COTS 2007 Program

PROGRAM

Friday Schedule: Location:  Mayborn Museum

12:00  Registration

• 1:00 Welcome and introductions
• 1:10 Neby Bekele, MD Anderson, Statistical Designs in Phase I and II Oncology Trials
• 2:00 Tony Ng, SMU, Precedence-type Tests: Theory and Applications

 2:55-3:35 Break/Free time to tour Mayborn facilities

•  3:40 Tom Sager, University of Texas, Ranked Set Sampling

Friday evening Schedule: Location: Clarion Hotel

5:00 COTS business meeting (Clarion Atrium)

6:00 Poster session (Clarion Atrium)

7:00 Banquet (Clarion Meeting Room)

Saturday Schedule: Location:  Mayborn Museum

• 9:00 Mikyoung Jun, TexasA&M University, Spatial Analysis to Quantify Numerical Model Bias and Dependence: How Many Climate Models Are There?
• 9:35 Anuradha Roy, University of Texas at San Antonio, Classification rules and related testing of hypotheses for multi-level multivariate data with AR(1) correlation structure on repeated measures over time

10:05-10:35 Break

 10:35 Jose Guardiola, Texas A & M Corpus Christi, The Semi-Circular Normal Distribution
• 11:10 Victor De Oliveira, University of Texas at San Antonio, On Optimal Point and Block Prediction in Log-Gaussian Random Fields

11:40 Lunch