Previous Duke Statistics Research Seminars
- 2007-08 [FALL 07, SPRING 08]
- 2006-07 [FALL 06, SPRING 07]
- 2005-06 [FALL 05, SPRING 06]
- 2004-05 [FALL 04, SPRING 05]
- 2003-04 [FALL 03, SPRING 04]
- 2002-03 [FALL 02, SPRING 03]
- 2001-02 [FALL 01, SPRING 02]
- 2000-01 [FALL 00, SPRING 01]
- 1999-00 [FALL 99, SPRING 00]
- 1998-99 [FALL 98, SPRING 99]
- 1997-98 [FALL 97, SPRING 98]
- 1996-97 [FALL 96, SPRING 97]
- 1995-96 [FALL 95, SPRING 96]
- August 30 - Gianfranco Lovison -- lovison@cere03.cere.pa.cnr.it
Rome University
"Quasi-Symmetry Models for Hypercubic Concordance Tables" - September 8 - Jon Wakefield -- jwake@hsph.harvard.edu
Imperial College - London
"Bayesian Modelling of Covariates for Population Pharmacokinetic Models" - September 15 - Richard Smith -- R.L.Smith@statslab.cam.ac.uk
National Institute of Statistical Sciences, University of North Carolina and Cambridge University
"Temporal and Spatial Correlations in Climatic Data" - September 22 - No scheduled seminar.
- September 27 - Alex Reutter --
alex@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics - Duke University
"General Strategies for Assessing Convergence of MCMC Algorithms Using Coupled Sample Paths" - October 4 - Michael Goldstein -- Michael.Goldstein@durham.ac.uk
University of Durham - England
"Pressure Matching for Hydrocarbon Reservoirs: A Case Study in the Use of Bayes Linear Strategies for Large Computer Experiments" - October 6 - Mark Handcock -- mhandcock@stern.nyu.edu
New York University
"An Approach to Statistical Spatial-Temporal Modeling of Meteorological Fields:
An Application to Global Warming Data" - October 13 - David Higdon -- higdon@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics - Duke University
"MCMC, Auxiliary Variables, and Applications" - October 20 - Mark Berliner -- berliner@ncar.ucar.edu
National Center for Atmospheric Research, and The Ohio State University
"Statistics in Climate Research" - October 27 - Douglas W. Nychka -- nychka@stat.ncsu.edu
North Carolina State University
"Constructing Spatial Designs by Selecting Subsets or Filling Space" - November 3 - Pietro Muliere -- pmuliere@eco.unipv.it
Universita `di Pavia
"Predictive Inference and Bootstrap Techniques" - November 10 - David Wolpert -- dhw@santafe.edu
The Santa Fe Institute
"No Free Lunch Theorems For Search" - November 17 - Bruno Sansó -- bruno@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics - Duke University and University of Simón Bolívar
"Intrinsic Bayes Factor and Intrinsic Priors: Some Robustness Issues" - December 1 - Julia Varshavsky -- jvarsh@stat.purdue.edu
Eli Lilly Corporation
"Marginal Distributions in Nonnormal Linear Model" - December 8 - Keith Abrams -- kra1@leicester.ac.uk
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Leicester, U.K
"Bayesian Methods In Cancer Clinical Trials"
Spring 1996 Schedule
- January 19 - Bruce Weir -- bsw@esssjp.stat.ncsu.edu
North Carolina State University
"Statistical Issues in Interpreting DNA Profile Matches" - January 26 - David Katz -- dkatz@acpub.duke.edu
Duke University
"Drawing Inferences about Fertility from Biomarker Data" - February 7 - Jessica Utts -- utts@wald.ucdavis.edu
University of California, Davis
"Stargate Statistics" - February 16 - Yingnian Wu -- wu@hustat.harvard.edu
Harvard University
"A Theory for Texture Modeling and Random Field Approximation" - February 23 - Craig Cooley -- cac@stat.mps.ohio-state.edu
Ohio State University
"An Alternative Approach to Nonparametric Kernel Classification" - February 28 - Valen Johnson -- valen@stat.duke.edu
Duke University
This is a workshop
