PROGRAMME ERCIM 2011

KEYNOTE TALKS

Keynote talk1	Saturday 17.12.2011	10:15 - 11:05	Room: Beveridge
Achieving accuracy and correctness in parametric inference
Speaker: A. Young   Co-authors:			Chair: Ana Colubi
Keynote talk2	Monday 19.12.2011	09:35 - 10:25	Room: Beveridge
Bayesian analysis for a stationary and transition density function
Speaker: S. Walker   Co-authors:			Chair: Christophe Croux
Keynote talk3	Monday 19.12.2011	18:05 - 18:55	Room: Beveridge
Parametric inference on strong dependence
Speaker: P. Robinson   Co-authors:			Chair: Stephen Pollock

PARALLEL SESSIONS

Parallel session D:	Saturday 17.12.2011	11:15 - 12:30

Session ES06	Room: B34
Small area estimation	Saturday 17.12.2011    11:15 - 12:30
Chair: Domingo Morales	Organizer: Domingo Morales and Lola Ugarte

	E217:   T. Goicoa, L. Ugarte, A. Militino, J. Etxeberria
	Mean squared error estimation of cancer risk predictions using area level models in disease mapping
	E136:   M. Lombardia, E. Lopez-Vizcaino, D. Morales
	Multinomial-based small area estimation of labor force indicators
	E182:   E. Fabrizi, F. Greco, C. Trivisano
	A sensitivity analysis to the hyperprior specification in disease mapping and small area models

Session ES20	Room: B33
Applied statistics I	Saturday 17.12.2011    11:15 - 12:30
Chair: Paula Camelia Trandafir	Organizer: Agustin Mayo-Iscar and Paula Camelia Trandafir

	E588:   M. Al-Saleh, A. Ababneh
	Test for accuracy in ranking in moving extreme ranked set sampling
	E653:   P. Trandafir , S. Mandal, A. Biswas
	Optimal target allocation proportion for correlated binary responses in a two-treatment set up
	E494:   R. Maiti, A. Biswas
	Coherent forecasting for discrete-valued time series data with application to infant sleep status data

Session ES39	Room: B20
High dimensional design of experiments	Saturday 17.12.2011    11:15 - 12:30
Chair: Davide Ferrari	Organizer: Davide Ferrari

	E575:   M. Forlin
	Optimizing experiments with mixtures
	E589:   D. Slanzi, I. Poli
	High dimensional design of experiments: The combination of evolution and statistical models
	E611:   M. Borrotti, D. De March, D. Ferrari
	Improving complex experiments by co-information composite likelihood optimization

Session ES62	Room: B35
Imprecision in inference	Saturday 17.12.2011    11:15 - 12:30
Chair: Maria Brigida Ferraro	Organizer: Maria Brigida Ferraro

	E150:   A. Ramos Guajardo, A. Colubi, G. Gonzalez-Rodriguez, M. Gil
	Testing partial inclusion of the mean of a random interval in a fixed interval
	E483:   T. Nakama, E. Ruspini
	Extension of Ruspini's formulation of evidential reasoning to evidence fusion based on conditioning
	E279:   M. Ferraro
	Fitting parametric link functions in a regression model with imprecise random variables

Session ES77	Room: G16
Biostatistics II	Saturday 17.12.2011    11:15 - 12:30
Chair: Ayse Ulgen	Organizer: Ayse Ulgen

	E536:   I. Tachmazidou, E. Zeggini
	Next generation association studies: In search of low frequency and rare variants affecting complex traits
	E863:   J. Dureau, K. Kalogeropoulos, M. Baguelin
	Capturing the time-varying drivers of an epidemic with particle Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms
	E793:   M. Gomez Mateu, G. Gomez Melis, U. Dafni
	Sample size and asymptotic relative efficiency when using composite endpoints

Session ES11	Room: B18
Statistical monitoring and its applications II	Saturday 17.12.2011    11:15 - 12:30
Chair: Rebecca Killick	Organizer: Abdulkadir Hussien and Rebecca Killick

	E379:   J. Huh
	Likelihood based estimation of the log-variance function with a change point
	E393:   Y. Yang, A. De Waegenaere, B. Melenberg
	On the modeling and estimation of the US health process and healthy life expectancy
	E815:   F. Figueiredo, M. Gomes
	Monitoring the mean value in the contaminated normal family of distributions

Parallel session E:	Saturday 17.12.2011	14:00 - 16:05

Session ES09	Room: B18
Perspectives on high-dimensional data analysis	Saturday 17.12.2011    14:00 - 16:05
Chair: Ejaz Ahmed	Organizer: Ejaz Ahmed

	E060:   P. Alquier
	Estimation by projection on confidence regions
	E131:   P. McNicholas, J. Andrews
	Clustering and classification of high-dimensional data via modified t-factor analyzers
	E499:   A. Khalili, S. Lin
	Regularization in finite mixture of regression models with diverging number of parameters
	E519:   Y. Gel, P. Bickel
	Banded regularization of autocovariance matrices in application to parameter estimation and forecasting of time series
	E969:   E. Ahmed
	Perspectives on machine bias versus human bias: Generalized linear model

Session ES15	Room: B35
Networking on Biostatistics: the BIOSTATNET project II	Saturday 17.12.2011    14:00 - 16:05
Chair: Carmen Cadarso	Organizer: Carmen Cadarso

	E218:   M. Rodriguez Alvarez, J. Roca-Pardinas, C. Cadarso-Suarez
	Software developments for non-parametric ROC regression analysis
	E226:   P. Puig, J. Barquinero
	New method for evaluating the degree of exposure to radiation
	E290:   F. Gude, M. Rodriguez-Girondo, T. Kneib, C. Cadarso-Suarez
	Geoadditive survival models for the identification of geographical patterns in coronary heart disease
	E325:   A. Sanchez-Pla, F. Reverter, E. Vegas, J. Oller, M. Ruiz de Villa
	Multivariate methods for the integration of omics data of different types and different nature
	E357:   I. Arostegui, V. Nunez-Anton
	Partial additive beta-binomial model for bounded outcome scores

Session ES29	Room: B33
Advances in optimal experimental design	Saturday 17.12.2011    14:00 - 16:05
Chair: Jesus Lopez Fidalgo	Organizer: Jesus Lopez Fidalgo

	E288:   N. Flournoy
	Adaptive designs for dose-response studies
	E119:   W. Wong, S. Chang, W. Wang , R. Chen
	Nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms for generating optimal experimental designs
	E151:   M. Stehlik
	Optimal design for parameters of correlated processes
	E152:   J. Rodriguez-Diaz, M. Santos-Martin, C. Tomassi
	Optimal designs for the random effect logistic regression model with covariance structure
	E579:   H. Wynn, N. Youssef
	A maximum entropy sampling approach to adaptive design for spatial processes

Session ES31	Room: G16
Applied statistics II	Saturday 17.12.2011    14:00 - 16:05
Chair: Agustin Mayo-Iscar	Organizer: Agustin Mayo-Iscar and Paula Camelia Trandafir

	E622:   T. Bellini
	Intra-Day robust exchange rate forecasting
	E767:   V. Todorov
	Robust methods for analysis of multivariate grouped data in R
	E593:   A. Marazzi, V. Yohai, C. Agostinelli
	Robust estimates of the generalized loggamma distribution
	E599:   C. Hennig, P. Coretto
	Comparating methods for robust elliptical clustering, including the robust improper ML estimator
	E828:   P. Coretto, F. Giordano
	Power distribution and dynamic range in PCM music signals

