Yale University
Department of Statistics

Seminar list for 1996-97

The Department of Statistics & Biostatistics Joint Seminars occur weekly on Mondays at 4:00 in the Room 107 at 24 Hillhouse Avenue or at Rm. 309, LEPH, 60 College Street. If you would like to add your name to our seminar mailing list, send your e-mail address to Corky. Seminars held at 24 Hillhouse are preceded by tea at 3:45 in the common room.

1996-97 SEMINAR LIST

FALL SEMINARS

Monday, September 9, 1996

Keqin Qi
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Biostatistics
Yale University
A Model for Cancer Trends by Histologic Type Incorporating Uncertain Diagnoses [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

Monday, September 16, 1996

Dan Ryan
Coordinator - New Haven City Room
Institute for Social and Policy Studies
Yale University
The City Room at ISPS: Efforts toward Bolstering the Local Information Economy [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse

Monday, September 23, 1996

John A. Hartigan
Eugene Higgins Professor of Statistics
Yale University
Academic Performance of American Athletes after Proposition 48 [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse

Monday, September 30, 1996

Lloyd Muller
Connecticut Department of Public Health
Balancing Statistical Precision and Common Sense in Estimating the Population of Connecticut Towns
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, October 7, 1996

Marten Wegkamp
Department of Statistics
Yale University
Regression: The Metric Entropy Approach [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse

Monday, October 14, 1996

Yongzhao Shao
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
"On Optimal Matching and Bootstrap of Empirical Processes [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, October 21, 1996

Joseph Hogan
Department of Statistics
Brown University
Mixture Models for Longitudinal Outcomes which Depend on Event Times [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

Monday, October 28, 1996

Evarist Gine
Department of Mathematics
University of Connecticut
When is the Student t-statistic asymptotically standard normal? [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, November 4, 1996

Andrew Gelman
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
Bayesian model-building by pure thought: some principles and examples [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

Monday, November 11, 1996

Kung-Lee Liang
Professor of Biostatistics
John Hopkins University
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

Monday, November 25, 1996

Rebecca Betensky
Department of Preventive Medicine
Harvard School of Public Health
Local EM Estimation of the Hazard Function for Interval Censored Data [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 309, LEPH, 60 College Street

SPRING SEMINARS

Please note that the later seminars for the Spring term are still to be announced.

Monday, February 3, 1997

Yeneng Sun
Department of Mathematics
National University of Singapore
Understanding Stochastic Independence via a Larger Measure-Theoretic
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, February 24, 1997

Donald Geman
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
ACTIVE TESTING AND SHAPE RECOGNITION
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, March 3, 1997

Woollcott Smith
Department of Statistics
Temple University
McMarkov and McBayes: Two McNemar-like procedures for Markov Chains and the Estimation of Species Overlap. [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, March 24, 1997

Richard Dudley
Department of Mathematics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Differentiability of six statistical functionals [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Avenue

Monday, March 31, 1997

Linda Collins
Pennsylvania State University
Seminar to be held in Room 101 LEPH, 60 College

Monday, April 7, 1997

Tara Matise
Rockefeller University
Seminar to be held in Room 101 LEPH, 60 College

Monday, April 14, 1997

Dr. Francoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch
Department of Biostatistics
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Seminar to be held in Room 101 LEPH, 60 College

Monday, April 21, 1997

Andreas Buja
ATT & T Bell Laboratories
Murray Hill, New Jersey
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Avenue

SEMINARS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS

LMK 21 March 1997