Monday, 13 Jun 2016

02:10pm - 02:20pm

Registration

02:20pm - 02:30pm

Opening Remarks

02:30pm - 03:30pm

Jackknife empirical likelihood
Bing-yi Jing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

03:30pm - 04:00pm

--- Group Photo & Coffee Break ---

04:00pm - 05:00pm

Constrained maximum likelihood estimation for model calibration using summary-level information from external big data sources (PDF)
Yi-Hau Chen, Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Tuesday, 14 Jun 2016

10:00am - 12:00pm

Research discussion

12:00pm - 01:45pm

--- Lunch Break ---

01:45pm - 02:00pm

Registration

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Penalized high-dimensional empirical likelihood for joint variable and moment selections (PDF)
Jinyuan Chang, The University of Melbourne, Australia

03:00pm - 03:30pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:30pm - 04:30pm

High dimensional empirical likelihood for general estimating equations with dependent data (PDF)
Song Xi Chen, Peking University, China and Iowa State University, USA

Wednesday, 15 Jun 2016

10:00am - 12:00pm

Research discussion

12:00pm - 01:45pm

--- Lunch Break ---

01:45pm - 02:00pm

Registration

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Singularity structures and parameter estimation in mixture models (PDF)
Long Nguyen, University of Michigan, USA

03:00pm - 03:30pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:30pm - 04:30pm

Why (not) empirical likelihood? (PDF)
Marian Grendar, Comenius University, Slovakia

Thursday, 16 Jun 2016

10:45am - 11:00am

Registration

11:00am - 12:00pm

A conditional empirical likelihood approach to combine sampling design
Sanjay Chaudhuri, National University of Singapore

12:00pm - 02:00pm

--- Lunch Break ---

02:00pm - 03:00pm

Higher order properties of block empirical likelihood methods (PDF)
Soumendra Nath Lahiri, NC State University, USA

03:00pm - 03:30pm

--- Coffee Break ---

03:30pm - 04:30pm

Statistical iference under nonignorable sampling and nonresponse. An empirical likelihood approach
Danny Pfeffermann, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel & University of Southampton, UK

Friday, 17 Jun 2016

02:00pm - 05:00pm

Free Discussion