Colloquium talks in the Department of Statistics and Probability
are held in Room A-405 Wells Hall unless otherwise noted.
Click on the title of the talk to view an abstract.
Coffee, tea, and cookies are served 30 minutes before the talk.

Lu, Qing

Case Western Reserve University Using the Results of Genome-Wide Association Studies to Form Predictive Genetic Tests Wednesday, April 9, 2008, 11:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Refreshments: 11:20 a.m.

Nordman, Daniel

Iowa State University Tapered Empirical Likelihood for Time Series Data Tuesday, April 8, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Smith, Woollcott

Temple University What's Missing? Looking for Multidimensional Holes, Undiscovered Species and New Googlewhacks Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Ahmed, S. Ejaz

University of Michigan and University of Windsor Shrinkage, LASSO/LARS and Related Estimation Strategies in partially Linear Models Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments:10:00 a.m.

Noll, Jennifer

Portland State University Graduate Teaching Assistants' Statistical Knowledge for Teaching Thursday, March 13, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Sikorskii, Alla

Michigan State University Health Numeracy: Importance, Measurement, and Evaluation Change Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Song, Rui

University of North Carolina Change-Point Cox Model with Current Status Data Thursday, February 28, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Cheng, Guang

Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute Higher Order Semiparametric Inference Based On the Profile Likelihood Tuesday, February 26, 2008, 10:20 -11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Liang, Hua

University of Rochester Medical Center Variable Selection in Semi-parametric Regression Modeling Thursday, February 21, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Zhou, Hua

Stanford University Topics on Markov Chains with Polynomial Eigenfunctions Tuesday, February 19, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Wang, Lifeng

University of Pennsylvania Regularization and Variable Selection for Varying-Coefficient Models and Multiclass Support Vector Machines with Applications in Genomics Thursday, February 14, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00a.m.

Lund, Robert

Clemson University Markov Chain and Renewal Rates of Convergence Tuesday, February 12, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00a.m.

Maiti, Tapabrata

Iowa State University Estimation of Mean Squared Prediction Errors in Mixed Models and Their Applications Wednesday, February 6, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Pourahmadi, Mohsen

Northern Illinois University Sparse and Parsimonious Models for the Covariance Matrix of Correlated Data Thursday, January 31, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Vellaisamy, Palaniappan

Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay; Michigan State University Collapsibility and Its Extensions Tuesday, January 15, 2008, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Schenker, Jeffrey

Michigan Sate University Localization of Eigenvectors and Statistics of Eigenvalues for Random Band Matrices Tuesday, January 8, 2008, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Dougherty, Daniel P.

Michigan State University Bayesian SMPB Modeling Tuesday, November 27, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refshments: 10:00a.m.

Kaplan, Jennifer

Michigan State University The Psychology of STT 200 Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Park, Cheolwoo

University of Georgia Multiscale Analysis with Applications of Internet Traffic and fMRI Data Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Levine, Michael

Purdue University Consistent Long-Memory Parameter Estimation in a LARCH Time Series Model and Its Connection to Hurst Parameter Estimation Tuesday, November 6, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Beerli, Peter

Florida State University Population Genetic Inference and Computers: An Embarrassingly Parallel Development Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 10:30 a.m.;1400 BPS Refreshments 10:00 a.m.

van Dyk, David

University of California, Irvine Spectral Analysis of Faint Astronomical Objects: Bayesian Modeling, Computation, and Inference Tuesday, October 23, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Banerjee, Moulinath

University of Michigan Bootstrapping in Cube Root Problems: The Grenander Estimator as a Prototype Tuesday, October 16, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Swallow, William H.

North Carolina State University Undergraduate Majors in Statistics Thursday, October 11, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Mandrekar, V.

Michigan State University Identification of a Markovian System with Corrupted Observations Tuesday, October 9, 2007, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Zeng, Zhao-Bang

North Carolina State University Multiple Interval Mapping for Gene Expression QTL Analysis Tuesday, October 2, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Yang, Grace L.

NSF & University of Maryland Estimation of Poisson Intensity in the Presence of Dead Time Tuesday, September 25, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Hart, Jeffrey

Texas A&M University Nonparametric Estimation of Distributions ina Large-p, Small-n Setting Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Qu, Annie

Oregon State University Model Diagnostic Tests for Selecting Informative Correlation Structure in Correlated Data Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 10:20-11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Cui, Yuehua

Michigan State University Statistical Dissection of Genomic Imprinting Through Genetic Mapping Tuesday, September 4, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.

Meerschaert, Mark

Michigan State University Triangular Array Limits for Continuous Time Random Walks Tuesday, August 28, 2007, 10:20 - 11:10 a.m. Refreshments: 10:00 a.m.