OCTOBER 10TH, 1998 (SATURDAY)

REGISTRATION - 7:15 am - 8:00 am
(Burke Science Bldg. main entrance)

OPENING CEREMONY: 8:00-8:10 am
(Burke Science Bldg. Room 147)

COFFEE: 8:10-8:40 am (Burke Science Building Room 137)

Speakers:

1. 8:40-9:10
   I. V. Basawa (University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A.)
   "Inference for stochastic processes: Some perspectives"
2. 9:10-9:40
   N. D. Singpurwalla (George Washington University, Washington, DC, U.S.A.)
   "Inference for processes generated by concatenated failure rates"
3. 9:40-10:00
   Sankara N. Sethuraman (Augusta State University, Augusta, GA, U.S.A.)
   "The asymptotic distribution of the maximum likelihood estimator for a vector time series model with long memory dependence"
4. 10:00-10:20
   Anand Vidyasankar (University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A.)
   "Branching regression models"
5. 10:20-10:40
   Janusz Kawczak (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.)
   "On the weak convergence of certain residuals empirical process"

Speakers:

1. 8:40-9:04
   S. Gautam, Allan R. Sampson* and H. Singh (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Iso-chi square testing of 2 x k ordered tables"
2. 9:04-9:28
   Ravindra Khattree and Dayanand N. Naik* (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.)
   "Andrews plots for multivariate data: Some new suggestions and applications"
3. 9:28-9:52
   Brajendra C. Sutradhar (Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NFLD, Canada)
   "On the use of dependent vs. independent elliptic data: An overview"
   
4. 9:52-10:16
   Thomas Mathew (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.)
   "Confidence regions in multivariate calibration: An introduction"
   
5. 10:16-10:40
   Maria R. Brito (Universidad Simón Bolěvar, Caracas, Venezuela)
   "A notion of dissimilarity between dendograms, based on the Prufer enumeration of trees, and the assessment of clustering structure in data sets"

Speakers:

1. 8:40-9:10
   J. N. K. Rao (Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
   "Measuring the variability of small area estimators"
2. 9:10-9:40
   Malay Ghosh (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.)
   "Empirical Bayes estimation of local area means for NEF-QVF superpopulations"
3. 9:40-10:00
   J. Jiang and Parthasarathi Lahiri* (University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, U.S.A.)
   "Empirical Bayes prediction for small area inference with binary data"
4. 10:00-10:20
   Gauri S. Datta*, B. Day and T. Maiti (University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A.)
   "Multivariate Bayesian small area estimation: An application to survey and satellite data"
5. 10:20-10:40
   Balgobin Nandram*, J. Sedransk and L. Pickle (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, U.S.A.)
   "Bayesian mortality data analyses of COPD for U.S. Health Service Areas"

Speakers:

1. 8:40-9:10
   G. S. Mudholkar and Rajeshwari Natarajan* (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Measures for distributional classification and model selection"
2. 9:10-9:40
   William W. S. Chen (Internal Revenue Service, Washington, DC, U.S.A.)
   "Curvature: Gaussian or Riemann"
3. 9:40-10:10
   S. B. Provost* and Y.-H. Cheong (University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada)
   "Some distributional results in connection with elliptically contoured vectors"
4. 10:10-10:40
   K. G. Janardan (Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.)
   "On generalized Polya-Eggenberger family of distributions"

Speakers:

1. 8:40-9:10
   Md. Baki Billah and A. K. Md. E. Saleh* (Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
   "Conflict among pretest estimators induced by three large sample tests under a regression model with Student t-error"
2. 9:10-9:40
   C. K. Lakshminarayan* and C.-P. Han (Texas Instruments, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
   "A preliminary test estimation of the process capability index Cpk"
3. 9:40-10:10
   S. Ejaz Ahmed (University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
   "M-estimation in linear models with nonsample information"
4. 10:10-10:40
   B. M. Golam Kibria (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
   "On shrinkage ridge regression estimators for restricted linear models with multivariate t disturbances"

