30 Years of Bootstrap &
Recent Advances in Statistics
In memory of Yehuda Vardi
Presented by:
American Statistical Association, New Jersey Chapter
Rutgers University, Department of Statistics & Biostatistics
Friday, December 4, 2009
Fiber Optics Auditorium, Busch Campus, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ
Program
8:30am-9:00am: Registration/Refreshments
9:00am-9:15am: Opening Remarks
9:15am-10:15am:
"Working with Inexact Models: The World of Computer Modeling"
Speaker: Jim Berger, Duke University
Discussant: William Strawderman, Rutgers University
(10:15am-10:35am: Break)
10:35am-11:35am:
"30 Years of Bootstrap and Multiple Imputation: Joint
Replications versus Conditional Replications"
Speaker: Xiao-Li Meng, Harvard University
Discussant: Zhiqiang Tan, Rutgers University
(11:35am-11:45am: Break)
11:45am-12:45pm:
"Discovering Regression Structure with Bayesian
Additive Regression Trees"
Speaker: Ed George, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Ying Hung, Rutgers University
(12:45pm-2:40pm: ASA NJ Chapter Anniversary Cake Cutting & Lunch Break)
2:40pm-3:40pm:
"Multiple Testing, Super Learning and Targeted
Maximum Likelihood: Causal Biomarker Discovery"
Speaker: Mark Van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: John Storey, Princeton University
(3:40pm-3:50pm: Break)
3:50pm-4:50pm: Keynote
"Bootstrap Methods and the Accuracy of Large-Scale Estimates"
Speaker: Bradley Efron, Stanford University
Discussant: Kesar Singh, Rutgers University
4:50pm-5:45pm: Wine and Cheese Reception
Organizing committee:
Rutgers University:
Regina Liu (co-chair), Javier Cabrera, Ying Hung,
John Kolassa, Kesar Singh, William Strawderman,
Minge Xie, Cun-Hui Zhang ASA NJ Chapter:
CV Damaraju (J&J PRD, NJ) (co-chair), Al Barron (J&J PRD,
NJ), Zhaoling Meng (Sanofi-Aventis), Xiaolong Luo (Celgene, NY),
Wolde Woubneh (Kean University, NJ) Symposium Coordinator: Marcy Collins:
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