Invited Presentations : 41st Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, University of Alberta, Edmonton, May 26-29, 2013. International Workshop on the Perspectives on High-dimensional Data Analysis III, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, University of British Columbia, May 23-25, 2013. Department of Mathematics, Brock University, March 04, 2013. Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba, February 21, 2013. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sherbrooke, January 28, 2013. XXVIth International Biometric Conference, Kobe International Conference Center, Kobe, Japan, August 26-31, 2012. The 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, USA, July 28 - August 2, 2012. International Conference on Trends and Perspectives in Linear Statistical Inference, and the 21st International Workshop on Matrices and Statistics, The Mathematical Research and Conference Center, Bedlewo, Poland, July 16-20, 2012. Tehran University of Medical Sciences, June 25, 2012. 40th Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Guelph University, June 3-6, 2012. The 4th International Conference on Computing and Statistics, Senate House, University of London, London, U.K., December 17-19, 2011. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, September 27, 2011. International Workshop on Perspectives on High-Dimensional Data Analysis, Toronto, June 9-11, 2011. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Ottawa, March 4, 2011. The 10th Iranian Statistical Conference, Tabriz, Iran, August 3-5, 2010. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, Summer School, June 7-11, 2010. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Biomathematics and Biostatistics Seminars, Guelph University, March 26, 2010. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, February 19, 2010. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Laval University, November 12, 2009. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University, February 18, 2009. Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, January 20, 2009. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Manitoba, Manitoba, Canada, January 2008. Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, USA, March 2007. Data Integration Workshop, The Ohio State University, USA, May 2007. The Science of Cancer Modelling Meeting, Washington DC, USA, December 2006. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, USA, November 2006. Faculty of Mathematical Sciences. Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, May 2006. School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University, Canada, 2006. The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada, Saskatoon, June 12-15, 2005.