"Latent Variable Models for Evaluating Undergraduate Performance" - March 1 - David Higdon -- higdon@stat.duke.edu
Duke University
"Spatial Lattice Models and Bayesian Analysis of Agricultural Field Trials" - March 8 - James Berger -- jberger@stat.purdue.edu
Purdue University
"On the Choice of Hyperpriors in Normal Hierarchical Models" - March 13 - Keith Crank -- kcrank@nsf.gov
National Science Foundation
"Mathematical Sciences and a Balanced Federal Budget" - March 18 - William Cleveland -- wsc@research.att.com
AT&T Bell Labs
"Multipanel Conditioning: Modeling Data from Designed Experiments" - March 22 - David Madigan -- madigan@stat.washington.edu
University of Washington
"Bayesian Model Averaging" - March 29 - Charles Kooperberg -- clk@stat.washington.edu
University of Washington
"The Use of Polynomial Splines and Their Tensor Products in Functional Modeling" - April 5 - Athanassios Katsis -- katsis@gwis2.circ.gwu.edu
George Washington University
"Bayesian Experimental Designs for Discrete Distributions" - April 19 - Jose Quintana & Bluford Putnam --
jmquin@ix.netcom.com
Bankers Trust
"Global Asset Allocation: Stretching Returns by Shrinking Forecast" - April 26 - Valerie Williams --
williams@niss.rti.org
National Institute of Statistical Sciences
"Controlling False Discoveries in Educational Research"
Fall 1996 Seminars
- September 27 - Ina Hoeschele -- A1IAH@VTVM1.CC.VT.E
DU
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
"Statistical Gene Mapping Using Bayesian Analysis and Markov Chai n Monte Carlo Algorithms and Current Problems in Variance Components Estimation in Generalized Linear Models" - October 4 - Sujit K. Ghosh -- sghosh2@eos.ncsu.edu
North Carolina State University
"Latent Waiting Time Models For Bivariate Event Times With Cens oring" - October 11 - Robert Wolpert -- rlw@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics, Duke University
"Spatial Modeling with Inhomogeneous Point-process Random Fields:
Bayesian Models for studying Disease Patterns and Biodiversity" - October 25 - Michael Littman -- mlittman@cs.duke.edu
Computer Science, Duke University
"Decision-Making Under Uncertainty Via Partially Observable M arkov Decision Processes" - November 1 - Emma Sarno -- es@stat.duke.edu
Università di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
"A Dynamic Model Selection Procedure To Forecast Using Multi-Pr ocess Models" - November 8 - Sakari Kuikka -- skuikka@HELSINKI.R
KTL.fi
Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute, Finland
"Learning Bayesian Decision Analysis by Doing: Lessons from Environmental and Natural Resources Management" - November 15 - Mark Steel & Carmen Fernández -- msteel@stat.purdue.edu
Department of Statistics, Purdue University
"On Bayesian Modelling of Fat Tails and Skewness and the Danger s of Continuous Distributions" - December 6 - Joe Lipscomb -- lipscomb@pps.duke.edu
Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
"Time Preference For Health In Cost-Effectiveness Analysis"
Spring 1997 Schedule
- January 24 - Lara Wolfson -- ljwolfso@setosa.uwaterloo.ca
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
"Experiences in Elicitation" - January 31 - Vincent Granville -- granvill@niss.rti.org
NISS, RTP, NC
"Stochastic Models for Hourly Rainfall Time Series: Fitting and Statistical Analysis Based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods" - February 7 - Kunio Tanabe -- tanabe@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics, Duke University
"Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Method with Smoothness Priors" - February 14 - Ed Iversen -- iversen@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics, Duke University
