Departmental Colloquia - Spring 2003

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Teaching Bayesian Statistics to Undergraduates
George Woodworth
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa

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Misspecification Error in Missing Data Models
Yun Ju Sung
School of Statistics, University of Minnesota

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Models for the Analysis of Discrete Compositional Data: An Application of Random Effects Graphical Models
Devin Johnson
Department of Statistics, Colorado State University

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Functional Regression Models and Temporal Processes
Jun Yan
Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison

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Maximum Likelihood and Rank Estimation for All-Pass Time Series Models
Beth Andrews
Department of Statistics, Colorado State University

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Distance Weighted Discrimination and Geometrical Representation of High Dimension - Low Sample Size Data
Steve Marron
Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina

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Efficient Estimator for the Survival Distribution and Related Quantities for Treatment Policies in Two-Stage Randomization Designs in Clinical Trials
Abdus Wahed
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University

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Simple Parallel Statistical Computing in R
Luke Tierney
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa

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Visualizing Conditional Distributions
Martin Theus
Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

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The Changing Insurance Business and Mathematical Finance
Elias Shiu
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa

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Statistical Models for the Induction and Use of Selectional Preferences
Marc Light
Department of Linguistics, University of Iowa

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A Streaming Ensemble Method for Large-Scale Classification
Nick Street
Department of Management Sciences, University of Iowa

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Student Awards will be presented before the lecture begins.
Linkage Detection for Complex Traits
Elizabeth Thompson
Department of Statistics, University of Washington

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Monte Carlo Estimation of Likelihood Functions: The Example of Multipoint Linkage Lod Scores
Elizabeth Thompson
Department of Statistics, University of Washington

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Characterization of the Least Concave Majorant of Brownian Motion with Application to Construction
Richard Dykstra
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa

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Bayes Estimators for Restricted Binomial Parameters
Jim Broffitt
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa