 2. Xiaoyun Mu, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, Regression Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Time-dependent Covariates and Informative Observation Times.

• 3. Hui Zhao, Huazhong Normal University, A Semiparametric Marginal Additive Model for Recurrent and Terminal Events.

8:30-10:00 Parallel Session 6.7 Runrun Shaw Conference Center

• Chair: Fei Peng • Topic: The Publishment Conference of Consumer Confidence Index of China

10:00-10:20 Tea Break 10:20-11:50 Parallel Session 7.1 Jouralism Mingde Building0403

Topic: Random Matrix Theory and Graphical Models

• Chair and Organizer: Noureddine El Karoui, University of California , Berkeley • 1. Helene Massam, York University in Canada, Conjugate Priors for Covariance

Matrices • 2. Jian-feng Yao, University of Rennes in France, On Corrections of Classical

Multivariate Tests for High-Dimensional Data • 3. Noureddine El Karoui, University of California, Berkeley,

High-dimensionality Effects in the Markowitz Problem and Quadratic Programs with Linear Constraints

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10:20-11:50 Parallel Session 7.2 Mingde Main Building0417 Topic: Sparse Inference

• Organizer: Jiashun Jin, Carnegie Mellon University • Chair: Pengsheng Ji, Cornell University • 1. Ery Arias-Castro, University of California, San Diego, Improving on

ANOVA Under Strong Sparsity • 2. Bin Nan, University of Michigan, Anna Arbor, Grouped Variable Selection in

the Cox Model • 3. Aarti Singh, Carnegie Mellon University, Detecting Weak,

Hierarchically-structured Sparse Network Activations

10:20-11:50 Parallel Session 7.3 Mingde Main Building 0418 Topic: Recent Development of Bayesian Methods for Social Science

• Organizer: Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri • Chair: Feng Liang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • 1. Jong-Min Kim, University of Minnesota-Morris, Bayesian Analysis of

Randomized Response Sum Score Variables • 2. Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri, Bayesian Hierarchical Models for

Recognition-Memory and Other Psychological Experiments • 3. Jan Hannig, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Comparison between

Fiducial and Objective Bayesian Inference

10:20-11:50 Parallel Session 7.4 Business School, Mingde Building0407 Topic: Regularization Methods for Functional and High Dimensional Data

• Organizer: Harrison Zhou, Yale University • Chair: Austin Lee, Boston University • 1. Tianxi Cai, Harvard University, A Perturbation Method for Inference on

Regularized Regression Estimates • 2. Haipeng Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, The Analysis of

Two-Way Functional Data Using Two-Way Regularized Singular Value Decompositions

• 3. Fang Yao, University of Toronto, Additive Modeling of Functional Gradients

8:30-10:00 Parallel Session 7.5 Mingde Main Building1016 Topic: Image Related Statistics

• Chair: Zhou Zhou, University of Toronto

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• 1. Nam H. Lee and Carey E. Priebe, Johns Hopkins University, From a Point Process to Anomaly Detection in a Time Series of Random Dot Product Graphs.

• 2.Zhigang Yao, University of Pittsburgh, A Wavelet Approach on Estimating the Number of Signal Sources Based on Virtual Dimensionality in Magneto Encephalography

• 3. Zhou Zhou, University of Toronto, Robust Inference for Linear Models with Dependent Errors.

10:20-11:50 Parallel Session 7.6 Mingde Main Building 1030 Discussion on Master of Applied Statistics I 10:20-11:50 Parallel Session 7.7 Runrun Shaw Conference Center

Topic: Indices Research

• Organizer: Fei Peng, Renmin University of China • Chair: Bangchang Xie，Fu Jen Catholic University • 1. Wei Yuan, Renmin University of China, Zhengqin Hui, The People’s Bank of

China, Studies on China's Development Index. • 2. Yanyun Zhao, Renmin University of China, Feng Zhen, Central University of

Finance and Economics, Structure and Methodology of Chinese Regional Innovation Index.

• 3. Yuantao Xie, University of International Business & Economics, Fei Peng, Renmin University of China, China’s External Trade Indices（1992-2004）Compilation

• 4. Yongjin Jin, Xin Wei, Renmin University of China, China’s Consumer Confidence Index compiled with the studies.

12:00 Lunch The North Canteen

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