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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