2. Thursday, September 10, 1998, M. Kate Cowles, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Iowa "Viral load and CD4 count as time-varying covariates of time to disease progression in AIDS"
3. Thursday, September 17, 1998, Chris Olsen, George Washington High School, Cedar Rapids "Philosophy and Goals of the Advanced Placement Statistics Course"
4. Thursday, October 1, 1998, Osnat Stramer, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Iowa "On Inference for Partially Observed Non-linear Diffusion Models Using the Hastings- Metropolis Algorithms"
5. Thursday, October 15, 1998, Mike Stutzer, Department of Finance, University of Iowa "A Portfolio Performance Index and Its Implications"
6. Wednesday, October 21, 1998, Benny Levikson, "Pricing Long Term Insurance (LTI) Contracts"
7. Thursday, October 22, 1998, Robert Hogg, Department of Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa "An Historical Perspective on Statistical Education in the United States"
8. Thursday, October 29, 1998, Prakash Laud, Medical College of Wisconsin "Bayesian Analysis of a Model for Survival Data"
9. Thursday, November 19, 1998, W. Michael O'Fallon, Mayo Clinic "Modeling Generalized Attributable Risk"
10. Thursday, December 3, 1998, Rama T. Lingham, Northern Illinois University "Testing Hypotheses About the Power Law Process Using Intrinsic Bayes Factors"
11. Thursday, December 10, 1998, John Castelloe, Department Of Statistics
& Actuarial Science, University of Iowa "Issues in Reversible Jump
Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Composite EM Analysis, Applied to Spatial
Poisson Cluster Processes"