"A Spatial and Temporal Markov Random Field Model with Application to Real Estate Indices" - February 21 - Chris Genovese -- genovese@stat.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
"Spatio-Temporal Inference and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging" - February 28 - David Wolfson -- wolfson@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics, Duke University
"Assessing Decline in Alzheimer's Disease" - March 7 - Eric Bradlow -- ebradlow@hops.wharton.upenn.edu
University of Pennsylvania
"Some Interesting Statistical Problems in Educational Testing" - March 25 - A. Philip Dawid -- dawid@stats.ucl.ac.uk
University College London, UK
"Who Needs Counter-Factuals?" - March 26-28 - Shape Analysis Workshop
Old Trinity Room, Duke University
Schedule of events - April 4 - Peter Green -- P.J.Green@bristol.ac.uk
University of Bristol
"Inference on an Unknown Number of Unknowns: Change Point and Mixture Estimation " - April 8 - William Strawderman -- STRAW@STAT.RUTGERS.EDU
Rutgers University
"Some Applications of Bayesian Methods in Forestry Research" - April 11 - Todd Ogden -- ogden@math.sc.edu
University of South Carolina
"Wavelets in Bayesian Change-point Analysis" - April 25 - Alicia Carriquiry -- alicia@stat.duke.edu
Iowa State University
"Analysis of Dietary Intake Data"
Fall 1997 Schedule
- September 5 - Jerry Sacks --
jsacks@rti.org
NISS - Research Triangle Park, NC
"Research Update and Upcoming Events" - September 19 - Bruno Sansó --
bruno@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics - Duke University and University of Simón Bolívar
"Redesigning a Network of Rainfall Stations" - October 3 - Susie Bayarri --
susie@stat.duke.edu
Universitat de Valéncia, Valencia, Spain
"Optimal Sample Size When Designing "Successful" Replications" - October 17 - This seminar has been cancelled and will be rescheduled
to a later date.
- October 24 - Chong Gu --
gu@niss.rti.org
NISS - Research Triangle Park, NC
"Model Indexing and Smoothing Parameter Selection in Nonparametric Function Estimation" - October 31 - Victor De Oliveira -- oliveira@niss.rti.org
NISS - Research Triangle Park, NC
"Bayesian Prediction of Clipped Gaussian Random Fields" - November 7 - Alicia Carriquiry -- alicia@iastate.edu
Iowa State University
"Highest Density Gates for Target Tracking" - November 14 - Fabrizio Ruggeri -- fabrizio@iami.mi.cnr.it
CNR-IAMI, Milano, Italy
"Bayesian Analysis of the Reliability of Repairable Systems" - December 5 - Marianna Pensky --
mpensky@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
University of Central Florida
"Estimation with Meyer-Type Wavelets"
Spring 1998 Schedule
- January 23 - Zbigniew Kabala --
kabala@copernicus.egr.duke.edu
Civil Engineering, Duke University
"Uncertainty in Subsurface Hydrology" - January 30 - Mario Peruggia --
mperuggia@virginia.edu
University of Virginia School of Medicine
"A Hybrid MCMC Algorithm for Fitting Outlier Accommodation Models" - February 6 - Alessandra Guglielmi --
alessan@stat.duke.edu
CNR-IAMI, Milano and Duke Statistics, Duke University
"Numerical Analysis for the Distribution Functions of Means of Dirichlet Processes" - February 13 - Christopher Portier --
portier@niehs.nih.gov
NIEHS - Research Triangle Park, NC
"Stochastic Modeling in Carcinogenesis" - February 27 - Nozer Singpurwalla --
nozer@research.circ.gwu.edu
George Washington University
"Burn-in Makes Us Feel Good" - March 6 - Theofanis Sapatinas --
T.Sapatinas@bristol.ac.uk
University of Bristol
