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Contributed Sessions


                                                            14h-16h   Monday, August 23

CP1
: 14h-16h  
Monday, August 23 
                            Algorithm for Robust Statistics & Robustness
Chairperson :    Anne Ruiz-Gazen       Room :  Paul Painlevé

51
Robust Principal Component Analysis Based on Pairwise Correlation Estimators
Stefan Van Aelst , Ellen Vandervieren , Gert Willems

230
DetMCD in a Calibration Framework
Tim Verdonck, Mia Hubert, Peter J. Rousseeuw

79
Diagnostic Checking of Multivariate Normality Under Contamination
Andrea Cerioli

116
Regularized Directions of Maximal Outlyingness
Michiel Debruyne

88
Two Kurtosis Measures in a Simulation Study
Anna Maria Fiori

150
Empirical Composite Likelihoods
Nicola Lunardon , Francesco Pauli , Laura Ventura


CP2 : 14h-16h   Monday, August 23
                            Categorical Data Analysis
Chairperson :    Donatella Vicari       Room : 
Abbé Grégoire

40   
Mixtures of Weighted Distance-Based Models for Ranking Data   
Paul H. Lee, Philip L. H. Yu

56   
Data Clustering with Mixed Type Variables and Cluster  Determination
Hana Rezankova, Dusan Husek , Tomas Loster

57   
Multiblock Method for Categorical Variables   
Stephanie Bougeard, El Mostafa Qannari, Claire Chauvin

103   
Boolean Factor Analysis by the Expectation-Maximization Algorithm   
Alexander A. Frolov , Pavel, Y. Polyakov , Dusan Husek

124   
Statistical Inference on Large Contingency Tables: Convergence, Testability, Stability   
Marianna Bolla

228   
How to Take into Account the Discrete Parameters in the BIC Criterion?   
Vincent Vandewalle


CP3 : 14h-16h   Monday, August 23
                            Computational Bayesian Methods
Chairperson :    Michael Blum       Room :  Robert Faure
 

81   
Bayesian Flexible Modelling of Mixed Logit Models   
Luisa Scaccia, Edoardo Marcucci

92   
Determining the Direction of the Path Using a Bayesian Semiparametric Model   
Kei Miyazaki, Takahiro Hoshino, , Kazuo Shigemasu

97   
Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm for Mixture Model and its Weak Convergence   
Kengo Kamatani

165   
A Simulation Study of the Bayes Estimator of Parameters in an Extension of the Exponential Distribution   
Samira Sadeghi

205   
Pseudo-Bayes Factors   
Stefano Cabras, Walter Racugno, Laura Ventura

288   
Contributions to Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling   
Severine Demeyer, Nicolas Fischer, Gilbert Saporta
                          
CP4 : 14h-16h   Monday, August 23
                            Multivariate Data Analysis 1
Chairperson :    Wenceslao Gonzalez-Manteiga   Room :  Jean-Baptiste Say

37   
Nonlinear Regression Model of Copper Bromide Laser Generation   
Snezhana Georgieva Gocheva-Ilieva, Iliycho Petkov Iliev

188   
On Multiple-Case Diagnostics in Linear Subspace Method   
Kuniyoshi Hayashi, Hiroyuki Minami, Masahiro Mizuta

67   
``Made in Italy'' Firms Competitiveness: A Multilevel Longitudinal Model on Export Performance   
Matilde Bini, Margherita Velucchi

127   
A Fast Parsimonious Maximum Likelihood Approach for Predicting Outcome Variables from a Large Number  of  Predictors   
Jay Magidson

128   
Multidimensional Exploratory Analysis of a Structural Model Using a Class of Generalized Covariance Criteria   
Xavier Bry, Thomas Verron, Patrick Redont

281   
Boosting a Generalised Poisson Hurdle Model   
Vera Hofer

CP5 : 14h-16h   Monday, August 23
                            Time Series Analysis & Signal Processing 1
Chairperson :    Marc Paolella       Room :  Jean Prouvé

46    
Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimators for Threshold ARMA Models: Theoretical Results and Computational Issues    
Marcella Niglio, Cosimo Damiano Vitale

166    
Continuous Wavelet Transform and the Annual Cycle in Temperature and the  of Deaths    
Milan Basta, Josef Arlt, Marketa Arltova, Karel Helman

195    
Empirical Mode Decomposition for Trend Extraction. Application to Electrical Data    
Farouk Mhamdi, Meriem Jaidane-Saidane, Jean-Michel Poggi