Session ES38	Room: B34
Statistics in functional and Hilbert spaces I	Saturday 17.12.2011    14:00 - 16:05
Chair: Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez	Organizer: Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez

	E351:   A. Aguilera, M. Escabias, C. Preda, G. Saporta
	Functional PLS versus functional PCR through simulated data and chemometric applications
	E362:   C. Ritz, E. Olsen
	Comparison of two methods based on 3-dimensional position data
	E549:   V. Inacio, W. Gonzalez-Manteiga, M. Febrero-Bande, F. Gude, C. Cadarso-Suarez
	Extending induced ROC methodology to the functional context
	E614:   A. Kneip, P. Sarda
	Factor models and variable selection in high dimensional regression
	E626:   V. Panaretos, D. Kraus
	Statistical inference on the second order structure of functional data

Session ES63	Room: B20
Handling imprecision in graphical models	Saturday 17.12.2011    14:00 - 16:05
Chair: Antonio Salmeron	Organizer: Antonio Salmeron and Rafael Rumi

	E299:   A. Masegosa, J. Abellan, R. Baker, F. Coolen, R. Crossman
	Building decision trees from a nonparametric predictive inference perspective
	E334:   S. Moral, A. Cano, M. Gomez-Olmedo, A. Masegosa
	The imprecise sample size Dirichlet model
	E404:   A. Fernandez, J. Gamez, R. Rumi, A. Salmeron
	Data clustering using hidden variables in hybrid Bayesian networks
	E124:   A. Salmeron, J. Gamez, J. Nielsen
	Estimating CG-PDGs from incomplete data using an EM approach
	E327:   R. Marinescu, N. Wilson
	Order of magnitude influence diagrams

Session ES70	Room: B36
Statistics for random intervals and random sets	Saturday 17.12.2011    14:00 - 16:05
Chair: Thierry Denoeux	Organizer: Thierry Denoeux and Ana Colubi

	E927:   M. Garcia-Barzana, A. Colubi, E. Kontoghiorghes
	On the estimation of a multiple linear regression model for interval data
	E569:   S. Destercke, E. Miranda, M. Troffaes
	On p-boxes and random sets
	E859:   R. Seri, C. Choirat
	Bootstrap confidence sets for the Aumann mean of a random closed set
	E545:   A. Han, Y. Hong, S. Wang
	Autoregressive conditional models for interval-valued time series data
	E761:   A. Blanco-Fernandez, A. Colubi, G. Gonzalez-Rodriguez
	Hypothesis testing of regression parameters in a linear model for interval-valued random sets

Session EP02	Room: Chancellor's
Poster session II	Saturday 17.12.2011    14:00 - 16:05
Chair: Klea Panayidou	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E755:   R. Alotaibi, R. Henderson, M. Farrow
	Explained variation for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma survival: A review and comparison
	E796:   V. Alba-Fernandez, M. Jimenez-Gamero, I. Barranco-Chamorro
	Goodness-of-fit for the Moran-Downton exponential distribution
	E781:   P. Roman-Roman, F. Torres-Ruiz
	Modeling the effect of therapies by using diffusion processes
	E885:   G. Manzi, P. Ferrari, A. Barbiero, N. Solaro
	An imputation method for mixed-type data using nonlinear principal component analysis
	E868:   E. Jones, V. Didelez
	Learning tree or forest graphical model structures
	E867:   L. Geppert
	Efficient Bayesian analysis by combining ideas from merge and reduce and meta-analysis
	E851:   M. Fernandez-Sanchez, A. Hernandez-Bastida
	The Bayes premium in the collective risk Poisson-Lindley and Exponential model with different structure functions
	E849:   S. Salini, F. De Battisti
	Statisticians and bibliometric laws
	E963:   B. Kaszuba
	Empirical comparison of robust portfolios' investment effects

Session EP01	Room: Chancellor's
Posters session I	Saturday 17.12.2011    14:00 - 16:05
Chair: Klea Panayidou	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E638:   M. Rodero Cosano, C. Garcia Alonso
	Structural equation models based on covariance vs partial least squared to develop spatial indices
	E655:   J. Linares-Perez, R. Caballero-Aguila, A. Hermoso-Carazo
	Linear estimation based on covariance using uncertain observations featuring random delays and packet dropouts
	E702:   M. Garcia-Ligero, A. Hermoso-Carazo, J. Linares-Perez
	Distributed fusion filter for systems with markovian delays
	E706:   A. Hermoso-Carazo, R. Caballero-Aguila, J. Linares-Perez
	Recursive estimation algorithm from measurements with upper-bounded random delays
	E723:   B. Kan, B. Yazici
	Steps of a recursive partitioning algorithm
	E751:   M. Molina, M. Mota, A. Ramos
	Software in R and computational methods for branching processes
	E752:   M. Mota, M. Gonzalez, C. Gutierrez, R. Martinez
	Approximate Bayesian computation methods for branching models in genetic context: application to X-linked genes
	E754:   S. Meintanis, K. Fragiadakis
	Goodness-of-fit tests for the multivariate skew normal distribution

Parallel session F:	Saturday 17.12.2011	16:35 - 18:40

Session ES10	Room: S261
Classification and discriminant procedures for dependent data	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: Andres M. Alonso	Organizer: Andres M. Alonso

	E547:   C. Sguera, P. Galeano, R. Lillo
	Spatial depth-based classification for functional data
	E338:   J. Gonzalez, A. Munoz
	Time series classification via the combination of functional data projections
	E521:   M. Febrero-Bande
	Comparison of several supervised classification methods for functional data
	E328:   A. Alonso, D. Casado, S. Lopez-Pintado, J. Romo
	Robust functional classification for time series

Session ES14	Room: Bloomsbury
Networking on Biostatistics: the BIOSTATNET project I	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: Guadalupe Gomez	Organizer: Guadalupe Gomez

	E138:   S. Campos, J. Lopez-Fidalgo
	Experimental design for modeling benign positional vertigo
	E211:   C. Armero, S. Perra, A. Quiros, S. Cabras, M. Castellanos, M. Oruezabal, J. Sanchez-Rubio
	A Bayesian multi-state model for estimating the progression of stage IV non-small cells lung cancer
	E245:   S. Perez-Alvarez, G. Gomez, C. Brander
	FARMS: A new strategy for model selection
	E205:   A. Sorribas, C. Pozo, G. Guillen-Gosalbez, L. Jimenez, R. Alves, A. Marin-Sanguino
	Global optimization strategies for non-linear dynamical models of cell metabolism based on recasting into power-law models
	E293:   B. de Sousa, E. Duarte, T. Kneib, C. Cadarso-Suarez, V. Rodrigues
	Structured additive regression modeling of time between menarche and menopause in breast cancer screening women

Session ES17	Room: Senate
Outliers and change-points in time series I	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: Roland Fried	Organizer: Christophe Croux and Roland Fried

	E086:   S. Hoermann, P. Kokoszka, R. Gabrys
	Monitoring the intraday volatility pattern
	E263:   B. Spangl, P. Ruckdeschel, R. Fruehwirth
	Robust nonlinear filtering of state-space models with applications
	E168:   P. Ruckdeschel, C. Erlwein
	Robustification of Elliott's HMM-based online filter
	E409:   A. Perez-Espartero, E. Ruiz, A. Carnero
	Effects of outliers on the identification and estimation of asymmetric GARCH-type models

