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Scientific program

 

 

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Applied Statistics
How to detect lies with statistics

Maya Bar Hillel (Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Variable window spatial scan statistics

Joseph Glaz (Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut)

The effect of fasting during Ramadan on automobile accidents in Turkey

Mahmut Tolon (Izmir, Turkey) and Herman Chernoff* (Department of Statistics, Harvard University)

 

Bayesian Statistics
United Statistics: parameter confidence quantiles, duality Bayesian frequentist inference

Emanuel Parzen (Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University)

Bayesian small area prophecy of literacy under a two part random effects model 
Danny Pfeffermann* (Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute), Benedicte Terryn, (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Montreal) and Fernando Moura, (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
A Bayesian Sequential Selection Problem

Wolfgang Stadje (Department of Mathematics. Osnabrueck University)

 
 
Distribution theory
Conditional ordering and positive dependence

Antonio Colangelo (Dipartimento di Economia, Università della Insubria), Taizhong Hu, (Department of Statistics and Finance, University of Science and Technology of China) and Moshe Shaked* (Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona)

Semiparametric families for lifetime data

Ingram Olkin* (Department of Statistics, Stanford University) and A. W. Marshall (Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia)

Distributions of stopping times for compound Poisson processes and non-linear boundaries

Shelemyahu Zacks (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Binghamton University)

 
Dynamic Programming and Gambling
Randomly evolving graphs and Gittins Type Index Theorem

Ernst Presman* (Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Russia) and Isaac M. Sonin (Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

How to gamble if you must, revisited
Larry Shepp (Department of Statistics, Rutgers University)
 
Empirical Bayes Procedures
A contemporary view of Empirical Bayes procedures

Lawrence D. Brown (Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania )

Eitan Greenshtein (Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC)

Smoothing and empirical Bayes methods in disclosure risk estimation
Yosef Rinott* and Natalie Shlomo (Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
A Bayesian Sequential Selection Problem

Wolfgang Stadje (Department of Mathematics. Osnabrueck University)

 
Empirical Bayes and FDR
Cunhui Zhang and Weihua Tang (Department of Statistics, Rutgers University)
 
 
Game Theory
An index of riskiness

Robert J. Aumann* (Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Roberto Serrano, (Department of Economics, Brown University)

Evolutionarily stable strategies of random games and random points in the plane

Sergiu Hart* (Center for Rationality, Department of Mathematics and Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Yosef Rinott (Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Benjamin Weiss (Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Can two wrongs make a right? Coin tossing games and Parrondo's Paradox

Ora Engelberg Percus (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University)

 
 
Optimal Stopping
The House-Hunting Problem Without Second Moments
 

Thomas Ferguson* (Department of Mathematics, UCLA) and Michael J. Klass (Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley)

A curious connection between branching processes and optimal stopping.

Larry Goldstein (Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California)

Some new approaches to the problem of optimal stopping

Ioannis Karatzas (Department of Mathematics, Columbia University)

Optimal stopping and strong approximation theorems

Yuri Kifer, (Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Some multiple stopping time problems

John Preater (Department of Mathematics, Keele University)

The elimination algorithm for the optimal stopping of Markov chain and its applications

Isaac M. Sonin (Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

 
Probability
WLLN, the St Petersburg game, CLT and Gnedenko-Raikov's theorem

Allan Gut (Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University)

The height achieved by random walk prior to a given drawdown

Isaac Meilijson (Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University)

On universal prediction for stationary stochastic processes

Benjamin Weiss*, (Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Gusztav Morvai (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

 
Prophet Inequalities
Prophet inequalities for i.i.d. random variables with random arrival  times

Pieter Allaart (Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas)

Optimal stopping and prophet problems: convexity and applications

Theodore P. Hill (Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology)

 
Secretary Problems

A continuous time version of Robbins' Problem (fourth classical secretary problem)

 

Thomas F. Bruss and Yvik Swan, (Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

 

Israel David (Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

Pranks (Seriesly): Sequential selection based on ranks

Abba  M. Krieger* (Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania), Moshe Pollak and Ester Samuel-Cahn (Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Vladimir V. Mazalov (Institute of Applied Mathematical Research,Karelia Research Center)

Bilateral approaches to optimal stopping of  random sequences

Krzysztof Szajowski (Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wroclaw University of Technology)

An optimal multiple selection problem with partial recall based on relative ranks

Mitsushi Tamaki (Department of Business Administration, Aichi University)

 
Theory of Statistics

Simpson's paradox for the Cox model

 

Clelia Di Serio (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele), Yosef Rinott (Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Marco Scarsini* (LUISS, Rome and HEC, Paris)

 
Behavior of the Fisher information under additive perturbations and properties of the Pitman estimators in small samples

Abram Kagan (Department of Mathematics. University of Maryland)

The Inverse Simpson Paradox (how to win without overtly cheating)

Jerome K. Percus (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Physics, New York University)

Nonparametric detection of a change

Moshe Pollak (Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Mathematical concepts: new ideas in a classical topic in the Philosophy of Mathematics
Uwe Saint-Mont (Department of Economics, University of Applied Sciences, Nordhausen)

David O. Siegmund (Department of Statistics, Stanford University) and Benjamin Yakir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem(