Abstracts

Topics include, but are not limited to: Applied Statistics, Approximation Theory, Bayesian and Classical Inference Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Coding Theory, Combinatorial Analysis, Data Mining, Statistical Distribution Theory, Ecological and/or Environmental Statistics, Econometrics, Estimating Functions and Quasi-likelihood, Experimental and Optimal Design, General and Generalized Linear Models, Graph Theory, Information Theory, Mathematics and Statistics Education, Mathematical Biology, Multivariate Statistical Methods, Multiple Comparisons and Selection Theory, Nonparametric Inference, Operations Research, Reliability and Engineering, Sample Surveys, Survival Analysis, Time Series Analysis Quality Control Methods

Avishek Adhikari Construction of a Monochrome Visual Cryptographic Scheme Using Latin Squares
Mahim Ranjan Adhikari Some general cohomology theories
Ravi P Agarwal Singular and Nonsingular Boundary Value Problems on Infinite Intervals
Manohar Aggarwal Optimal Asymmetric Fractional Factorial Plans using finite projective geometry
Shangbing Ai Travelling Wave Fronts in Combustion and Chemical Reaction Models
Gergely Ambrus A Helly-type transversal theorem for n-dimensional unit balls
M Z Anis Estimation of the Mean of a Normal Population with Known Coefficient of Variation
Makoto Aoshima Higher Than Second-Order Approximations Via Two-Stage Sampling for Selecting from Folded Normal Populations
Jorge Argaez-Sosa Selection of Natural Reserves: A Decision Making Approach
Leonardo E. Auslender Adventures in Multicollinearity and Variable Selection
Subhash Bagui Classification with multiple independent measurements under separate sampling scheme
M. A. K. Baig On JS and AG divergence measure and information inequalities
Roxanne Baker K4-e Design on Complete Graphs with Holes
Mihir B. Banerjee On the limitations of the complex wave velocity in the instability problem of hetrogeneous shear flows.
Arne Bathke Nonparametric Methods in Multivariate Factorial Designs With Large Number of Treatments
Gandhi R Bhattarai Estimating Demand for Public Goods Using Two Stage Hedonic Price Model in Six Ohio Metropolitan Housing Markets
Gandhi Raj Bhattarai Estimating the Effect of Socioeconomic Factors on Land Use Distribution at Watershed Level Using A Multinomial Logit Analysis
Dulal K. Bhaumik Hypothesis Testing, Power and Sample Size Determination for Between Group Comparisons in fMRI Experiments
Nedret Billor Outlier Detection Using Principle Components
Sankar Bokka A Nonparametric Likelihood Ratio Test to Identify Differentially Expressed Genes from Microarray Data
Robert Buche Towards heavy traffic models for wireless queueing systems incorporating heavy tails and long range dependence
Valentina Burmistrova Regularization method for parabolic equation with variable operator
Mark Carpenter On Availability of Repairable Systems in Random Environments
Shyam S. Chadha Hypersphere With Smallest Radius
Dhiritikesh Chakrabarty Perfect experimentation: a theoretical approach to probability
Dhitikesh Chakrabarty Empirical probability: projection of populations in the sub-regions of a region
Charles W. Champ Properties of Multivariate Control Charts with Estimated Parameters
Jyoti Champanerkar Complexity Measures for Ecological Assemblages
Ajit Chaturvedi Sequential point estimation procedures for the transformed chi-square family of distributions
Fengxin Chen Spectral analysis of traveling waves for nonlocal evolution equations
Hegang H. Chen Optimal Selection Criteria for Regular Fractional Factorial Designs
Cheng Cheng Adaptive significance threshold complementory to the control of false discovery rate
Hokwon A. Cho Statistical Identification of Multinomial populations with sequential sampling
C. A. Coelho, J. T. Mexia On the exact and near-exact distributions of statistics used in generalized F tests
Carlos A. Coelho The circular Gamma distribution and wrapped sums of independent Gamma distributions
Charles J. Colbourn Combinatorial Designs for Software Interaction Testing
Cassandra Copeland Traded Prices and Wages in the US: A Test of the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem
José Italo Cortez The application of the hottelling statistic for detecting the defects in the dental enamel surface
Ashok Kumar. D Analysis of data clustering algorithm by various distance measures
Hongying Dai Estimation and Testing Procedures in General Contamination Models
George A. Damoff Data Driven Descriptions of Earthworms and Soil
Kumer Das Ruin Estimates under Interest Force
Somnath Datta Marginal Estimation of Stage Occupation Probabilities in a Multistage Model with Current Status Data
Susmita Datta Feature selection and machine learning with mass spectrometry data for distinguishing cancer and non-cancer samples
Ericson Davis Queues and the Traffic that Creates Them
Ginger Davis Evolving Structure in Multivariate Time Series with Application to Stock Sector Data
Richard A. Davis Structural Break Detection in Time Series Models
Kunja Deka Robustness and efficiency of some tests for testing main effects in a randomised block design
Kunja Deka Robustness and power of some statistics in one-way classification
Orhan Dengiz Extreme value analysis of microstructural flaws and surface damage in advanced ceramics manufacturing.