"Wavelet Shrinkage: A Tutorial Introduction" - April 3 - John Liechty --
john.liechty@ccmail.bus.umich.edu
University of Michigan
"MCMC and Continuous-time, Hidden Markov Models" - April 10 - Ming-Hui Chen --
mhchen@wpi.edu
Worcester Polytechnic Institute "Prior Elicitation, Variable Selection, and Bayesian Computation for Logistic Regression Models" - April 17 - Andrew Gelman -- gelman@wald.stat.columbia.edu
Columbia University
"Decision Analysis in the Context of Hierarchical Modeling: The Case of Home Radon Mapping, Measurement and Remediation" - April 24 - Mark Berliner --
mb@stat.ohio-state.edu
Ohio State University
"Examples of Bayesian Analysis in Atmospheric Science"
Fall 1998 Schedule - August 6 - Hans Kuensch -- kuensch@stat.math.ethz.ch
Seminar fuer Statistik - Zurich, Switzerland
- August 20 - John Deely -- jdeely@stat.purdue.edu
Statistics - Purdue University
"Robust Bayesian Selection Of The Best Reliability Supplier"- August 28 - Valen Johnson -- valen@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics - Duke University
"Posterior Distributions on Marginal Likelihood Functions and Other Normalizing Constants"- September 4 - Brunero Liseo -- brunero@pow2.sta.uniroma1.it
Universita' di Roma - La Sapienza
"On the Comparison Between Different Methods of Eliminating Nuisance Parameters"- September 18 - Dongchu Sun -- dsun@niss.org
University of Missouri, Statistics and NISS
"Hierarchical Models in Wildlife Abundance Estimation"
Web link
- October 2 - Anastasios Tsiatis -- tsiatis@stat.ncsu.edu
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
"Estimating The Distribution Of Quality Adjusted Life With Censored Data"
Web link
- October 16 - Karen Kafadar -- kk@tiger.cudenver.edu
Mathematics - University of Colorado at Denver
"Geographical Trends in Cancer Mortality: Using Spatial Smoothers and Methods for Adjustment"
Web link
- October 19, MONDAY 4pm 139 Soc Sci Building
Andy Grieve -- andy_p_grieve@sandwich.pfizer.com
Biometrics -- Pfizer Central Research
"Bayesian Methods In Pharmaceutical Research - A Statistical Bummel"- October 23 Nandini Raghavan -- raghavan@stat.ohio-state.edu
Ohio State University and NISS
"Characterizing Microstructures of Heterogeneous Materials Using Spatial Point Processes"
Web link
- October 26, MONDAY, 4pm in LSRC D106
Joint colloquium with Computer Science .
Moises Goldszmidt , SRI International
Getting the Best of Both Discretization and Parametric Fitting
Web link- October 27, TUESDAY 4pm 136 Social Sciences Bldg.
Francesca Dominici -- fdominic@jhsph.edu
Department of Biostatistics, The Johns Hopkins University
"National Mortality, Morbidity and Air Pollution Study: Statistical Challenges"
Web link
- October 30 - Simon Godsill -- sjg@eng.cam.ac.uk
Cambridge University Engineering Department
"MCMC, Model Uncertainty and Marginal Data Densities"
Web link
- November 5, THURSDAY 4pm 116 Old Chem Bldg.
Richard D. De Veaux -- deveaux@williams.edu
Department of Mathematics, Williams College
"Hybrid Neural Networks for Environmental Process Control"
Web link
Professor De Veaux will also give another talk at NCSU on Fr November 6.- November 6 - Larry Wasserman -- larry@stat.cmu.edu
Statistics - Carnegie Mellon University
"Frequentist Properties of Bayesian Procedures in Complex Problems"
Web link
- November 13 - Jun Liu -- jliu@stat.stanford.edu
Department of Statistics, Stanford University
"The Use of Multiple-Try Method and Local Optimization in Metropolis Sampling"
Web link
(Prof. Liu will also give a seminar on Mo, Nov 16th at UNC-CH, Statistics).- November 17, TUESDAY 4pm 136 Social Sciences Bldg.
