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Department of Statistics
Winter 2009 Seminars

Statistics Department seminars begin at 11:30 a.m. on Fridays
unless otherwise noted with a *.
Coffee and cookies precede the seminar in the Department lounge
450 West Hall, 15 minutes prior to the seminar.

Date

Speaker

Location

January 16

Naisyin Wang
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University

Functional Latent Feature Models for Data with Longitudinal Covariate Processes

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH

January 23

Aixin Tan
Department of Statistics
University of Florida

Practical Central Limit Theorem for Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimators

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH

January 30

Veronica Berrocal
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University

Stochastic Prediction Using Output from Numerical Models

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH

February 3*

James Scott
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University

Bayesian Adjustment for Multiplicity in Regression and Functional Testing

Background Information

4:00 pm
B760 EH

February 6

Pradeep Ravikumar
Department of Statistics
University of California at Berkeley

Sparse Model Estimation: Parametric and Nonparametric Instances

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH

February 10*

Arindam Chatterjee
Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University

Bootstrapping Lasso Estimators

Background Information

4:00 pm
B760 EH
February 13

XuanLong Nguyen
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University

Nonparametric and Distributed Decision Making Methods for Functional and Spatial Data

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH
February 17*

Jarad Niemi
Department of Statistical Science
Duke University

Computational Methods for General State-Space Models

Background Information

4:00 pm
B760 EH
February 19*

Kshitij Khare
Department of Statistics
Stanford University

Inference in Gaussian Covariance Graph Models

Background Information

4:00 p m
340 W H

March 6

Yves Atchade
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan

Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH
March 13

William Q. Meeker
Department of Statistics
Center or Nondestructive Evaluation
Iowa State University

Using Accelerated Life Tests Results to Predict Product Field Reliability

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH
March 20

Ben Hansen
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan

Attributing Effects to A Cluster Randomized Get-Out-The-Vote Campaign

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH
March 27

Jonathan Evans
Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Visiting Scholar, Department of Statistics
University of Michigan

Toward a Comprehensive Model of Pitch in Speech

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH
April 3

Matias D. Cattaneo
Department of Economics
University of Michigan

Small Bandwidth Asymptotics for Density-Weighted Average Derivatives

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH
April 7*

Jie Peng
Department of Statistics
University of California at Davis

*please note this is Tuesday at 4:00 pm*

Semiparametric Modelling of Autonomous Nonlinear Dynamical Systems with Applications

Background Information

4:00 pm
B760 EH

April 10

MSSISS
Brad Efron
Department of Statistics
Stanford University

Large-Scale Prediction Problems

Background Information

9-4:30 pm Rackham Amphitheatre Rackham Building, 4th Floor
April 17

Sidney Resnick
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering
Cornell University

The Conditional Extreme Value Model and Data Network Sessions

Background Information

11:30 am
B760 EH

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