Departmental Colloquia - Spring 2005

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Sampling for Conditional Inference on Multiway Tables
Yuguo Chen, Institute of Statistics and Decision Science, Duke University

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MCMC via Sufficient and Ancillary Data Augmentation: As Motivated by Poisson Time Series Modeling in X-ray Astrophysics
Yaming Yu, Department of Statistics, Harvard University

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High Dimensional Predictive Densities
Xinyi Xu, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania

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Ruin Theory Under Stochastic Returns
Qihe Tang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Concordia University

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Filtration Shrinkage: Modelling Information Reduction
Deniz Sezer, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University

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Does Portfolio Diversification Deliver When Needed? An Empirical Evaluation of the Diversification and Hedging Properties of Asset Classes
Jay Sa-Aadu, Department of Finance, University of Iowa

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How Statisticians Contribute to Kraft Foods Successes
Frank Rossi, Technology Guidance Research, Kraft Foods

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Statistical Analysis to Improve Fundraising
Lori Thombs, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri - Columbia
Co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Women in Science and Engineering program

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Driving While Black: Differential Enforcement of the Traffic Laws on the New Jersey Turnpike
Jay Kadane, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University

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Is Ignorance Bliss?
Jay Kadane, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University