SMBD2018: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICAL METHODS FOR BIG DATA
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, June 7th Friday, June 8th

Thursday, June 7th

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09:45-10:45 Session 1
Chair:
Pedro Galeano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
09:45
Ruben Zamar (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
A (Very) Partial Review of Cluster Analisys ( abstract )
10:15
Ruey Tsay (University of Chicago, United States)
Zhaoxing Gao (University of Chicago, United States)
A Structural-Factor Approach to Modeling High-Dimensional Time Series ( abstract )
10:45-11:15Coffee Break
11:15-13:15 Session 2
Chair:
Helena Veiga (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
11:15
Antoni Espasa (universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Top-down and bottom-up disaggregation approaches for econometric analysis of macro variables. ( abstract )
11:45
Esther Ruiz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Gloria Gonzalez (Universidad de California, Riverside, United States)
Javier Vicente (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Macroeconomic Value in Stress ( abstract )
12:15
Charles Bos (Dept. of Econometrics & Operations Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Estimability of endogenous selection models ( abstract )
12:45
Szabolcs Blazsek (School of Business, Guatemala)
Alvaro Escribano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Adrian Licht (School of Business, Guatemala)
Score-Driven Multivariate Dynamic Location Models ( abstract )
13:30-15:30Lunch
15:30-17:30 Session 3
Chair:
Esther Ruiz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
15:30
Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics, UK)
Testing for High-dimensional White Noise ( abstract )
16:00
Agustín Maravall (Bank of Spain, Spain)
Some notes on TRAMO-SEATS and its saga ( abstract )
16:30
Victor M. Guerrero (Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM), Mexico)
Francisco Corona (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI), Mexico)
Optimal retropolation of Mexico´s three Grand Economic Activities ( abstract )
17:00
Antonio Garcia-Ferrer (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Marcos Bujosa (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Arancha de Juan (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Antonio Martin-Arroyo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Evaluating early warning and coincident indicators of business cycles using trends. Do forecast combinations help? ( abstract )
17:30-18:00Coffee Break
18:00-19:30 Session 4
Chair:
Ignacio Cascos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
18:00
Carolina Euan (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
Ying Sun (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Hernando Ombao (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Coherence-based Time Series Clustering for Brain Connectivity Visualization ( abstract )
18:30
Kalliopi Mylona (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid/King's College London, Spain)
Emily S. Matthews (University of Southampton, UK)
David C. Woods (University of Southampton, UK)
Supersaturated split-plot experiments and industrial applications ( abstract )
19:00
Eliud Silva (Unviersidad Anahuac México, Mexico)
Identification of main variables to predict the homicides in Mexico ( abstract )
20:30-22:30Dinner
Friday, June 8th

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09:30-11:00 Session 5
Chair:
Antoni Espasa (universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
09:30
Nuno Crato (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Jorge Caiado (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Pilar Poncela (EC-JRC and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
A clustering procedure for studying big data financial time series ( abstract )
10:00
Marc Hallin (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Matteo Barigozzi (London School of Economics, UK)
Stefano Soccorsi (University of Lancaster, UK)
Identifying Global and Local Shocks in International Financial Markets: a General Dynamic Factor Model Approach ( abstract )
10:30
Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter (Vienna University of Business and Economics, Austria)
Hedibert Freitas Lopes (Insper Institute of Education and Research, Brazil)
Recent Advances in Sparse Bayesian Factor Analysis ( abstract )
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30-13:30 Session 6
Chair:
Wenceslao González-Manteiga (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
11:30
J. S. Marron (UNC, United States)
High Dimension Low Sample Size Asymptotics ( abstract )
12:00
Ricardo Cao (Research Group MODES, Department of Mathematics, CITIC and ITMATI, Universidade da Coruña, Spain)
Laura Borrajo (Research Group MODES, Department of Mathematics, CITIC, Universidade da Coruña, Spain)
Nonparametric mean estimation for big-but-biased data ( abstract )
12:30
Pedro Delicado (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Variable relevance matrix in algorithmic models ( abstract )
13:00
Isabel Casas (BCAM and University of Southern Denmark, Spain)
Xiuping Mao (Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, China)
Helena Veiga (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Reexamining financial and economic predictability with new estimators of realized variance and variance risk premium ( abstract )
13:30-15:00Lunch
15:00-16:00 Session Posters
15:00
Abel Guada-Azze (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Bernardo D'Auria (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Eduardo García-Portugués (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
Inferring the optimal stopping boundary for a Brownian bridge. ( abstract )
15:00
Juan C. Laria (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Rosa Lillo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
M. Carmen Aguilera-Morillo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
A variable selection approach in high dimensional problems ( abstract )
15:00
Elisa Cabana (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Rosa Elvira Lillo (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Henry Laniado (Universidad EAFIT Colombia, Colombia)
Robust regression using a robust Mahalanobis distance based on Shrinkage estimators ( abstract )
15:00
Diego Gómez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Rosa Espínola (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Gaussian Bayesian Networks and Gaussian Mixture Models applications of day-ahead forecast for the Spanish electricity market supply curves. ( abstract )
15:00
Javier Cara (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Jesus Juan (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Enrique Alarcón (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Boostraping state space models in experimental modal analysis of a footbridge ( abstract )
15:00
Eduardo Caro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Jesus Juan (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Javier Cara (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
Short-term forecasting hourly electricity load in Spain ( abstract )
15:00
Eduardo García-Portugués (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)
Davy Paindaveine (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Thomas Verdebout (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
On optimal tests for rotational symmetry against new classes of hyperspherical distributions ( abstract )
15:00
Gabriel Antonio Valverde Castilla (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Jose Manuel Mira McWillians (E.T.S. DE INGENIEROS INDUSTRIALES Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain)
A stochastic simulation experiment for outlier mixture component detection in one and two-layer Self Organizing Maps (SOM). ( abstract )
15:00
Hoang Nguyen (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
María Concepción Ausín (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Pedro Galeano (UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID, Spain)
Variational Inference for high dimensional structured factor copulas ( abstract )
15:00
Israel Martínez Hernández (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KAUST, Saudi Arabia)
Graciela González Farías (Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, CIMAT,, Mexico)
Long Memory Test for Nonlinear Time Series ( abstract )
16:00-17:30 Session 7
Chair:
Ricardo Cao (Research Group MODES, Department of Mathematics, CITIC and ITMATI, Universidade da Coruña, Spain)
16:00
Wenceslao González-Manteiga (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
A review of goodness-of-fit tests for models with functional data with recent results ( abstract )
16:30
Fabio Nieto (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia)
Seasonal dynamic common factors: some new results and a Colombian climatology case study ( abstract )
17:00
Vanesa Guerrero (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
Emilio Carrizosa (Instituto de Matemáticas de la Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Dolores Romero Morales (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Albert Satorra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Enhancing interpretability in Factor Analysis by means of Mathematical Optimization ( abstract )
20:30-22:30Tribute Dinner