Departmental Colloquia

Department of Statistics
Texas A&M University

The Department hosts a colloquium series featuring presentations of current research and special topics in statistics by leading researchers in the field. All are welcome to attend. Students registered for STAT 681 receive course credit for attending the regular talks.

Colloquium Schedule, Fall 1998
Date Time Room Speaker Topic
Thu, Sept 17 4-5pm BLOC 150 Scott Berry, Texas A&M University Iterative Smoothing Splines for Measurement Error Problems
Thu, Sept 24 4-5pm BLOC 150 Peter Thall, MD Anderson Cancer Center Decision Theoretic Designs for Phase II Clinical Trials with Multiple Outcomes
Thu, Oct 1 4-5pm BLOC 150 David W. Scott, Rice University After Maximum Likelihood, What? Remarks on Econometric Applications to Income Distribution Trends and Frontier Modeling
Thu, Oct 8 4-5pm BLOC 150 Elizabeth Slate, Cornell University Statistical Models for Longitudinal Biomarkers of Disease
Thu, Oct 15 4-5pm BLOC 150 Mark Fitzgerald, Los Alamos National Labs Canonical Transition Probabilities for Adaptive Monte Carlo (Extracting More Information from Metropolis Simulations)
Thu, Oct 22 4-5pm BLOC 150 Myunghee Paik, Columbia University Bivariate Binary Data Analysis with Non-ignorable Missing Outcomes
Thu, Oct 29 4-5pm BLOC 150 Cliff Spiegelman, Texas A&M University A Holistic Approach to Statistical Science
Thu, Nov 5 4-5pm BLOC 150 Partha Lahiri, University of Nebraska An Empirical Best Prediction Approach
Thu, Nov 12 4-5pm BLOC 150 Steve Haslett, Massey University Properties of the Similarity Index from DNA Fingerprinting Data
Thu, Nov 19 4-5pm BLOC 150 Brani Vidakovic, Duke University Bayesian Wavelet Shrinkage: Principles and Applications
Thu, Nov 26 no seminar, Thanksgiving Break
Thu, Dec 3 4-5pm BLOC 150 Sang-Rae Lee, Texas A&M University Inference for Distribution Functions and Quantiles Based on Limited Complex Survey Design
Thu, Dec 10 4-5pm BLOC 150 Ferry Butar Butar, Division of Mathematics and Information Sciences , Sam Houston State University On the Measures of Uncertainty of Empirical Bayes Small-Area Estimators

Departmental Colloquia, Spring 1999


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