Date and Time: 03/25/2022, 14:00--15:00

Location: https://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=maae9da0ce06ddc035e87c0b746b524a8

Distinguished Lecture: Simultaneously Variable Section and Estimation for Interval-Censored Failure Time Data

Speaker: Dr. Tony Sun, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri

Speaker's website: https://stat.missouri.edu/people/sun

Title: Simultaneously Variable Section and Estimation for Interval-Censored Failure Time Data

Abstract: Variable selection is a common task in many fields and also a hot topic for the analysis of high-dimensional data.  Correspondingly, many methods have been developed and among them, a general type of procedure is the penalized approach.  In this talk, we will discuss variable selection when one faces interval-censored failure time data, a general type of failure time data that can occur in many areas including demographical studies, economic studies, medical studies and social sciences.  For the problem, some recently developed penalized procedures will be presented and discussed.

Speaker's biography: Dr. Tony Sun is the Curators Distinguished Professor at the Department of Statistics, University of Missouri. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.  His research interests cover AIDS and cancer studies, biostatistics, longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis, statistical analysis of interval-censored data, doubly censored data, panel count data, and nonparametric and semiparametric statistics.  Dr. Sun has published three books and over 100 referred papers in statistics.  He served as an associate editor of the  JASA,  JNS,  CSDA  and LTDA, etc.  He served as the President and President-Past of International Chinese Statistical Association, 2019-2021.

Host: Yichuan Zhao (yichuan@gsu.edu)