Contributed Presentations

The conference sessions will cover but are not limited to the following areas:

• Regression and Mixed Models;
• Optimum Experimental Design;
• Dynamical Statistical Models;
• Applied Statistics.

Contributions may be presented in oral or poster form. Length of oral presentations is limited to 20 minutes (including discussion).

List of Participants

• James S. Allison (South Africa): Co-author with S.G. Meintanis, C. Pretorius, and L. Santana
• Mariano Amo-Salas (Spain): Co-author with E. Delgado-Márquez, L. Filová, R. Harman, and J. López-Fidalgo
• Jaromír Antoch (Czech Republic): Estimation of Volume of Non-Convex Level-Sets (with D. Hlubinka)
• Barbora Arendacká (Germany): Gender Differences in Performance of Prophylactic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICD): A Practical Example of a Meta-Analysis (with D. Conen, Ch. Röver, L. Bergau, P. Munoz, S. Wijers, M. Zabel, and T. Friede)
• Oykum E. Aşkın (Turkey): An Alternative Estimation Method for Shared Frailty Models (with D. Inan, A.H. Buyuklu)
• Alena Bachratá (Slovakia): Schur-Optimal Augmentation of Block Designs with the Block Size Two
• Eva Benková (Austria): Barycentric Algorithm for Computing D-optimal Size-and-Cost Constrained Designs of Experiments (with R. Harman)
• Katarína Burclová (Slovakia): Optimal Experimental Design via Linear Programming (with A. Pázman)
• Wai Chan (China): A New Structural Equation Modeling Based Method for Conditional Process Analysis (with J.L.-Y. Kwan, Ch.Y.-T. Choi)
• Martina Chvosteková (Czech Republic): Multiple Use Confidence Intervals
• Somnath Datta (USA): Marginal and Joint Regression Models for Clustered Data Inference When the Cluster Size is Potentially Informative
• Hilmar Drygas (Germany): Correlation Coefficient and Measure of Determination
• Kent M. Eskridge (USA): Supersaturated Designs for Sampling Finite Populations (with X. Hao, J.D. Hernandez-Jarquin and G.L. Graef)
• Lenka Filová (Slovakia): Cocktail Algorithm for A-Optimal Designs (with R. Harman)
• Eva Fišerová (Czech Republic): Geometric Fit of Conics by Linear Regression Model with Nonlinear Constraints (with S. Donevska)
• Nancy Flournoy (USA): A Ballooned Beta-Logistic Model with a Bioassay Application (with M. Yi)
• Andrej Gajdoš (Slovakia): Co-author with M. Hančová and J. Hanč
• Nesrin Güler (Turkey): The Equation of BLUP for a Mixed Effect under General Mixed Linear Model (with S. Puntanen)
• Mousa Golalizadeh (Iran): Dimension Reduction of Dihedral Angles Data Using Principal Geodesic Analysis (with A. Nodehi)
• Martina Hančová (Slovakia): A Simulation Study of Bootstrap Methods for Kriging in Time Series Forecasting (with J. Hanč and A. Gajdoš)
• Radoslav Harman (Slovakia): Co-author with E. Benková, L. Filová, S. Rosa, M. Amo-Salas and J. López-Fidalgo,
• Zdeněk Hlávka (Czech Republic): Two-Sample Gradual Change-Point Analysis (with M. Hušková)
• Daniel Hlubinka (Czech Republic): Elliptical Quantiles in Parametric Regression
• Marie Hušková (Czech Republic): Change Point Estimators in Panel Data (with L. Horvath, G. Rice, and J. Wang)
• Deniz Inan (Turkey): Particle Swarm Optimization Based Liu-Type Estimator (with E. Egrioglu, M. Tez and B. Sarica)
• Jozef Jakubík (Slovakia): Convex Method for Variable Selection in High-Dimensional Linear Mixed Models
• Stanislav Katina (Czech Republic): Statistical Models for Manifold Data with Applications to the Human Face (with A. Bowman and L. Vittert)
• Roger Koenker (USA): Unobserved Heterogeneity in Income Dynamics: An Empirical Bayes Perspective (with J. Gu)
• Veronika Kopčová (Slovakia): Several Estimating Methods in the Growth Curve Model
• Fİkriye Kurtoğlu (Turkey): Liu Estimation in Generalized Linear Models (with M.R. Özkale)
• Michaela Koščová (Slovakia): Partial Summations Divide Discrete Distributions Into Two Classes (with J. Mačutek and G. Wimmer)
• Petr Lachout (Czech Republic): Functional Spaces with a Finite Dimensional Criterion for Weak Convergence
• Lynn Roy LaMotte (USA): Mixed Interpolation Models for Inverse Prediction
• Jesús López-Fidalgo (Spain): A Discriminative Study of the Models for the Flow of Particles (with M. Amo-Salas, E. Delgado-Márquez, L. Filová, and R. Harman)
• Matúš Maciak (Czech Republic): Different Regularization Techniques in Change-point Estimation (with I. Mizera)
• Ján Mačutek (Slovakia): Co-author with M. Koščová and G. Wimmer
• Jaroslav Marek (Czech Republic): Sensitivity Approach to a Test in ANOVA Models (with L. Kubáček)
• Simos G. Meintanis (Greece): Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Semiparametric and Parametric Hypotheses Based on The Probability Weighted Characteristic Function (with J. Allison, L. Santana)
