WWMS Program

WWMS 2008 Program and Abstracts (524.42 Kb)

Monday, December 15, 2008

• 09:00-09:50 Coffee
• 09:50-10:00 Opening
• 10:00-10:30 Jiří Anděl (Prague): How to choose a wrong model
• 10:30-11:00 Barbara Bogacka (London): Adaptive experimental designs for dose-selection studies in Phase I clinical trials
• 11:00-11:30 Coffee
• 11:30-12:00 Radoslav Harman (Bratislava): On universal optimality of experimental designs
• 12:00-12:30 Luc Pronzato (Sophia Antipolis): Penalized and response-adaptive optimal designs, with application to dose-finding
• 13:00-14:00 Lunch
• 14:00-14:15 Coffee
• 14:15-14:45 Ben Torsney (Glasgow): Fitting latent variable models for paired comparisons and ranking studies – an application of optimal design theory
• 14:45-15:15 Anatoly Zhigljavsky (Cardiff): Optimal designs for correlated observations and characterization of probability distributions
• 15:15-15:45 Jesús Lopéz-Fidalgo (Ciudad Real): Experimental designs for a model with mixture of distributions
• 15:45-16:15 Coffee
• 16:15-16:45 Werner G. Müller (Linz): Measures of spatial dependence and corresponding designs
• 16:45-17:15 Andrej Pázman (Bratislava): What can be discovered in a formula for the variance of the BLUE
• 17:15-18:00 Coffee
• 18:00-22:00 Conference Reception

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

• 09:00-09:30 Coffee
• 09:30-10:00 Lubomír Kubáček (Olomouc): A measure of nonlinearity in singular nonlinear regression models
• 10:00-10:30 Marie Hušková (Prague): Testing stability in regression relationship
• 10:30-11:00 Júlia Volaufová (New Orleans): Accuracy of p-values of approximate tests in testing for equality of means under unequal variances
• 11:00-11:30 Coffee
• 11:30-12:00 Lynn Roy LaMotte (New Orleans): Illustrations of Neyman-Pearson tests when simple null and simple alternative are mixtures
• 12:00-12:30 Igor Vajda (Prague): Maximum likelihood in the context of more general minimum distance methods
• 13:00-14:00 Lunch
• 14:00-14:30 František Štulajter (Bratislava): Optimal predicition designs in finite discrete spectrum linear regression models
• 14:30-15:00 Jana Jurečková (Prague):Rank tests in measurement errors models
• 15:00-15:15 Coffee
• 15:15-15:45 Jan Hannig (Chapel Hill): Generalized fiducial inference for wavelet regression
• 15:45-16:15 Ivan Mizera (Edmonton): Quantile tomography: Using quantiles with multivariate data
• 16:15-16:30 Closing