Monday, February 5 (presented jointly with Biostatistics)A Year in the Life of an Independent Consultant
Pat O'Meara, PhD
Pat O'Meara Associates, Inc.
Thursday, January 25
Monday, February 5 (presented jointly with Biostatistics)
A Year in the Life of an Independent Consultant
Pat O'Meara, PhD
Pat O'Meara Associates, Inc.
Thursday, February 15
Portfolio Construction with Multivariate Time Series Forecasts
Wolfgang Polasek, Professor
University of Basel (Switzerland) and Purdue University
Thursday, February 22
Parametric Modelling of Longitudinal Covariance Structures: An Overview
Dale Zimmerman, Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
Thursday, March 1
Analysis of Blowfly Population Dynamics with Panels of Time Series Data: An Application of Additive Models
Grace Chan, Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
Tuesday, March 6
Duration and Immunization
Gordon E. Klein, FSA, EA, MAAA
Instructor and author of How to Pass Series of Actuarial Review Courses
Thursday, March 8
The Inverse Gaussian Distribution Revisited
Leroy Folks, Visiting Professor from Oklahoma State University
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
Tuesday, March 13
Risk Managers' Compensation and the Information Content
Sven Sinclair, FSA
Ph.D. candidate at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, March 20
A New Bayesian Model For Survival Data With a Surviving Fraction
Joseph Ibrahim, Associate Professor
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University
Thursday, March 22
Life Insurance Pricing: The Simplest Case
Xiaotie She, Senior Actuarial Analyst
New York Life Insurance Co, New York
Thursday, April 5
Semiparametric Analysis of Transformation Models
Ziliang Ying, Professor
Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Thursday, April 19
Testing for Non-Addivity in the Two-way Layout with One Observation Per Cell: A Rank-Based Approach
Paul Horn, Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Cincinnati
Tuesday, April 24 - SPECIAL LECTURE #1
Financing Problems of Social Security - Real and Imagined
Robert J. Myers, FSA
University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts Alumni Fellow
Wednesday, April 25 - SPECIAL LECTURE #2
Financing Problems of Medicare - Real and Imagined
Robert J. Myers, FSA
University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts Alumni Fellow
Thursday, April 26
Physically-Based Hierarchical Models for Spatio-Temporal Processes
Christopher K. Wikle, Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics, University of Missouri - Columbia
Thursday, May 3
Ranked Set Sampling: The Concept, Nonparametric Results, Interesting Questions
Douglas A. Wolfe, Professor and Chair
Department of Statistics, Ohio State University
Tuesday, May 8
General Prediction Theory and the Role of R2
Ronald Christensen, Professor
Department of Statistics and Mathematics, University of New Mexico
Thursday, May 10
Statistical Modeling of Seedling Mortality
Michael Lavine, Associate Professor
Institution of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University