• Bojana Milošević (Serbia): Some Goodness-of-Fit Tests Based on U-empirical Laplace Transform (with Marko Obradović)
• Ivan Mizera (Canada): On Mixing Priors in Empirical Bayes Prediction
• Märt Möls (Estonia): Estimating the Effect Size of a Statistically Significant Effect
• Christine H. Müller (Germany): Data Depth for Autoregression with Application to Crack Growth
• Werner G. Müller (Austria): Optimal Designs for Copula Models (with E. Perrone)
• Stanislav Nagy (Belgium & Czech Republic): Consistency of H-mode Depth
• Marko Obradović (Serbia): Some Characterization Based Exponentiality Tests and Their Bahadur Efficiencies (with Bojana Milošević)
• M. Revan Özkale (Turkey): Iterative Algorithms of Biased Estimation Methods in Binary Logistic Regression
• Victor Patrangenaru (USA): Projective Shape Analysis of 3D Contours
• Zbyněk Pawlas (Czech Republic): Statistical Inference for Line-segment Processes
• Andrej Pázman (Slovakia): Co-author with K. Burclová
• Michal Pešta (Czech Republic): Testing Structural Changes in Panel Data with Small Fixed Panel Size and Bootstrap (with B. Peštová)
• Jan Picek (Czech Republic): Multivariate Homogeneity Testing Based on L-Moments (with T. Šimková)
• Charl Pretorius (South Africa): On a Data-Dependent Choice of the Tuning Parameter Appearing in Certain Goodness-Of-Fit Tests (with J.S. Allison and L. Santana)
• Luc Pronzato (France): A Measure of Dispersion Based on Average Exponentiated Volumes, with Application in Experimental Design (with H.P. Wynn and A.A. Zhigljavsky)
• Simo Puntanen (Finland): Some Properties of Linear Sufficiency
• Lizanne Raubenheimer (South Africa): Predictive Density for the Phase II Shewart-Type p-Chart
• Ina Reichert (Germany): Model-Based Design of Experiments Under Consideration and Combination of Different Approaches (with P. Olney and T. Lahmer)
• Juan M. Rodriguez-Diaz (Spain): Some Notes on C-Optimal Designs for Heteroscedastic and Correlated Observations
• Samuel Rosa (Slovakia): Optimal Designs Resistant to Nuisance Effects (with R. Harman)
• Zuzana Rošťáková (Slovakia): Differences in Sleep Microstate Curves Among Patients After Stroke and Healthy Sleepers (with R. Rosipal)
• Leonard Santana (South Africa): A Test for Symmetry Based on the Empirical Probability Weighted Characteristic Function (with J.S. Allison and S.G. Meintanis)
• Pascal Sarda (France): Some Aspects of High Dimensional and Functional Regression Analysis
• Busenur Sarica (Turkey): A New Hybrid Method for Time Series Forecasting (with E. Egrioglu and B. Asikgil)
• Miroslav Šiman (Czech Republic): New Advances in Directional Multiple-Output Quantile Regression
• Georgy Sofronov (Australia): Optimal Sequential Procedures for Buying-Selling Problems
• Ján Somorčík (Slovakia): An à la Tukey Confidence Interval for Regression Slope (with R. Tóth)
• Maria K. Steiner (Germany): Best Practice in Metamodeling for Data Derived from Civil Engineering Applications (with T. Lahmer)
• Cornelia J. Swanepoel (South Africa): Bias Reduction Studies in Non-parametric Regression with Applications (with M. Cockeran)
• Jan W.H. Swanepoel (South Africa): Bernstein Estimation for a Copula Derivative with Application to Conditional Distribution and Regression Functionals (with P. Janssen and N. Veraverbeke)
• Gábor Szűcs (Slovakia):
• Man Lai Tang (China): Non-Randomized Response Models for Sensitive Surveys with Noncompliance
• Müjgan Tez (Turkey): Co-author with Ö. Türkşen and S. Yalaz Toprak
• Özlem Türkşen (Turkey): Artificial Intelligence Optimization Methods Application in Compartment Models (with M. Tez)
• Florin Vaida (USA): Mixed Effects Models with Censored Response for Longitudinal HIV Studies
• Corli van Zyl (South Africa): CUSUM Procedures Based on Signed Sequential Ranks (with F. Lombard)
• Kristýna Vaňkátová (Czech Republic): A Simulation Study of the Performance of Concomitant Variables in Finite Mixture Regression Models (with Eva Fišerová)
• Júlia Volaufová (USA): Model Identification and Follow-Up Inference in Fixed Effects Linear Models (with L.R. LaMotte, O. Blaha)
• Korakot Wichitsa-Nguan (Germany): Statistical Inference in Cox Models
• Gejza Wimmer (Slovakia): Co-author with M. Koščová and J. Mačutek
• Viktor Witkovský (Slovakia): On Computing Distribution of the Anderson-Darling and the Cramér-von Mises Statistics By Numerical Inversion of Their Characteristic Functions
• Seçil Yalaz Toprak (Turkey): A Semiparametric Regression Model with Errors in All Variables (with M. Tez and H.İ. Tutalar)

Accompanying Persons

• Mr. Jozef Hanč (Slovakia)
• Mrs. Lenka Hlávková (Czech Republic)
• Mr. Sven Kaus (Germany)
• Mrs. Koenker (USA)
• Mrs. Soile Puntanen (Finland)
• Mrs. Sofronov (Australia)
• Mrs. Laurie Smith (USA)
• Mr. Zeki Tez (Turkey)
• Mrs. Olga-Mytro Tselou (Greece)
• Mrs. Vaida (USA)