209    
Comparing Two Approaches to Testing Linearity against Markov-switching Type Non-linearity    
Jana Lencuchova, Anna Petrickova, Magdalena Komornikova

248    
Polynomial Methods in Time Series Analysis    
Felix Aparicio-Perez


                                            16h30-18h30      Monday, August 23
 


CP6 : 16h30-18h30      Monday, August 23
                                        
Biostatistics & Bio-Computing 2
Chairperson :    Jean-Baptiste Poline      Room :  Paul Painlevé

90   
Evaluation of DNA Mixtures Accounting for Sampling Variability   
Yuk-Ka Chung, Yue-Qing Hu, De-Gang Zhu, Wing K. Fung

104   
Variable Selection and Parameter Tuning in High-Dimensional Prediction   
Christoph Bernau, Anne-Laure Boulesteix

126   
Learning Hierarchical Bayesian Networks for Genome-Wide Association Studies   
Raphael Mourad, Christine Sinoquet, Philippe Leray

242   
Differentiation Tests for the Mean Shape and the Mean Variance of Renal Tumours appearing in early Childhood   
Stefan Markus Giebel, Jens-Peter Schenk , Jang Schiltz

75   
On the Correlated Gamma Frailty Model for Bivariate Current Status Data   
Niel Hens, Andreas Wienke

254   
Posterior Distribution over the Segmentation Space   
G. Rigaill, E. Lebarbier, S. Robin

215   
A Bootstrap Method to Improve Brain Subcortical Network Segregation in Resting-State FMRI Data   
Caroline Malherbe, Eric Bardinet, Arnaud Messe, Vincent Perlbarg, Guillaume Marrelec, Melanie
Pelegrini-Issac, Jerome Yelnik, Stephane Lehericy, Habib Benali

CP7 : 16h30-18h30      Monday, August 23
                                       
Clustering & Classification 1
Chairperson :   Marieke Timmermann   Room :  Abbé Grégoire

35   
Clustering of Multiple Dissimilarity Data Tables for Documents Categorization   
Yves Lechevallier, Francisco de A. T. de Carvalho, Thierry Despeyroux, Filipe M. de Melo

76   
Improving Overlapping Clusters obtained by a Pyramidal Clustering   
Edwin Diday, Francisco de A. T. de Carvalho, Luciano D.S. Pacifico

191   
A Cluster-Target Similarity Based Principal Component Analysis for Interval-Valued Data   
Mika Sato-Ilic

211   
Cutting the Dendrogram through Permutation Tests   
Dario Bruzzese, Domenico Vistocco

258   
Unsupervised Recall and Precision Measures: a Step towards New Efficient Clustering Quality Indexes   
Jean-Charles Lamirel, Maha Ghribi, Pascal Cuxac

59   
Two-way Classification of a Table with non-negative entries: Validation of an Approach based on Correspondence Analysis and Information Criteria   
Antonio Ciampi, Alina Dyachenko, Yves Lechevallier

277   
Half-Taxi Metric in Compositional Data Geometry Rcomp
Katarina Kosmelj, Vesna Zabkar

CP8 : 16h30-18h30      Monday, August 23
                                         Functional Data Analysis
Chairperson :    Cristian Preda      Room :  Robert Faure


47   
Semiparametric Models with Functional Responses in a Model Assisted Survey Sampling Setting : Model Assisted Estimation of Electricity Consumption Curves   
Herve Cardot, Alain Dessertaine, Etienne Josserand

99   
EOFs for Gap Filling in Multivariate Air Quality data: a FDA Approach   
Mariantonietta Ruggieri, Francesca Di Salvo, Antonella Plaia, Gianna Agro

160   
Clustering Functional Data Using Wavelets   
Anestis Antoniadis, Xavier Brossat, Jairo Cugliari, Jean-Michel Poggi

161   
Forecasting a Compound Cox Process by means of PCP   
Paula R. Bouzas, Nuria Ruiz-Fuentes, Juan Eloy Ruiz-Castro

268   
Stochastic Approximation for Multivariate and Functional Median   
Herve Cardot, Peggy Cenac, Mohamed Chaouch

144   
Different P-spline Approaches for Smoothed Functional Principal Component Analysis   
Ana M. Aguilera, M. Carmen Aguilera-Morillo, Manuel Escabias , Mariano J. Valderrama

257   
Score Moment Estimators   
Zdenek Fabian


CP9 : 16h30-18h30      Monday, August 23
                                         Multivariate Data Analysis 2
Chairperson :    Hans-Georg Muller   Room :  Jean-Baptiste Say


