Statistics Seminars 2000 - 2001

September	October	November	December	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 8/14 Yi Lin The support vector machine and related classification methods   8/7 Eugenio Regazzini Functionals of Dirichlet Processes and Multiple Hypergeometric Functions

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 7/31 Marina Vannucci Bayesian variable selection methods in Chemometrics   7/26 Larry Shepp, Martin Lindquist Two Statistical Applications Yielding Basic Insights into Math   7/24 Shingchang Kou A Stochastic Model for Internet Stocks   7/17 Kesar Singh Bootstrap based outlier detection plot (bootlier plot)   7/10 Sam Oman A Comparison of Some Estimating Equation Techniques for Analyzing Spatially Distributed Binary Responses   7/3 Mary C. Meyer Some Problems in Shape Restriced Inference

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 6/26 Bradley Efron Microarrays, Empirical Bayes Methods, and False Discovery Rates

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 5/29 David Donoho The Kolmogorov Sampler   5/22 Dimitris N. Politis Unit Roots, Cointegration, and the Continuous-Path Block-Bootstrap   5/15 Arup Bose Generalised bootstrap and its accuracy   5/9 Mikhail Moklyachuk Game theory and convex optimization methods in robust estimation problems   5/8 Simon Jackman Markov chain Monte Carlo in the Social Sciences   5/1 Christopher Manning Probabilistic Head-driven Parsing

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 4/24 Shripad Tuljapurkar Stochastic forecast models in demography: progress and problems   4/17 Tom Cover Odd Angles in Sports and Gambling   4/10 Jim Fearon and David D. Laitin Statistical Methods in Contemporary Political Science   4/3 Joshua Tenenbaum A global geometric framework for nonlinear dimensionality reduction

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 3/13 Aaron Roodman Blind Analyses in Particle Physics   3/6 Bradley Efron The Two-Way Proportional Hazards Model

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 2/27 J. S. Marron High Dimension - Low Sample Size data analysis   2/20 Peter W. Glynn Limit Theorems for Queues with Scheduled Arrivals   2/14 Allan Aasbjerg Nielsen Multi-Set Canonical Correlations Analysis   2/13 Wei Biao Wu Change-point Problem   2/6 Mark L. Huber The Randomness Recycler: A New Technique for Generating Perfect Samples from High Dimensional Distributions

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 1/30 Jonathan Taylor Random fields on surfaces and volumes without stationarity: Applications to brain imaging   1/23 Susan A. Murphy Optimal Dynamic Treatment Regimes   1/9 Steven N. Evans DNA, Family Trees, Elimination Ideals, Groups, and Z-Modules

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 12/5 Juliet Shaffer Current issues and unsolved problems in multiple comparisons

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/30 Susan Holmes Random Walks on Tree Space Thursday 3:15pm 11/28 Guenther Walther Bikernel Oscillation Analysis for the Mixture Complexity   11/21 Adrian E. Raftery Statistical Inference for Deterministic Simulation Models: The Bayesian Melding Approach   11/14 Hidetoshi Shimodaira Another calculation of the p-value for the problem of regions using the scaled bootstrap resamplings   11/7 Jane L. Hutton Models for survival data: choice between accelerated life and proportional hazards models

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/31 David Siegmund Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci 3:30pm Berkeley BSJC ** 10/26 Persi Diaconis The Hit and Run Algorithm and Its Variations Thursday 3:15pm 10/24 Trevor Hastie Support Vector Machines - a Statistics Perspective   10/19 David Aldous Multiple-Try Metropolis Thursday 3:15pm 10/17 Thorsten Brants Part-of-Speech Tagging with Hidden Markov Models   10/12 Mark Huber Building a better Metropolis sampler Thursday 3:15pm 10/10 David L. Donoho High-Dimensional Data Analysis: The Curses and Blessings of Dimensionality   10/4 Saralees Nadarajah Ordered Multivariate Extremes Wednesday 10/3 S. C. Kou Extended Exponential Criterion: A New Selection Procedure For Scatterplot Smoothers

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 9/26 David B. Wilson Mixing times of lozenge tiling and card shuffling Markov chains