Dimitrios Derpanis Approximate articulation of preferences in the Analytic Hierarchy Process: A min-max goal programming approach
Dimitrios Derpanis Imprecise Data Envelopment Analysis (IDEA) a review and a new approach
Karthik Devarajan Molecular pattern discovery using non-negative matrix factorization based on Renyi's information measure
Norou Diawara A General Family of Multivariate Gamma Distributions
Chandra Dinavahi 3-path decompostition of complete graphs with no subsystems
Yuanyuan Ding The Exchangeable Multinomial Distribution and its application in Correlated Data.
Samuel Dolo A Nonparametric Test for Scale in Univariate Population Setup
Mark J. Ducey Properties of Size-Biased Distributions and their Application in Forest Sampling
Sada Nand Dwivedi Some models of unintended pregnancy through matched case-control design in India
Emad El-Neweihi Stochastic Dominance in Multinomial Distributions: An Application of a Preservation Theorem
Michele Elia A Note on Elliptic Curve Based Transformations in Symmetric-Key Cryptography
Walter Enders Is the Taylor Rule Missing? A Statistical Investigation
Toru Fujii Functional Discriminat Analysis via Regularized Wavelets
Latonya C. Garner A partially exchangeable model and its applications in correlated data
Arka Ghosh Optimal Controls for Stochastic Networks in Heavy Traffic
Kaushik Ghosh Short-term prediction of time series using semiparametric Bayesian techniques
Robert D. Gibbons Estimation and Classification of fMRI Hemodynamic Response Patterns
James A. Glazier Modeling Biological Development using the Cellular Potts Model
David Goldsman Some Contributions of Ranking and Selection to Computer Simulation
Barbara Gonzalez Modeling teletraffic arrivals by a Poisson cluster process
J. Brian Gray Sharpening Two Data Mining Tools with Genetic Algorithms
Luis Miguel Grilo Near-exact distributions for the generalized Wilks Lambda statistic based on truncations of the exact distribution
Kevin Gross Estimating butterfly abundances from transect count data
Serge Guillas Estimating time-varying quantiles of nearly stationary stochastic processes, with applications to ozone time series
Rameshwar D. Gupta A Convenient Way of Generating Gamma Random Variables Using Generalized Exponential Distribution
N. K. Govil and Vijay Gupta* On the Durrmeyer variant of Baskakov operators
Yi Han Theory and Applications of Bivariate Weibull Multiple Regression in Biological and Physical Systems
David J. Hand Size Matters
Jane Lea Harvill A Hybrid Approach to Vector Nonlinear Time Series
Mahmoud Helan A comparison of GARCH with ANN model for forecasting stock index returns
Georg Hetzer Energy Balance Climate Models
Tetsuto Himeno Asymptotic Expansions of the Distributions of Dempster Test Statistics when the Dimension is Large
Scott Holan A Nonparametric Test for Assessing Spectral Peaks
D.S. Hooda Information theoretic models for dependence analysis and missing data estimation
Dean S. Hoskins Combining D-Optimal and Covering Array Design Properties
Wenzhang Huang Periodic Traveling Wave Solutions for Reaction diffusion Equations with Time Delayed and Non-Local Response
Hiroto Hyakutake Confidence Intervals for the Difference of Two Functions of Parameters in Nonlinear Repeated Measurements
Olawuyi Oluwafemi I Lack of Knowledge Individual's HIV Status: The Obvious Risk Factor for Spread of AIDS/HIV among Youth in Developing Countries
Jay P. Abramson and Matt A. Isom A Contemporary Approach to Quantitative Literacy in a College Mathematics Curriculum.
