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School Seminars Spring 2009
January 22:
Charles J. Geyer, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
Likelihood Inference in Exponential Families and Directions of Recession

February 5:
Nathan R. Kuncel, Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota
Making the Right Decision in Graduate Admissions: The Predictive Power of Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Characteristics

February 26:
Pat Whitcomb, DesignEase Software
Graphical Selection of Effects in General Factorials

March 9:
BUEHLER-MARTIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES, Trevor Hastie, Stanford University
Modern Trends in Data Mining

March 10:
BUEHLER-MARTIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES, Trevor Hastie, Stanford University
Regularization Paths and Coordinate Descent

March 26:
Inge Helland, University of Oslo
A Bayesian Predictor under Symmetry based on the Parametric Partial Least Squares Algorithm

April 2:
Michael Potegal, Pediatric Neurology, University of Minnesota
Children's Tantrums: Generality of their Emotional/Behavioral Constituents and Development of the Anger Intensity-Behavioral Linkage Function Model

April 9:
Daniel Kaplan, Macalaster College
Using Geometry to Develop Statistical Reasoning

April 23:
Bob Cudeck, Psychology Department, Ohio State University
Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Latent Variable Model with Interaction

May 7:
Vasileios Maroulas, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota
Tracking Groups of Wildlife: A Multi-object Bayesian Approach


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