Yale University
Department of Statistics

Seminar list for 1995-96

FALL SEMINARS

Monday, September 11, 1995

Monday, September 18, 1995

L.J. Wei, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University
"Play the winner in Clinical Trials" [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

Monday, October 2, 1995

Ronald Coifman, Department of Mathematics, Yale University
"Adapted waveform analysis and numerical compression as an enhancement tool in Statisical estimation." [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave

Monday, October 9, 1995

Jonathan Lees, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Yale University
Waveform Clustering and Spectral Analysis in Earthquake Seismology [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave

Monday, October 16, 1995

Joel Spencer, New York University-Courant Institute
The Percolation of the Random Graph [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave

Monday, October 23, 1995

Guangrui Ray Zhu, Food and Drug Administration
Using Nonlinear Mixed Effect Modeling to Define Pharmacological Processes in Population [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

Monday, November 6, 1995

Richard Tweedie, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
"Geometric convergence rates for Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms" [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave

Monday, November 13, 1995

Charles Kooperberg, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
"The use of polynomial splines and their tensor products in functional modeling." [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave

Monday, November 20, 1995

Orna Intrator, Ph.D., Statistics Department, Hebrew University, and Center for Gerantology and Health Care Research, Brown University
"Panel data with survival: Hospitilization of HIV patients" [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

Monday, November 27, 1995

Scott Zeger, Johns Hopkins University
``Marginal Regression Models for Ordered Categorical Item Responses'' [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

Thursday, November 30, 1995

Ron Brookmeyer, Biostatistics, John Hopkins University
``Statistical Approaches for Monitoring and Forecsting the AIDS Epidemic: An Overview ''
Seminar to be held at ISPS 77 Prospect @ 4pm

Monday, December 4, 1995

Zachary G. Stoumbos
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Graduate School of Management
Department of Management Science and Computer Information Systems
``Variable Sampling Rate Control Charts with Optional Sampling at Fixed Times '' [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse

Monday, December 11, 1995

SPRING SEMINARS

Monday, January 22, 1996

Wednesday, January 24, 1996

Monday, January 29, 1995

John Gore
Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Applied Physics
Yale University
Human Brain Mapping by Functional MRI [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

Friday February 16, 1996

Philip J. Everson
Department of Statistics
Yale University
Shrinkage [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse 12:45 pm

Monday, February 19, 1996

Guenther Walther
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Granulometric Smoothing [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse 4:15 pm

Wednesday, February 21, 1996

Nicolas Hengartner
Department of Statistics
Yale University
Adaptive demixing of Poisson mixtures [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse 12:15 pm

Friday, February 23, 1996

Dongping Fang
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
Modeling the correlation structure of the TOMS ozone data [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse 1:30 pm

Monday, February 26, 1996

Sudeshna Adak
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Time-dependent Spectral Analysis of Nonstationary Time Series [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse 11:00 am

Monday, March 4, 1996

Jonathan Buckheit
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Alternatives to Karhunen-Loeve Expansions Using a Library of Orthogonal Bases [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse 4:15 pm

Friday, March 22, 1996

David van Dyk
Department of Mathematics
Kalamazoo College
EM Algorithm [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse 11 am

Monday, April 22, 1996

Daniel Heitjan
Division of Biostatistics
Columbia University
Modeling Repeated-Series Longitudinal Data [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, 60 College 4:15 pm

Monday, April 29, 1996

Susan Murray
Harvard School of Public Health
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Nonparametric Two-Sample Tests for Survival Data Incorporating Longitudinal Covariates [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse 4:15 pm

Monday, May 6, 1996

Victor H. de la Pena
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
Decoupling Inequalities: A Second Generation of Martingale Inequalities [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse 4:15 pm