Colloquia - Spring 2002

Thursday, February 7
The Effect of Reserve on the Insurance Market
Benny Levikson, University of Haifa, Israel

Thursday, February 14
Application Inspired Research in Industrial Statistics: A Broad Survey
Soren Bisgaard, University of St Gallen, Switzerland

Thursday, February 21
Inference for Extremes with an Application to Disease Mapping
Hal S. Stern, Iowa State University

Thursday, February 28
Bootstrap Tilting: Changing Statistical Practice
Tim Hesterberg, Insightful Corp.

Thursday, March 14
A New Look at the Change-Point Problem
Wei-Biao Wu, University of Chicago

Thursday, March 28
Iteratively Re-Weighted Least Squares Method for Outlier Detection in Linear Regression
Nedret Billor, University of Iowa

Thursday, April 4
Combining Snow Water Equivalent Data from Multiple Sources to Estimate Spatio-Temporal Trends and Compare Measurement Systems
Dale Zimmerman and Kate Cowles, University of Iowa

Friday, April 5
Term Structure Models: A Perspective from the Long Rate
Yong Yao, DFA Capital Management Inc.

Thursday, April 11
A Spatial Analysis of Sea Turtle Nesting Patterns in Palm Beach County, Florida
Lance Waller, Emory University

Thursday, April 18
Mapping Quantitative Trait Loci with Genreal Pedigrees
Kai Wang, University of Iowa

Thursday, April 25
Semiparametric Reduced-Rank Regression
Kung-Sik Chan, University of Iowa