Session ES18	Room: Gordon
Extreme value theory and applications	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: Michael Falk	Organizer: Michael Falk

	E066:   A. Guillou, Y. Goegebeur
	Asymptotically unbiased estimation of the coefficient of tail dependence
	E174:   P. Cirillo
	A simple Bayesian combinatorial model for bivariate extreme shocks
	E239:   R. Reiss, U. Cormann
	Conditioning exceedances on covariate processes
	E403:   J. Huesler
	On extremes of Gaussian processes in a random environment
	E410:   S. Aulbach, M. Falk
	Testing for a generalized Pareto process

Session ES25	Room: Jessel
Model validation	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: M. Dolores Jimenez-Gamero	Organizer: M. Dolores Jimenez-Gamero

	E020:   I. Van Keilegom, J. Escanciano, J. Pardo Fernandez
	A nonparametric test for risk-return relationships
	E106:   C. Tenreiro
	An affine invariant multiple test procedure for assessing multivariate normality
	E121:   J. Ojeda Cabrera
	Bootstrap model validation under bias selected data
	E186:   A. Karagrigoriou, I. Vonta
	Tests of fit via phi-divergence measures for biostatistics and reliability data
	E198:   M. Jimenez-Gamero
	Testing for the symmetric component in skew-symmetric distributions

Session ES41	Room: Court
Statistics in functional and Hilbert spaces II	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez	Organizer: Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez

	E170:   C. Goga, M. Chaouch
	On the estimation of the L1-median of a functional variable with complex surveys: application to the electricity load curves
	E204:   H. Cardot
	Confidence bands for unequal probability and model assisted Horvitz Thompson estimators for functional data
	E292:   L. Sangalli, L. Azzimonti, P. Secchi, J. Ramsay
	Partial differential smoothing for surface estimation
	E711:   B. Martin-Barragan, R. Lillo, J. Romo
	Interpretable support vector machines for functional data

Session ES43	Room: Torrington
Order-restricted inference and applications	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: Cristina Rueda	Organizer: Cristina Rueda and Miguel Fernandez

	E044:   O. Davidov, S. Peddada
	Order restricted inference for multivariate binary data with applications
	E127:   M. Meyer, J. Wang
	Testing against linear inequality constraints in parametric regression
	E298:   M. Fernandez, D. Conde, C. Rueda, B. Salvador
	Isotonized linear discriminant rules with application to medical studies
	E319:   S. Peddada, M. Fernandez, C. Rueda
	Identification of tightly regulated temporally conserved cell-cycle genes in budding yeast, fission yeast and humans

Session ES37	Room: Woburn
Bayesian modelling and computation	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: Antonio Lijoi	Organizer: Jim Griffin , Sonia Petrone and Igor Pruenster

	E269:   C. Hans, S. MacEachern, A. Som
	Prior information and dependence in regression
	E270:   A. Banerjee, D. Dunson, S. Tokdar
	Efficient computation techniques for high dimensional Bayesian non parametric models
	E450:   M. Kalli, J. Griffin
	Flexible modelling of dependence in volatility processes
	E683:   E. Waldmann, T. Kneib
	Variational approximations in geoadditive quantile regression
	E366:   R. Fuentes-Garcia
	A probability for classification based on the Dirichlet process mixture model

Session ES58	Room: S264
Statistical monitoring and its applications I	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: Abdulkadir Hussien	Organizer: Abdulkadir Hussien and Rebecca Killick

	E068:   E. Gombay
	Truncated sequential monitoring
	E073:   E. Ahmed
	Monitoring equality of two process capability indices
	E076:   R. Killick, I. Eckley
	Efficient detection of multiple changepoints within wind energy time series
	E078:   A. Hussein
	Some aspects of risk-adjusted monitoring charts

Session ES69	Room: Bedford
Imprecise probabilistic modeling to solve statistical problems I	Saturday 17.12.2011    16:35 - 18:40
Chair: Sebastien Destercke	Organizer: Sebastien Destercke

	E527:   F. Ali, T. Coolen-Maturi, F. Coolen
	Nonparametric predictive inference to assess three-group diagnostic tests
	E528:   T. Coolen-Maturi, F. Ali, F. Coolen
	The ordering of future observations from multiple sources
	E572:   G. Walter
	Generalised Bayesian inference with conjugate priors, and a link to g-priors for Bayesian model selection
	E573:   M. Troffaes, D. Kelly, G. Walter
	Elicitation and inference for the imprecise Dirichlet model with arbitrary sets of hyperparameters
	E946:   G. de Cooman , A. Van Camp
	Modelling the observational process using coherent lower previsions

Parallel session G:	Sunday 18.12.2011	08:55 - 10:35

Session ES02	Room: Gordon
Statistical algorithms and software I	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Cristian Gatu	Organizer: Cristian Gatu

	E482:   D. Zhang, Y. Lin, M. Zhang
	Fitting high-dimensional generalized linear models via generalized orthogonal-components regression
	E618:   F. Loecker
	Numerical solution of Levy-Ito type stochastic differential equations in Mathematica
	E691:   C. Wild
	Gaining inzight
	E705:   T. Rudas, A. Klimova
	On a limitation of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for categorical data

Session ES16	Room: Bloomsbury
Statistical machine learning and robustness	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Robert Hable	Organizer: Andreas Christmann

	E063:   R. Hable, A. Christmann
	On support vector machines to estimate scale functions
	E148:   D. Paindaveine, P. Ilmonen
	Semiparametrically efficient inference based on signed ranks in symmetric independent component models
	E464:   D. Sejdinovic, K. Fukumizu, B. Schoelkopf, A. Smola, L. Song, B. Sriperumbudur, A. Gretton
	Hypothesis testing and Bayesian inference: New applications of kernel methods
	E753:   G. Boente
	Some recent results for functional data analysis

Session ES19	Room: Woburn
Advances in robust data analysis	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Luis A. Garcia-Escudero	Organizer: Luis A. Garcia-Escudero and Agustin Gordaliza

	E173:   C. Ruwet, L. Garcia-Escudero, A. Gordaliza, A. Mayo-Iscar
	Impact of contamination on the TCLUST procedure
	E411:   E. del Barrio
	Similarity in $k$-sample problems
	E415:   F. Torti, M. Riani, A. Cerioli
	Robust analysis and data exploration with FSDA toolbox for MATLAB
	E159:   A. Garcia-Perez
	The p-value line: some applications

Session ES21	Room: S261
Copula modelling and computational analysis	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Richard Gerlach	Organizer: Richard Gerlach

	E057:   C. Czado
	Vine copulas with application to financial data
	E195:   M. Hofert, M. Maechler, A. McNeil
	Likelihood inference for Archimedean copulas in high dimensions
	E213:   A. Nikoloulopoulos, H. Joe, N. Chaganty
	Weighted scores method for regression models with dependent data
	E860:   F. Durante
	Invariant dependence structures under truncation

Session ES27	Room: Jessel
Semiparametric quantile and expectile regression	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Thomas Kneib	Organizer: Thomas Kneib

	E029:   S. Volgushev, H. Dette
	Nonparametric estimates of quantile curves for censored data
	E203:   A. Mayr, T. Hothorn, N. Fenske
	Fitting prediction intervals by boosting quantile regression
	E161:   T. Kneib, F. Sobotka
	Semiparametric expectile regression
	E083:   R. Koenker
	Additive models for quantile regression: Model selection and confidence bandaids

Session ES52	Room: Torrington
Mixture models in R	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Bettina Gruen	Organizer: Bettina Gruen

	E143:   I. Visser, M. Speekenbrink
	Dependent mixture models with R
	E149:   A. Komarek
	Clustering for multivariate continuous and discrete longitudinal data using R package mixAK
	E166:   B. Gruen, K. Hornik
	Fitting finite mixtures of von Mises-Fisher distributions using the R package movMF
	E595:   D. Stasinopoulos, R. Rigby, A. Van den Hout, G. Muniz
	Applying the R package gamlss.mx to investigate cognitive decline.

