Yale University
Department of Statistics
Seminar list for 1997-98 
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. 101,
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.
FALL SEMINARS
Monday, September 8, 1997
Kenneth Carling, Ph.D.
Swedish Institute for Health Services Development
Stockholm
Resistant outlier rules, skewed and fat distributions, and Diagnosis Related Groups (DRGs).
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, September 15, 1997
Melissa D. Begg
Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics
Columbia University
Tabular Analysis of Clustered Binary Data
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, September 29, 1997
Martin Theus, Ph.D.
Statistics Research
AT & T Labs
Visualization of Categorical Data
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse
Monday, October 6, 1997
David Allison
Assistant Professor
Obesity Research Center
St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, October 6, 1997
Dr. Dragan Radulovic
United Technologies Research Center
East Hartford, CT
Can We Bootstrap Even if CLT Fails?
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse
Monday, October 13, 1997
Warren Ewens
Professor
Department of Biology
University of Pennsylvania
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, October 20, 1997
Nancy Mendell
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
State University of New York at Stony Brook
MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA-LIKE PHENOTYPES
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, November 3, 1997
Junhyong Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Biology
Yale University
Estimating Large-Scale Phylogenies
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave.
Monday, November 10, 1997
Daniel Zelterman
Professor, Biostatistics
Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
Yale University
Exact inference on Disease Clusters in Families
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave.
Thursday, November 13, 1997 ... LUNCHTIME SEMINAR 11:45am - 12:50
Benoit Mandelbrot
Abraham Robinson Professor, Mathematics
Yale University
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, November 17, 1997
Balgobin Nandram
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Bayesian Mortality Data Analyses for US Health Service Areas
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 101,LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, November 24, 1997
Vance Berger
Mathematical Statistician
Center for Biologics Evaluation
and Research
FDA
Attributing Treatment Efffects to Differences in Treatments
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
SPRING SEMINARS
Monday, January 13, 1998
Wensheng Guo
University of Michigan
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, January 19, 1998
Jason Fine
Harvard University
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, January 26, 1998
Roger Nelson
Lewis & Clark College
Copulas, Concordance and Correlation
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, January 26, 1998
Sarah Gray
Johns Hopkins University
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, February 9, 1998
Donald B. Rubin
Professor
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, February 23, 1998
David Hosmer
UMASS
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, March 2, 1998
Jeffrey S. Simonoff
Professor
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
New York University
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, March 23, 1998
Gordon Lan
Pfizer, Inc.
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, March 30, 1998
Marianthi Markatou
Department of Statistics
Columbia University
Weighted Likelihood Estimating Equations and Mixture Models
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, April 13, 1998
Mark Low
Department of Statistics
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, April 6, 1998
Roger Grimson
SUNY, Stony Brook
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, April 20, 1998
Nan Laird
Harvard University
Seminar to be held in Room 101, LEPH, 60 College Street
Monday, April 27, 1998
Demissie Alemayehu
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Group
Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Exploring outliers in multidimensional laboratory data: Examples from clinical trials
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave
Monday, May 4, 1998
Eric Matzner-Lober
University of Montpellier, France
Visiting, Department of Statistics
Yale University
Asymptotic normality of convergent estimates of the conditional mode and conditional quantiles
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave

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