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Statistics Colloquium Schedule for Spring 2008
Organizer: Prof. Zhiyi Chi
Support Group: Graduate Students (please check weekly duties)
 

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Professors Dipak Dey and Jun Yan

Faculty Presentations
Wednesday, 1/30/2008


Rima Izem: Harvard University

Analyzing Nonlinear Variation in Functional Data
Friday, 2/1/2008


Hongzhe Li: University of Pennsylvania

Statistical Methods for Network-Based Analysis of Genomic Data
Friday, 2/8/2008


Naitee Ting and Scott Evans: Pfizer and Harvard University

Preparing for the Job Market
Wednesday, 2/13/2008


Charles Lawrence: Brown University

Abuse of the Mode in Genomics and an Ensemble Alternative: Forgotten Role of Entropy
Wednesday, 2/20/2008


Dennis Lin: Penn State University

BIG Statistics
Cancelled
Friday, 2/22/2008


Tian Zheng: Columbia University

Information-driven screening strategies for complex traits
Cancelled
Wednesday, 2/27/2008


Ji Meng Loh: Columbia University

Accounting for Spatial Correlation in the Scan Statistic
Wednesday, 3/5/2008


Juerg Ott: Rockefeller University

Disease gene mapping by genome-wide association studies
Wednesday, 3/19/2008


S. Zacks: Binghamton University

The Exact Distributions of The Stopping Times and Their Functionals in Two-Stage and Sequential Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals of The Exponential Parameter
Friday, 3/28/2008


Michael Lavine: University of Massachusetts

The Multiset Sampler, a New MCMC Scheme
UConn-UMass joint colloquium
Wednesday, 4/2/2008


MeKonnen Gebremichael: UConn

Are the Space-Time Patterns of Hydro-meteorological Processes Scale-Invariant?
Wednesday, 4/9/2008


David Landau: University of Georgia

A New Approach to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics and Beyond*
Wednesday, 4/16/2008


Jayanta Pal, Duke University

End-point Estimation for Decreasing Densities: Asymptotic Behavior of the Penalized Likelihood Ratio
Friday, 4/18/2008


Mircea Grigoriu, Cornell University

EUncertainty quantification and propagation in engineering problems
Friday, 4/25/2008


David Salsburg, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals (retired)

Kyberg's Paradox of the Lottery, Drosnan's Bible Code, and an Alternative Look at Hypothesis TestingThis is the Distinguished Alumnus Award Lecture
Wednesday, 4/30/2008

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