Colloquia - Fall 2001

Thursday, October 18
Semiparametric Composite Likelihood Ratio Inference: With Application to Linkage Analysis of Qualitative and Quantitative Traits
Jian Huang, Associate Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa

Thursday, October 25
Early Days of Nonparametric Statistics
Robert V. Hogg, Professor Emeritus
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa

Thursday, November 1
Quantifying the Asymptotic Bias in the Linear Mixed-Effects Model Under Informative Dropout, Drop-In and Other Missing Data Patterns
Chandan Saha, PhD Student
Department of Biostatistics, University of Iowa

Thursday, November 8 - CRAIG LECTURE #1
Some Adaptive Monte Carlo Methods for Bayesian Inference
Luke Tierney, Professor
School of Statistics, University of Minnesota

Friday, November 9 - CRAIG LECTURE #2
Some Issues in the Design of R
Luke Tierney, Professor
School of Statistics, University of Minnesota

Thursday, November 15
An Overview of Current Work on Industrial Split-Plot Experiments
Geoff Vining, Professor
Department of Statistics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Friday, November 16 - CANCELLED
Ecological Responses to Climate Fluctuations: The Ecological Significance of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)
Nils Chr. Stenseth
Department of Biology,University of Oslo