The Fourth Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences

Morning Session 8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Breakfast 9:00 – 9:05 Welcoming Remarks 9:05 – 9:25 Ming Hu, Biostatistics “Detection and Refinement of Transcription Factor Binding Sites Using ChIP-Seq data” 9:30 – 9:50 Yilun Chen, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science “A Robust Shrinkage Estimator for High Dimensional Covariance Matrices” 9:55 – 10:55 Poster Session I 10:55 – 11:15 Ali Shojaie, Statistics “Laplacian Eigenmaps, Penalized Principal Component Regression on Graphs, and Analysis of Biological Pathways” 11:20 – 11:40 Yun Bai, Biostatistics “Composite Quadratic Inference Functions and Applications in Spatio-Temporal Models” 11:45 – 1:00 Lunch and Poster Session II Afternoon Session 1:00 – 1:20 Xin Gao, Biostatistics “Assessing the Causal Effect of Treatment Dosages in the Presence of Self Selection” 1:25 – 1:45 Joel Vaughan, Statistics “Network–Specific Computer Traffic Modeling and Prediction” 1:50 – 2:10 Kuang-Tsung Chen, Survey Methodology “Machine Learning Assisted Estimators” 2:15 – 3:15 Poster Session III 3:15 – 3:40 Highlight Student Talk: Eric Laber, Statistics “Screening Suboptimal Treatments Using the Fused-Lasso” 3:45 – 4:45 Keynote Address: Professor Adrian Raftery, University of Washington “Probabilistic Projection of HIV/AIDS Prevalence Using Bayesian Melding with Incremental Mixture Importance Sampling (IMIS)”