The Departments of Economics and Statistics
cordially invite you to attend
the Conference in Economics and Statistics
in honor of
Theodore W. Anderson’s 90th Birthday
June 6th and 7th, 2008
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The Departments of Economics and Statistics
cordially invite you to attend Theodore W. Anderson’s 90th Birthday June 6th and 7th, 2008 |
| Program for Friday, June 6th, 9:00am -- 12:00n and 2:00pm -- 5:00pm Packard Engineering Center, 350 Serra Mall, Room 101 |
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| Session I | Chair: Tim Bresnahan, Chair of Department of Economics, Stanford |
| 9:00 -- 9:30am | John Taylor, Stanford University |
| "The Statistical Analysis of Policy Rules" | |
| 9:30 -- 10:00am | Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University |
| "Some Reminiscences of Econometrics in the 1940s" | |
| 10:00 -- 10:30am | MORNING BREAK |
| Session II | Chair: Trevor Hastie, Chair of Department of Statistics, Stanford |
| 10:30 -- 11:00am | Emanuel Parzen, Texas A&M University |
| "United Applicable Statistics, Confidence Quantiles, Philosophy of Statistical Science, Statistical Education" |
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| 11:00 -- 11:30am | Michael Perlman, University of Washington |
| "Detecting Linear Sequences and Subsequences" | |
| 11:30am -- 12:00n | Arnold Zellner, University of Chicago |
| "Direct Monte Carlo Approach to the Bayesian Analysis of the SUR Model" | |
| 12:00 -- 2:00pm | LUNCH |
| Session III | Chair: Tze Leung Lai, Stanford University |
| 2:00 -- 2:30pm | Michael Stephens, Simon Fraser University |
| "On Two Tests for Exponentiality with Different Motivations, and Power Results for EDF Tests" |
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| 2:30 -- 3:00pm | George Styan, McGill University |
| "Some Comments on Diagonal Graeco-Latin Squares and the Magic Card Puzzle, Illustrated with Playing Cards and Postage Stamps" |
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| 3:00 -- 3:30pm | AFTERNOON BREAK |
| Session IV | Chair: Jean-Marie Dufour, McGill University |
| 3:30 -- 4:00pm | Raja Velu, Syracuse University |
| "Reduced-Rank Regression: Applications in Time Series Modeling" | |
| 4:00 -- 4:30pm | James Powell, UC Berkeley |
| "Identification and Estimation of Irregular Correlated Random Coefficient Models" |
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| 4:30 -- 5:00pm | Thomas Rothenberg, UC Berkeley |
| "Some Non-Regular Econometric Testing Problems" | |
| Program for
Saturday, June 7th, 9:00am -- 12:30pm Landau Economics Building, 579 Serra Mall, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Conference Room A |
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| Session V | Chair: Peter Reinhard Hansen, Stanford University |
| 9:00 -- 9:30am | Patrick Suppes, Stanford University |
| "Partial Orders of Similarity Invariant between Brain and Perceptual Representations of Language" |
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| 9:30 -- 10:00am | Roberto Mariano, Singapore Management University |
| "Statistical Tests for Multiple Forecast Comparisons" | |
| 10:00 -- 10:30am | MORNING BREAK |
| Session VI | Chair: Jagdish Srivastava, Colorado State University |
| 10:30 -- 11:00am | Naoto Kunitomo, University of Tokyo |
| "Many Instruments, Heteroscedasticity and Asymptotic Optimality of the LIML Estimator" |
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| 11:00 -- 11:30am | Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania |
| "Moment Condition Selection for Dynamic Panel Data Models" | |
| 11:30am -- 12:00n | Cheng Hsiao, University of Southern California |
| "Measuring the Economic Benefits of Political and Economic Integration of Hong Kong with Mainland China -- A Panel Data Approach for Program Evaluation" |
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Photos from the conference are in the Statistics Department Gallery.
A scan of Ted's 1945 Ph.D. dissertation, The non-central Wishart distribution and its application to problems in multivariate statistics (9MB) has been made available for this special occasion.