James Robins -- robins@hsph.harvard.edu
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health
"Marginal Structural Models and Causal Inference in Epidemiology"
Web link
- November 20 - Claudia Tebaldi -- tebaldi@ucar.edu
Climate & Global Dynamics division, NCAR
"Forecasting Clear-Air Turbulence an Integrated Approach"
Web link
- December 3, THURSDAY 4pm 116 Old Chem
Jim Lynch -- lynch@stat.sc.edu
Center for Reliability and Quality Sciences, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina
"On the Ergodicity of General State Space Markov Chains"
Web link
- December 10, THURSDAY 4pm 116 Old Chem
Jayanta Ghosh -- ghosh@stat.purdue.edu
Statistics - Purdue University
"Bayesian Density Estimation"
Web link
- December 11 - Jayanta Ghosh -- ghosh@stat.purdue.edu
Statistics - Purdue University
"Modelling Epidemics - Overview and Examples"
Web link
Spring 1999 Schedule - January 22 - Herbie Lee -- herbie@stat.cmu.edu
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
"A Framework for Nonparametric Regression Using Neural Networks"
Web link
- February 5 (changed date) -- joint with Biometry
Elizabeth Slate, slate@orie.cornell.edu
Operations Research, Cornell University
Statistical Models for Longitudinal Biomarkers of Disease
web link- February 12 (changed date) -- Jaeyong Lee -- leej@niss.org
NISS
"Bayesian Bootstrap and its Application to Proportional Hazards Models"- February 19 - Marina Vannucci -- mvannucci@stat.tamu.edu
Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University
"Bayesian Wavelet Regression on Curves with Application to a Spectroscopic Calibration Problem"
Web link
February 23 -- Erin Conlon - erin@biostat.umn.edu
Joint with Biometry -- 12:00 pm - 302 Hanes House
"Flexible Neighborhood Structures in Hierarchical Models for Disease Mapping"- March 3 - Makoto Matsumoto -- matumoto@math.keio.ac.jp
Keio University, Tokyo
"A Pseudorandom number generator with period 219937-1"
Web link
Geometry/Topology Seminar presented by the Duke Math Department- March 5 - Robert D Nowak -- nowak@egr.msu.edu
Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University
"A Multiscale Analysis Framework for Photon-Limited Imaging"
Web link
- March 22 - Jing (Jane) Xu -- jxu@jhsph.edu
joint with Biometry -- 302 Hanes House
School of Hygiene and Public Health -- The Johns Hopkins University
"Surrogate Endpoints In The Analysis Of Longitudinal Data: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach"
- March 26 - Zhuoxin Bi
"Conditioning 3D channels to dynamic data by Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm"
- April 2 - Lloyd Edwards -- edwar062@mc.duke.edu
Biometry Division, C & F Medicine, DUMC
"Mixed Model Analysis with Covariate Error"- April 9 - Bani Mallick -- bmallick@stat.tamu.edu
Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University Bayesian curve and surface fitting
Web link
- April 16 (changed date) -- Elisabeth Hauser-- bhauser@chg.mc.duke.edu
Section Of Medical Genetics, Dept Of Medicine, Duke Medical Center
From linkage mapping to gene identification: Practical difficulties in genetic linkage mapping for complex diseases- April 30 -- Jose M. Bernardo -- jose.m.bernardo@uv.es
Universidad de Valencia, Dept. Estadistica,
"Model-Free Non-Subjective Bayesian Prediction"
Web link
- August 6 - Hans Kuensch -- kuensch@stat.math.ethz.ch
Fall 1999 Schedule
- August 20 - Harry Zuzan --
hz@stat.duke.edu
Duke Statistics, Duke University
"Extending Kohonen Self-organizing Feature Maps" - September 7 - Miklos Csuros -- csuros-miklos@CS.YALE.EDU
Department of Computer Science, Yale University
"Recovering Evolutionary Trees through Harmonic Greedy Triplets" - September 21 - Rainer Spang -- R.Spang@dkfz-heidelberg.de
Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Theoretische Bioinformatik - Heidelberg, Germany
"Random sequence similarity" - October 1 - Katja Ickstadt --
ickstadt@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de
UNC-Chapel Hill and University of Darmstadt, Germany
"Hierarchical point process models in spatial statistic" - October 8 - Daowen Zhang -- dzhang2@unity.ncsu.edu
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University,
"Modeling longitudinal epidemiological data using nonparametric technique" - October 15 - Simon J. Godsill -- sjg@eng.cam.ac.uk
Signal Processing Group, Cambridge University Engineering Dept., CB2 1PZ Cambridge, UK
"Background noise reduction for speech signals using time-varying models with particle filtering and smoothing" - October 19 - Neil Shephard --
neil.shephard@nuffield.oxford.ac.uk
Nuffield College, Oxford OX1 1NF, UK
"Analysis of high dimensional multivariate stochastic volatility models" - October 29 - T. Tony Cai -- tcai@stat.purdue.edu
Department of Statistics, Purdue University
"Interval Estimation of a Binomial Proportion And Edgeworth Expansions" - November 3 - Nicky Best -- n.best@ic.ac.uk
Imperial College, Primary Care and Population Health Sciences, University of London.
