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Statistics 8913
Literature Seminar
Spring 08

Instructor: Glen Meeden
office: 313 Ford Hall
office hours: 2:30-3:20 MThF or by appointment
phone: 612-625-8321
e-mail: glen@stat.umn.edu

Meeting Time 3:35-4:25 most Fridays
Classroom: 115 Ford Hall

I have reserved the School's Toshiba 2005 laptop to use for the talks in this class.

Syllabus

Some tips for a good presentation

Schedule of talks

• Jan 25 No class
• Feb 1 No class
• Feb 8 ??
• Feb 15 No class
• Feb 22 No class
• Feb 29 Do Hyang Kim will speak on "Randomization analysis of experimental data: the Fisher randomization test", by D. Basu JASA 1980.
• Mar 7 Wei Liu will speak on "Smoothing by local regression: Principles and methods", by Cleveland and Loader, 1996.
• Mar 14 No class
• Mar 28
• Apr 4
• Apr 11 Zhan Wang TBA
• Apr 18 Sai Okabayashi will speak on "Monte Carlo Maximum Likelihood" by Geyer and Thompson.
• Apr 25
• May 2 Tim Trudell TBA
• May 9 Xin Chen will speak on "An Adaptive estimation of dimension reduction space"

Some suggested papers

pdf files of possible papers

• paper by Birge
• paper by Ge, Dudoit and Speed
• paper by Lu, Lin, Wright and Wahba

Two example tex files of talks.

• the tex file of Prof Jones' talk
• the tex file of my talk

The pdf file of my talk