STATS 810: Literature Proseminar, Fall 2008
Instructor
Stilian Stoev (@ sstoev)
Lectures: Wednesday, 12 to 1 pm in 337 Dennison.
Office Hours: TBA in West Hall 445B.
Telephone: (734) 763-9294.
Syllabus
PDF
Important:
Choose papers for presentations by September 10th. The first
student presentations begin on September 24th.
Resources:
A paper on scientific writing: Gopen and Swan (1990).
What Editors Want: an opinion of a journal editor from
chronicle.com [see also CTools/Resources for a PDF]
Typesetting in LaTeX:
On creating presentations with LaTeX and PDFLaTeX:
Schedule of presentations:
Important:
All students in the class are expected to print and read the papers presented by
their colleagues before the presentations.
PDF files of the papers will be available from the course C-Tools site (as attachments in the
"Schedule").
September 24th :
- Sahar Zangeneh on " "How many people do you know in prison?": Using overdispersion
in count data to estimate social structure in networks" by T. Zhengy, M.J. Salganik & A. Gelman [PDF is available from CTools].
- Zhen Wang on "Better Subset Regression Using the Nonnegative Garrote" by Leo Breiman [PDF is available from CTools].
October 1st:
- Kohinoor Dasgupta on "Multiple neural spike train data analysis: state-of-the-art and future challenges" by E. Brown, R. Kass & P. Mitra [PDF is available from CTools].
- Yunpeng Zhao on "Some Probability Inequalities for Ordered MTP2 Random Variables: A Proof of the Simes Conjecture" by Sanat K. Sarkar [PDF is available from CTools].
October 8th:
- Yun Li on "Variable Selection via Nonconcave Penalized Likelihood and its Oracle Properties" by
J. Fan and R. Li [PDF is available from CTools].
- Toshiya Hoshikawa on "Sliced Inverse Regression for Dimension Reduction" by Ker-Chau Li [PDF is available from CTools].
October 15th:
- Zhanyang Zhang on "A Statistical Paradigm for Neural Spike Train Decoding Applied to Position Prediction from
Ensemble Firing Patterns of Rat Hippocampal Place Cells" by E.N. Brown et al [PDF is available from CTools].
- Hao Zhou on "Estimating High-Dimensional Directed Acyclic Graphs with the PC-Algorithm" by M. Kalisch [PDF is available from CTools].
October 22nd:
- Cen Guo on "Semi-supervised learning of Mixture Models" by F. Cozman et al [PDF is available from CTools].
- Jingxian Lin on "An improved 1-norm SVM for Simultaneous Classification and Variable Selection" by Hui Zou [PDF is available from CTools].
October 29th:
- Juan Zhang on "A Family-Based Association Test for Repeatedly Measured Quantitative Traits Adjusting for Unknown
Environmental or Polygenic effects" by C. Lange et al [PDF is available from CTools].
- Joel Vaughan on "Distributed Spatial Anomaly Detection" by P. Chhabra et al [PDF is available from CTools].
November 5th :
- Ming-Chi Hsu on "Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to
multiple testing" by Benjamini, Y, and Hochberg Y, 1995 [PDF is available from CTools].
- Yizao Wang on "Algorithms for infinitely many-armed bandits" by TBA [PDF will be available from CTools].
November 12th :
Guest lecture by Dr James Wagner, ISR.
November 19th :
TBA.
November 26th :
Guest lecture by Prof Lada Adamic, School of Information.