Jhilmil Jain Design and Analysis of Survey to Investigate Data Structure Understanding
Kanchan Jain Inference for absolute Lorenz curve and absolute Lorenz ordering
Andres Jauregui The value of open space in rural and suburban areas: A spatial hedonic approach
Wen Jian Analysis of Longitudinal Data in the Case-Control Studies via Empirical Likelihood
Wen Jiang Construction of efficient maximum identifiable parent property codes of length 3
Zhezhen Jin Semiparametric accelerated failure time model
Victoria Jordan Determining Optimum Fill Level Set Points to Maximize Expected Net Profit in the Canning Problem (Uniform Distribution)
Jyotsna Joshi Factors Affecting College Student Achievement in India
Yoon-Young Jung Identifying differentially expressed genes in meta-analysis via Bayesian Model-Based Clustering
Ken-ichi Kamo Bias correction of AIC for selecting multivariate normal linear model under nonnormality
Akira Kawamura Effects of entry of dental clinics on medical expenditure or economic welfare
Mitsunori Kayano Functional Principal Component Analysis via Regularized Basis Expansions and its Application
Benjamin Kedem Semiparametric Time Series Prediction
M V Khaparde Interdepence C2/M/1 Queuing model on L(0, K) LATTICE acombinatorial approach
Sung Eun Kim Multivariate Time Series Model for Pollutant Transport using Environmental Monitoring Data
John D. Kloke Rank-Based Analyses of Repeated Measure Designs Under Exchangeable Errors
Kazuyuki Koizumi On simultaneous confidence intervals for all contrasts in the means of the intraclass correlation model with missing data
Ramesh Kumar Security and Privacy issues for ad hoc Wireless Network
Satish Kumar Sub-additive relative information measures and inaccuracy
Ashwani Kush A Secure Routing Protocol for large scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks with Backbone Based Routing
Ewusie Richard Kofi Kwedjan On certain reduced products of modules, a universal algebraic approach.
Herbert (Pepi) Lacayo, Jr. Estimating Error Rates in EPA Databases for Auditing Purposes
Nicole Lazar Is the Human Face Symmetrical - the role of "Asymmetry" in Face Recognition
Nicole A. Lazar An Introduction to the Statistical Analysis of fMRI Data
Dung Le Persistence for a Class of Triangular Cross Diffusion Parabolic Systems
Junsoo Lee Testing for Unit Roots Using Instrumental Variables
Jing Li Robust Tests for Threshold Effects
Xin Li On zeros of self-reciprocal polynomials
Zhigang Li Surplus, Ruin and Absolute in the Classical Risk Model Under Interest
Wei Liu New model and solution methodologies for the protein contact map overlap problem
Wei Liu, Bahram Alidaee Multi-exchange neighborhood search strategies for protein side chain positioning
Emmett J. Lodree, Jr. Stochastic inventory control with mixtures of backorders, lost sales, and lost contract
Robert Lund Periodic Time Series
Veera Raghavan. M A Novel approach to Sorting
Anotida Madzvamuse Implications of mesh-structure to solutions of reaction-diffusion systems on continuously deforming domains.
Mike Malyutov Conditional Complexity of Compression for Authorship Attribution of Texts
Sati Mazumdar Covariate Adjustment in Partial Least Squares (PLS) regression for spatial-Temporal Pattern Extraction from Positron Emission Tomography Data
James P. McDermott Sequential Quantile Estimation
Bhavya Mehta A Multidimensional Distributive Software Configuration Management (SCM) Paradigm
Mary C. Meyer Mixed Effects Models using Shape Restrictions
Eva R. Miller Implementation of Adaptive Randomizations for Clinical Trials
Wanli Min Inference on time series generated from weakly dependent noise
Nutan Mishra Non-regular planar graphs
J. C. Misra Mathematical modelling in medicine and physiology
Tomoya Mizuyoshi Fixed-Width Confidence Interval for Equal Means with Intraclass Correlation Model
R. N. Mohapatra Approximation of Scattered Data by Neural Networks
H. Mostafaei Stochastic Differential Equation model Of Exchange rate between US dollar and Euro and Estimating the parameters of those base numerical methods
Vahidreza Mostafaei Stochastic differential equation model of exchange rate between U.S. dollar and euro and estimating the parameters of those base numerical methods
Nitis Mukhopadhyay A New Approach to Determine the Pilot Sample Size in Two-Stage Sampling
Madhuri S. Mulekar Selecting a grade with the most (or least) overlapping in assessment categories
Nada K. Nadarajah Application of Linear Mixed Models for Genetic Improvement of Quantitative Traits in Livestock Populations.
