The Eighth International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics
Tampere, Finland

Sessions of Contributed Talks, PhD Students' Talks and Posters

For each contributed talk it is reserved 15 minutes, including discussion. Therefore, if you wish to have comments on your presentation, please use less than 15 minutes for your presentation. Specific sessions on recent PhD- and post-PhD-work on matrices and statistics will be arranged on both days.

SESSION C1   Saturday, 14:00-–15:30, Room A1
        Chair: ANDO, T., Hokusei Gakuen U, Sapporo, Japan

14:00 AHMED, S. E., U of Regina, Canada:
    Improved estimation of characteristic roots in principal analysis
14:15 DRYGAS, Hilmar, U of Kassel, Germany:
    Simultaneous SVD: Grillenberger’s approach
14:30 GROß, Jürgen, U of Dortmund, Germany:
    The Moore-Penrose inverse of a partitioned nonnegative definite matrix
14:45 HAUKE, Jan, Adam Mickiewicz U, Poznan´ , Poland:
    On some matrix inequalities and their statistical applications
15:00 MERIKOSKI , Jorma K., U of Tampere, Finland:
    Simple and good bounds for the Perron root
15:15 TROSCHKE, Sven-Oliver, U of Dortmund, Germany:
    Quaternions: A matrix oriented approach
 

SESSION C2   Saturday, 14:00–15:30, Room A3
        Chair: NUMMI, Tapio, U of Tampere

14:00 CHAGANTY, N. Rao, Old Dominion U, Norfolk, USA:
    Statistical analysis of some multivariate models using quasi-least squares
14:15 KASALA, Subramanyam, U of North Carolina, Wil-ming-ton, USA:
    An exact joint confidence region and test in multivariate calibration
14:30 KLEIN, André, U of Amsterdam, The Netherlands:
    A generalization of Whittle’s formula
14:45 LIU, Shuangzhe, U of Basel, Switzerland:
    On maximum likelihood estimation for the VAR-VARCH model
15:00 MATHEW, Thomas, U of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA:
    Tolerance regions and simultaneous tolerance regions in multivariate regression
15:15 PUNTANEN, Simo, U of Tampere, Finland:
    In the world of collinearity ...
 

SESSION C3   Saturday, 14:00–15:30, Room A4
        Chair: FELLMAN, Johan, Helsinki, Finland

14:00 LEE, Alan, U of Auckland, New Zealand:
    Generating correlated categorical variates via Kronecker products
14:15 JOHN, J. A. (Nye), U of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zea-land:
    Recursive formulae for the average efficiency factor in alpha designs
14:30 GNOT, Stanislaw, Pedagogical U, Zielona Góra, Poland:
    Estimation of variance components by maximum likelihood method in certain mixed linear models
14:15 ZMYSLÓNY, Roman, Technical U, Zielona Góra, Poland:
    Testing hypotheses for parameters in mixed linear models
14:30 VICHI, Maurizio, Soci. Italiana di Statist., Roma, Italy:
    Least squares approximation of nonpositive (semi)definite matrices of correlation coefficients
14:45 BENESCH, Thomas, Graz U of Technology, Austria:
    Internet survey by direct mailing
 

SESSION C4   Saturday, 15:50–17:20, Room A1
        Chair: JOHN, J. A. (Nye), Hamilton, New Zealand

15:50 FAREBROTHER, R. W., U of Manchester, UK:
     Optimality results for the method of averages
16:05 MARKIEWICZ, Augustyn, Agricult. U of Poznan, Poland:
    Robust linear estimation in an incorrectly specified restricted linear model
16:20 CACOULLOS, Theophilos, U of Athens, Greece
     On testing homoscedasticity via independence under joint normality
16:35 MAROULAS, John, National Technical U, Athens, Greece:
    A geometric approach to the canonical correlations in two- and three-way layouts
16:50 STEPNIAK, Czeslaw, Agricultural U of Lublin, Poland:
    Information channels and comparison of linear experiments
17:05 ZAIHRAIEV, Oleksandr, N. Copernicus U, Torun, Poland:
    Distance optimality design criterion and stochastic ma-jorization
 

