ESI01: Statistics for functional data Organizer: Byeong U. Park Hans-Georg Mueller, University of California, Davis, USA. Alois Kneip, University of Bonn, Germany. Frederic Ferraty, University Paul Sabatier, France. , University of Cambridge, UK.
ESI02: Robust procedures for functional and complex data analysis Organizer: Graciela Boente Herve Cardot, Université de Bourgogne, France. Juan Romo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain. Peter Rousseeuw, University of Leuven, Belgium.
ESI03: Optimal experimental design Organizers: DOE specialized team Anthony Atkinson, London School of Economics, UK. Holger Dette, University of Bochum, Germany. Rainer Schwabe, University of Magdeburg, Germany. Alexander Donev, University of Manchester, UK.
ESI04: Modern multivariate and robust methods Organizers: Klaus Nordhausen and Sara Taskinen Robert Serfling, University of Texas at Dallas, USA. Marc Hallin, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium & Princeton University, USA. Bing Li, Penn State University, USA.
CFE 2015 Special Invited Sessions
CSI01: Bayesian Methods in Economics and Finance Organizer: Mike West Sylvia Kaufman, Study Center Gerzensee, Switzerland. Mark Jensen, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, US. Mike Pitt, University of Warwick, UK.
CSI02: Boostrap Inference Organizer: Jean-Pierre Urbain Stephan Smeekes, Maastricht University, The Netherlands. Russel Davidson, McGill University, Canada. Michael Neumann, University of Jena, Germany.
CSI03: Advances in dynamic factor analysis Organizer: Christopher Otrok Haroon Mumtaz, Queen Mary University of London, UK. Michael T. Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, USA. Christopher Otrok, University of Missouri and Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, USA.
CSI04: New approaches in modelling heteroskedasticity Organizer: Liudas Giraitis Timo Terrasvirta, Aarhus University, Denmark. Liudas Giraitis, Queen Mary, Universiry of London, UK. Dennis Kristensen, University College London, UK.