NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1999-2000

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, Kenneth Pollock, at pollock@stat.ncsu.edu or (919) 515-1957.

For other statistics seminars in the Triangle, see Duke or UNC - Chapel Hill.
Also see the Biomathematics seminars and the seminars organized by Biomedical Statistical Working Group and Environmental Statistical Working Group.

NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1998-1999
NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1997-1998
NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1996-1997
NCSU Statistics Department Seminars 1995-1996

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Seminar Schedule for 1999-2000

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Fall, 1999

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• August 20 - Bruce Weir - weir@stat.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Bioinformatics: A New Graduate Program at NC State University

• August 27 - Pabak Mukhopadhyay, Steven Novick and Jared Lunceford
  North Carolina State University
  A sampler of graduate students-I

• September 9 & 10 - G. M. Cox Statistics conference
  Research Triangle Institute
  Gertrude M. Cox Statistics Building Dedication and Statistics Conference

• September 24 - Montserrat Fuentes - fuentes.stat.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University and Environmental Protection Agency
  Spatial interpolation for nonstationary fields

• October 01 - George Christakos - george_christakos@unc.edu
  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  The Citizen Kane Effect on Spatiotemporal Analysis and Mapping

• October 08 - Michael Zuker - zuker@snark.wustl.edu
  Washington University
  Algorithms and statistics for nucelic acid secondary structure prediction

• October 15 - Douglas Zahn - zahn@stat.fsu.edu
  Florida State University
  Systematically improving the quality of your consulting and teaching services

• October 22 - James Berger - berger@stat.duke.edu
  Duke University
  P-Values for Composite Null Models

• October 29 - Leah Martell, Marlina Dumasari & Lei Zhu
  North Carolina State University
  A sampler of graduate students-II

• November 12 - Charles Proctor - proctor@stat.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  Estimation of Area in Crops as Alternatives to Coca in the Chapare Region of Bolivia: A Consultant

• November 19 - Thomas Louis - tom@biostat.umn.edu
  University of Minnesota
  Bayes/EB Ranking, Ensemble and Parameter Estimation: Can One Set of Estimates Serve These Goals?

• December 03 - Bradley Efron - brad@stat.stanford.edu
  Stanford University
  (Cockerham Lecture)
  How Wrong Can I Be? (and what does "plus or minus" really mean?)

• Deceember 5-8 - Conference on Forensic Statistics
  Department of Statistics
  North Carolina State University
  The Fourth International Conference on Forensic Statistics

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  Spring, 2000

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• January 21, 2000 - David A. Dickey -CANCELLED

• February 04, 2000 - William Bell - wbell@census.gov
  Bureau of the Census
  Small Area Poverty Estimation for U.S. States and Counties

• February 11, 2000 - James Robins - robins@hsph.harvard.edu
  Harvard University
  Marginal Structural Models and Inverse-probability-of-treatment weighted Estimators

• February 25, 2000 - Pamela Abbitt - abbitt@stat.ncsu.edu
  North Carolina State University
  A Hierarchical Model for Soil Profile Data

• March 3, 2000 - Michael Sherman - sherman@stat.tamu.edu
  Texas A&M University
  A Statistical Analysis of Tidal Data

• March 10, 2000 - Axel Munk - axel.munk@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
  Ruhr University Bochum
  Bioequivalence tests, christmas trees and the iteration of a peculiar nonlinear operator in the upper complex halfplane

• March 24, 2000 - Ray Myers - rmyers@vt.edu
  Virginia Polytechnic Institute
  Standard Experimental Designs In Nonstandard Conditions

• March 31, 2000 - Allan Seheult - A.H.Seheult@durham.ac.uk
  University of Durham, UK
  Bayesian forecasting and calibration for complex phenomena using multi-level computer codes

• April 7, 2000 - J. N. K. Rao - jrao@math.carleton.ca
  Carleton University
  Some Current Trends in Sample Survey Theory and Methods

• April 14, 2000 - Alan E. Gelfand - alan@stat.uconn.edu
  University of Connecticut
  Inference for Spatially Misaligned Data

• April 28, 2000 - C. F. J. Wu - CANCELLED

• May 5, 2000 - Partha Lahiri - plahiri@math.unl.edu
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  Title: Jackknifying the Mean Squared Error of An Empirical Best Small-Area Predictor

• May 26, 2000 - Bimal Roy - bimal@isical.ac.in
  Indian Statistical Institute
  Title: Cryptanalysis of LFSR based Cryptosystems when LFSR's are long & the combining function is unknown