Transcript Scientific Committee James O. Berger (USA) José M. Bernardo (Spain) George Casella (USA) Elías Moreno (Spain) Christian Robert (France) Dongchu Sun (USA) Larry Wasserman (USA) Saturday, 7 8.45 Welcome The.

Scientific Committee
James O. Berger (USA)
José M. Bernardo (Spain)
George Casella (USA)
Elías Moreno (Spain)
Christian Robert (France)
Dongchu Sun (USA)
Larry Wasserman (USA)
Saturday, 7
8.45 Welcome
The Vice-Rector of Research of the University of Granada
13.30
to LUNCH: Carmen de la Victoria
16.00
Non parametric Bayesian Analysis
Chairman: George Casella, University of Florida and Universidad de
Granada
9.00 James O. Berger, Duke University
Validation of computer models using Bayesian nonparametric and spatial
analysis
Discussants:
Michael Lavine, Duke University
David Rios, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
10.00 Ghislaine Gayraud, University of Rouen, and Judith Rousseau *, University
of Paris V
Nonparametric Bayesian estimation of level sets
Discussants:
Fabrizio Ruggeri, C. N. R., Milano
Jaeyong Lee, Penn State University
11.00
to Coffee Break
11.30
Prior Construction
Chairman: James Berger, Duke University
Model Evaluation
Chairman: José M. Bernardo, Universidad de Valencia
16.00 Jayanta Ghosh*,Purdue University, and Nitai Mukhopadhyay, Eli Lilly and
Company
Parametric empirical Bayes model selection: some theory, methods and
simulation
Discussants:
Brunero Liseo, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Martin Wells, Cornell University
17.00 Susie Bayarri*, Universidad de Valencia, James Berger, Duke University,
and Eugenia Castellanos, Universidad Miguel Hernández
Objective Bayes for checking of hierarchical model
Discussants:
F. Javier Girón, Universidad de Málaga
Donald A. S. Fraser, University of Toronto
20.00 DINNER: Carmen de la Victoria
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11.30 Michael J. Daniels , University of Florida, and Carsten Botts, Iowa State
University
Shrinkage priors for the dependence structure in temporal data
Discussants:
Daniel Peña, Universidad Carlos III
Manuel Mendoza, ITAM, México
12.30 Donald A.S. Fraser and Nancy Reid*, University of Toronto
Strong matching of frequentist and Bayesian parametric inference
Discussants:
Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
Bertrand Clarke, University of British Columbia
Sunday, 8
Model Selection I
Chairman: Nancy Reid, University of Toronto
9.00 George Casella*, University of Florida, and Elías Moreno, Universidad de
Granada
Objective Bayesian variable selection
Discussants:
Peter Müller, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Katsu Iwaki, Asia University
10.00 Edward George, The Wharton School
Dilution priors for model uncertainty
Discussants:
Fulvio de Santis, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
José M. Bernardo, Universidad de Valencia
11.00
to Coffee Break
11.30
Model Selection II
Chairman: Susie Bayarri, Universidad de Valencia
11.30 Merlise Clyde, Duke University
HiperG-priors for variable selection and model averaging in linear
regression
Discussants:
Angelika van der Linde, University of Bremen
Christian Robert, Université Paris-Dauphine
12.30 Luis R. Pericchi, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Good training samples and good priors for Bayesian model determination
Discussants:
Juan A. Cano, Universidad de Murcia
Siva Sivaganesan, University of Cincinnati
13.30
to LUNCH: Carmen de la Victoria
16.00
Covariance Estimation
Chairman: Daniel Peña, Universidad Carlos III
16.00 Frederick Wong, University of New South Wales
Chris Carter, Duke University
Robert Kohn*, University of New South Wales
Efficient estimation of covariance selection models
Discussants:
Paul Gustalfson, University of
Marilena Barbieri, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
17.00 Rui Paulo, Duke University
Default spatian priors for gaussian processes having separable correlation
structure
Discussants:
Mathieu Kessler, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena
Dongchu Sun, University of Missouri
16.30 CONCERT: String Quartet, baroque music
20.00 FAREWELL DINNER: Casa Antonio
Carmen de la Victoria
Universidad de Granada
Spain
December, 7-8, 2002
International Wokshop on
Objetive Bayesian Methods
Local Organizers
Elías Moreno
George Casella
Universidad de Granada
Sponsored by:
Universidad de Granada
Junta de Andalucía