"Comparing hospitals' performance: a Bayesian analysis of surgical outcomes in the UK "Bristol Babies" scandal." - November 12 - Jennifer Hoeting -- jah@stat.colostate.edu
Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
"Bayesian model averaging for spatial models" - November 18 - Arnaud Doucet -- ad2@eng.cam.ac.uk
Signal Processing Group, Cambridge Engineering Dept., CB2 1PZ Cambridge, UK
"Sequential Monte Carlo Methods and Applications to Signal Processing" - November 19 - Montserrat Fuentes -- fuentes@eos.ncsu.edu
Statistics Department at North Carolina State University and Environmental Protection Agency
"Spatial interpolation for nonstationary fields"- Click here to access handouts for this seminar.
- November 26 - Thanksgiving
- December 3 - Raffaella Settimi -- settimi@galton.uchicago.edu
University of Chicago
"The geometry of the moments in discrete graphical models with hidden variables"- December 10 - Julia Mortera -- mortera@uniroma3.it
University of Rome
"Probabilistic Expert Systems for Forensic Inference from Genetic Markers" - Click here to access handouts for this seminar.
Spring 2000 Schedule
- January 14 - Jeffrey Thorne
-- thorne@stat.ncsu.edu
Program in Statistical Genetics -- North Carolina State University
"Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times with Molecular Sequence Data" - January 21 - Jennifer Hill -- hill@hustat.harvard.edu
Department of Statistics, Harvard University
"NY School Choice: An example of the relationship between observational studies and randomized experiments" - February 2 - Haiqun Lin
-- hl18@cornell.edu
Department of Biometrics, Cornell University
"Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Biomarker and Survival Outcome"
Room: 201 Hanes House, on the Medical Center campus.
Time: 12:00-12:50. - February 4 - Pam Abbitt -- abbitt@stat.ncsu.edu
Statistics Department at North Carolina State University
"A Hierarchical Model for Soil Profile Data" - February 7 - Greg Ridgeway -- greg@stat.washington.edu
Statistics Department, University of Washington
"Modern Prediction Methods: Boosting and Bagging"
Room: 116 Old Chem - February 8 - Daniela Golinelli -- golinell@stat.washington.edu
Statistics Department, University of Washington
"Bayesian inference in hidden linear birth-death processes" - February 11 - Bill Jefferys -- bill@clyde.as.utexas.edu
Astronomy Program at The University of Texas at Austin
"Bayesian Model Selection and Averaging of Cepheid Variable Data" - February 18 - Thomas Nichols --
nicholst@stat.cmu.edu
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
"Spatiotemporal Modeling of Positron Emission Tomography" - February 21 -
Amy Herring --
Harvard School of Public Health and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
"Missing Covariates in Survival Analysis" - March 3 - Scott C. Schmidler
-- schmidler@smi.stanford.edu
Stanford Medical Informatics Group Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine.
"Statistical models and Monte Carlo methods for protein structure prediction" - March 6 - Daniel Walsh
-- danny@stat.washington.edu
Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Importance Sampling and the Hough Transform" - March 9 -
Jeff Morris --
jmorris@stat.tamu.edu
Department of Statistics Texas A & M University
"Parametric and Nonparametric Methods for Understanding the Relationship Between Carcinogen-Induced DNA Adduct Levels in Distal and Proximal Regions of the Colon" - March 10 - Sandra McBride --
sandra@stat.Stanford.EDU
Department of Statistics, Stanford University
"Modeling Indoor Air Pollutant Concentration Time Series" - March 17 - SPRING BREAK .