Session ES53	Room: Senate
Frequency domain analysis	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Alessandra Luati	Organizer: Alessandra Luati

	E224:   A. Walden
	Stabilization of spectral matrix inversion and its uses
	E236:   M. Pourahmadi
	Prediction of stationary spatial processes with exponential expectrum
	E539:   R. Dahlhaus
	Spectrum based inference for nonstationary processes
	E605:   R. Bhansali, L. Ippoliti, R. Martin
	Rational spectral density models for lattice data

Session ES81	Room: S264
Time series modeling and computation II	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Roland Fried	Organizer: Andres M. Alonso and Roland Fried

	E155:   J. Steinebach
	Sequential testing of changes in the drift of a stochastic process
	E501:   A. Jach, T. McElroy
	Subsampling inference for the autocovariances of long-memory time series
	E505:   M. Borowski, R. Fried
	Online signal extraction from data streams by robust moving window regression with automatic width adaption
	E651:   Z. Praskova
	On testing stability in multivariate RCA models

Session ES76	Room: Bedford
Design and analysis of computer experiments II	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Sonja Kuhnt	Organizer: Sonja Kuhnt

	E523:   O. Roustant
	Some kernels for Kriging models
	E529:   H. Maruri Aguilar, A. Boukouvalas, J. Gosling
	Sequential screening with elementary effects
	E555:   O. Harari, D. Steinberg
	Bayesian mixture of Gaussian processes for deterministic computer experiments
	E554:   T. Muehlenstaedt
	Kernel interpolation

Session ES65	Room: Court
Symbolic data analysis	Sunday 18.12.2011    08:55 - 10:35
Chair: Monique Noirhomme	Organizer: Monique Noirhomme

	E635:   F. Tenorio de Carvalho, Y. Lechevallier
	A clustering algorithm for multiple relational data matrices
	E377:   P. Brito, M. Ichino
	Conceptual clustering of symbolic data using a quantile representation: discrete and continuous approaches
	E387:   S. Dias, P. Brito
	Distribution and symmetric distribution model - A linear regression model for histogram-valued variables
	E139:   M. Noirhomme, T. Amouh
	A tree construction algorithm for complex data

Parallel session I:	Sunday 18.12.2011	11:05 - 12:45

Session ESI03	Room: Woburn
Advances in multivariate analysis	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: Ana Colubi	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E202:   H. Oja
	Multivariate linear L1 regression
	E688:   P. Groenen, G. van den Burg
	A new multiclass support vector machine based on $L_p$ norms
	E834:   J. Romo, H. Laniado, R. Lillo
	Multivariate extremes: a directional approach

Session ES01	Room: Senate
Robust analysis of complex data sets	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: Stefan Van Aelst	Organizer: Christophe Croux and Stefan Van Aelst

	E430:   A. Alfons, C. Croux, S. Gelper
	Robust regression and model selection: sparse least trimmed squares
	E449:   A. Thieler, R. Fried
	Robust analysis of periodicities in light curves using M-regression
	E451:   M. El Asri
	On asymptotic properties of weighted M-estimators
	E532:   C. Bruffaerts, B. De Rock, C. Dehon
	The robustness of the hyperbolic efficiency estimator

Session ES04	Room: Bloomsbury
Time Series modeling and computation I	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: Andres M. Alonso	Organizer: Andres M. Alonso and Roland Fried

	E023:   P. Poncela, M. Camacho, G. Perez-Quiros
	Forecasting with Markov-switching dynamic factor models
	E534:   A. Luati, A. Harvey
	Dynamic conditional score models
	E349:   M. Wiper
	Time series models for compass wind directions
	E492:   C. Garcia-Martos, J. Rodriguez, M. Sanchez
	Forecasting electricity prices and their volatilities using unobserved components

Session ES23	Room: Gordon
Advances in distance-based methods and applications	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: Aurea Grane	Organizer: Aurea Grane

	E395:   J. Fortiana, A. Esteve, E. Boj
	Influential subsets in distance-based (DB) prediction from genomic data
	E402:   E. Boj, T. Costa, J. Fortiana
	Applications of distance-based (DB) methods in actuarial science using R
	E508:   O. Pujol
	New trends in error correcting output codes
	E531:   A. Grane, P. Alonso, I. Albarran
	Profile identification via weighted related metric scaling: an application to Spanish dependent children

Session ES24	Room: Torrington
Mixture models: applications and extensions	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: John Hinde	Organizer: John Hinde

	E882:   R. Browne, P. McNicholas
	Model-based clustering and classification of data with mixed type
	E856:   N. Coffey, J. Hinde, A. Garcia
	Finite mixture model clustering of SNP data
	E823:   A. Figueiredo
	Classification of variables using the Watson distribution
	E801:   J. Hinde
	Mixture models for outliers

Session ES28	Room: Bedford
Design and analysis of computer experiments I	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: Sonja Kuhnt	Organizer: Sonja Kuhnt

	E144:   A. Jourdan
	Global sensitivity analysis of computer models by using orthogonal arrays and Fourier regressions
	E222:   D. Ginsbourger, C. Chevalier, J. Janusevskis, R. Le Riche
	Dealing with asynchronicity in Kriging-based parallel global optimization
	E397:   N. Youssef, H. Wynn
	Partial maximum entropy sampling criterion for computer experiments
	E455:   J. Fruth, S. Kuhnt
	Total interaction indices for the decomposition of functions with high complexity

Session ES30	Room: S264
Biostatistics I	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: Gilbert Mackenzie	Organizer: Gilbert Mackenzie

	E315:   G. MacKenzie , J. Xu
	Advances in covariance modelling
	E369:   J. Xu, G. MacKenzie
	Modelling covariance structure for incomplete multivariate longitudinial data
	E488:   S. Conde, G. MacKenzie
	Model selection in sparse high-dimensional contingency tables
	E443:   D. Peng , G. MacKenzie
	Optimal choice of reference subclass in categorical regression models

Session ES33	Room: S261
Robust methods in small area estimation	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: Isabel Molina	Organizer: Isabel Molina

	E116:   D. Haziza, V. Dongmo Jiongo, P. Duchesne
	Controlling the bias of robust small area predictors
	E425:   T. Schoch, B. Hulliger
	On computing and tuning some simple and robust unit-level SAE estimators
	E466:   R. Fried, I. Molina Peralta, B. Perez Garrido, A. Thieler
	Robustness analysis of unbalanced linear mixed modeling
	E712:   N. Tzavidis, S. Krieg, M. Smeets, C. Bocci, V. Blaess
	Outlier robust domain estimation for business survey data

Session ES36	Room: Jessel
Parametric and semiparametric hazards models and analyses	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: M. Carmen Pardo	Organizer: M. Carmen Pardo

