Yale University
Department of Statistics

Seminar list for 1998-99

FALL 1998,   SPRING 1999

The Department of Statistics & Biostatistics Joint Seminars occur weekly on Mondays at 4:15 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 7, 1998

Yazhen Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
Wavelets and Statistics
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave

Monday, September 21, 1998

Peter Gilbert
Harvard School of Public Health
Empirical processes and semiparametric biased sampling models [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave

Monday, September 28, 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

Friday, October 2, 1998

Lunchtime Seminar

Luc Devroye
School of Computer Science
McGill University
A new data-based method for selecting nonparametric density estimates [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 12 noon

Monday, October 12, 1998

Kenneth Kidd, Professor
Department of Genetics & Psychiatry
Yale University
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 12 noon

Monday, November 2, 1998

Jon Kettenring
Bellcore
At & T Bell Labs
Statistics in Industry: Experiences and Examples
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave

Monday, November 16, 1998

Stephen Stigler
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave

SPRING SEMINARS

Monday, January 18, 1999

Christopher Sims
Henry Ford II Professor of Economics
Department of Economics, Yale University
Bayesian Time Series Analysis for Monetary Policy [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4 pm

Wednesday, January 20, 1999

Michael Nussbaum
Weierstrass Institute
Mohrenstr. 39
D-10117 Berlin, Germany
ASYMPTOTIC EQUIVALENCE OF EXPERIMENTS I [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

Thursday, January 21, 1999

Michael Nussbaum
Weierstrass Institute
Mohrenstr. 39
D-10117 Berlin, Germany
ASYMPTOTIC EQUIVALENCE OF EXPERIMENTS II [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ noon

Monday, January 25, 1999

Timothy Gregoire
J P Weyerhaeuser Professor of Forestry
Department of Forestry, Yale University
Statistical properties of a prediction of bole volume from an integrated taper equation. [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

Monday, February 1, 1999

Donald Andrews
William K. Lanman Jr Professor of Economics
Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation, Yale University
Testing When a Parameter is on the Boundary of the Maintained Hypothesis
[Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

Monday, February 15, 1999

Bin Yu
Department of Statistics, University of California at Berkeley
and Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
Codes and Models [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

Monday, March 1, 1999

Richard Bass
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
Diffusions on Fractals [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

Monday, March 5, 1999

Emmanuel Candes
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Ridgelets, nerual networks and Statistics [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 2pm

Monday, March 22, 1999

Linda Zhao
Department of Statistics
Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Bayesian Aspects of Nonparametric Estimation Problems [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

Monday, March 29, 1999

Nalini Ravishankar
Department of Statistics
University of Connecticut
Multivariate Survival Models with a Mixture of Positive Stable Frailties [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

Monday, April 5, 1999

Guenther Walther
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
On Mixtures and Penalized Maximum Likelihood [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

Monday, April 12, 1999

Thomas Stoker
Department of Economics
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interpreting Movements in Aggregate Wages: The Role of Labor Market Participation [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

Monday, April 19, 1999

Pamela Hartigan
Ajunct Associate Professor in Biostatistics Yale University
Trials and Tribulations or The History of COURAGE (Clinical Outcomes Utilizing Revascularization and Aggressive Drug Evaluation). [Abstract]
Seminar to be held in Room 107, Department of Statistics, 24 Hillhouse Ave @ 4pm

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