NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1997-1998

Seminars are on Fridays at 3:35 - 4:35 pm in 206 Cox Hall, unless otherwise noted.

For additional information, please e-mail or phone the seminar chair, E. Jacquelin Dietz, at dietz@stat.ncsu.edu or (919) 515-1929.

For other statistics seminars in the Triangle, see Duke or UNC - Chapel Hill.

NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1996-1997
NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1995-1996

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Seminar Schedule for 1997-1998

• 1997 Cockerham Lecture
  September 5 - William G. Hill
  University of Edinburgh
  Drawing Inferences about Evolutionary Biology from Livestock Improvement, and Vice-Versa
  Seminar is at 3:30 in 124 Dabney Hall.
  Reception at 3:00 on the first floor of Dabney Hall.

• September 12 - Peter Bloomfield - bloomfield@stat.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Credit Risk in Financial Derivatives

• Operations Research/Statistics/Biomathematics Joint Seminar
  September 30 - Christopher Portier
  National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences
  Stochastic Modeling in Carcinogenesis
  Seminar is on Tuesday at 4:00 in Riddick 320.
  Refreshments at 3:30 in Riddick 329.

• October 3 - Bruce Weir, Jeffrey Thorne, Sujit Ghosh, and David Dickey
  North Carolina State University
  A Sampler of Faculty Research Programs

• October 10 - Katja Ickstadt - katja@stat.unc.edu
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Disparate Data Resolutions in Environmental and Ecological Modeling

• October 17 - S. Stanley Young - ssy0487@glaxo.com
  Glaxo Wellcome Inc.
  The Discovery of Multiple, Interacting Genes

• November 14 - Chong Gu - cgu@stat.ncsu.edu
  Purdue University (visiting NCSU and NISS)
  Penalized Likelihood Function Estimation: Probability Density and Hazard Rate

• December 5 - A. Ronald Gallant - ron_gallant@unc.edu
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Reprojecting Partially Observed Systems with Application to Interest Rate Diffusions

• January 9 - Dennis Cook - dennis@stat.umn.edu
  University of Minnesota, St. Paul
  Reinventing Regression Thru Graphics
  In addition to the 3:35 seminar, Dr. Cook will demonstrate his regression software from 10:15 to 11:05 am in Harrelson 181.

• January 15 - Daowen Zhang
  University of Michigan
  Generalized Additive Mixed Models
  Seminar is on Thursday at 8:00 am in Dabney 124.
  Refreshments at 7:45 in Dabney 124.

• January 16 - David Giltinan - giltinan@gene.com
  Genentech, Inc.
  Sensible Dosing When the 'Average Patient' Is a Myth: A Case Study in Population PK/PD Modeling

• January 20 - Gareth M. James
  Stanford University
  The Error Coding Method and Majority Vote Classifiers
  Seminar is on Tuesday at 9:00 am in Dabney 124.
  Refreshments at 8:45 in Dabney 124.

• January 22 - Jason P. Fine
  Harvard University
  Analysis of Competing Risks Data with Non-Proportional Hazards Models
  Seminar is on Thursday at 8:00 am in Dabney 124.
  Refreshments at 7:45 in Dabney 124.

• January 27 - Montserrat Fuentes
  University of Chicago
  Prediction of Random Fields Combining Different Sources of Data
  Seminar is on Tuesday at 8:00 am in Dabney 124.
  Refreshments at 7:45 in Dabney 124.

• January 30 - Victor De Oliveira - oliveira@niss.org
  National Institute of Statistical Sciences
  Bayesian Prediction of Clipped Gaussian Random Fields

• February 3 - Brian Habing
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  Latent Dimensionality in Item Response Theory
  Seminar is on Tuesday at 8:00 am in Dabney 124.
  Refreshments at 7:45 in Dabney 124.

• February 6 - Stuart R. Lipsitz - srlipsit@sophe.sph.sc.edu
  Harvard University (visiting University of South Carolina)
  Non-Ignorable Missing Covariates in Generalized Linear Models

• February 10 - Tapabrata Maiti - tmaiti@mathstat.unl.edu
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Small Area Estimation Using Time Series and Cross-Sectional Data
  Seminar is on Tuesday at 8:00 am in Dabney 124.
  Refreshments at 7:45 in Dabney 124.

• February 13 - Jeffrey Thorne - thorne@brooks.statgen.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Incorporating Protein Structure into Models of Protein Evolution

• February 17 - Melanie M. Wall - mwall@iastate.edu
  Iowa State University
  On Nonlinear Latent Variable Analysis
  Seminar is on Tuesday at 8:00 am in Dabney 124.
  Refreshments at 7:45 in Dabney 124.

• February 19 - Spencer V. Muse - muse@biosci.mbp.missouri.edu
  University of Missouri -- Columbia
  Evolutionary Analyses When Nucleotides Do Not Evolve Independently
  Seminar is on Thursday at 8:00 am in Dabney 124.
  Refreshments at 7:45 in Dabney 124.

• February 27 - Armando P. Levy - armando@unity.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Demand for Local Long Distance

• March 6 - Deborah G. Mayo - mayod@vt.edu
  Virginia Tech
  Statistical Controversies and the Philosophy of Science

• Statistics/Operations Research/Biomathematics Joint Seminar
  March 27 - Shaler Stidham - sandy@or.unc.edu
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Airline Yield Management as a Problem in the Control of Queues

• April 3 - Marc Genton - genton@math.mit.edu
  Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  On the Robustness Properties of Variogram Estimators and their Fit