	E069:   M. Avendano, M. Pardo, N. Balakrishnan
	Inference for a semiparametric generalized logit-based proportional hazards model in survival analysis
	E157:   L. Bordes, D. Chauveau
	EM and stochastic EM algorithms for duration mixture models under random censoring
	E371:   K. Langohr, G. Gomez, M. Calle
	Tools for the assessment of the linear regression model with an interval-censored covariate
	E724:   F. Vaida, M. Donohue, R. Haut, R. Xu
	Conditional AIC for generalized linear and proportional hazards mixed models

Session ES59	Room: Court
Imprecise probabilistic modeling to solve statistical problems II	Sunday 18.12.2011    11:05 - 12:45
Chair: Marco Cattaneo	Organizer: Marco Cattaneo and Ines Couso

	E196:   O. Strauss, S. Destercke
	Performing non-parametric homogeneity tests on interval-valued samples
	E420:   E. Miranda, I. Montes, S. Diaz
	Imprecise preferences by means of probability boxes
	E422:   T. Augustin
	Imprecise measurement error models and partial identification: towards a unified approach for non-idealized data
	E465:   M. Cattaneo, A. Wiencierz
	On the implementation of likelihood-based imprecise regression

Parallel session J:	Sunday 18.12.2011	14:15 - 16:20

Session ES08	Room: Bloomsbury
Optimal design	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: Steve Gilmour	Organizer: Steve Gilmour and Ben Parker

	E169:   S. Biedermann, M. Yang
	Optimal designs for multinomial logistic regression
	E446:   H. Grossmann
	Algorithmic choice designs for paired comparisons of partial profiles
	E598:   P. Tsai, S. Gilmour
	$Q_B$-optimal saturated two-level main effects designs
	E556:   P. Goos, S. Gilmour, H. Grossmann
	Model-robust variance-component estimation and lack-of-fit test for split-plot and other multi-stratum response surface designs
	E847:   S. Gilmour, L. Trinca
	An improved algorithm for split-plot and multi-stratum designs

Session ES12	Room: Jessel
High-dimensional statistics, sparsity and applications	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: Pierre Alquier	Organizer: Gerard Biau and Pierre Alquier

	E089:   B. Guedj, G. Biau, E. Moulines, P. Alquier
	PAC-Bayesian and interacting MCMC techniques under the scope of sparse generalized additive model
	E108:   E. Gautier, A. Tsybakov
	High dimensional instrumental regression and confidence sets
	E133:   K. Bleakley, J. Vert
	The group fused Lasso for multiple change-point detection
	E463:   A. Kaban, B. Durrant
	Subspace adaptiveness of compressive Fisher's linear discriminant classifier
	E030:   R. Samworth, R. Shah
	A second look at stability selection

Session ES22	Room: S261
Dealing with rare events: resampling-based methods	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: M. Ivette Gomes	Organizer: M. Ivette Gomes

	E306:   M. Neves, I. Gomes, F. Figueiredo, D. Prata Gomes
	Computer-intensive methods in an adaptive estimation of parameters of rare events
	E355:   M. Xie
	Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for order statistics of parameters
	E486:   M. Brito
	Resampling tail estimators and applications
	E059:   L. Peng
	Resampling for endpoint
	E955:   A. Cornea, K. Abadir
	Bootstrapping with fat-tailed asymmetry

Session ES26	Room: Gordon
MCMC for estimating diffusions	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: Frank van der Meulen	Organizer: Geurt Jongbloed and Frank van der Meulen

	E099:   A. Golightly, D. Wilkinson
	Irreducible MCMC schemes for diffusions using high frequency imputation
	E898:   K. Kalogeropoulos, A. Beskos, E. Pazos
	Advanced MCMC methods for sampling on diffusion pathspace
	E407:   O. Papaspiliopoulos, G. Sermaidis, R. Gareth, A. Beskos, F. Paul
	Markov chain Monte Carlo for exact inference for diffusions
	E933:   O. Stramer, M. Bognar
	Bayesian inference for a generalized class of Heston models
	E281:   F. van der Meulen, H. van Zanten , M. Schauer
	Nonparametric drift estimation for diffusions

Session ES35	Room: Woburn
Longitudinal data analysis	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: M. Carmen Pardo	Organizer: M. Carmen Pardo

	E047:   V. Nunez-Anton
	Antedependence models for longitudinal nonstationary data
	E137:   D. Morina, P. Puig, J. Valero
	Autoregressive models for positive time series
	E231:   A. Guha, B. Atanu
	Modelling and analysis of multivariate ordinal categorical data in longitudinal setup
	E282:   O. Ilk, O. Asar
	Computational ease on marginalized models for multivariate longitudinal binary data via probit link
	E496:   R. Cook, M. Cuerden, C. Cotton
	Issues in the analysis of longitudinal data with dependent observation schemes

Session ES40	Room: Senate
Bayesian nonparametrics modelling	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: Jim Griffin	Organizer: Jim Griffin , Sonia Petrone and Igor Pruenster

	E134:   A. Kottas, K. Fronczyk
	Nonparametric mixture modeling for Bayesian analysis of dose-response studies
	E113:   F. Petralia, D. Dunson
	Repulsive mixtures
	E600:   S. Favaro, A. Lijoi, I. Pruenster
	On the stick-breaking representation for Gibbs-type priors
	E265:   R. Mena, R. Fuentes-Garcia , M. Ruggiero, S. Walker
	Nonparametric stick breaking priors with simple weights
	E962:   S. Petrone, S. Wade, S. Walker
	A predictive study of Bayesian nonparametric regression models

Session ES46	Room: Bedford
Recent advances in multi-state models	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: Jacobo de Una-Alvarez	Organizer: Jacobo de Una-Alvarez

	E300:   M. Rodriguez-Girondo, J. de Una-Alvarez
	Nonparametric methods for testing Markov condition in multi-state models
	E216:   L. Machado, A. Moreira, J. de Una-Alvarez
	Presmoothing the Aalen-Johansen estimator in an illness-death model
	E237:   S. Datta
	Nonparametric regression for sojourn time distributions in a multistate model
	E238:   S. Datta
	Nonparametric regression using partial least squares dimension reduction in multistate models
	E123:   P. Andersen, G. Cortese, T. Gerds
	Comparison of prediction models for competing risks with time-dependent covariates

Session ES49	Room: Torrington
New developments in quantile regression	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: Stanislav Volgushev	Organizer: Stanislav Volgushev

	E053:   I. Fernandez-Val, A. Belloni, V. Chernozhukov
	Conditional quantile processes based on series or many regressors
	E065:   T. Kley, H. Dette, M. Hallin
	A quantile-based approach to spectral analysis of time series
	E181:   J. Jureckova
	Two-step regression quantiles: Advantages and applications
	E345:   C. Heuchenne, I. Van Keilegom
	Quantile regression in nonparametric location-scale models with censored data
	E392:   Y. Wei, Y. Ma, R. Carroll
	Multiple imputation in quantile regression

Session ES56	Room: Court
Approaches to the treatment of imprecision of statistical data	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: Renato Coppi	Organizer: Renato Coppi

	E309:   R. Coppi
	The ontological and epistemic views of fuzzy data in the statistical reasoning process
	E361:   D. Dubois, E. Huellermeier
	Making sense of set-valued data: Ontic vs. epistemic representations
	E468:   R. Siciliano, M. Aria, V. Cozza, A. D'Ambrosio
	Ternary classification trees for imprecise data
	E477:   E. Huellermeier, D. Dubois
	On the notion of disambiguation in learning from imprecise data
	E784:   M. Gil, S. de la Rosa de Saa, M. Lopez, M. Lubiano
	Comparing Likert and fuzzy scales through some statistical tools

