The 9th Tartu Conference on
Multivariate Statistics &
The 20th International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics
26 June - 1 July 2011, Tartu, Estonia
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Programme Schedule

Sunday, 26 June
  16.00-20.00  Registration
Monday, 27, June
   8.00- 9.00 Registration
   9.05- 9.20 Opening
   9.20-13.00 Sessions 1,2
  13.00-14.30 Lunch
  14.30-17.30 Sessions 3A, 3B, 4
  17.45-19.15 Guided walking tour in Tartu
  20.00-22.00 Welcome Reception
Tuesday, 28 June
   9.00-12.40 Sessions 5,6
  12.40-14.10 Lunch
  14.10-17.10 Session 7
Wednesday, 29 June
   9.00-12.40 Sessions 8A, 8B, 9A, 9B
  12.40-14.00 Lunch
  14.00-20.00 Excursion(s)
Thursday, 30 June 
   9.00-13.00 Sessions 10, 11
  13.00-14.30 Lunch
  14.30-17.30 Sessions 12A, 12B, 13
  19.00-22.00 Conference Dinner
Friday, 1 July 
  Departure

 

Programme

Sunday, June 26th
16.00-20.00    Registration J. Liivi 2, foyer
Monday, June 27th
8.00-9.00    Registration J. Liivi 2, foyer
9.05-9.20    Opening. Room 111
9.20-11.00    Session 1.
Chair: Ene-Margit Tiit. Room 111
9.20-10.20     Keynote Lecture
I. Olkin: Life distributions in survival analysis and reliability: Structure of semiparametric families
10.20 - 11.00      Invited Lecture
A. Azzalini: On estimation problems for multivariate skew-symmetric distributions
11.00 - 11.20      Coffee Break
11.20 - 13.00      Session 2.
Chair: Imbi Traat. Room 111
11.20 - 12.00      Invited Lecture
B. Sinha: Privacy protection and quantile estimation under noise multiplication.
12.00 - 12.20      Y. K. Belyaev: Analysis of contingent valuation data with self-selected rounded WTP-intervals collected by two-steps sampling plans.
12.20 - 12.40      N. Lepik: Estimation under restrictions built upon biased initial estimators.
12.40 - 13.00      P. E. Oliveira: Polynomial smoothing of discrete sparsely observed distribution
13.00 - 14.30      Lunch
14.30 - 15.50      Session 3A. High-dimensional analysis. Contributed papers.
Chair: Muni S. Srivastava. Room 111
14.30 - 14.50      D. Adolf, S. Kropf: Block-wise permutation tests for correlated multivariate imaging data.
14.50 - 15.10      S. Kropf, G.-C. Ding, H. Heuer, K. Smalla: A modified principal component test for high-dimensional data
15.10 - 15.30      M. R. Ahmad, M. Ohlson, D. von Rosen: Some tests for covariance matrices with large dimension.
15.30 - 15.50      J. Pielaszkiewicz, M. Ohlson, D. von Rosen: Asymptotics for the normalized spectral function
14.30 - 15.50      Session 3B. Applications in transport.
Chair: Kalev Pärna. Room 405
14.30 - 14.50      A. Andronov: Maximum likelihood estimates for Markov-additive processes of arrivals by aggregated data
14.50 - 15.10      M. Hauka, Y. Paramonov: Minimax decision for solution of the problem of aircraft and airline reliability processing results of acceptance full-scale fatigue test of airframe.
15.10 - 15.30      I. Foox, I. Glukhova, G. Koshkin: Semi-recursive algorithms nonparametric of identification and control.
15.30 - 15.50      N. Medvedev, P. Panfilov: Methods and algorithms for estimation of statistical characteristics of the MPLS network
15.50 - 16.10      Coffee Break
16.10 - 17.30      Session 4. Distribution theory.
Chair: Tõnu Kollo. Room 111
16.10 - 16.30      R. A. Arellano-Valle, W.-D. Richter: On skewed ln,p-symmetric distributions
16.30 - 16.50      C. M. Cuadras, W. Diaz: Another generalization of bivariate FMG distributions.
16.50 - 17.10      H. Ogasawara: Cornish-Fisher expansions using sample cumulants and monotonic transformations.
17.10 - 17.30      M. Pihlak: Using Edgeworth expansion approximating two- and three-dimensional probability distribution functions.
17.45 - 19.15      Guided walking tour in Tartu (from J. Liivi 2)
20.00 - 22.00      Welcome Reception. Museum of History of UT, Lossi 25
Tuesday, June 28th
9.00 - 10.40      Session 5.
Chair: Bent Jørgensen. Room 111
9.00 - 10.00      Keynote Lecture
I. Olkin: Majorization and its applications.
10.00 - 10.40      Invited Lecture
M. Greenacre: Biplot videos.
10.40 - 11.00      Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.40      Session 6.
Chair: Adelchi Azzalini. Room 111
11.00 - 12.00      Samuel Kotz Memorial Lecture
N. Balakrishnan: On Pearson-Kotz Dirichlet distributions.
12.00 - 12.40      Invited Lecture
B. Jørgensen: Multivariate exponential dispersion models.
12.40 - 14.10      Lunch
14.10 - 16.30      Session 7. Muni S. Srivastava 75 jubilee Session.
Chair: Dietrich von Rosen. Room 111
14.10 - 14.30      T. Kollo: Life in statistics - Muni S. Srivastava 75.
14.30 - 15.10      Invited Lecture
M. S. Srivastava: A two sample test in high dimension with fewer observations.
15.10 - 15.40      D. von Rosen: Multivariate linear models and profile analysis.
15.40 - 16.10      H. Yanagihara: A comparison of three estimators in GMANOVA model when the sample size is fewer than the dimension.
16.10 - 16.30      Coffee Break