COFFEE: 10:40-11:00 am (Burke Science Bldg. Room 137)

Speakers:

1. 11:00-11:30
   N. U. Prabhu (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.)
   "From dams to telecommunication - A survey"
2. 11:30-12:00
   Milton Sobel (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.)
   "Gambler's ruin with many players and even odds"
3. 12:00-12:30
   S. K. Dhar (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.)
   "Data analysis with discrete analog of Freund's model"
4. 12:30-1:00
   Madhu Jain (Department of Mathematics, DAV(PG) College, Dehradun, India)
   "Finite population cellular radio systems with directed retry"

Speakers:

1. 11:00-11:24
   V. P. Godambe (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
   "The central role of stratification in retrospective sampling"
2. 11:24-11:48
   Subhash Lele (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.)
   "Elicit data, not prior: On the use of expert opinion in ecological data analysis"
3. 11:48-12:12
   Roman Viveros-Aguilera* and A. Ferrer (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
   "Monitoring functions"
4. 12:12-12:36
   A. Thavaneswaran* and C. C. Heyde (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
   "A note on filtering for long memory processes"
5. 12:36-1:00
   Avinash Singh* and H. J. Mantel (Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
   "Minimum chi-square estimating function and the problem of choosing among multiple roots"

Speakers:

1. 11:00-11:30
   M. L. Puri (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.)
   "Rates of convergence and large deviation probabilities for a broad class of statistics"
2. 11:30-12:00
   Nandini Raghavan*, Prem K. Goel and S. Ghosh (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.)
   "Classification of spatial point processes"
3. 12:00-12:20
   Greg A. Rempala (University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.)
   "Incomplete U-statistics and random permanents"
4. 12:20-12:40
   N. Rao Chaganty (Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.)
   "The analysis of longitudinal data using quasi-least squares"
5. 12:40-1:00
   Mei Ling Huang (Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada)
   "On the quantile estimators"

Speakers:

1. 11:00-11:30
   A. M. Mathai (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
   "Contents of random simplices and random parallelotopes"
2. 11:30-12:00
   Peter T. Kim (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
   "On the characteristic function of the matrix von Mises-Fisher distribution"
3. 12:00-12:30
   P. Vellaisamy (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India)
   "On the nature and an extension of the binomial distribution"
4. 12:30-1:00
   Haim Shore (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
   "Inverse normalizing transformations and an extended normalizing transformation"

Speakers:

1. 11:00-11:30
   S. Zacks (Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Two armed bandits with change point in one arm"
2. 11:30-12:00
   Dipak Dey (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A.)
   "A new skew link model for dichotomous quantal response model"
3. 12:00-12:20
   K.Viele and C. Srinivasan* (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, U.S.A)
   "Parsimonious estimation of multiplicative interaction in analysis of variance using Kullback-Leibler information"
4. 12:20-12:40
   Nalini Ravishanker* and Z. Qiou (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A.)
   "Modeling multivariate time series with stable innovations"
5. 12:40-1:00
   V. K. Jandhyala* and J. A. Alsaleh (Washington State University, Pullman, WA, U.S.A.)
   "Bayes-type tests for parameter changes at unknown types in the parameters of a nonlinear regression model"

RECEPTION AND LUNCH AT THE FACULTY CLUB: 1:00-2:30 pm

Speakers:

1. 2:30-3:00
   U. N. Bhat* and I. V. Basawa (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
   "Inference in queueing systems when processes are not fully observable"
2. 3:00-3:30
   Alan C. Krinik (California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA, U.S.A)
   "Computing transient probabilities for birth-death processes"
3. 3:30-3:50
   G. C. Sharma (Institute of Basic Science, Khandari, Agra, India)
   "Performance evaluation for queueing systems"
4. 3:50-4:10
   Kailash C. Madan (Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan)
   "An M/G/1 queue with optimal deterministic server vacations"
5. 4:10-4:30
   K. P. Sapna (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Speakers:

