Past Term Seminar Schedule: Fall 2007 September 14, 2007 George Michailidis University of Michigan, Department of Statistics Identifiability and Design in Network Tomography September 21, 2007 Robb Muirhead Pfizer, Inc. Random Rotations, and Statistical Inference about QT Signals September 28, 2007 Woodroofe Lecture Joint with the Applied Interdisciplinary Mathematics Seminar University of California, San Diego, Department of Mathematics Stochastic Networks with Resource Sharing October 5, 2007 Anna Amirdjanova Univeristy of Michigan, Department of Statistics Nonlinear Filtering of Random Fields in the Presence of Long-Memory Noise October 11, 2007 Vance Berger, Ph.D. Joint with Biostatistics National Cancer Institute Selection Bias and Covariate Imbalance in Randomized Clinical Trials October 12, 2007 Bodhisattva Sen University of Michigan, Department of Statistics Bootstrap in Some Non-Standard Problems October 19, 2007 Ananda Sen University of Michigan, Center for Statistical Consultation and Research (CSCAR) Models and Methodologies for Recurrent Event Data - from Hardwares to Mice-and-Men October 26, 2007 Richard Davis Columbia University, Department of Statistics Structural Break Detection in Time Series Models November 2, 2007 Ji Zhu University of Michigan, Department of Statistics Group Variable Selection via Hierarchical Lasso and its Oracle Property November 9 , 2007 Ming Yuan Georgia Tech, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering Model Selection and Estimation with Multiple Rproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces November 16, 2007 Jianqing Fan Princeton University, Department of Operations Research & Financial Engineering Sure Independence Screening for Ultra-High Dimensional Feature November 30 , 2007 Deepak Agarwal Yahoo! Senior Research Scientist Estimating Query-Ad Click Rates through Scalable Nested Random Effects Model December 7 , 2007 Peter F. Craigmile Ohio State University, Department of Statistics Space-Time Models: A Spatially Dependent Filtering Approach Winter 2007 January 16, 2007 Jean Opsomer, Joint with ISR Iowa State University, Department of Statistics Endogenous Post-Stratification in Surveys January 26, 2007 Mary Meyer University of Georgia, Department of Statistics Decreasing and Unimodal Density Estimation Using Shape-Restricted Regression Splines February 2, 2007 Tailen Hsing Ohio State University, Department of Statistics Spectral Density Estimation Through a Regularized Inverse Problem February 9, 2007 Gennady Samorodnitsky Cornell University, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Tails of Infinite Sums February 16, 2007 T. E. Raghunathan University of Michigan, Center for Consultation and Research Spatial and Temporal Models to Assess the Effect of Exposure to Airborne Particles on Cardiovascular Disease February 23, 2007 Alena Ixmocane Scott University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research Denoising by Wavelet Thresholding Using Multivariate Minimum Distance Partial Density Estimation March 9, 2007 Tyrone Duncan University of Kansas, Department of Mathematics Fractional Brownian Motion and Solutions of Stochastic Equations March 16, 2007 Donald Rubin, Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Science 2007 Harvard University, Department of Statistics Validly Estimating True Dose-Response When Only Treatment versus Control is Randomized: Principal Stratification for Causal Inference with Extended Partial Compliance March 23, 2007 Erhan Bayraktar University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics Quickest Detection for a Poisson Process with a Phase-Type Change-Time Distribution March 30, 2007 Jasjeet Singh Sekhon University of California at Berkeley, Survey Research Center Genetic Matching for Estimating Causal Effects: A General Multivariate Matching Method for Achieving Balance April 6, 2007 Runze Li Penn State University, Department of Statistics Variable Selection in Semiparametric Regression Modeling April 13, 2007 Yazhen Wang University of Connecticut, Department of Statistics Multiscale Analysis of High-Frequency Financial Data Fall 2006 September 8, 2006 Dalibor Volny University of Michigan, Department of Statistics Exactness in a Wu-Woodroofe Martingale Approximation September 14, 2006 Jane-Ling Wang University of California at Davis, Department of Statistics Joint Modeling of Longitudinal Survival Data September 22, 2006 Hans-Georg Muller University of California at Davis, Department of Statistics Representations of Functional Data, with Applications to Classification and Volatility Modeling September 29, 2006 Naisyin Wang Texas A&M, Department of Statistics Accounting for Covariance in Semiparametric Modeling of Longitudinal/Clustered Data October 3, 2006 Ioannis Karatzas, Inaugural Michael B. Woodroofe Distinguished Lecture Columbia University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Recent Approaches to Optimal Stopping, with Applications October 6, 2006 Walter R. Mebane, Jr. Cornell University, Department of Government Vote Counts, Recounts and Statistics October 13, 2006 Steven Scott University of Southern California, Department of Information and Operations Management Data Augmentation, Frequentist Estimation, and the Bayesian Analysis of Multinomial Logit Models October 20, 2006 Paul Holland Educational Testing Service, Princeton, New Jersey Fairness in Testing, Test Equating