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The First Wu Xi International Statistics Forum July 17-19, 2011 Hubin Hotel, Wu Xi, China Conference Program Sunday, July 17th 10:00 – 10:10 Opening remark (Jun Liu) 10:10 – 10:20 Official remark 10:20 – 10:30 Introduction to plenary speaker (Jun Liu) 10:30 – 11:30 Plenary Speech (Don Rubin) 11:30 Lunch 1:00 – 3:00 Parallel session I A (Chair: Min Tang): 1:00 – 1:30 Adaptive Score Test for the Effects of Genetic Marker Sets Xihong Lin 1:30 – 2:00 On computation with the accelerated failure time model Yijian Huang 2:00 – 2:30 A Rank-Based Test for the Comparison of Multidimensional Outcomes Kai Fun Yu 2:30 – 3:00 Extending the Scope of Partial F-Test to High Dimensional Data Hansheng Wang B (Chair: Jin Yong): 1:00 – 1:30 TBA Ying Yang 1:30 – 2:00 Bayesian analysis of generalized semiparametric linear mixed models using the Dirichlet process prior and P-spline Niansheng Tang 2:00 – 2:30 Normal and Compound Poisson Approximations for the Number of PatternApproximations for the Number of Pattern Occurrences in High-throughput Sequence Reads Yihui Luan 2:30 – 3:00 Structural dimensional reduction for high-dimensional data analysis Jianhua Guo 3:00 – 3:15 Tea break Sunday, July 17th 3: 15 – 5:15 Parallel session II A (Chair: Fangzhou Yao): 3:15 – 3:45 Genomic and Epigenomic Profiling to Understand Disease Risks Xiaole Liu 3:45 – 4:15 TBA Xuegong Zhang 4:15 – 4:45 Combining Exploration and Exploitation Strategies in Adaptive MCMC for Bayesian Inference Scott Schmidler 4:45 – 5:15 A Bayesian clustering approach for partitioning the conformational space of biomolecules Xiaodan Fan B (Chair: Wei Lan): 3:15 – 3:45 TBA Lijian Yang 3:45 – 4:15 Instability of Predictability of Asset Returns Zongwu Cai 4:15 – 4:45 Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Method for Copulas Yongcheng Qi 4:45 – 5:15 Interval estimation for the tail index of a GARCH(1,1) model Liang Peng 5:30 – 8:00 Poster session and light refreshment Monday, July 1