2001          David Freedman, University of California
April 16: Statistical Issues in Census 2000
April 17: The Swine Flu Vaccine and Guillain-Barre syndrome
April 19: Salt and Blood Pressure: Conventional Wisdom Reconsidered

2003          Peter Hall, Australian National University
April 29: Nonparametric Methods for Estimating Light Curves for Periodic Variable Stars
April 30: Statistical Inference in High-Dimensional, Low Sample Size Settings
May 1: Testing for Equality of Distributions in Very High Dimensions

2004          Elizabeth Thompson, University of Washington
April 19: Inferring Relationships Among Populations and Individuals
April 20: The Structure of Pedigree Data and the Detection of Linkage
April 22: Monte Carlo Likelihood in Genetic Mapping

2005           Raymond J. Carroll, Texas A & M
March 29: Measuring Diet: Is it Possible?
March 30: Longitudinal and Clustered Data and Non/Semiparametric Regression
March 31: Semiparametric Methods for Gene-environment Case-control Studies When Gene and Environment Are Independent in the Population.

2006           Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago
March 20: Some Remarks About Spatial Correlation of Crop Yields
March 22: Partition Models and Cluster Processes
March 23: Random Partitions and Logistic Classification

2007           Michael Titteringten, Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK
April 10: Pearson the Elder - A Statistical Giant
April 11: Variational approximations in incomplete-data problems
April 12: Bayesian measures of complexity, and model selection,based on incomplete data

2008           Lawrence D. Brown, Statistics Department, Wharton School University of Pennsylvania
April 29: In-Season Prediction of Batting Averages: A Field-test of Basic Empirical Bayes and Bayes Methodologies
April 30: Non-parametric Empirical Bayes and Compound Bayes Estimation of Independent Normal Means
May 1: A Root-Unroot Algorithm for Nonparametric Density Estimation and an Implementation via Adaptive Wavelet Block Threshholding

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