1. 2:30-3:00
   Vijay Nair* and L. Xu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.)
   "Optimal design of experiments for feedback control systems"
2. 3:00-3:30
   Bovas Abraham (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
   "Implementation of statistical methods in industry"
3. 3:30-3:50
   Hugh Chipman (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
   "Managing model uncertainty in industrial experimentation"
4. 3:50-4:10
   Rekha Agrawal (General Electric, Clifton Park, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Statistics in the real world: What I learned in the year since I graduated from University"
5. 4:10-4:30
   Josep Ginebra* and E. González (Universitat Politëcnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain)
   "Bayesian heuristics for the multivariate control problem"

Speakers:

1. 2:30-2:54
   S. R. Jammalamadaka (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.)
   "Directional statistics"
2. 2:54-3:18
   Kaushik Ghosh (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.)
   "Change-point problems for the von Mises distribution"
3. 3:18-3:42
   Ulric Lund (University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.)
   "Regression models for directional data"
4. 3:42-4:06
   Sanjib Basu* and S. R. Jammalamadaka (Northern Illinois Univesity, De Kalb, IL, U.S.A.)
   "A Bayesian test for unimodality of circular data"
5. 4:06-4:30
   Peter T. Kim (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
   "Astrophysics and exponential directional smoothing"

Speakers

1. 2:30-3:00
   Robert J. Serfling (University of Texas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.)
   "Robust and nonparametric estimation via generalized L-statistics: Theory, applications and perspectives"
2. 3:00-3:30
   G. S. Mudholkar (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Statistical theory and practice: A case for accessible robust methods"
3. 3:30-3:50
   Carol Marchetti*, G. S. Mudholkar and A. Mudholkar (Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Robust analysis of variance"
4. 3:50-4:10
   D. K. Srivastava (St. Judes Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, U.S.A.)
   "A class of robust stepwise tests for MANOVA"
5. 4:10-4:30
   P. S. Gill (Okanagan University College, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada)
   "A robust analysis for linear and generalized linear mixed models"

Speakers:

1. 2:30-3:00
   N. Mukhopadhyay (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A.)
   "On a two-stage procedure having higher than second-order approximations with examples"
2. 3:00-3:30
   Joseph C. Gardiner (Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, U.S.A.)
   "Power assessments and confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness studies"
3. 3:30-3:50
   Makoto Aoshima (Tokyo Gakugei University, Tokyo, Japan)
   "Bounded risk estimation for a linear function of k multinormal mean vectors"
4. 3:50-4:10
   Benzion Boukai (Indiana Univesity-Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.)
   "On unified Bayesian-frequentist sequential testing"
5. 4:10-4:30
   Sujay Datta (Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, U.S.A.)
   "Sequential and multistage inference in regression models: An overview"

COFFEE: 4:30-4:50 pm (Burke Science Bldg. Room 137)

Speakers:

1. 4:50-5:20
   Rabi N. Bhattacharya (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.)
   "Multiscale diffusions with periodic coefficients"
2. 5:20-5:50
   Krishna B. Athreya (Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.)
   "Change of measures for Markov chains and the LlogL theorem for branching processes"
3. 5:50-6:20
   Vladimir Vinogradov (University of Northern British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada)
   "On limit theorems for Tweedie models"
4. 6:20-6:50
   Prem K. Goel* and B. An (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.)
   "Existence of monotone coupling for 0-1 exchangeable random variables"

Speakers:

1. 4:50-5:20
   Anton Schick (Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.)
   "On efficient estimation in a semiparametric autoregression model"
2. 5:20-5:50
   Rohit Deo* and C. Hurvich (New York University, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
   "On the log periodogram regression estimator of the memory parameter in long memory stochastic volatility models"
3. 5:50-6:20
   Joseph N. Wandji* and Naâmane Laďb (Université de Caen, Caen, France)
   "Limiting functional distribution of weighted processes of residuals. Application to goodness-of-fit tests for parametric nonlinear autoregressive models of time series"
4. 6:20-6:50
   Anirban Dasgupta (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.)

