Statistics Seminars 2002 - 2003

October	November	December	January	February	March	April	May	June

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 6/3 David Siegmund Gene Mapping and Model Selection

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 5/27 Rob Tibshirani Stagewise algorithms and the lasso   5/20 Eric Hillebrand Unknown Parameter Changes in GARCH and ARMA Models   5/13 Brad Efron Large-Scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing   5/06 Arnab Chakraborty An attempt at Optical Character Recognition for Bengali

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 4/22 William Heavlin Designing Experiments for Causal Networks   4/17 Adrian Raftery Latent Space Approaches to Social Network Analysis Notice time: Thur 4/8 Bin Yu Network Tomography SBJC * 4/1 Jack P.C. Kleijnen Application-driven Sequential Designs for Simulation Experiments: Kriging Metamodeling

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 03/18 Wei-Liem Loh Fixed-Domain Asymptotics for Gaussian Random Fields with Matern-Type Covariance   03/12 Jiayang Sun Mixture Problems and Biased Sampling Note: time change

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 02/25 Terry O'Neill Truncated Regression Models   02/18 Iain Johnstone Approximations for the largest canonical correlation   02/11 Jerome Sacks Statistical validation of computer models   02/4 Eitan Greenshtein Consistency in high dimensional linear predictor-selection and the virtue of over parametrization

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 01/31 Gerald Fahner Improving Credit Card Marketing with Learning Strategies Joint Stat/Fin. Math Seminar 01/28 Jiashun Jin Asymptotic Minimaxity of False Discovery Rate Thresholding for Sparse nonGaussian Data   01/21 Amir Dembo/Darrell Duffie Large Portfolio Losses Joint Prob/Stat Seminar 01/15 Agnes Hsiung Normalization for cDNA Microarray Experiments having many Differentially Expressed Genes Time Changed 01/14 Jun S. Liu Towards the Integration of Sequence Motif Discovery and Microarray Analysis   01/7 Ery Arias-Castro Are those currently fashionable edge-preserving smoothers quantitatively superior?

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 12/3 Michael Perlman Markov equivalence and essential graphs for graphical Markov models

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 11/26 Assaf Zeevi The Hough Transform Estimator   11/19 Johan Lim Image segmentation with hidden Markov models   11/12 J. A. Nelder Extended likelihood inference applied to a new class of models   11/5 Trevor Hastie Independent Component Analysis by Product Density Estimation BSJC **

Date Speaker Title of Talk Abstract Comments 10/29 Tsachy Weissman Universal Discrete Denoising for a Known Channel   10/22 Saharon Rosset Boosting as a Regularized Path to a Maximum Margin Classifier   10/18 Sandra McBride Hierarchical Bayesian calibration: An application to airborne particulate matter monitoring data   10/08 Tim Hesterberg Bootstrap Tilting and non-sampling inferences and diagnostics   10/01 Bradley Efron Prediction error: covariance corrections and cross-validation