Invited Speakers

The following speakers have accepted the invitation of the International Program Committee to present invited lectures:

• Somnath Datta (University of Louisville, Louisville, USA): Marginal and Joint Regression Models for Clustered Data Inference When the Cluster Size is Potentially Informative
• Nancy Flournoy (University of Missouri, USA): A Ballooned Beta-Logistic Model with a Bioassay Application (with M. Yi)
• Roger Koenker (University of Illinois, Champaign, USA): Unobserved Heterogeneity in Income Dynamics: An Empirical Bayes Perspective
• Simos G. Meintanis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece): Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Semiparametric and Parametric Hypotheses Based on The Probability Weighted Characteristic Function
• Christine Müller (TU Dortmund, Germany): Data Depth for Autoregression with Application to Crack Growth
• Victor Patrangenaru (Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA): Projective Shape Analysis of 3D Contours
• Luc Pronzato (Université Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, France): A Measure of Dispersion Based on Average Exponentiated Volumes, with Application in Experimental Design (with Henry P. Wynn and Anatoly A. Zhigljavsky)
• Simo Puntanen (University of Tampere, Finland): Some Properties of Linear Sufficiency
• Pascal Sarda (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France): Some Aspects of High Dimensional and Functional Regression Analysis
• Florin Vaida (University of California, San Diego, USA): Mixed Effects Models with Censored Response for Longitudinal HIV Studies