OSD 2005 PROGRAMME

Wednesday 15 June

09:00-10:00 Registration

10:00-11:00 Opening Ceremony

11:00-11:30 Coffee/Tea Break

11:30-13:00 Plenary speaker
N. Balakrishnan, ORSS and Applications to Inference

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

Session 1A

14:00-14:30 Ch. A. Charalambides
Distributions of record statistics in a geometrically increasing population

14:30-15:00 Fernando Lopez-Blazquez
Some open problems related to discrete order statistics and records

15:00-15:30 I.S. Akhundov, A.Berred, V.B. Nevzorov
Some recent results on ordered random variables

15:30-16:00 Felix Belzunce, Eva-Maria Ortega, Jose M. Ruiz
Stochastic orderings of discrete time process and discrete record values

16:00-16:15 Coffee/Tea Break

Session 2A

16:15-16:45 Barry C. Arnold
Some characterizations motivated by the fact that if are i.i.d. uniform r.v.’s then has a uniform distribution

16:45-17:15 Anna Dembinska
Characterizations of discrete distributions based on record values

17:15-17:45 M. Ahsanullah, S. Malov
Characterizations based on equivalent distributions properties of records

17:45-18:15 M. Asadi, M. Tavangar
On the characterizations of generalized pareto distributions based on ordered random variables

19:00- Welcome Reception and Dinner

Thursday 16 June

Session 3A

09:00-09:30 I. Basak, P. Basak, N. Balakrishnan
On some predictors of times to failure of censored items in progressively censored samples

09:30-10:00 Ismihan Bayramoglu (Bairamov), Halil Tanil
Distributions of exceedances based on generalized order statistics

10:00-10:30 Marius Bieniek
Variation diminishing property of densities of uniform generalized order statistics

10:30-11:00 Mohammad Z. Raqab
Nonparametric prediction intervals for the future record statistics

11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea Break

Session 4A

11:15-11:45 A. Stepanov
From ties to progressive censoring

11:45-12:15 Ryszard Zielinski
Order statistics as quantile estimators in a large nonparametric model

12:15-12:45 Mohammad Fraiwan Al-Saleh
On the similarity structure of ordered statistics

12:45-13:15 Erhard Cramer
Progressive Censoring: To do or not to do?

13:15- 14:30 Lunch Break

Session 5A

14:30-15:00 Jacek Wesolowski
Characterizations related to random scaling or shifting of order statistics and records

15:00-15:30 Claude Lefevre
A model of cascading failures

15:30-16:00 E. Kaufmann, R.D. Reiss
Approximations to rare and intermediate events

16:00-16:15 Coffee/Tea Break

Session 6A

16:15-16:45 Philip J. Boland
The probability distribution for the number of successes in independent trials

16:45-17:15 Serkan Eryilmaz
An order statistic approach to the longest run statistic

17:15-17:45 Y. H. Abdelkader
Computing the moments of order statistics from nonidentically distributed Gamma variables with applications

17:45-18:15 Nickos Papadatos
On the partial minima blue for the scale of a two parameter exponential distribution

Session 3B

09:00-09:30 M.S. Ahmed
Estimation of finite population parameters using multi-phase sampling

09:30-10:00 A. Asgharzadeh
On distribution of standard statistics

10:00-10:30 Tahir Khaniyev, Zafer Küçük, Nurgül Bekar
Asymptotic expansions for the moments of boundary functional of a random walk with two barriers

10:30-10:45 Coffee/Tea Break

Session 4B

10:45-11:15 Aladdin Shamilov
Comparison of classical estimate methods based on maximum entropy distribution

11:15-11:45 Tülay Kesemen
Exact and asymptotic formulas for the numerical characteristics of the extended models of type (s,S)

11:45-12:15 Hakan Savas Sazak
Regression under nonnormality with stochastic design variable

12:15- 13:30 Lunch Break

Session 5B

13:30-14:00 Aladdin Shamilov, Yeliz Mert Kantar
On a distribution minimizing maximum entropy

