Louisiana ASA Chapter Spring 2008 Meeting
Friday, 2 May 2008, 9:30 am - 4:00 pm
214 Efferson Hall, LSU Agriculture Center
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

SCHEDULE

9:30-10:00 Reception
10:00-10:30 A Clarification of Type III Hypotheses in Multi-Factor Models
L. R. LaMotte
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
10:30-11:00 Collapsibility of Regression Coefficients and Its Extensions
P. Vellaisamy
Michigan State University (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
11:00-11:30 Classification of Functional Data: A Segmentation Approach
Bin Li
Louisiana State University
11:30-11:45 Business meeting
11:45-1:15 Lunch
1:15-1:45 Exact Properties of A New Test and Other Tests for Differences Between Several Binomial Proportions
Jie Peng
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
1:45-2:15 A Nonparametric Approach Using Dirichlet Process for Hierarchical Generalized Linear Mixed Models
Jing Wang
Louisiana State University
2:15-2:45 Heteroscedastic ANOVA - old solutions, new views
Julia Volaufova
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
2:45-3:00 Break
3:00-3:30 Bilinear Varying-Coefficient Models with an Application to Poisson Death Counts
Zhe Liu
Louisiana State University
3:30-4:00 Unified Approach for Weibull Analysis
Yin Lin
University of Louisiana at Lafayette