Anatoly Naumov The approach of management capital structure by using portfolio of investment projects.
Justin Newcomer Combining Data from Many Sources to Establish Emission Standards
Duc Minh Nguyen Does trade benefit growth? some time series evidence from Thailand
Tung Nguyen Attractor Stability via Morse-Smale Property
for Diffusive Two-Species Competition Systems
Yoshiyuki Ninomiya Akaike's information criterion for change-point model
Takahiro Nishiyama On the conservative multivariate Tukey-Kramer type procedures for multiple comparisons among mean vectors
Victor De Oliveira On Optimal Point and Block Prediction in Log-Gaussian Processes
Broderick O. Oluyede On the exponential approximations of weighted and transformed distributions with applications
Sibel Ozkan Partial Hamilton decompositions of complete graphs with no 2-factor in the leave
Manisha Pal Estimation of Common Parameter of Several Exponential Distributions with Known Coefficients of Variation
C. M. Pandey Probability of child survival and Inter live Birth intervals in rural India
Santosh Pandey The Effect of Outliers in Independent Component Analysis
Ramesh Pandya A Statistical Study of Electromagnetic Field Fluctuation on Heart Patient of Bhopal City Madhya Pradesh India
Cheolwoo Park Variable Selection for SVM Using Nonconvex Penalty
Trevor Park Penalized Likelihood Principal Component Rotation
Devinder Singh Pathania On Rayleigh-Lamb wave propagation in micropolar thermoelastic plates with stretch
Hanxiang Peng Estimation in Constrained Models Using Empirical Likelihood Estimation
Puntani Pongsumpun Mathematical model of dengue disease with the effect of extrinsic incubation period
Puntani Pongsumpun Transmission model of asymptomatic and symptomatic infections of dengue disease
Zhiguang Qian Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Integrating Low-accuracy and High-accuracy Experiments
Juan H. Arredondo R. The diagonal polynomials in dimension four
Q. I. Rahman L^p inequalities for polynomials and trigonometric polynomials
A.N. Rai Shrinkage testimator of shape parameter of Weibull distribution under asymmetric loss function
SN Rai Effect of Transformation on the Analysis of Messy Longitudinal Data with Application to Pediatric Cancer Study
Anant Ram On generalized classes of entropies and their evaluation
Jake Robbins Public View Vs. Private Property: The Legal and Ethical Standpoints to Digital Aerial Photography.
Kenneth Roblee Some Extremal Problems for Edge-Regular Graphs
David A. Rolls Queueing Analysis of Network Traffic: Methodology and Visualization Tools
Anindya Roy Estimation and classification of BOLD responses over multiple trials
Miss Sadhana Pseudo-differential Operator Involving watson Transform
Tetsuro Sakurai On asymptotic expansion of canonical correlation coefficients
Decha Samana Independent set and Golden Ratio in the Balanced Bipartite Graph
Sanat Sarkar Generalizing Holm’s and Hochberg’s Stepwise Procedures for Multiple Hypothesis Testing
Paul G. Schmidt A Dynamical-Systems Approach to Elliptic PDEs (No Kidding)
David W. Scott Mixtures and Kernels for Density-Based Clustering
Fernando Sedano Devaluation and Bilateral Trade Balance in a Common Market: The Case of Argentina and Brazil
Pranab K. Sen Robust Statistical Inference for High-Dimension Low Sample Size Models with Application to Genomics
Arindam Sengupta Graph-theoretic Formulation of a Probability Problem
Wenxian Shen Effect of Spatial and Temporal Variation on Principal Lyapunov Exponent of Dispersal Evolution Equations
Masood H Siddiqui Analysis of the M*/G/1 Queueing System with Vacation Times
Gieri Simonett Operator-valued symbols for elliptic and parabolic problems on wedges
Chandra Bali Singh Hydromagnetic Steady Flow of Liquid Between Two Parallel Infinite Plates
P. Singh Estimation of shape parameter of Pareto distribution using prior information
Pradeep Singh On Testing of Mean Vectors for Multivariate Dichotomous Data
Rajesh Singh Bayes Estimators of Parameters of Poisson Type Exponential Class Software Model considering generalized Poisson and Gamma priors
Sanjay Kumar Singh Bayes estimator of inverse gaussian parameters under general entropy loss function using Lindley’s approximation
Bikas K Sinha Unbiased Estimation in a Finite Population : Ecological Challenges and Issues
Pamela Smith An Efficient Nonparametric Test for Bivariate Two Sample Location Problem
Robert Smith Adherence to antiretroviral HIV drugs: How many doses can you miss before resistance emerges?