Speakers:

1. 4:50-5:14
   G. J. Babu (Penn State University, State College, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Breakdown theory for estimators based on bootstrap and other resampling schemes"
2. 5:14-5:38
   S. D. Peddada (University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.)
   "Bootstrap methodology for nonhomologous data with applications to the estimation of motion of polar ice"
3. 5:38-6:02
   N. G. N. Prasad (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
   "Bootstrap methods to some non-IID models"
4. 6:02-6:26
   T. N. Sriram (University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A.)
   "A modified bootstrap for autoregression without stationarity"
5. 6:26-6:50
   J. Sunil Rao* and R. Tibshirani (Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.)
   "The out-of-bootstrap approach for model averaging and selection"

Speakers:

1. 4:50-5:20
   R. S. Singh* and W. Laisheng (University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)
   "Asymptotically optimal empirical Bayes procedures for two-tail tests in an exponential family"
2. 5:20-5:50
   R. C. Tiwari (Univesity of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.)
   "Nonparametric empirical Bayes analysis with Dirichlet process"
3. 5:50-6:10
   TaChen Liang (Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.)
   "An improving empirical Bayes test for normal mean"
   
4. 6:10-6:30
   R. Karunamuni (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada)
   "An improved estimator of the density function at the boundary"
   
5. 6:30-6:50
   Yimin Ma* and N. Balakrishnan (University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.)
   "Bayes and empirical Bayes estimation for truncation parameters under asymmetric loss"

Speakers:

1. 4:50-5:14
   Z. Govindarajulu (University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.)
   "Robustness of a sample size estimation procedure in clinical trials"
2. 5:14-5:38
   Lisa Weissfeld* and C.-C. H. Chang (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Recursive and projected martingale residuals for Cox's proprotional hazards model"
3. 5:38-6:02
   M. B. Rao (North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, U.S.A.)
   "Interval-censored Type II plan -- A knell of the traditional Type II plan?"
4. 6:02-6:26
   A. Dey, K. Balasubramanian and Sudhir Gupta* (Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IL, U.S.A.)
   "Incomplete block designs for slope ratio assays"
5. 6:26-6:50
   G. Pan and Ravindra Khattree* (Oakland University, Rochester, MI, U.S.A.)
   "Order restricted inference in balanced mixed models"

BANQUET: 7:30-10:30 pm
(The La Costa Restaurant, 421 Brant Street, Burlington
-- across from the Burlington City Hall)

OCTOBER 11TH, 1998 (SUNDAY)

Speakers:

1. 8:00-8:30
   G. Kallianpur (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A.)
   "Nonlinear filtering: A brief survey and some new results"
2. 8:30-9:00
   P. Sundar* and G. Kallianpur (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.)
   "Stochastic evolution equations with Hölder-continuous coefficents"
3. 9:00-9:20
   J. Vaillancourt (Universite de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada)
   "Construction and stationarity for interacting biomolecular evolutions in a correlated diffusive medium"
4. 9:20-9:40
   Randall J. Swift (Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, U.S.A.)
   "Sigma oscillatory processes"
5. 9:40-10:00
   Marc Mehlman (University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Some properties of harmonizable processes"

Speakers:

1. 8:00-8:30
   D. Raghavarao* and S. Altan (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.)
   "A heuristic analysis of highly fractionated experiments"
2. 8:30-9:00
   K. R. Shah (University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
   "Symmetry, invariance & optimality in irregular fractional factorials"
3. 9:00-9:30
   Daniel Voss (Wright State University, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.)
   "Analysis of saturated and supersaturated factorial designs: A review"
4. 9:30-10:00
   Ranjan K. Som (United Nations, New York, NY)
   "Survey sampling, The Indian National Sample Survey, and Indian statisticians"

Speakers:

