The Duke Statistics Research Seminars Academic Year 2008/2009
Surya Tokdar
(Morris H. DeGroot Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University)
"Bayesian Sufficient Dimension Reduction in Density Regression"
Friday, October 10, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Fred Wright
(Professor, Dept of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"Estimating Risk and Controlling for Stratification in Genome-Wide Association Studies"
Friday, October 17, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Arnaud Doucet
(Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair, Department of Statistics and Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia)
"The Expected Auxiliary Variables Method for Monte Carlo Simulation"
Friday, October 24, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Edsel Pena
(Professor, Dept of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC)
"On Some Issues of Optimality in Multiple HypothesesTesting"
Friday, October 31, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Fei Zou
(Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
"Bayesian Variable Selection in Semiparametric Regression Modeling with Applications to Genetic Mapping"
Friday, November 7, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Peter Mueller
(MD Anderson Cancer Center)
"TBD"
Friday, November 14, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Carlos Carvalho
(Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business)
"Handling Sparsity with the Horseshoe"
Friday, November 21, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
John Skilling
(Maximum Entropy Data Consultants Ltd, Ireland)
"tbd"
Friday, December 5, 2008, 3:30pm
116 Old Chem Building [more]
Seminars generally take place in 116 Old Chem Building on Fridays from 3:30 - 4:30 pm. However, please check individual abstracts to confirm time and location. Refreshments will be served after the seminars in the lobby of Old Chem.
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