| Thursday, August 31 |
| Jacob J. Oleson Department of Biostatistics University of Iowa "Joint Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Low Incidence Cancers Sharing Common Risk Factors"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, September 7 |
| Amy G. Froelich Department of Statistics Iowa State University "Materials for and assessment of engaging students in statistical discovery"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, September 14 |
| Qihe Tang Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "On a random difference equation with subexponential innovations"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, September 21 |
| Jun Zhu Department of Statistics University of Wisconsin-Madison "Spatial-temporal modeling of forest gaps generated by colonization from below- and above-ground bark beetle species"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, September 28 |
| Joseph B. Lang Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "Improved Confidence Intervals for Contingency Table Parameters"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, October 5 |
| Joshua M. Tebbs (Iowa alumnus: BS in Statistics, 1995; MS in Statistics, 1997) Department of Statistics University of South Carolina "Disease detection and prevalence estimation through informative group testing"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, October 12 |
| Michael Taksar Department of Mathematics University of Missouri-Columbia "Ruin probability minimization and dividend distribution optimization in diffusion models"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, October 19 |
| Sri Devi Duvvuri Department of Marketing University of Iowa "A Bayesian multi-level factor analytic model of consumer price sensitivities across categories"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, October 26 |
| Richard Dykstra Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "Brownian motion boundary crossing probabilities"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, November 2 |
| Joseph E. Cavanaugh Department of Biostatistics Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science University of Iowa "Discrepancy-based model selection criteria using cross validation"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, November 9 |
| Petrutza Caragea Department of Statistics Iowa State University "Covariates and time in the autologistic model"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, November 16 |
| Andrew Ho Psychological and Quantitative Foundations University of Iowa "Describing Test Score Gains and Gaps: A Nonparametric Alternative to Popular Educational Statistics"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| [Thanksgiving Break, November 20-24] |
| Thursday, November 30 |
| Stuart Klugman Department of Actuarial Science Drake University "The Actuary as Expert Witness"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |
| Thursday, December 7 |
| Kai Wang (Iowa alumnus: PhD in Statistics, 1999) Program in Public Health Genetics University of Iowa "A statistical test of overdominance and/or underdominance with application to gene expression levels"
3:00 Refreshments in 241 Schaeffer Hall |