1. 8:00-8:24
   Neerja Wadhwa (Mitchell Madison Group, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Defect rate estimation using imperfect zero-defect sampling with rectification"
2. 8:24-8:48
   M. C. Bhattacharjee (New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, U.S.A.)
   "A unified framework for modeling and analysis of repairable systems"
3. 8:48-9:12
   Ananda Sen (Oakland University, Rochester, MI, U.S.A.)
   "Estimating current reliability in a Duane-based reliability growth model"
4. 9:12-9:36
   Mark Carpenter*, G. Chaudhri and J. Sarkar (University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL, U.S.A.)
   "Availability of repairable systems in a random environment"
5. 9:36-10:00
   A. V. Godambe (Xerox Corporation, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.)
   "On predicting the remaining useful life of a part assembly"

Speakers:

1. 8:00-8:30
   S. S. Gupta (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.)
   "Recent developments in statistical selection theory"
2. 8:30-9:00
   S. Panchapakesan (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, U.S.A.)
   "Selection from normal populations in terms of the absolute values of the means"
3. 9:00-9:20
   Pinyuen Chen* and M. C. Wicks (Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Some statistical aspects of radar signal processing"
4. 9:20-9:40
   D. Goldsman (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.)
   "A random walk approach for implementing multinomial selection procedures"
5. 9:40-10:00
   Hokwon Cho (University of Akron, Akron, OH, U.S.A.)
   "Sequential procedure for estimation of the number of classes in a multinomial distribution"

Speakers:

1. 8:00-8:30
   P. S. R. S. Rao (University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.)
   "MIVQUE type estimators for the one-way analysis of covariance model"
2. 8:30-9:00
   André I. Khuri (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.)
   "A graphical approach for comparing designs for estimating variance components"
3. 9:00-9:20
   Marcia Gumpertz* and B. Morgan (North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.)
   "A survey of some methods for testing radom effects"
4. 9:20-9:40
   K. Paark and Richard K. Burdick* (Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, U.S.A.)
   "Confidence intervals for the mean in a balanced two factor random effects model"
5. 9:40-10:00
   Y. P. Chaubey and K. Venkateswarlu (Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
   "A numerical study of robust estimators of variance components in one way model"

COFFEE: 10:00-10:30 am (Burke Science Bldg. Room 137)

Speakers:

1. 10:30-11:10
   S. R. S. Varadhan (Courant Institute, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Large deviations and hydrodynamic scaling"
2. 11:10-11:50
   Naresh C. Jain (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.)
   "Large deviations of a time-changed Markov process"
3. 11:50-12:30
   Jeremy Quastel (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
   "From lattice gases to the Navier-Stokes equations"

Speakers:

1. 10:30-10:54
   D. Oberhelman and K. Rao Kadiyala* (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, U.S.A.)
   "Asymptotic probability concentrations and finite sample properties of modified LIML estimators for equations with more than two endogenous variables"
2. 10:54-11:18
   David C. Vaughan* and M. L. Tiku (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
   "Linear regression with non-normal regression variables"
3. 11:18-11:42
   Prasanta S. Bandyopadhyay (Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, U.S.A.)
   Scott DeVito* (State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Logical equivalences among the curve fitting criteria: A philosopher's gloss"
4. 11:42-12:06
   Indrani Basak (Penn State University, Altoona, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Rank-based procedures for Analytic Hierarchy Process"
5. 12:06-12:30
   Adolfo J. Quiroz (Universidad Simón Bolěvar, Caracas, Venezuela)
   "A connection between the probabilistic solution to St. Petersburg paradox and outlier detection"

Speakers:

1. 10:30-11:00
   P. V. Rao (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.)
   "Testing equality of survival functions based on paired censored data with missing observations"
2. 11:00-11:30
   Somnath Datta (University of Georgia, Athens, GA, U.S.A.)
   "Nonparametric estimation for the three stage illness-death model with right-censored data"
3. 11:30-11:50
   Sundar Subramanian (University of Maine, Orono, ME, U.S.A.)
   "Estimation in the Cox model under an extended form of proportional censorship"
4. 11:50-12:10
   Debajyoti Sinha*, M.-H. Chen and J. G. Ibrahim (University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, U.S.A.)
   "New Bayesian approaches for survival data with a cured fraction"
5. 12:10-12:30
   Balakrishna Hosmane (Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.)
   "The grouped survival analysis using logistic regression"

