Colloquia - Spring 1998


DateSpeakerTitleTimePlace
Jan 22 Daowen Zhang GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MIXED MODELS
Jan 29 Brian Habing Latent Dimensionality in Item Response Theory
Feb 5 Barbara Bailey Statistics and Dynamical Systems, Beyond Chaos
Feb 12 Grace Chan An Effective Method for Simulating Gaussian and related Random Fields
Feb 19 Frederic (Rick) Schoenberg Assessment of Multi-dimensional Point Process Models with Applications to Seismology
Feb 26 Omar Aguilar LATENT STRUCTURE IN MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES MODELS
March 5 No colloquium
March 10 (Tuesday) Claire Bilodeau The Ownership of the Pension Plan Surplus
March 26 Tony Sun Cox Proportional Hazards Model for Doubly Censored Survival Data
April 1 (Wednesday) Ulf Grenander Computational Anatomy 3:30-4:30 SH 40
April 2 (Thursday) Ulf Grenander A Bayesian Approach to Vision 3:30-4:30 SH 140
April 9 No colloquium
April 16 Ignatio Lobato Testing that stock returns are uncorrelated using a generalized Box-Pierce Q test
April 23 Witold Krajewski Statistical Problems Involved in Rainfall Prediction
April 30 Jacques Rioux An extensible framework for Actuarial or Statistical computation
May 7 Constantine Gatsonis Hierarchical regression models for diagnostic test accuracy
May 28 Subhash C. Kochar Stochastic Comparisons of Spacings and Order Statistics