SESSION C5   Saturday, 15:50–17:20, Room A3
         Chair: LEE, Alan, U of Auckland, New Zealand

15:50 WERNER, Hans Joachim, U of Bonn, Germany:
    More on the linear aggregation problem
16:05 FELLMAN, Johan, Swedish S of Econ., Helsinki, Finland:
    Robust estimators in linear models
16:20 TIIT, Ene-Margit, U of Tartu, Estonia:
    Some extremal properties of correlation matrices
16:35 KOLLO, Tõnu, U of Tartu, Estonia:
    Density expansions for the sample correlation matrix
16:50 DODGE, Yadolah, U of Neuchâtel, Switzerland:
    An asymmetric property of the correlation coefficient
17:05 ISHAK, Maged, U of Newcastle, NSW, Australia:
    Regression methods to model under registration problems in population data
 

SESSION S1   Friday, 15:00–16:45, Room A1
        Chair: PUKELSHEIM, Friedrich, Augsburg, Germany

15:00 KLEIN, Thomas, U of Augsburg, Germany:
    Optimal designs for second degree K-model mixture experiments
15:15 NURHONEN, Markku, U of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA:
    Matrices related to diagnostic methods in classification problems
15:30 HELLE, Sami, U of Tampere, Finland:
    Modeling of the fiber length distribution of mechanical pulp using generalized linear models
15:45 LUOMA, Arto, U of Tampere, Finland:
    Distance criterion in theory of optimal design
16:00 OLLIKAINEN, Jyrki, U of Tampere, Finland:
    Comparing traditional cluster methods to neural networks with large medicine data
16:15 GRZADZIEL, Mariusz, Agric U Wroclaw, Poland:
    On nonnegative quadratic estimation in linear models
16:30 BORISOV, Mikhail Vladimirovich, Novosibirsk, Russia:
    The investigation of the stability of two statistical estimators to complex disturbances in the data
 

SESSION S2   Saturday, 10:50–12:20, Room A3
        Chair: STYAN, George P. H., Montréal, Canada

10:50 JENSEN, Shane T., McGill U, Montréal, Canada:
    Some comments and a bibliography on the von Szökefalvi Nagy–Popoviciu and Nair–Thomson inequalities (with G. P. H. Styan)
11:05 DUMAIS, Mylène F., McGill U, Montréal, Canada:
    Some comments and a bibliography on the Craig-Sakamoto Theorem (with G. P. H. Styan)
11:20 ALPARGU, Gülhan, McGill U, Montréal, Canada:
    Matrices in statistical procedures for valid hypothesis testing in regression models with autocorrelated errors
11:35 LU, Chang-Yu, Northeast Normal U, Changchun, Jilin, China:
    Some matrix results related to admissibility in linear models and generalized matrix versions of Wielandt inequality
11:50 ZHANG, Bao-Xue, Northeast Normal U, Changchun, Jilin, China:
    Some results on estimator of the mean vector and variance in the general linear model and estimating problems for location (scale) models from grouped samples under order restrictions
12:05 WEI, Yimin, Fudan U, Shanghai, China:
    The Drazin inverse of a modified matrix
 

POSTERS

AKDENIZ, Fikri, U of Cukurova, Adana, Turkey:
    The examination and analysis of residuals for some biased estimators in linear regression
AZEREDO LOPES, Sofia, U of Sheffield, UK:
    2D projections of 3D spatial distributions
TIAN, Yongge, Concordia U, Montréal, Canada:
    Some universal block-matrix factorizations and applications (with G. P. H. Styan)
ZONTEK, Stefan, Technical U, Zielona Gora, Poland:
    On construction of a basis of Jordan algebra of matrices with applications to a special linear model
 

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