Session ES72	Room: S264
Networking on Biostatistics: the BIOSTATNET project III	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: Guadalupe Gomez	Organizer: Carmen Cadarso

	E323:   E. Molanes Lopez, E. Leton
	The use of the Youden index in diagnostic studies
	E339:   M. Rivas-Lopez, J. Lopez-Fidalgo
	Designs for partial likelihood in survival analysis
	E906:   R. Dorta Guerra, E. Gonzalez Davila, J. Ginebra
	D-optimal factorial designs for Poisson models in the context of toxicity studies
	E914:   C. Serrat
	Durability in building maintenance
	E886:   I. Sousa
	Transformed Gaussian model for joint modelling of longitudinal measurements and time-to-event in R

Session EP03	Room: Chancellor's
Posters session III	Sunday 18.12.2011    14:15 - 16:20
Chair: Cristian Gatu	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E842:   I. Papageorgiou
	An optimal design to improve control charts for correlated observations
	E862:   E. Gonzalez-Davila, A. Gonzalez-Yanes
	Adaptation to the survey ICT-H in Canary Islands of the dual frame methodology
	E928:   T. Okubo, S. Mayekawa
	Applying mixed-multivariate beta models and log-linear models to discrete test score distributions.
	E869:   N. Lunardon, L. Greco, L. Ventura
	Pairwise likelihood based robust estimation of multivariate location and covariance
	E891:   J. Vicente, A. Dionisio, M. Oliveira
	The potentialities of Chinese airline market for Lisbon international airport: the empirical modelling analysis
	E935:   F. Marques, C. Coelho
	On the linear combination of independent Gumbel random variables
	E807:   A. Sezer, B. Kan, B. Yazici
	Nonparametric bootstrap inference for quantiles and its application to the extremes
	E948:   A. Mohammad-Djafari, D. Pougaza
	New copulas obtained by maximizing R\'enyi entropis and their use for multivariate data analysis
	E957:   M. Malina, S. Tworek, M. Bogdan
	Selection of interactions with Bayesian logic regression methods

Parallel session K:	Sunday 18.12.2011	16:50 - 18:30

Session ESI04	Room: Senate
Space-time modelling in disease mapping	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Lola Ugarte	Organizer: Domingo Morales and Lola Ugarte

	E158:   L. Ugarte, T. Goicoa, J. Etxeberria, A. Militino
	Detecting space-time interactions in disease mapping when using CAR models
	E250:   A. Lawson, J. Choi
	Latent clustering and grouping in Bayesian mixed effect spatio-temporal models for small area disease risk
	E546:   A. Biggeri, D. Catelan
	Hierarchical Bayesian modelling to assess divergence in spatio-temporal disease mapping

Session ES13	Room: S264
Robust methods for financial applications	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Kris Boudt	Organizer: Kris Boudt

	E118:   S. Straetmans, B. Candelon
	Long-term asset tail risks in developed and emerging markets
	E125:   D. Tuerk, M. Eichler
	Fitting semiparametric Markov-switching models to electricity prices
	E301:   P. Exterkate, C. Croux
	Sparse and robust factor modelling
	E440:   J. Cornelissen, K. Boudt, C. Croux, S. Laurent
	Nonparametric tests for intraday jumps: impact of periodicity and microstructure noise

Session ES32	Room: S261
Diagnostic tests for independent and time-series data	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Simos Meintanis	Organizer: Simos Meintanis

	E262:   A. Cabana, A. Arratia, E. Cabana
	Modelling stationary time series by continuous time processes
	E312:   M. Huskova, Z. Hlavka, C. Kirch, S. Meintanis
	Sequential monitoring of stability of time series
	E342:   O. Thas, J. Rayner
	Diagnostic tests for the location-shift assumption
	E524:   N. Henze, S. Meintanis
	The probability weighted empirical characteristic function and goodness-of-fit testing

Session ES44	Room: G16
Modelling the extremes	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Carl Scarrott	Organizer: Carl Scarrott

	E308:   Y. Liu, J. Tawn, A. Ledford
	Conditional analysis for multivariate extremes in finance
	E399:   C. Scarrott , A. MacDonald , D. Lee
	Modelling non-stationary extremal behaviour via mixture modelling
	E484:   X. Zhao, D. Lee, M. Reale, L. Oxley, C. Scarrott
	A Dirichlet process mixture model in fitting peaks over threshold
	E562:   A. Alvarez-Iglesias, J. Newell, C. Scarrott, J. Hinde
	Extreme value modeling of survival times

Session ES45	Room: B36
Mixture models: theory and data analysis	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Marco Riani	Organizer: Marco Riani

	E244:   D. Perrotta
	Fitting regression mixtures to contaminated data
	E322:   A. Mayo Iscar, L. Garcia-Escudero, A. Gordaliza, C. Matran
	Constraints in mixture modelling
	E340:   S. Ingrassia, S. Minotti, A. Punzo
	Parsimonious linear Student-t cluster weighted model
	E354:   A. Corbellini
	A comparison of different multivariate clustering methods

Session ES47	Room: B33
Semiparametric models with incomplete data	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Ingrid Van Keilegom	Organizer: Ingrid Van Keilegom

	E215:   J. de Una-Alvarez, C. Moreira
	Semiparametric kernel density estimation with doubly truncated data
	E225:   O. Lopez, S. Gribkova, P. Saint Pierre
	A goodness-of-fit procedure for semiparametric copula models under random censoring
	E321:   U. Mueller
	Complete case analysis revisited
	E584:   R. Braekers, A. Gaddah
	Flexibly extending the classical Koziol-Green model by a copula function.

Session ES51	Room: B18
Advances in software for tree models	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Achim Zeileis	Organizer: Achim Zeileis

	E329:   E. Dusseldorp, I. Van Mechelen
	TINT R-package for advanced subgroup analysis
	E401:   T. Grubinger, A. Zeileis, K. Pfeiffer
	evtree: Evolutionary learning of globally optimal classification and regression trees in R
	E424:   A. Zeileis, T. Hothorn
	partykit: A toolkit for recursive partytioning
	E510:   C. Conversano
	Detecting threshold interactions in supervised classification and regression: STIMA

Session ES55	Room: B35
Fuzzy sets in statistics	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez	Organizer: Gil Gonzalez-Rodriguez

	E197:   W. Waegeman, T. Pahikkala, A. Airola, T. Salakoski, B. De Baets
	A kernel framework for learning relations from paired-comparison data
	E478:   C. Roldan, A. Roldan, J. Martinez-Moreno
	On a fuzzy regression model with crisp input and trapezoidal fuzzy output data
	E479:   L. Rodriguez-Muniz, L. Troiano, I. Diaz
	Output distributions of aggregation functions: a statistical study
	E566:   P. Teran, J. Moreno
	Modelling decisors' subjective attitude towards negotiation in e-democracy and e-cognocracy problems

Session ES74	Room: B34
Outliers and change-points in time series II	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Christophe Croux	Organizer: Christophe Croux and Roland Fried

	E460:   T. Liboschik, R. Fried
	Interventions in INGARCH processes and their effects on the estimation of autocorrelation
	E662:   D. Ferger
	Least squares estimation in models with multiple change-points
	E533:   S. Iacus
	Recent results on volatility change point estimation for stochastic differential equations
	E021:   D. Wied, W. Kraemer, H. Dehling
	Testing for structural changes in the dependence structure at an unknown point in time

