Conference of Texas Statisticians
Jane Harvill
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* 1994 CONFERENCE OF TEXAS STATISTICIANS *
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The Southeast Chapter of the American Statistical Association and
the Department of Statistics at Texas A\&M University will be hosting
the 1994 Conference of Texas Statisticians (COTS). The Conference
will be held on Friday, April 29th, and Saturday, April 30th in the
Memorial Student Center on the Texas A\&M University Campus. This
year's Conference boasts many exciting speakers and an intriguing mix
of both theoretical and applied statistics that should please and
accommodate all those who attend. Registration fees for the
conference are $25.00 for non-students and $10.00 for students.
There will also be a dinner Friday evening. The cost of this meal is
$22.00 for a non-student and $10.00 for a student.
There will be a Graduate Student Session on Saturday afternoon.
This year, a special effort is being made to encourage graduate
student attendance and participation. This effort will include the
awarding of free lodging to ten graduate students. Preference will be
given to those graduate students who will be giving a talk at the
Graduate Student Session of COTS. And, for all graduate students
attending COTS, there will be a complimentary luncheon on Saturday at
noon. For those graduate students who will be attending the luncheon,
please make a reservation no later than Wednesday, April 27.
We have reserved a block of 50 rooms at the Best Western Inn at
Chimney Hill on University Drive in College Station for Friday night.
The room rates will be \$49.95 for a single or double room.
Participants in the Conference planning to use these rooms should
contact the Inn (409) 260--9150 by April 15th (two weeks in advance).
Furthermore, since the weekend of the Conference is also the weekend
of Aggie Ring Dance, an old Aggie tradition, the hotels in town will
be filling up rather quickly. The Inn asked, if it at all possible,
that participants try to make their reservations as early as April 8th
(three weeks in advance).
For more information about the Conference of Texas Statisticians
and directions to the Memorial Student Center contact SETCASA,
P.O. Box 3143, College Station, Texas 77843-3143 (e-mail:
set...@stat.tamu.edu) (409) 845-3141. Finally, to make reservations
for the dinner on Friday night, or the Graduate Student luncheon on
Saturday, contact SETCASA.
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* SCHEDULE FOR 1994 CONFERENCE OF TEXAS STATISTICIANS *
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* FRIDAY *
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Registration 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Session I 1:15 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Raymond J. Carroll, TAMU 1:15 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Dietary Intake: a Measurement
Error Analysis with Applications
to Bias in Questionnaires, Estimating
Usual Intake, and Breast Cancer
Risk Estimation
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Bob Sielken, Sielken, Inc. 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Challenging Opportunities for
Statisticians in the Regulatory
Arena for Human Health and
Ecological Risk Assessments
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Questions and Answers 2:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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Break 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
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Session II 3:15 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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J. Rojo, UTEP 3:15 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Nonparametric Estimation of an IFRA
Distribution Function
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Ayan Basu, UT Austin 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Minimum Distance Estimation:
Hellinger Distance and Related
Methods
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Questions and Answers 4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Special Forum
Statistical Education 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Emanuel Parzen, TAMU 5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Unification of Statistical Methods and
``Less is More'' Statistical Education
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Discussion 5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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Reception 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Dinner Ron Iman, President of ASA 7:00 p.m.
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* SATURDAY *
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Continental Breakfast 7:45 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
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Session III 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Sabyasachi Basu, SMU 8:30 a.m. - 9:10 a.m.
The Effects of Influential Observations
on Semivariogram Estimation
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Ta-Hsin Li, TAMU 9:10 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.
Deconvolution of Discrete-valued Time
Series
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Questions and Answers 9:50 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
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Break 10:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
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Session IV 10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
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Allison Miller Gonzalez, 10:15 a.m. - 10:55 a.m.
Texas Air Control Board
Low Probability Events and Public Perceptions
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Neil Carman, Sierra Club 10:55 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.
The Inadequate National Ambient Air
Quality Standard for PM10
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Questions and Answers 11:35 a.m. - 11:45 p.m.
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Graduate Student Luncheon 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
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Graduate Student Session 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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James Miller, SMU 1:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.
Forecasting with Fractionally Differenced
Time Series Models
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Hayday Sahin, UTSA 1:50 p.m. - 2:10 p.m.
The Exact Lower Confidence Limit
on the Process Capability Index, Cpk
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Michael Anderson, UTSA 2:10 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Sequential Tests of Some Process
Capability Indices
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Questions and Answers 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
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Ying-Sheng Hu, TAMU 2:45 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
Detection of Abrupt Change Points
via a Wavelet Approach
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Joel Dobson, Texas Tech 3:05 p.m. - 3:25 p.m.
Using Order Statistics to Test
Parametric Test Readings
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Chiahua Ling, USL 3:25 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Estimation of Powers of the Variance
of a Normal Population Under Entropy
Loss Function
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Questions and Answers 3:45 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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