School of Statistics Seminars

School Seminars Spring 2008

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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