Statistics Seminars 2001 - 2002

October	November	December	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 08/27 Eugenio Regazzini Suggestions for the reconciliation of theories in statistics   08/20 Minggao Gu Probit Models for Handicapped Horse Racing   08/15 Michael Wolf Improved Estimation of the Covariance Matrix of Stock Returns With an Application to Portofolio Selection   08/13 Lev Klebanov Ill-Posed Problems in Probability and Statistics   08/08 Hermann Thorisson Point-Stationarity   08/06 Mehrdad Shahshahani Distributing points on the sphere

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 07/25 Akimichi Takemura On minimal Markov basis for sampling from discrete conditional distributions   07/24 Bhramar Mukherjee Optimal designs for estimating the path of a stochastic process   07/23 Carlos Rivero Rodrizguez Iterative procedures in linear and non-linear models with grouped data   07/16 Marco Marozzi The Method of the Nonparametric Combination of Dependent Permutation Tests as a General Tool for Tackling Multivariate & Multiaspect Testing Problems   07/10 Aapo Hyvarinen Independent Components Analysis: sparsity and extensions   07/02 Runze Li Semiparametric Modeling for Longitudinal Data: Estimation, Variable Selection, Nonparametric Goodness-of-fit

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 06/25 James J. Cochran Statistical Characteristics of Sample-based Coverage Optimization   06/22 NA Berkeley-Stanford-Celebration     06/04 Daphne Koller Learning Probabilistic Models from Relational Data

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 05/28 Jiashun Jin Optimal Adaptivity of the Higher Criticism   05/21 Jonathan Taylor Using the False Discovery Rate for fMRI   05/16 Heping Zhang A Latent Variable Model of Segregation Analysis for Ordinal Traits on Thursday

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 04/30 Tze Leung Lai Filtering, Smoothing and Parameter Estimation in Hidden Markov Models   04/23 Marc Coram Nonparametric Bayesian Classification   04/16 Art B. Owen Identifying Important Variables and Interactions in Black Box Functions BSJC **

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 03/19 Jeffrey D. Scargle The New Astronomy: Understanding the Universe through Statistics   03/12 Michael Jordan Kernel Independent Component Analysis   03/05 David Draper Nonparametric prior specification: a case study

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 02/26 Ioannis Kontoyiannis Limit Theorems and Some Spectral Theory for Geometrically Ergodic Markov Chains   02/19 Jonathan Taylor A Gaussian Kinematic Formula and its relation to Euler characteristic densities   02/12 Alicia Carriquiry Analysis of Exchange Rate Volatility to Guide Arbitration   02/05 V. Seshadri Matrix - Generalized Inverse Gaussian Laws and Their Wishart Connections.

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 01/29 Hugh Chipman Treed Generalized Linear Models   01/22 Richard Olshen Tree-structured Regression and the Differentiation of Integrals   01/15 Tiefeng Jiang Singular values of matrices generated from spherical distributions   01/08 Bradley Efron Least Angle Regression

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 12/18 Herman Chernoff Acoustic Evidence in the Assassination of President Kennedy   12/4 Robert Tibshirani Cluster Validation By Prediction Strength

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/27 Simon Jackman State-Level Election Forecasting during Election 2000 via Dynamic Hierarchical Modeling   11/20 Lutz Duembgen Nonparametric Analysis of Interval-Censored Data   11/13 John Rice A Simple Model for a Complex System: Predicting Travel Times on Freeways SBJC * 11/6 Peter Bartlett Error Estimation with Rademacher and Gaussian Complexities

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/30 John D. Storey The Positive False Discovery Rate   10/16 Andreas Futschik Subsampling of Biased Statistics with application to the identification of locations of extremal points   10/09 Xiaole Liu Computational statistical algorithms for finding transcription factor binding sites   10/02 Jerome H. Friedman Weighted Harmonic Distance Clustering