Session ES67	Room: B20
Heuristics in finance	Sunday 18.12.2011    16:50 - 18:30
Chair: Dietmar Maringer	Organizer: Dietmar Maringer

	E258:   G. Kronberger, S. Fink, M. Affenzeller
	Modeling and prognosis of European interest rate swaps using genetic programming
	E268:   S. Villa, F. Stella
	Continuous time Bayesian classifiers for intraday FX prediction
	E302:   C. Oesch
	Option pricing with grammatical evolution
	E474:   G. Dash, N. Kajiji
	Multivariate neural network estimation of bidirectional volatility spillover between U.S. and European government bond markets

Parallel session N:	Monday 19.12.2011	10:55 - 12:35

Session ES05	Room: B34
Bayesian nonparametric priors	Monday 19.12.2011    10:55 - 12:35
Chair: Igor Pruenster	Organizer: Jim Griffin , Sonia Petrone and Igor Pruenster

	E314:   F. Caron, Y. Teh
	A Bayesian nonparametric model for ranking
	E937:   E. Fox, D. Dunson
	Bayesian nonparametric covariance regression
	E852:   A. Lijoi, B. Nipoti
	Vectors of dependent random probabilities
	E495:   S. Williamson, Z. Ghahramani, S. MacEachern
	Constructing exchangeable priors via restriction

Session ES07	Room: B18
Mixture models	Monday 19.12.2011    10:55 - 12:35
Chair: Christian Hennig	Organizer: Christian Hennig

	E676:   I. Kosmidis, D. Karlis
	Model-based clustering via copulas
	E578:   J. Dupuy, A. Diop, A. Diop
	Maximum likelihood estimation in the logistic regression model with a cure fraction
	E709:   L. Bagnato, F. Greselin, S. Ingrassia, A. Punzo
	Normal discriminant analysis via the 2-terms eigenvalue decomposition
	E770:   A. Mohammadi, M. Salehi-Rad, E. Wit
	Using mixture of Gamma distributions for Bayesian analysis in an M/G/1 queue with optional second service

Session ES34	Room: B36
Invariant coordinate selection and dimension reduction	Monday 19.12.2011    10:55 - 12:35
Chair: Hannu Oja	Organizer: Hannu Oja

	E273:   A. Ruiz-Gazen
	Multivariate outliers detection using ICS
	E358:   K. Nordhausen, E. Liski, H. Oja
	Supervised invariant coordinate selection
	E376:   F. Critchley, A. Pires, C. Amado
	Invariant coordinate selection revisited: a symmetry group perspective
	E470:   D. Tyler, J. Wang
	Testing the equality of the roots in ICS

Session ES42	Room: G16
Point processes: modelling and forecasting	Monday 19.12.2011    10:55 - 12:35
Chair: Paula Rodriguez Bouzas	Organizer: Paula Rodriguez Bouzas

	E072:   A. Cebrian
	Modelling the occurrence of extreme heat events using a bivariate Poisson process
	E120:   M. Lieshout
	A J-function for inhomogeneous point processes with applications
	E438:   C. Caroni, D. Stogiannis
	Tests for outliers in power-law and inverse Gaussian models for event times
	E346:   N. Ruiz-Fuentes, P. Bouzas, G. Atsalakis
	Behavior comparison of turning points of stock prices

Session ES48	Room: B33
Multivariate nonparametrics	Monday 19.12.2011    10:55 - 12:35
Chair: Daniel Vogel	Organizer: Daniel Vogel

	E266:   K. Mosler, R. Dyckerhoff
	Weighted-mean regions of a probability distribution
	E375:   S. Taskinen, H. Oja
	Hettmansperger-Randles estimators for multivariate regression
	E866:   A. Duerre, D. Vogel, R. Fried
	The Fisher consistent transformed spatial sign covariance matrix and its properties
	E432:   D. Vogel, H. Dehling, R. Fried
	A nonparametric test for change-points in correlation

Session ES64	Room: B35
Fuzzy knowledge extraction and engineering	Monday 19.12.2011    10:55 - 12:35
Chair: Anne Laurent	Organizer: Anne Laurent and Sadok Ben Yahia

	E444:   S. Ben Yahia, A. Ben Jrad, C. Trabelsi
	Towards a fuzzy ontology learning from folksonomies
	E689:   M. Pelka, A. Dudek
	Comparison of fuzzy clustering methods for interval-valued symbolic data
	E551:   C. Marsala, M. Rifqi
	Characterizing forest of fuzzy decision trees errors
	E502:   A. Laurent, S. Ayouni, L. Di Jorio, S. Ben Yahia, P. Poncelet
	Mixing multiple fuzzy modalities for fuzzy gradual pattern mining

Session ES68	Room: B20
Microarray data analysis	Monday 19.12.2011    10:55 - 12:35
Chair: Taesung Park	Organizer: Taesung Park

	E228:   S. Lee, J. Kim, S. Lee
	Comparative evaluation of gene-set analysis methods in association with survival time
	E386:   H. Kim, E. Gelenbe
	Stochastic model based abnormality detection in a large-scale gene regulatory network
	E568:   S. Imoto
	NetworkProfiler: Uncovering cancer heterogeneity in transcriptome data
	E574:   T. Park, J. Lee, S. Ahn
	Gene set analysis for SNPs with low minor allele frequencies

Parallel session O:	Monday 19.12.2011	14:05 - 15:45

Session ESI01	Room: Beveridge
Robust methods	Monday 19.12.2011    14:05 - 15:45
Chair: Alastair Young	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E208:   S. Van Aelst
	Robust correlations revisited
	E525:   A. Gordaliza, L. Garcia-Escudero, C. Matran, A. Mayo-Iscar
	Robust cluster analysis based on trimming: Review and advances
	E559:   M. Riani
	Breakdown and efficiency in complex models

Session ES03	Room: B36
Imprecision in statistical data analysis I	Monday 19.12.2011    14:05 - 15:45
Chair: Olivier Strauss	Organizer: Thierry Denoeux and Olivier Strauss

	E811:   B. Sinova, A. Colubi, M. Gil, S. Van Aelst
	The mids/ldev/rdev characterization of a fuzzy number. Some statistical applications
	E838:   B. Quost, T. Denoeux
	Clustering imprecise data using the fuzzy EM algorithm
	E744:   M. Symeonaki, A. Kazani, K. Michalopoulou
	Fuzzifying Likert scales with factor analysis techniques
	E343:   J. Verwaeren, W. Waegeman, B. De Baets
	Incorporating imprecise prior knowledge in multiple output regression
	E156:   M. Odejar
	Messy data analysis of interval data

Session ES82	Room: B34
Clustering and classification	Monday 19.12.2011    14:05 - 15:45
Chair: Maria Brigida Ferraro	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E878:   S. Kanj, F. Abdallah, T. Denoeux
	Multi-label classification in the belief function framework using the evidential random k-labelsets method
	E892:   A. Daher, T. Dhorne
	Spatial clustering through aggregation control
	E905:   K. Payne, A. Marshall, K. Cairns, E. McCall, S. Craig
	Modelling the development of late-onset sepsis and corresponding length of stay within preterm neonatal care
	E884:   D. Prastyo, W. Haerdle, R. Moro
	Evolutionary algorithm to optimise a support vector machine for probability of default prediction
	E810:   G. Menardi, A. Azzalini
	Identification of connected regions in density-based clustering methods: a new dimension-independent technique