- March 24 - Marie Davidian -- davidian@stat.ncsu.edu
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
"A semiparametric estimator for the proportional hazards model with longitudinal covariates measured with error" - March 31 - Jean-Marc Lina -- lina@crm.umontreal.ca
CRM - University of Montreal
"Complex Dyadic Orthonormal Wavelet: From Construction to Statistical Modeling" - April 3 - Daohai Yu -- yudi@umich.edu
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Analysis of Serial Nursing Home Functional Capacity Data: A Dependent Interval-censoring Approach"12:00 in Room 201 Hanes House
- April 7 - Vanja Dukic -- vanja@stat.brown.edu
Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University "A Hierarchical Bayesian Approach to Modeling Embryo Implantation Following in vitro Fertilization" - April 7 - Terry A. Cox -- cox00016@mc.duke.edu
Duke University Medical Center
"Statistical Analysis of Visual Fields" - April 10 - Jin Zhezhen -- zjin@hsph.harvard.edu
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health
"Analysis of accelerated failure time Model, a useful alternative to the Cox model" - April 13 - Bahadur Singh
--
Columbia, Missouri
"Tests of Order Restricted Hypotheses Under a Proportional Hazards Model: A Full Likelihood Approach" - April 21 - Radford Neal -- radford@utstat.toronto.edu
Statistics Department, University of Toronto
"Circularly-coupled Markov Chain Sampling"
Fall 2000 Schedule
- September 15 - Daniel
Teague -- teague@ncssm.edu
NC School of Mathematics, Durham, NC
"AP Statistics" - September 29 - David B. Dunson --
dunson@calvin.niehs.nih.gov
"Dynamic Latent Trait Models for Multidimensional Longitudinal Data" - October 20 - Kert Viele -- viele@ms.uky.edu
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
"Evaluating Fit in Functional Data Analysis Using Model Embeddings" - October 24 - Doug Nychka -- nychka@cgd.ucar.edu
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research,Boulder, CO
"Wavelet Representations for Nonstationary Spatial Fields" - October 27 - Edward I. George -- Ed.George@bus.utexas.edu
University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX
"Dilution Priors for Model Uncertainty" - November 10 - Kevin J. Coakley -- kevin@boulder.nist.gov
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
"Some Statistical Problems in Optoelectronics" - November 14 - Todd Graves --
www.stat.lanl.gov/staff/tgraves.html
"Opportunities in the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory"
Rm. 025 Old Chemistry - November 16 - Augustine Kong --
"Mapping Genes in Iceland"
(This Seminar is in conjunction with the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.) - November 17 - Augustine Kong -- kong@decode.is
deCODE Genetics , Reykjavik, Iceland
"Confidence Intervals, Information Measures, and Asymptotics for Linkage Analysis" - November 28 - Kimberly Sellers -- ksellers@gwu.edu
The George Washington University ,Washington, DC
"Vague Coherent Systems" - December 1 - Steven Goodman -- sgoodman@jhmi.edu
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine , Baltimore, MD
"What Doctors Need to Know About Bayesian Statistics and What Bayesian Statisticians Need to Know About Doctors" - December 8 - Mark E. Glickman -- mg@math.bu.edu
Boston University , Boston, MA
"Simplified Algoriths For Fitting Dynamic Paired Comparison Models"
Spring 2001 Schedule
- January 12 - -- Richard L. Smith --
rls@email.unc.edu
University of North Carolina, Statistics Department, Chapel Hill, NC
"Do Extreme Value Methods Work in Practice" - January 26 - Mark Schervish -- mark@stat.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University, Statistics Department, Pittsburgh, PA
"Modeling the Concentrations of Contaminants in Drinking Water Supplies" - February 9 - Jose Bernardo --
jose.m.bernardo@uv.es
Universidad de Valencia , Valencia, Spain
"An Objective Bayesian Approach to Precise Hypothesis Testing, with Applications to Normal Linear Regression" - February 16 - Dongchu Sun -- dsun@stat.missouri.edu
University of Missouri-Columbia , Columbia, MO
"Bayesian Analysis for Multinomial Distributions Under Informative and Noninformative Priors" - February 27 - TUESDAY
3:50pm -- 139 Social Sciences Building
Yuguo Chen -- yuguo@stanford.edu
Stanford University , Stanford, California
"Conditional Inference on Zero-One Tables: A Sequential Importance Sampling Approach" - March 1 - THURSDAY
3:50pm -- 201 Old Chem Building
Jun Xie -- jxie@stat.ucla.edu
