School of Statistics Seminars

School Seminars Fall 2006

September 7:: Jean Opsomer, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University; Nonparametric Variance Estimation for Systematic Samples
September 14:: Yuhong Yang, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota; Localized Model Selection/Combination
September 21:: Bertrand Clarke, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia; Principles for Predictive Optimality: Computational Examples
September 28:: Joe Cavanaugh, Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa; An Alternate Version of the Conceptual Predictive Statistic
October 5:: Linda Zhao, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania; Good Estimators for Gaussian Models Having a Block-wise Structure
October 12:: Chih-Ling Tsai, Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis; Selections
October 19:: Andrew Nobel, Dept of Statistics and Operations Research, University of North Carolina; A Probabilistic Analysis of Frequent Itemset Mining with Noise
October 26:: Jeen Liu, Astellas Pharmaceutical US; Statistics and Statisticians in Drug Development
November 2:: Tianxi Cai, Dept of Biostatistics, Harvard University; Model Evaluation and Model Selection Based on Prediction Error for Various Outcomes
November 9:: Edsel Pena, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina; Recurrent Event Modeling and Statistical Analysis
November 16: Seymour Geisser Distinguished Lecture cancelled: To be rescheduled spring semester 2007.
November 30:: Saonli Basu, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota; Allele Sharing Methods for Linkage Detection using Pedigrees
December 8:: Rong Chen, Dept of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago; Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Their Applications: An Overview and Recent Developments

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