Session ES83	Room: B33
Contributions in parametric and semiparametric inference	Monday 19.12.2011    14:05 - 15:45
Chair: M. Dolores Jimenez-Gamero	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E229:   J. Gastwirth, W. Xu, Q. Pan
	Estimation of Cox proportional hazards models in the presence of a negatively correlated frailty
	E798:   I. Barranco-Chamorro, M. Jimenez-Gamero
	Interval estimation of parametric functions in partially non-regular log-exponential models
	E951:   A. Punzo, F. Greselin
	Closed likelihood-ratio testing procedures to assess similarity of covariance matrices
	E938:   S. Minotti
	Mixtures of regressions with Student-t errors

Session ES60	Room: G16
Computer-aided data analysis	Monday 19.12.2011    14:05 - 15:45
Chair: Dietmar Maringer	Organizer: ERCIM2011

	E733:   R. Xuriguera, M. Arias, A. Arratia
	Forecasting financial time series with Twitter
	E735:   K. Okada
	Bayesian inequality constrained multidimensional scaling
	E845:   S. Scheuring
	Multivariate Markov chain approximations
	E809:   R. Almeida, N. Basturk, U. Kaymak, J. Sousa
	Fuzzy GARCH Models
	E668:   S. Arima, A. Farcomeni
	A Bayesian autoregressive three-state HMM for switching monotonic regimes for microarray time course data

Session ES75	Room: B35
Contributions to extreme value theory and applications	Monday 19.12.2011    14:05 - 15:45
Chair: Juerg Huesler	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E602:   K. Knight
	Extremal dependence and the ACE algorithm
	E633:   M. Gomes, D. Pestana
	A simple generalization of the Hill estimator
	E704:   D. Jaruskova
	Asymptotic behavior of max-type test statistic for detecting multiple change points
	E843:   L. Cavalcante, M. Brito, A. Freitas
	Bias reduction of the geometric-type estimator and high order quantiles
	E925:   J. Dienstbier, J. Picek
	Tail regression quantile process and its applications

Session ES84	Room: B18
Statistical algorithms and computer experiments	Monday 19.12.2011    14:05 - 15:45
Chair: Cristian Gatu	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E759:   C. Yazici, F. Yerlikaya-Ozkurt , I. Batmaz
	A computational approach to nonparametric regression: Bootstrapping the CMARS method
	E881:   C. Chevalier, D. Ginsbourger, V. Picheny, Y. Richet
	KrigInv, an R package for sequential inversion of expensive-to-evaluate black-box simulators
	E758:   I. Batmaz, F. Yerlikaya-Ozkurt, C. Yazici
	New software for predictive data mining: The conic multivariate adaptive regression splines (CMARS) algorithm
	E583:   S. Jolani
	Stochastic version of the EM algorithm for analysis of generalized sample selection models
	E830:   M. Farah, A. Kottas, R. Morris
	Flexible Bayesian modeling for emulation and calibration of stochastic simulators

Session ES50	Room: B20
Computational statistics	Monday 19.12.2011    14:05 - 15:45
Chair: Klea Panayidou	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E943:   S. Hadjiantoni, E. Kontoghiorghes
	Efficient algorithms for the re-estimation of the general linear and SUR models after deleting observations
	E591:   F. Sobotka, R. Radice, G. Marra, T. Kneib
	A flexible instrumental variable approach to semiparametric expectile regression
	E722:   M. Martinez-Miranda, M. Gamiz Perez, J. Nielsen
	Smoothing survival densities in practise
	E690:   H. Noh, K. Chung, I. Van Keilegom
	Variable selection of varying coefficient models in quantile regression
	E829:   K. Panayidou
	Tree learning and variable selection

Parallel session P:	Monday 19.12.2011	16:15 - 17:35

Session ESI02	Room: Beveridge
Bayesian nonparametrics	Monday 19.12.2011    16:15 - 17:35
Chair: Stephen Walker	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E372:   I. Pruenster, S. Favaro, A. Lijoi, R. Mena
	A Bayesian nonparametric approach to species sampling problems
	E571:   K. Ickstadt, M. Schafer, J. Wieczorek
	Nonparametric Bayesian modelling in systems biology
	E814:   M. De Iorio
	Bayesian feature selection for classification of metabolite NMR Spectra

Session ES61	Room: Woburn
Contributions in nonparametric statistics	Monday 19.12.2011    16:15 - 17:35
Chair: Juan Carlos Pardo-Fernandez	Organizer: ERCIM2011

	E090:   M. Vollmer, C. Bandt
	A new independence test for continuous variables
	E765:   J. Pardo-Fernandez, C. Heuchenne
	Testing for one-sided alternatives in nonparametric censored regression
	E792:   L. Azzimonti, L. Sangalli, P. Secchi, M. Domanin
	Blood-flow velocity field estimation via spatial spline models with a PDE penalization
	E778:   A. Daouia, B. Park
	On projection-type estimators of multivariate isotonic functions

Session ES73	Room: Jessel
Contributions on high-dimensional data analysis	Monday 19.12.2011    16:15 - 17:35
Chair: Ejaz Ahmed	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E141:   L. Hearne
	Multivariate density estimation using geometric methods
	E543:   K. Glombek
	Testing for a large dimensional covariance matrix using the semicircle law
	E385:   D. Koch, S. Van Bellegem
	Large portfolio optimization using wavelet thresholding
	E726:   J. Lee, G. Kim, Y. Kim, H. Oh
	Sparse estimation of time-frequency surface for sound signals using regularized Bayesian methods

Session ES79	Room: Court
Contributions to robust analysis of complex data sets	Monday 19.12.2011    16:15 - 17:35
Chair: Christophe Croux	Organizer: Christophe Croux and Stefan Van Aelst

	E590:   G. Haesbroeck
	Robust multivariate coefficients of variation
	E639:   K. Mukherjee
	Robust estimation of conditional heteroscedastic models and forecasting of value-at-risk
	E915:   B. Nielsen, S. Johansen
	Asymptotic theory for iterated one-step Huber-skip estimators
	E088:   M. Zhelonkin, M. Genton, E. Ronchetti
	On the robustness of two-stage estimators

Session ES54	Room: Senate
Imprecision in statistical data analysis II	Monday 19.12.2011    16:15 - 17:35
Chair: Angela Blanco-Fernandez	Organizer: Ana Colubi and Thierry Denoeux

	E475:   W. Lamari, B. Ben Yaghlane, C. Simon
	Dynamic directed evidential networks with conditional belief functions: Application to system reliability
	E687:   E. Ramasso, M. Rombaut, N. Zerhouni
	Joint prediction of observations and states in time-series: A partially supervised prognostics approach based on belief functions and K-nearest neighbours
	E728:   S. Das
	Two-sample inference about mean, variance and proportion using imprecise data
	E835:   A. Antonucci, R. de Rosa
	Time series classification by imprecise hidden Markov models: Supporting continuous variables

Session ES78	Room: Bloomsbury
Contributions in applied statistics	Monday 19.12.2011    16:15 - 17:35
Chair: Agustin Mayo-Iscar	Organizer: ERCIM 2011

	E764:   P. Mpesmpeas
	Modelling population dynamics from repeated surveys
	E880:   C. Dooley, J. Hinde, J. Newell
	Propensity scores in observational studies
	E857:   O. Anacleto-Junior, C. Queen, C. Albers
	Graphical model representations of multivariate time series for road traffic flow forecasting
	E873:   D. Sanjel, S. Provost
	Semi-nonparametric approximations to the distribution of Portmanteau statistics