53   
The Set of 3x4 4x4 Contingency Tables has 3-Neighborhood Property   
Toshio Sumi, Toshio Sakata

105   
On Aspects of Quality Indexes for Scoring Models   
Martin Rezac, Jan Kolacek

159   
A Generative Model for Rank Data Based on Sorting Algorithm   
Christophe Biernacki , Julien Jacques

236   
Slimming Down a High-Dimensional Binary Datatable: relevant Eigen-Subspace and Substantial Content   
Alain Lelu

276   
Data Mining and Multiple Correspondence Analysis via Polynomial Transformations   
Rosaria Lombardo

101   
Structural Modelling of Nonlinear Exposure-Response Relationships for Longitudinal Data   
Xiaoshu Lu , Esa-Pekka Takala


CP10 : 16h30-18h30      Monday, August 23
                                          
Time Series Analysis & Signal Processing 2
Chairperson :    Jiazhu Pan      Room :  Jean Prouvé


49   
Depth Based Procedures for Estimation ARMA and GARCH Models   
Daniel Kosiorowski

117   
Visualizing and Forecasting Complex Time Series: Beanplot Time Series   
Carlo Drago, Germana Scepi

206   
The Financial Crisis of 2008: Modelling the Transmission Mechanism Between the Markets   
M. Pilar MunozMaria Dolores Marquez, Helena Chulia

217   
Modeling and Forecasting Electricity Prices and their Volatilities by Conditionally Heteroskedastic Seasonal Dynamic Factor Analysis   
Carolina Garcia-Martos, Julio Rodriguez, Maria Jesus Sanchez

265   
Estimation and Detection of Outliers and Patches in Nonlinear Time Series Models   
Ping Chen

222   
Wavelet-PLS Regression: Application to Oil Production Data   
Salwa Benammou, Kacem Zied, Hedi Kortas, Dhifaoui Zouhaier

91   
Test of Mean Difference for Longitudinal Data Using Circular Block Bootstrap   
Hirohito Sakurai , Masaaki Taguri


                                                    11h-12h30    Tuesday, August 24

CP11 : 11h-12h30    Tuesday, August 24
                                     
Biostatistics & Bio-Computing 1
Chairperson :   
Stephen Strother     Room :  Paul Painlevé

38   
Comprehensive Assessment on Hierarchical Structures of DNA markers Using Echelon Analysis   
Makoto Tomita, Koji Kurihara

133   
Analysis of Breath Alcohol Measurements Using Compartmental and Generalized Linear Models   
Chi Ting Yang, Wing Kam Fung, Thomas Wai Ming Tam

203   
A Flexible IRT Model for Health Questionnaire: an Application to HRQoL   
Serena Broccoli , Giulia Cavrini

251   
Socioeconomic Factors in Circulatory System Mortality in Europe: A Multilevel Analysis of Twenty Countries   

Sara Balduzzi , Lucio Balzani , Matteo Di Maso , Chiara Lambertini , Elena Toschi

278   
Time-Varying Coefficient Model with Linear Smoothing Function for Longitudinal Data in Clinical Trial   
Masanori Ito, Toshihiro Misumi, Hideki Hirooka


CP12 : 11h-12h30    Tuesday, August 24
                                      Clustering & Classification 2
Chairperson :   Léon Bottou  Room :  Abbé Grégoire

61   
Selecting Variables in Two-Group Robust Linear Discriminant Analysis   
Stefan Van Aelst , Gert Willems

135   
Separable Two-Dimensional Linear Discriminant Analysis   
Jianhua Zhao, Philip L.H. Yu, Shulan Li

154   
Fast and Robust Classifiers Adjusted for Skewness   
Mia Hubert, Stephan Van der Veeken

213   
A New Approach to Robust Clustering in Rp   
Catherine Dehon, Kaveh Vakili

196   
Sparse Bayesian Hierarchical Model for Clustering Problems   
Heng Lian


CP13 : 11h-12h30    Tuesday, August 24
                                     
Nonparametric Statistics & Smoothing
Chairperson :    Ali Gannoun      Room :  Robert Faure

65   
Censored Survival Data: Simulation and Kernel Estimates   
Jiri Zelinka

73   
EM-Like Algorithms for Nonparametric Estimation in Multivariate Mixtures   
Tatiana Benaglia, Didier Chauveau, David R. Hunter