14:00-14:30 Engin A. Sungur, Salih Çelebioglu, Jong-Min Kim
Symmetry and complement functions of a copula

14:30-15:00 Mustafa Nadar
Kruskal-Wallis Statistics Based on the Oja Criterion Function

19:00- Dinner

Friday 17 June

Session 7A

09:00-09:30 Katarzyna Danielak
Sharp upper bounds on expectations of kth record increments

09:30-10:00 Monika Klimczak, Tomasz Rychlik
Best bounds on expectations of L-statistics and kth records from bounded samples

10:00-10:30 Agnieszka Goroncy, Tomasz Rychlik
Optimal bounds on non-negative L-statistics in random models

10:30-11:00 Agnieszka Goroncy, Tomasz Rychlik
Lower bounds on some positive L-statistics based on drawing with replacement models

11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea Break


Session 8A

11:15-11:45 H.N. Nagaraja
Order statistics of concomitants of subsets of order statistics and applications

11:45-12:15 Djamel Meraghni, Necir Abdelhakim
Estimating the scale parameter of Levy-Stable distributions via the extreme value approach

Poster Session 11:00-11:30

Öniz Toktamis, Serdar Demir, Serpil Cula
The estimation of the hazard function by the adaptive kernel estimation method

Neslihan Iyit, Asir Genç
An application related to linear mixed effects models for repeated measurements

Sevgi Yurt Öncel, Kübra Aba
Tail probability for gaussian processes

Bugra Saraçoglu, Mehmet Fedai Kaya
Reliability and its estimation for gompertz distribution

Sevgi Yurt Öncel, F. Aliev, S. Incetekin Yorubulut
On characterizing exponential distribution via constancy of regression for adjacent generalized order statistics

Necir Abdelhakim, Kamel Boukhetala
The limiting distribution of a weighted -Wasserstein distance between the tails of the empirical and the true distributions

12:15:13:00 Lunch Break

13:00-18:00 Optional tours, Ephesus

19:00- Dinner


Saturday 18 June

Session 9A

09:00-09:30 Jorge Navarro, Tomasz Rychlik, Moshe Shaked
Are the order statistics ordered?

09:30-10:00 Necir Abdelhakim
A nonparametric sequential test with power 1 for the mean of levy-stable laws with infinite variance

10:00-10:30 I. Bayramoglu, T. Özkal
On characterization of distributions by properties of conditional expectations of progressive type II censored order statistics

10:30-11:00 Khalaf S. Sultan
Order statistics from the generalized exponential distribution and applications

11:00-11:15 Coffee/Tea Break

Session 10A

11:15-11:45 Baha-Eldin Khaledi
Ordering order statistics from independent random variables with scale distributions

11:45-12:15 Jaroslaw Bartoszewicz, Magdalena Skolimowska
Preservation of stochastic orders under mixtures of exponential distributions

12:15-12:45 Ömer L. Gebizlioglu, Fatih Tank
On optimal risk decisions as a characterization problem

12:45-13:15 G. Arslan, M. Ahsanullah, I. Bayramoglu
On a characteristic property of the uniform distribution

13:30-14:30 Lunch Break

Session 11A

14:30-15:00 Coskun Kus, M. Fedai Kaya
Estimation for the parameters of the pareto distribution under progressive censoring

15:00-15:30 Sinan Çalik, Mehmet Güngör
On the moments of order statistics from discrete distributions

15:30-16:00 Sevgi Yurt Öncel, F. Aliev, Funda Aygün
On characterization of pareto distribution based on record values

Session 9B

11:15-11:45 Burcu Üçer, Ismihan Bayramoglu
Local numerical characteristics of random variables

11:45-12:15 Baris Sürücü
Multivariate goodness-of-fit tests for complete and censored data

12:15-12:45 Tahir Khaniyev, Rovshan Aliyev, Zülfiye Mammadova
On the asymptotic results for the semi-markovian random walks with a discrete interference of chance

12:45-13:15 Aladdin Shamilov, Senay Yolaçan
Various binary codes for probability distribution of Turkish letters

19:00- Dinner