Title:  Some Advances in Bayesian Regression Models Abstract: In this talk, we discuss two recent problems in Bayesian regression, concerning logistic and linear regression models. Gelman et...

UMNC's 12th Annual Probability and Statistics Day will take place on April 20–21, 2018. The event is funded by the National Security Agency, and will consist of a half-day workshop on Friday...

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Title: Confidence Distribution (CD) and Approximate Computing for Frequentist Inference Abstract:  A confidence distribution (CD) is a sample-dependent distribution function that can serve as a...

Title: Joint Analysis of Interval-censored failure Time Data and Panel Count Data Abstract:  Interval-censored failure time data and panel count data are two types of incomplete data that...

Title: Assessing the effect of distance from a dam on time to malaria, with distance confounded with the clustering structure Abstract: Malaria remains an important disease in terms of...

Title: Combining One-Sample Confidence Procedures for Inference in the Two-Sample Case Abstract: We present a simple general method for combining two one-sample confidence procedures to obtain...

Title: Model Informed Bayesian Forecasting in Clinical Practice: Acute Acetaminophen Overdose Case Study Abstract: Model informed therapeutic decision-making tools are being increasingly used...

Title: Bayesian Multiple Breakpoint Detection: Mixing Documented and Undocumented Changepoints  Abstract: This talk presents methods to estimate the number of changepoint time(s) and their...

Title: On Exact Properties of Two-Stage and Sequential Estimation of the Mean of a Normal Distribution Under LINEX Loss Function Abstract: We consider the Estimation of the mean of a normal...