16.30 - 16.50      E. Glimm: Multivariate and multiple testing of hypothesis - what is preferred in the analysis of clinical trial data and why?
16.50 - 17.10      M. Ohlson: Profile analysis for a Growth Curve model
Wednesday, June 29th
9.00 - 10.40      Session 8A. Classification methods
Chair Alfredas Račkauskas. Room 111
9.00 - 9.20      K. Dučinskas, L. Dreižienė: Optimal classification of the multivariate GRF observations
9.20 - 9.40      R. Kangro, K. Pärna: K-nearest neighbors as pricing tool in insurance
9.40 - 10.00      A. J. Lee, B. Willcox: Generalizations of Ward's method, or, norms and netball - what's the connection?
10.00 - 10.20      S. Nagy: Depth-based classification for functional data
10.20 - 10.40      M. Käärik, H. Kadarik: Limited expected value function and its applications in insurance mathematics
10.40 - 11.00      Coffee Break
11.00 - 12.40      Session 9A
Chair Simo Puntanen. Room 111
11.00 - 11.20      F. Carvalho, J. T. Mexia: Error orthogonal models and commutative orthogonal block structure: Equivalence
11.20 - 11.40      J. T. Mexia: Structured families of models with commutative orthogonal block structure
11.40 - 12.00      H. J. Werner: Some results related to the general Gauss- Markov model - weak complementarity, non-testability and missing observations
12.00 - 12.20      J. J. Hunter: Markov chain properties in terms of column sums of the transition matrix
12.20 - 12.40      S. E. Ahmed: Estimating regression parameters: A mosaic of estimation strategies tasks
11.00 - 12.40      Session 9B
Chair Jüri Lemberg. Room 405
11.00 - 11.20      R. Leipus: Memory properties of aggregated autoregressive processes and fields
11.20 - 11.40      A. Račkauskas, C. Suquet: Multivariate models with space varying memory
11.40 - 12.00      A. Malyarenko: Statistical analysis of cosmic microwave background data
12.00 - 12.20      M. R. Özkale: On the performance of the restricted estimators
12.20 - 12.40      Y. Khusanbaev, G. Rakhimov: The asymptotic results for nearly critical branching processes with immigration
12.40 - 14.00      Lunch
14.00 - 20.00      Excursion(s)
Thursday, June 30th
9.00 - 10.40      Session 10.
Chair George P. H. Styan. Room 111
9.00 - 9.40      Invited Lecture
J. Volaufova: On exact testing problems in linear models with two variance-covariance components
9.40 - 10.20      Invited Lecture
A. Markiewicz: Spectral properties of information matrices and design optimality
10.20 - 10.40      K. Filipiak: On the E-optimality of complete designs under a mixed interference model
10.40 - 11.00      Coffee Break
11.00 - 13.00      Session 11. Linear models
Chair Hans J. Werner. Room 111
11.00 - 11.20      A. Kaasik: Residuals of a linear model for correlated data with measurement errors
11.20 - 11.40      E. P. Liski, A. Liski: A comparison of least squares model averaging estimators
11.40 - 12.00      S. Pynnonen: Distribution of an arbitrary linear transformation of internally Studentized residuals of multivariate regression with elliptical errors
12.00 - 12.20      L. R. LaMotte: Estimability and restrictions in linear models
12.20 - 12.40      B. Schaffrin, S. Uzun: On the reliability of Errors-in-Variables models
12.40 - 13.00      A. Žegulova, M. Käärik: On estimation of loss distributions and risk measures
13.00 - 14.30      Lunch
14.30 - 16.10      Session 12A. General linear models.
Chair Augustyn Markiewicz. Room 111
14.30 - 14.50      D. Klein, I. Žežula: Simultaneous confidence region for ρ and σ2 in the Growth Curve model with uniform correlation structure
14.50 - 15.10      Y. Liang, T. von Rosen, D. von Rosen: Combined permutation invariant covariance matrix and estimation in multilevel models
15.10 - 15.30      J. Nzabanita, M. Ohlson, D. von Rosen: Estimation of parameters in the extended Growth Curve model with linearly structured covariance matrix
15.30 - 15.50      J. Wei, Y. Li, D. von Rosen: A Study on the distribution of the residual in the Growth Curve model
15.50 - 16.10      P. A. Kashitsyn: Multivariate model with a Kronecker product covariance structure: A general linear model
14.30 - 16.10      Session 12b. Applications in life sciences.
Chair Krista Fischer. Room 405
14.30 - 14.50      J. K. Filus, L. Z. Filus: Construction of bivariate survival probability functions related to 'micro-shocks' - 'micro-damages' paradigm
14.50 - 15.10      J. Graffelman: On the canonical correlation analysis of bi-allelic genetic markers
15.10 - 15.30      T. von Rosen, M. Valge, T. Võrno, E. Käärik: On the identification of sets of informative peptides on antigen microarrays
15.30 - 15.50      M. Vähi: Stochastic forecast of the population using models for fertility and mortality
16.10 - 16.30      Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.30      Session 13. IWMS and History
Chair Jeffrey J. Hunter. Room 111
16.30 - 17.00      S. Puntanen: Twenty times IWMS: A short history
17.00 - 17.30      G. P. H. Styan: Caïssan squares: The magic of chess
19.00 - 22.00      Conference Dinner. Restaurant Atlantis, Narva mnt. 2
Friday, July 1st
       Departure