Seminars — Fall 2006
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Dr. Andrew Parnell, Department of Statistics (Lloyd Institute, Trinity College Dublin),
"Recent Advances in Palaeoclimate Reconstruction" [abstract]
Friday, September 1, 2006,
3:30pm,
Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Emery N. Brown, M.D.,Ph.D. , Professor of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences and Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences- MIT-Harvard Division of Health Science & Technology - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Associate Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care-Massachusetts General Hospital
Friday, September 8, 2006,
3:05pm,
ISDS Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Marie Davidian, Professor of Statistics (North Carolina State University),
"Inference for Dynamic Treatment Regimes in Two-Stage Clinical Trials (and More Generally)" [abstract]
Friday, September 15, 2006,
3:30pm,
,
116 Old Chem Building
Dipak K. Dey, Professor and Head, Department of Statistics (University of Connecticut),
"Hierarchical Bayesian Analysis of Genetic Diversity" [abstract]
Friday, September 22, 2006,
3:30pm,
ISDS Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Donald B. Rubin, Professor of Statistics (Harvard University),
"Validly Estimating True Dose-Response When Only Treatment vs. Control is Randomized" [abstract]
Friday, September 29, 2006,
3:30pm,
Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Joseph Kadane, Leonard J. Savage Professor of Statistics and Social Sciences, Department of Statistics (Carnegie Mellon University),
"What is probability ?" [abstract]
Friday, October 6, 2006,
3:30pm,
Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Helene Massam, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics (York University, Toronto, Canada),
"The conjugate prior for hierarchical log-linear models." [abstract]
Friday, October 13, 2006,
3:30pm,
,
116 Old Chem Building
A. Ronald Gallant, Fuqua School of Business (Duke University),
"A Statistical Inquiry into the Plausibility of Recursive Utility" [abstract]
Friday, October 20, 2006,
3:30pm,
Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Lurdes Inoue, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics (University of Washington),
"Network models for time-course microarray data" [abstract]
Friday, October 27, 2006,
3:30pm,
Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Tony O'Hagan, Professor, Department of Probability and Statistics (University of Sheffield, UK),
"Estimating health-related quality of life" [abstract]
Friday, November 3, 2006,
3:30pm,
ISDS Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Nick Fisher (ValueMetrics Australia & University of Sydney),
"Statistics, Performance Measurement and Corporate Collapses" [abstract]
Monday, November 6, 2006,
4:25pm,
Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Kerrie Mengersen, Professor, Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control, School of Mathematical Science (Queensland University of Technology, Australia),
"MAKING DECISIONS BASED ON DATA (AND OTHER SOURCES OF INFORMATION):A BAYESIAN PERSPECTIVE" [abstract]
Friday, November 10, 2006,
3:30pm,
Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
David Madigan, Professor of Statistics (Rutgers University),
"Lasso Regression: Some Recent Developments" [abstract]
Friday, November 17, 2006,
3:30pm,
ISDS Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Ingram Olkin, Professor of Statistics and of Education (Stanford University),
"Meta-analysis: Statistical Methods for Combining the Results of Independent Studies" [abstract]
Monday, November 27, 2006,
4:30pm,
ISDS Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Howard Wainer, Professor of Statistics and Distinguished Research Scientist National Board of Medical Examiners (University of Pennsylvania/The Wharton School),
"The Most Dangerous Equation" [abstract]
Friday, December 1, 2006,
3:30pm,
Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building
Haakon Tjelmeland ,
"A Bayesian Model for Cross-Study Differential Gene Expression" [abstract]
Friday, December 8, 2006,
3:30pm,
Seminar,
116 Old Chem Building

