A special feature of Probability and Statistics Day at UMBC 2013 is that the conference, including the workshop, is open to all statistics graduate students
from UMBC and local universites free of charge; however, REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! The deadline to register is Friday,
April 12, 2013. // REGISTER NOW
For more information, contact any member of the organizing committee:
Bimal Sinha
Conference Chair
443.538.3012
Kofi Adragni
410.455.2406
Yvonne Huang
410.455.2422
Yaakov Malinovsky
410.455.2968
Thomas Mathew
410.455.2418
Nagaraj Neerchal
410.455.2437
DoHwan Park
410.455.2408
Junyong Park
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Anindya Roy
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Elizabeth Stanwyck
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Participant Information
Amanda Peterson
Paper: Two Sample Tests for High Dimensional Binary Data
In this talk, we will discuss methods for performing a two-sample test on high-dimensional multivariate binary data. As is well known, the curse of dimensionality makes these types of problems challenging especially when the dimension is much larger than the sample size. We will show our application of a random projection method to the multivariate binary data in conjunction with the classic Hotelling's T^2 statistic and an Edgeworth expansion. Additionally, we will discuss alternative testing procedures including one for the case of sparse data. We will show a comparison of their outcomes in different scenarios via simulation experiments.