and Gaussian Kernel Smoothing October 27, 2006 Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics Analysis of High-Dimensional Structure-Activity Screening Datasets Using the Optimal Bit String Tree November 3, 2006 Ed Ionides University of Michigan, Department of Statistics Six Problems in Analyzing Biological Population Data November 10, 2006 Jessica Utts University of California at Davis, Department of Statistics GAISEing into the Future: New Developments in Statistics Education November 14, 2006 Susan Murphy University of Michigan, Departments of Statistics, Psychiatry, and ISR Meeting the Future in Managing Chronic Disorders: Individually Tailored Strategies November 17, 2006 Michael R. Kosorok University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Biostatistics Marginal Asymptotics for the "Large P, Small N" Paradigm: With Applications to Microarray Data December 1, 2006 Alexander Tsodikov University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics Fake Mixture Models and a Generalization of Self-Consistency December 8, 2006 Mark M. Meerschaert Michigan State University, Department of Statistics Fractional Calculus, Heavy Tails, and Applications Winter 2006 January 13, 2006 Anna Gilbert University of Michigan, Department of Mathematics Statistical Signal Recovery January 20, 2006 Susan Murphy University of Michigan, Department of Statistics Experiments and Dynamic Treatment Regimes January 27, 2006 Zhihua Qiao University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Department of Statistics Sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis January 30, 2006 Yves Atchade University of Ottawa, Department of Mathematics and Statistics Some Current Challenges in Adaptive MCMC February 3, 2006 Tom Venable University of Michigan, Department of Statistics Non-Inferiority - the Basics, A Saga, and Maybe an Opportunity February 7, 2006 Lisha Chen University of Pennsylvania, Department of Statistics Local Multidimensional Scaling: A Nonlinear Dimension Reduction Method February 10, 2006 Jeongyoun Ahn University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Statistics and Operations Research High Dimension, Low Sample Size Data Analysis February 13, 2006 Jimin Ding University of California at Davis, Department of Statistics Joint Modelling of Survival and Longitudinal Data February 17, 2006 Xiaofeng Shao University of Chicago, Department of Statistics Fourier Analysis in Time Series: Some Theory and an Application to Space-Time Modeling February 21, 2006 Giles Hooker McGill University, Department of Psychology Statistics for Differential Equations March 7, 2006 Alexander Rakhlin MIT Stability and Consistency of Approximate Empirical Risk Minimization Algorithms March 10, 2006 Qing Zhou Harvard University, Department of Statistics Detecting Cis-Regulatory Modules and Motifs by Modeling Correlated Structures in Genomic Sequences March 17, 2006 Aaron A. King University of Michigan, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Mathematics Rhythm and Noise: Detection of Temporal Patterns in Ecological Data and What it Tells Us March 24, 2006 Hannes Leeb Yale University, Department of Statistics Model Selection and Inference in Regression when the Number of Explanatory Variables is of the Same Order as Sample Size March 31, 2006 Diane Lambert Google A Statistical Model of a Wireless Call April 7, 2006 Xiaotong Shen University of Minnesota, Department of Statistics Model Assessment, Selection and Averaging April 14, 2006 Nicholas Jewell (Joint with Biostatistics) University of California at Berkeley, Department of Biostatistics and Statistics Regression Analysis of a Disease Onset Distribution Using Diagnosis Data Fall 2005 September 16, 2005 Alan Karr National Institute of Statistical Sciences Secure Statistical Analysis of Distributed Databases without Data Integration September 23, 2005 Ron W. Butler Colorado State University, Department of Statistics Improved Inference for a Log-Rank Class of Permutation Tests Using Saddlepoint Approximations September 24-25, 2005 (Saturday and Sunday Seminar) A Conference on Nonparametric Inference and Probability with Applications to Science Honoring Michael Woodroofe September 30, 2005 Michael Lechner University of St. Gallen, Department of Econometrics Identification of the Effects of Dynamic Treatments by Sequential Conditional Independence Assumptions October 7, 2005 No Seminar October 14, 2005 Kerby Shedden University of Michigan, Department of Statistics Penalized Likelihood Finite Mixture Analysis of Sparse Binary Trajectory Data October 21, 2005 Yufeng Liu University of North Carolina, Department of Statistics & Operations Research Recent Developments of Psi-Learning October 28, 2005 Petar Momcilovic University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Queues with Many Servers: The QED Regime November 4, 2005 Ian McKeague Columbia University, Department of Biostatistics Extending the Scope of Empirical Likelihood November 11, 2005 Sergey Lototsky University of Southern California, Department of Mathematics Wiener Chaos and Separation of Variables November 18, 2005 Nancy Reid University of Toronto, Department of Statistics Applied Asymptotics December 2, 2005 Yasuo Amemiya IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Nonlinear Structural Equation Modeling of Multivariate Data December 9, 2005 Geoff Vining Virginia Tech, Department of Statistics