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20:00 UTC

S506 - Recent Advances in Sequential Inference

Tuesday October 6, 2026 20:00 - 21:00 UTC

Sequential analysis continues to play a central role in modern statistics by enabling data-driven decision making while balancing statistical efficiency, computational cost, and practical constraints. This session highlights recent methodological advances in sequential and multistage inference across a range of contemporary statistical problems. Topics include sequential estimation of distributional overlap with boundary corrections for reliable confidence interval construction, multistage algorithms for efficient data compression under growing dimensions, penalized sequential estimation and variable selection for recurrent event models with high-dimensional covariates, and multistage sampling strategies for constructing minimum-risk confidence regions for multivariate means. Together, these contributions illustrate how sequential methodologies are being extended beyond their classical foundations to address challenges arising from high-dimensional data, adaptive sampling, optimization of statistical risk, and modern computational applications.

Speakers

Swarnali Banerjee

Associate Professor, Director of Data Science Program, Loyola University Chicago

Dr. Swarnali Banerjee is an Associate Professor and Director of Data Science in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Loyola University Chicago. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Connecticut in 2014. Prior to joining Loyola University in 2016, she... Read More →

Zhe Wang

Denison University

Dr. Zhe Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Data Analytics at Denison University. She earned her B.S. in Statistics from Beijing Normal University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include statistical inference... Read More →

Swathi Venkatesan

Fairfield University

Dr. Swathi Venkatesan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Fairfield University. She earned her PhD in Statistics from the University of Connecticut. Her research interests include sequential estimation and inference, experimental design, and the development... Read More →

Laura Dumitrescu

Fairfield University

Dr. Laura Dumitrescu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Fairfield University, where she has been a faculty member since 2022. Prior to joining Fairfield, she was a member of the Probability and Statistics research group in the School of Mathematics and Statistics... Read More →

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