WORKSHOP, Composite Likelihood Methods, April 2008

["Pedro Luis Nascimento Silva" <pedronsilva@gmail.com>]

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University of Warwick / EPSRC-CRiSM / ESRC National Centre for Research
Methods

RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON COMPOSITE LIKELIHOOD METHODS

April 15-17, 2008.

Meeting co-sponsored by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and by
the Research Section of the Royal Statistical Society

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Abstracts are invited now (deadline 25 January) for contributed talks
and posters at this workshop.  For details, and to pre-register for
information bulletins on the workshop, please see

http://go.warwick.ac.uk/complik2008

BACKGROUND
In many modern applications of statistical models, standard
likelihood-based inference meets difficulties caused by high-dimensional
interdependencies.  Prominent application areas include the analysis of
multivariate longitudinal and event-history data, spatial statistics,
social network analysis, and bioinformatics.  The problems encountered
include prohibitively large computational demands (usually arising from
the need to calculate integrals in many dimensions), and undue
sensitivity to secondary modelling assumptions.

Various alternative approaches based on modification of the likelihood
have been suggested in the research literature; composite likelihoods
are instances of this, and they have been of rapidly increasing interest
recently.  Composite likelihoods are pseudo-likelihoods constructed by
pooling likelihood components, with each component corresponding to a
marginal or conditional event.  A prominent special case is pairwise
likelihood, based on components which are marginal likelihoods for pairs
of observations.

Confirmed speakers so far are D R Cox (Oxford), P Fearnhead (Lancaster),
N L Hjort (Oslo), H Joe (UBC), S Lele (Alberta), K-Y Liang (Johns
Hopkins), B G Lindsay (Penn State), G Molenberghs (Hasselt), N Reid
(Toronto), N Shephard (Oxford), P Song (Waterloo), C Varin (Venice).

Participants in this workshop are welcome to take part also in the first
day (April 14) of the parallel BAYESIAN ANALYSIS OF HIGH DIMENSIONAL
DATA workshop,

http://go.warwick.ac.uk/bhdworkshop

The two workshops will, in addition, hold a combined poster session and
social event, in order to maximize the impact of contributed posters.

It is likely that a small number of bursaries will be made available to
support participation in the workshop by PhD students.  Details will
appear on the web page when full registration opens.