Departmental Colloquia - Spring 2004


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Bayesian Estimation of Age-specific Bird Nest Survival Rates
Chong He, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia

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On the Surplus Process Perturbed by Diffusion
Cary Chi-Liang Tsai, Department of Finance, National Taiwan University

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Model-Based Geostatistics: Some Recent Results on Computational and Theoretical Issues
Hao Zhang, Department of Statistics, Washington State University

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What Statistics Educators Can Learn from the Writing-Across-the-Curriculum Literature
Joy Jordan, Department of Mathematics, Lawrence University

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Hattendorff Theorem - Yet Another Look
N.D. Shyamal Kumar, Department of Actuarial Science, Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico

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On the Mean Squared Prediction Error for Small Area Estimation
Taps Maiti, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

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Partial Mixture Estimation for Outlier Detection, Mapping, and Clustering of Large Datasets
David Scott, Department of Statistics, Rice University

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Bayesian Inference for Spatially Inhomogeneous Pairwise Interacting Point Processes
Matt Bognar, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Iowa

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Objective Bayesian Analysis: Its Uses in Practice and Its Role in the Unification of Statistics
Jim Berger, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University

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Validation of Computer Models
Jim Berger, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University

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Likelihood-Based Inference for a Separable Covariance Matrix
Dale Zimmerman, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, The University of Iowa