Departmental Colloquia - Fall 2003

Thursday, September 11 - jointly sponsored with the Department of Economics
Analysis of Additive Instrumental Variable Models
Siddhartha Chib
Olin School of Business
Washington University

Thursday, September 18
Statistics and Actuarial Science Research Colloquium 2
Jian Huang, Joe Lang and Luke Tierney
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa

Thursday, September 25
Statistics and Actuarial Science Research Colloquium 3
Kate Cowles, Russ Lenth and George Woodworth
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa

Thursday, October 2
On the History of Statistics and Actuarial Science at Iowa
Bob Hogg
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa

Thursday, October 9
Nonparametric Mixed-Effect Models
Chong Gu
Department of Statistics
Purdue University

Thursday, October 16
Bayesian Inference for Partially Observed Continuous-time Nonlinear Autoregressive Models
Osnat Stramer
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa

Thursday, October 23
Maximum-likelihood Estimation in Explicit Models for Missing-data Problems
Blake Whitten
Department of Statistics
University of California-Santa Barbara

Thursday, October 30
Presentation of CyberStats, a Web-driven Introduction to Statistics
Alexander Kugushev
Publisher and President
CyberGnostics, Inc.

Thursday, November 6
The Profile Sampler
Michael Kosorok
Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Thursday, November 13
Bayesian Analysis and Design for a Non-linear Mixed Effects Model with Application to HIV Dynamics
Kathryn Chaloner
Department of Biostatistics
University of Iowa

Thursday, November 20
Compound Markov Mixture Models with Applications in Finance
John Geweke
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science/Department of Economics
University of Iowa

Thursday, December 4
Recurrent Episode Analysis
Jun Yan
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa