Course: STA395: Readings and Research
Instructor: Scott Schmidler
Email: schmidler@stat.duke.edu
Office: 223c Old Chemistry

Meeting Time: 4:25-5:40 Monday, 3:30-5:30 Fridays, 116 Old Chemistry

Presentation Schedule for STA395

Date Speaker Title and Abstract
Jan. 15 No Class - MLK holiday
Jan. 22 Fei Liu Bayesian Functional Data Analysis for Computer Model Validation
Jan. 29 Scotland Leman TBA
Feb. 5 Jen-hwa Chu Hierarchical models approach for detecting gene copy number changes
Feb. 12 Guang Cheng Higher Order Semiparametric Frequentist Inference Based on the Profile Sampler
Feb. 19 Dawn Woodard Bounding the convergence rate of parallel tempering on multimodal distributions
Feb. 26 TBA TBA
Mar. 5 Huiyan Sang Bayesian Hierarchical Models for Extreme Values Observed over Space and Time
Mar. 19 Zhi Ouyang Bayesian Kernel Classification
Mar. 26 Liang Zhang Variable Selection in Logistic Regression with Many Predictors using Variational Bayesian Methods
Apr. 2 Robin Mitra Propensity Score Matching for causal inference when multiply imputing missing covariate data
Apr. 9 Joyee Ghosh Bayesian Factor Analysis
Apr. 16 Zhenglei Gao Statistical Analysis of Neural Spike Train Data