118   
Longitudinal Data Analysis Based on Ranks and its Performance   
Takashi Nagakubo, Masashi Goto

210   
Computational Treatment of the Error Distribution in Nonparametric Regression with Right-Censored and Selection-Biased Data   
Geraldine Laurent, Cedric Heuchenne

256   
Local or Global Smoothing? A Bandwidth Selector for Dependent Data   
Francesco Giordano, Maria Lucia Parrella


CP14 : 11h-12h30    Tuesday, August 24
                                     
Optimization heuristics in Statistical Modelling
Chairperson :    Irene Poli    Room :  Jean-Baptiste Say

41   
On Computationally Complex Instances of the c-optimal Experimental Design Problem: Breaking RSA-based Cryptography via c-optimal Designs   
Michal Cerny, Milan Hladik, Veronika Skocdopolova

123   
Fourier Analysis and Swarm Intelligence for Stochastic Optimization of Discrete Functions   
Jin Rou New, Eldin Wee Chuan Lim

180   
Sub-Quadratic Markov Tree Mixture Models for Probability Density Estimation   
Sourour Ammar, Philippe Leray, Louis Wehenkel

293   
Evolutionary Stochastic Portfolio Optimization and Probabilistic Constraints   
Ronald Hochreiter


                        14h-16h     Tuesday, August 24

CP15 : 14h-16h     Tuesday, August 24
                                 Multivariate Data Analysis 3
Chairperson :   Stefan Lang    Room :  Abbé Grégoire

45    
Application of Local Influence Diagnostics to the Buckley-James Model    
Nazrina Aziz, Dong Qian Wang

82    
Imputation by Gaussian Copula Model with an Application to Incomplete Customer Satisfaction Data    
Meelis Kaarik, Ene Kaarik

139    
The Evaluation of Non-centred Orthant Probabilities for Singular Multivariate Normal Distributions    
Tetsuhisa Miwa

152    
On the use of Weighted Regression in Conjoint Analysis    
Salwa Benammou, Besma Souissi, Gilbert Saporta

219    
A Case Study of Bank Branch Performance Using Linear Mixed Models    
Peggy Ng, Claudia Czado, Eike Christian Brechmann, Jon Kerr

CP16 : 14h-15h     Tuesday, August 24
                                  Data Visualization
Chairperson :    Iven van Mechelen     Room :  Paul Painlevé

44   
Visualizing the Sampling Variability of Plots   
Rajiv S. Menjoge, Roy E. Welsch

110   
Visualisation of Large Sized Data Sets : Constraints and Improvements for Graph Design   
Jean-Paul Valois

235   
Visualization Techniques for the Integration of Rank Data   
Michael G. Schimek, Eva Budinska

CP17 : 15h-16h     Tuesday, August 24
                                 
Sampling Methods
Chairperson :    Iven van Mechelen     Room :  Paul Painlevé

98   
Dealing with Nonresponse in Survey Sampling: an Item Response Modeling Approach   
Alina Matei

119   
Using Auxiliary Information Under a Generic Sampling Design   
Giancarlo Diana, Pier Francesco Perri

143   
Estimating Population Proportions in Presence of Missing Data   
Encarnacion Alvarez-Verdejo, Antonio Arcos , Silvia Gonzalez, Juan Francisco Munoz, Maria Rueda

CP18 : 14h-16h     Tuesday, August 24
                                  Spatial Statistics
Chairperson :    John Molitor     Room :  Robert Faure


63   
Application of a Bayesian Approach for Analysing Disease Mapping Data: Modelling Spatially Correlated Small Area Counts   
Mohammadreza Mohebbi, Rory Wolfe

58   
A Mann-Whitney Spatial Scan Statistic for Continuous Data   
Lionel Cucala

89   
Detection of Spatial Cluster for Suicide Data using Echelon Analysis   
Fumio Ishioka, Makoto Tomita, Toshiharu Fujita

136   
A Comparison between Two Computing Methods for an Empirical Variogram in Geostatistical Data   
Takafumi Kubota, Tomoyuki Tarumi

CP19 : 14h-16h     Tuesday, August 24
                                 
Time Series Analysis & Signal Processing 3
Chairperson :    Yasuhiro Omori     Room :  Jean-Baptiste Say


