Conference of Texas Statisticians
Schedule

Saturday, October 9

Time	Speaker	Title
8:00 – 8:20		Welcome and Opening Remarks
8:20 – 9:05	Sam Efromovich University of Texas, Dallas	Missing and Modified Data in Nonparametric Statistics
9:05 – 9:30	Suneel Babu Chatla University of Texas, El Paso	Nonparametric inference for additive models estimated via simplified smooth backfitting
9:30 – 9:40	Coffee Break
9:40 – 10:25	Swati Biswas University of Texas, Dallas	Detecting Rare Haplotype Association with Two Correlated Phenotypes of Binary and Continuous Types
10:25 – 12:00	SPEED Poster Viewing
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch & Poster Viewing
1:00 – 1:45	Tony Ng Southern Methodist University	Statistical Models and Algorithms for Assessing Robustness and Reliability of Networks with Applications in Cybersecurity Insurance
1:45 – 2:10	Sinead Williamson University of Texas, Austin	Understanding collections of related datasets using dependent MMD coresets
2:10 – 2:35	Michael Gallaugher Baylor University	Four Skewed Tensor Variate Distributions
2:35 – 3:00	Ruiqi Liu Texas Tech University	A Computationally Efficient Classification Algorithm in Posterior Drift Model: Phase Transition and Minimax Adaptivity
3:00 – 3:10	Coffee Break
3:10 – 3:55	Suojin Wang Texas A&M University	A new bootstrap assisted test for checking second order stationarity for nonlinear time series
3:55 – 4:20	Shuying Sun Texas State University	Statistical analyses of breast cancer co-methylation patterns
4:20 – 4:45	Ryan Sun MD Anderson Cancer Center	Inference for Set-Based Effects in Genetic Association Studies with Interval-Censored Outcomes
4:45 – 5:00	Break
5:00 – 6:00	Don Owen Award Talk and Student Poster Competition Awards Announced
6:00 – 6:10	Closing Remarks

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