School of Statistics Seminars

School Seminars Fall 2007

September 13:: Song Xi Chen, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University; Efficient Semiparametric Estimation with Surrogate Outcome Data
September 20:: Rob McCulloch, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago; Fully Non-parametric Bayesian Ensemble Modelling
September 27:: Ping Ma, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Champaign; Penalized Clustering of Large Scale Functional Data with Multiple Covariates
October 4:: Brian Caffo, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University; Statistical Methods for Indirect Estimation of Physiological Parameters: Case Studies in Viral Kinetics
October 11:: Mark Huber, Departments of Mathematics and Statistical Science, Duke University; Perfect Simulation for Repulsive Point Processes
October 18:: Geisser Lecture, Teddy Seidenfeld, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; Conditional Independence, Imprecise Probabilities, Null-Events, and Graph-Theoretic Models
October 25:: Zhiliang Ying, Department of Statistics, Columbia University; Variance Estimation and Distributional Approximation in Some Semiparametric Estimation Problems
November 1:: Niels Waller, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota; The Geometry of Alternate Regression Weights
November 8:: Tapabrata Maiti, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University; Mean Squared Prediction Error Estimation in Mixed Models
November 15:: Runze Li, Department of Statistics, Penn State University; Variable Selection in Semiparametric Regression Modeling
November 29:: Jia Li, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University; Recent Advances in Clustering with Applications
December 6:: Tian Zheng, Department of Statistics, Columbia University; Design and Analysis of "How Many X" Surveys to Study Social Networks

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