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"A Bayesian Multiple Protein Alignment Algorithm for Motif Searching" - March 2 - Brian Junker -- brian@stat.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh, PA
"A Hierarchical Model for Incorporating Human Rating of Test Questions into Item Response Models (*) " - March 8 -
THURSDAY 3:50pm -- 201 Old Chem Building
Hongquan Xu -- hqxu@umich.edu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
"Optimal Factor Assignment for Asymmetrical Fractional Factorial Designs:Theory and Applications" - Cancelled - March 9 -
Cindy L. Christiansen -- cindylc@bu.edu
Boston University , Boston, MA
"Identifying Women's Characteristics and Clinical Practice Associated with the Cumulative Risk of a False-Positive Mammogram Using a Bayesian Model" - March 23 - Christopher K. Wikle -- wikle@stat.missouri.edu
University of Missouri-Columbia , Columbia, MO
"Spatio-Temporal Modeling of 'Large' Physical System" - Rescheduled - March 29 -
Joe Ibrahim
-- ibrahim@jimmy.harvard.edu
Harvard University , Boston, MA
"A New Bayesian Model For Survival Data With a Surviving Fraction"
12:00 noon - 1017 School of Nursing Auditorium - April 6 - David Denison
-- d.denison@ic.ac.uk
Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, UK
"Bayesian Prediction Using Adaptive Ridge Estimators " - April 16 - Alexander Hartemink
"Principled Computational Methods for the Validation and Discovery of Genetic Regulatory Networks from Expression Data"
12:00 noon - 311 Social Sciences - April 20 - Alan Gelfand -- alan@merlot.stat.uconn.edu
University of Connecticut , Storrs, CT
"On Model Determination for Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data" - April 25 - Charles
Lawrence -- lawrence@wadsworth.org
New York State Department of Health
"Locating Regulatory Sites Through Genome Comparisons"
4p.m. - 103 Bryan Research Building - April 27 - Murray Clayton -- clayton@stat.wisc.edu
Wisconsin University-Madison , Madison, WI
"Bayesian Sequential Design of a Network of Sensors"
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| Aug | 27 | Yongdai Kim | Department of Statistics, Seoul National University, Korea | ||
| On Boosting and LASSO | |||||
| Sep | 3 | Ken Bollen | Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina | ||
| Latent Variables in Social Science Research: A "Sample Realization" Definition | |||||
| Sep | 10 |
Subhashis Ghosal |
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University | ||
| Bridging Maximum Likelihood and Bayes, and Beyond | |||||
| Sep | 17 | Beth Chance | Department of Statistics, California Polytechnic State University | ||
| Current Issues in Statistics Education | |||||
| Sep | 24 | John Haslett | Department of Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland | ||
| Seminar for Sept 24th Cancelled |
Bayesian Palaeoclimate Reconstruction | ||||
| Oct | 1 | Marina Vanucci |
Department of Statistics, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas | ||
| Bayesian Variable Selection for the Identification of Molecular Signatures of Disease Heterogeneity | |||||
| Oct | 8 | Joe Ibrahim | Department of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | ||
| The Power Prior: Theory and Applications | |||||
| Oct | 15 | Linda Zhao | Department of Statistics, The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. | ||
| A new Bayesian procedure for nonparametric regression estimation and pointwise confidence bands. | |||||
| Oct | 22 | Greg Lawler | Department of Mathematics, Cornell University | ||
| The Self-Avoiding Walk | |||||
| Oct | 29 | Sudipto Banerjee |
Department of Statistics, University of Minnesota | ||
| Statistical Wombling: On the Statistical Assessment of Gradients and Boundaries Under Spatial Process Models | |||||
| Nov | 5 | Samantha Bates Prins |
Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech | ||
| "Bayesian uncertainty assessment for multicompartment deterministic simulation models" | |||||
| Nov | 12 | Trivellore Raghunathan |
Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan | ||
| Impact of inaccuracies in self-report data on measures of health disparities | |||||
| Nov | 19 | Peter Hoff | Department of Statistics, University of Washington | ||
| "Multiplicative random effects models for dyadic data" | |||||
| Dec | 6 | Brian D. Marx | Department of Experimental Statistics, Louisiana State University | ||
| **NOTE: This seminar is on Monday, December 6th** |
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| "Multidimensional Penalized Signal Regression" | |||||