IAP Workshop 5 - November 25, 2011
General
The Interuniversity Attraction Pole on Statistics (IAP/P6/03) is a network of 9 research teams who collaborate on the topic of the statistical analysis of association and dependence in complex data.
Program
09:00 Welcome coffee
09:30 Welcome, report on status of the network, summary of results
09:40 Session 1: Dependence and copulas
Organizer: Irene Gijbels
09:40 Introduction: Johan Segers
10:00 Dominik Sznajder:
“Testing for dependence structures by means of copulas”
10:25 Fentaw Abegza:
“Semiparametric estimation of conditional copulas”
10:50 Discussion: Irene Gijbels
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Session 2: High-dimensional data
Organizer: Luc Duchateau
11:30 Introduction: Olivier Thas
11:50 Lieven Clement:
"Functional data analysis in genomics"
12:15 Katrijn Van Deun:
“Sparse simultaneous component analysis”
12:40 Discussion: Luc Duchateau
12:50 Lunch / Administrative lunch meeting
14:10 Session 3: Hierarchically structured data
Organizers: Geert Molenberghs, Francis Tuerlinckx, Geert Verbeke
14:10 Introduction: Geert Molenberghs
14:30 Edmund Njeru Njagi:
“A Flexible Joint-Modelling Framework for Longitudinal
and Time-to-Event Data with Overdispersion”
14:55 Kim De Roover:
“Clusterwise SCA-ECP: Capturing differences and similarities
in nature and number
of underlying components in multivariate multiblock data”
15:20 Discussion: Geert Molenberghs
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Session 4: Instrumental variables regression
Organizers: Jan Johannes, Ingrid Van Keilegom
16:00 Introduction: Jan Johannes
16:20 Stijn Vansteenlandt:
“Instrumental Variables Estimation of Causal Odds Ratios"
16:45 Maik Schwarz:
“Partially adaptive nonparametric instrumental regression”
17:10 Discussion: Els Goetghebeur
17:20 End of Workshop
Practical informations and accommodation
The workshop will take place in:
Auditoire Socrate 11 (SOCR 11)
Place du Cardinal Mercier, 10
1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
Please find a map of Louvain-la-Neuve here 
The lecture hall SOCR 11 is located in the "building 19" on the map (coordinates D5, use "zoom-in").
The parking lot "Grand-place" (liable to fees) is right near the "building 19".
The directions to the workshop from the parking lot will be pointed out by signs.
How to get to Louvain-la-Neuve ?
If you want to stay in Louvain-la-Neuve overnight, please contact Tatiana Regout
Registration
We thank you in advance for participating in the workshop and kindly ask you to register online.
Participation is free of charge but registration no later than November 11 is mandatory.
Contact and information
Mrs Tatiana Regout
ISBA/IMMAQ
Voie du Roman Pays 20
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Email : Tatiana Regout
Phone : (+32)10/47.94.07
Fax : (+32)10/47.30.32
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