January 29:

Rui Song, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Change-Point Cox Model with Current Status Data

January 31:

Hadley Wickham, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

A Grammar of Graphics: Past, Present, Future

February 5:

Wenguang Sun, Department of Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania

A New Framework for Large-Scale Multiple Testing: Compound Decision Theory and Data-Driven Procedures

February 7:

Bodhisattva Sen, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan

Bootstrap in some Non-standard Problems

February 12:

Brian Caffo, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University

Conditional and Marginal Models for Binary Mixed Models

February 14:

Philippe Rigollet, School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology

Stochastic Convex Optimization Using Mirror Averaging Algorithms

February 21:

Bo Li, Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences, National Center for Atmospheric Research

Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-time Covariance Functions and its Application in Paleoclimate Reconstruction

February 26:

Heping He, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne

Asymptotic Properties of Maximum Likelihood Estimators in Models with Multiple Change Points

February 28:

Ethan Anderes, Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley

Two Topics in Spatial Statistics: Estimating Cloud Height from Multi-angle Satellite Imagery and Deformed Random Fields

March 4:

Ying Hung, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Binary Time Series Modeling with Application to Adhesion Frequency Experiments

March 27:

Huixia (Judy) Wang, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University

Quantile Regression for Clustered Data

April 3:

Steven J. Taff, Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota

Do people really USE statistical evidence? Recent economic issues in global climate change policy

April 10:

Marina Meila, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

Consensus Ranking Under the Exponential Model

April 17:

Peihua Qiu, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota

Comparison of Two Possibly Crossing Hazard Rate Functions

April 24:

S. Ejaz Ahmed, University of Michigan and University of Windsor

Absolute Penalty Estimation Versus Shrinkage Estimation

April 29:

BUEHLER-MARTIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES, Lawrence D. Brown, Statistics Department, Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

In-Season Prediction of Batting Averages: A Field-test of Basic Empirical Bayes and Bayes Methodologies

April 30:

BUEHLER-MARTIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES, Lawrence D. Brown, Statistics Department, Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

Non-parametric Empirical Bayes and Compound Bayes Estimation of Independent Normal Means

May 1:

BUEHLER-MARTIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES, Lawrence D. Brown, Statistics Department, Wharton School University of Pennsylvania

A Root-Unroot Algorithm for Nonparametric Density Estimation and an Implementation via Adaptive Wavelet Block Threshholdin

May 8:

Naisyin Wang, Texas A&M University

Effects of Ignoring Correlations in Longitudinal Response or Covariate Processes

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