121   
Monotone Graphical Multivariate Markov Chains   
Roberto Colombi, Sabrina Giordano

125   
An Exploratory Segmentation Method for Time Series   
Christian Derquenne

151   
Multiple Change Point Detection by Sparse Parameter Estimation   
Jiri Neubauer, Vitezslav Vesely

163   
M-estimation in INARCH Models with a Special Focus on Small Means   
Hanan El-Saied, Roland Fried

185   
Rplugin.Econometrics: R-GUI for Teaching Time Series Analysis   
Dedi Rosadi

273   
Fourier Methods for Sequential Change Point Analysis in Autoregressive Models   
Marie Huskova, Claudia Kirch, Simos G. Meintanis


                                        16h00-18h00     Thursday, August 26

CP20 : 16h00-18h00     Thursday, August 26
                                 
        Computational Econometrics
Chairperson :    Cathy Chen      Room :  Paul Painlevé


102   
Yield Curve Predictability, Regimes, and Macroeconomic Information: A Data-Driven Approach   
Francesco Audrino, Kameliya Filipova

120   
Performance Assessment of Optimal Allocation for Large Portfolios   
Fabrizio Laurini, Luigi Grossi

43   
Some Examples of Statistical Computing in France During the 19th Century   
Antoine de Falguerolles

233   
Modeling Operational Risk: Estimation and Effects of Dependencies   
Stefan Mittnik , Sandra Paterlini , Tina Yener

259   
Influence of the Calibration Weights on Results Obtained from Czech SILC Data   
Jitka Bartosova, Vladislav Bina

167   
A Markov Switching Re-evaluation of Event-Study Methodology   
Rosella Castellano, Luisa Scaccia


CP21 : 16h00-18h00     Thursday, August 26
                                 
          Machine Learning
Chairperson :   John Shawe-Taylor    Room :  Abbé Grégoire


94   
Neural Network Approach for Histopathological Diagnosis of Breast Diseases with Images   
Yuichi Ishibashi, Atsuko Hara, Isao Okayasu, Koji Kurihara

227   
Variable Inclusion and Shrinkage Algorithm in High Dimension   
Abdallah Mkhadri , Mohamed Ouhourane

240   
Support Vector Machines for Large Scale Text Mining in R   
Ingo Feinerer, Alexandros Karatzoglou

267   
Random Forests Based Feature Selection for Decoding fMRI Data   
Robin Genuer, Vincent Michel, Evelyn Eger, Bertrand Thirion

286   
Peak Detection in Mass Spectrometry Data Using Sparse Coding   
Theodore Alexandrov, Klaus Steinhorst, Oliver Keszocze, Stefan Schiffler

48   
Adaptive Mixture Discriminant Analysis for Supervised Learning with Unobserved Classes   
Charles Bouveyron


CP22 : 16h00-18h00     Thursday, August 26
                                 
         Numerical Methods
Chairperson :    Jaromir Antoch     Room :  Robert Faure


95   
Improvement of Acceleration of the ALS Algorithm Using the Vector e Algorithm   
Masahiro Kuroda, Yuchi Mori, Masaya Iizuka, Michio Sakakihara

106   
Numerical Methods for some Classes of Matrices with Applications to Statistics and Optimization   
Juan M. Pena

137   
Fisher Scoring for Some Univariate Discrete Distributions   
Thomas W. Yee

147   
Numerical Error Analysis for Statistical Software on Multi-Core Systems   
Wenbin Li , Sven Simon

232   
Computational Statistics: the Symbolic Approach   
Colin Rose

192   
Quantile Regression for Group Effect Analysis   
Cristina Davino, Domenico Vistocco

CP23 : 16h00-18h00     Thursday, August 26
                                           Symbolic Data Analysis
Chairperson :    Paula Brito     Room :  Jean-Baptiste Say

69   
Ordinary Least Squares for Histogram Data Based on Wasserstein Distance   
Rosanna Verde , Antonio Irpino

77   
A Clusterwise Center and Range Regression Model for Interval-Valued Data   
Francisco de A. T. de Carvalho, Gilbert Saporta, Danilo N. Queiroz

85   
A Decision Tree for Symbolic Data   
Djamal Seck, Lynne Billard, Edwin Diday, Filipe Afonso

132   
Data Management in Symbolic Data Analysis   
Teh Amouh, Monique Noirhomme-Fraiture, Benoit Macq

175   
Non-Hierarchical Clustering for Distribution-Valued Data   
Yoshikazu Terada, Hiroshi Yadohisa

189   
Symbolic Data Analysis of Complex Data: Application to nuclear power plant   
Filipe Afonso, Edwin Diday, Norbert Badez, Yves Genest