Speakers:

1. 10:30-11:00
   H. N. Nagaraja (Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.)
   "Concomitants of order statistics -- A review"
2. 11:00-11:30
   S. K. Sarkar (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Some results on order statistics with applications to multiple hypothesis testing"
3. 11:30-11:50
   Joe Glaz (University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, U.S.A.)
   "Approximations for the distribution and expected value of extreme order statistics"
4. 11:50-12:10
   Rita Aggarwala* and N. Balakrishnan (University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
   "Maximum likelihood estimation of Laplace parameters under progressive censoring"
5. 12:10-12:30
   D. S. Bhoj (Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, U.S.A.)
   "On new ranked set sampling"

Speakers:

1. 10:30-11:00
   G. P. Patil (Penn State University, State College, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Statistical approaches to multiscale assessment of landscapes and watersheds with satellite and synoptic multivariate spatial data"
2. 11:00-11:30
   Subir Ghosh (University of California, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.)
   "Statistical research in nematode pest management"
3. 11:30-11:50
   Frank C. Curriero* and S. R. Lele (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.)
   "Selection bias in spatial data: Models and inference"
4. 11:50-12:10
   Nagaraj K. Neerchal (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.)
   "Composite sampling and hot-spot detection"
5. 12:10-12:30
   Snehalata Huzurbazar (University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, U.S.A.)
   "Some statistical issues in glaciology"

LUNCH: 12:30-2:00 pm

Speakers:

1. 2:00-2:30
   M. L. Chaudhry (Royal Military College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada)
   "On steady-state distributions of numbers in the queue Geom(X)/G/1 - An alternative approach"
2. 2:30-3:00
   B. R. K. Kashyap (Ryerson Polytechnic University, North York, Ontario, Canada)
   "On some infinite server queueing models"
3. 3:00-3:20
   Sudha Jain* and P. Reiss (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
   "Busy periods and busy cycles in bulk-arrival queueing systems"
4. 3:20-3:40
   N. Gautam (Penn State University, University Park, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Performance analysis of client-server systems using queueing networks"
5. 3:40-4:00
   Kanwar Sen* and M. Agarwal (University of Delhi, Delhi, India)
   "Busy period analysis of GI(b)/M/1/N queues - Lattice path approach"

Speakers:

1. 2:00-2:24
   Shashikala Sukhatme (Iowa State University, Ames, IA, U.S.A.)
   "Some problems in nonparametric receiver operating characteristic studies"
2. 2:24-2:48
   Mousumi Banerjee (Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.)
   "Bayesian inference for kappa statistics from multiple samples"
3. 2:48-3:12
   Aarti Shah (Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.)
   "Statistical and operational issues arising in an interim analysis of an ongoing study"
4. 3:12-3:36
   Krishan P. Singh (SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Statistical issues in the development of drugs for asthma and COPD"
5. 3:36-4:00
   Mounir Mesbah (University of South Brittany, Vannes, France)
   "Statistical methods in the validation process of a health related quality of life questionnaire: Classical and modern theory"

Speakers:

1. 2:00-2:30
   B. C. Arnold (University of California, Riverside, CA, U.S.A.)
   "Gumbel characterizations"
2. 2:30-3:00
   M. Ahsanullah (Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ, U.S.A.)
   "Record values of univariate distributions"
3. 3:00-3:30
   Prasanta Basak (Penn State University, Altoona, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Record range and its use in detection of outliers"
4. 3:30-4:00
   Sneh Gulati (Florida International University, Miami, FL, U.S.A.)
   "Statistical inference from record-breaking data: A review"

Speakers:

1. 2:00-2:45
   M. M. Desu (State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Some recent advances in sample size methodology -- A review"
2. 2:45-3:10
   Lakshmi Damaraju-Padgett (Centocor, Lansdale, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Sample size under misclassification errors"
3. 3:10-3:35
   D. J. Amaratunga (R. W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Raritan, NJ, U.S.A.)
   "Computer aided sample size selection"
4. 3:35-4:00
   Dirk F. Moore* and B. Kim (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Sample size and power of randomized clinical trials when a prognostic factor is not observed"

