P. K. Banerjee Memorial Lectures DECEMBER 29, 2007. Organized by: Calcutta Statistical Association

PROGRAMME

10.30 - 11.15:	Inaugural Session: Welcome Address: Dr. G. Chattopadhyay Address by Guest in Chief: Prof. P. K. Sen Address by Inaugurator: Prof. S.K.Chatterjee President�s observations: Prof. S. P. Mukherjee Vote of Thanks: Prof. U. Bandyopadhyay
11.15 - 12.00:	Beyond Parametrics Detours in Econometric Time-Series Analysis - Prof. P. K. Sen, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
12.00 - 12.15:	TEA
12.15 - 13.00:	Influence functions and Robust Bayes and Empirical Bayes Small Area Estimation - Prof. Malay Ghosh, (University of Florida at Gainesville, USA)
13.00 - 14.30:	LUNCH
14.30 - 15.15:	Estimating Sensitive Proportions by Warner�s Randomized Response Technique from Simple Random Samples With Replacement Pre-assigning Number of (I) Draws or (II) Distinct Units - Prof. Mousumi Bose, (ISI, Kolkata)
15.15 - 16.00:	Parametric Bootstrap Approximation to the Distribution of EBLUP and Related Prediction Intervals in Linear Mixed Models - Prof. Partha Lahiri, (University of Maryland, College Park, USA)