Bhaskar Srivastava Ramanujan's Mock Theta Functions-An Apprisal
Deo Kumar Srivastava Effect of stratification in a group sequential trial with binary outcome measure
Rakesh Srivastava Double stage shrinkage testimator of the scale parameter of an exponential life model under general entropy loss function.
Angelique Stephanou Mathematical modeling of mechanical aspects involved in tumor angiogenesis with a hybrid approach
John Stufken Some combinatorial questions emanating from the design of experiments
Ersoy Subasi On Strong Unimodality of n-Dimensional Discrete Distributions
Munevver Mine Subasi Discrete Moment Problem with the Given Shape of the Distribution
Jiayang Sun Nonparametric Model Selection with an Application to a Biased Sampling Problem
Michael Swinson A Discretized Projection Pursuit Learning Model (DPPLM) for Approximating High-Dimensional Functions
Michael Swinson A Parametric Projection Pursuit Learning Model (PPLM) for Approximating High-Dimensional Functions
Ajit C. Tamhane Latent Class Analysis for Clustering Multivariate Correlated Bernoulli Data
Inder Jeet Taneja Refinement of inequalities among means and their connection with divergence measures
Q. M. Tariq A Bernstein-type inequality for a class of almost periodic entire functions
Feridun Tasdan A Robust Shift Parameter Estimation for Two-Sample Location Problem
Erdal Tekin Teen Smoking and Birth Outcomes
Lourdes Tello On the sign of solutions of parabolic problems involving the p-Laplacian.
Asrat Temesgen The Effect of Rainfall, Seasonality and Time on Malaria
Michael Tiemeyer Two-factorizations of a Complete Multipartite Graph
Neeraj Tiwari On an optimal controlled nearest proportional to size sampling scheme
Ram Ji Tiwari Properties of mixed generalized least squares estimators in linear regression model
Pradeep Tomar Functional and Object Oriented metrics for Object Oriented systems: An Overview and Comparison
Pradeep Tomar Cryptography + Stegnography in DNA Computing: An Intelligent approach for Secure Data Communication
Gary R Tucker Testing Ordinal Data Tests
Necibe Tuncer Finite Element Method on the Sphere
Asuman Turkmen Fast and Robust Classification
V. Voloshin Modelling with Mixed Hypergraphs
Mary Beth Walker Neighborhood Effects of Crime on School Outcomes: Evidence from Atlanta
Bin Wang Nonparametric Estimation Under Non-random Right Censoring
Lily Wang Some Statistical Aspects of the Analysis of Genomic Sequences
Morgan C. Wang Does A Complex Model Technique Always Work Better?
Xiaofeng Wang A Semiparametric Model for Repeated Image Data
Michael Woodroofe Large Sample Properties of Shape Restricted Regression Estimators with Smoothness Adjustments
Huaiqing Wu Fractional Factorial Designs with Admissible Sets of Clear Two-Factor Interactions
Jingjing Wu Minimum Hellinger distance estimation for a nonparametric mixture model
Takayuki Yamada Asymptotic expansion of the null distribution of LR test for the equality of smallest eigenvalues of a covariance matrix when the dimension and the sample size are both large
Mariko Yamamura Measuring the efficiency of the municipality-based public health insurance system in Japan
Hirokazu Yanagihara Bias correction of cross-validation criterion based on Kullback-Leibler information under a general condition
Muhammed Ali Ülkü Pricing Games in Service Industry : Equilibrium Segmentation
Xin Yue Risk Assessment of EEE Virus Infection
Peng Zeng Dimension Reduction in Binary Response Regression
C. Q. Zhang Clustering, dynamic density and spanning trees
Yong-Tao Zhang Computational analysis of morphogen gradients during embryo development
Xiao-Qiang Zhao Spreading Speed and Traveling Waves for a Multi-type SIS Epidemic Model
Yichuan Zhao Regression Analysis For Long-term Survival Rate Via Empirical Likelihood
Yuqing Zheng Do Retail Prices Respond Asymmetrically to Non-Cost Shocks? An EGARCH Examination on 46 US Retail Product Prices
Mai Zhou Residuals in the Censored Data AFT Model
Jun Zhu Resampling methods for spatial regression models under a class of stochastic designs
Zhengyuan Zhu Spatial Network Design to Detect Regional Trends in ground level Ozone