Speakers:

1. 2:00-2:30
   M. Raghavachari (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Inference from nonparametric correlation measures"
2. 2:30-3:00
   Tapan Nayak (George Washington University, Washington, DC, U.S.A.)
   "Generalization of unbiased estimation theory with applications to survey sampling and other problems"
3. 3:00-3:30
   A. Adatia (University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada)
   "Approximate BLUEs of parameters based on large censored sample"
4. 3:30-4:00
   Nandini Kannan (University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.)
   "Estimating parameters for the multiple sinusoid and the linear array model"

COFFEE: 4:00-4:30 pm (Burke Science Bldg. Room 137)

Speakers:

1. 4:30-5:30
   Krishna Athreya* and Jack Dai (Iowa State University, Ames, IA, U.S.A.)
   "Random logistic maps -- I"
2. 5:30-6:30
   Rabi N. Bhattacharya (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.)
   "Extensions of a theorem of Dubins and Freedman and applications"

Speakers:

1. 4:30-5:30
   J. N. Srivastava (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A.)
   "On the foundations of statistical design and inference"
2. 5:30-6:00
   Sudhir Paul* and T. Banerjee (University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
   "Analysis of two-way layout of count data involving multiple counts in each cell"
3. 6:00-6:30
   Hari K. Iyer (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A.)
   "Causal inference from randomized experiments"

Speakers:

1. 4:30-4:54
   Baldev Raj*, P. Lin, M. Sandfort and D. Slottje (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
   "Statistical analysis of recent trends in the US antitrust enforcement"
2. 4:54-5:18
   H. D. Vinod* and R. R. Geddes (Fordham University, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
   "Generalized estimating equations for panel data and managerial monitoring of electrical utilities"
3. 5:18-5:42
   Anil K. Bera* and Y. Bilias (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL, U.S.A.)
   "Rao's score, Neyman's C(alpha) and Silvey's LM tests: An essay on historical developments and some new results"
4. 5:42-6:06
   Jie Chen* and A. K. Gupta (University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.)
   "Testing and locating multiple variance change points"
5. 6:06-6:30
   S. M. K. Nainar* and P. Gupta (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
   "A conditional heteroscedastic model of trading volume: Firm level evidence"

Speakers:

1. 4:30-5:00
   Bhaskar Bhattacharya (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, U.S.A.)
   "On testing diagonal homogeneity with a one-sided alternative in the analysis of variance"
2. 5:00-5:30
   S. A. Sultan (McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
   "Error probabilities in TC-MDPSK Rician and Rayleigh Fading Channels"
3. 5:30-6:00
   Alan D. Hutson (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.)
   "Calculating the exact bootstrap mean and variance of an L-estimator"
4. 6:00-6:30
   Aparna V. Huzurbazar (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.)
   "Analysis of time-to-event data using flowgraph models"

Speakers:

1. 4:30-5:00
   Satish Iyengar (University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.)
   "Problems in the analysis of multiple neural spike trains"
2. 5:00-5:30
   Susmita Datta (Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.)
   "Neutrality or selection? Tests based on a gametic phase disequilibrium"
3. 5:30-6:00
   S. L. Sheng*, N. Balakrishnan, D. R. Chettle and P. D. M. Macdonald (National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, U.S.A.)
   "Compartmental analysis in cadmium metabolism of the human body based on human in vivo cadmium data"
4. 6:00-6:30
   Gleb R. Haynatzki (Creighton School of Medicine, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.)
   "Dependence in carcinogenesis: A new statistical model"

BARBEQUE AT THE REFECTORY: 6:30-8:00 pm

CULTURAL PROGRAMME AT THE ROBINSON MEMORIAL THEATER
(Chester New Hall Room 103): 8:00-10:30 pm

as of 09/25/98