DIVISION OF STATISTICS NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
2005-2006 Colloquia
Prof. Jostein Paulsen – University of Chicago and University of Bergen, Norway
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Fitting mixed-effects models when data are left truncated (ascertained) Friday, April 28, 2006 2:00 p.m. DuSable 246 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
Prof. Bikas Sinha – ISI, Kolkata & UIC, Chicago
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	On Some Statistical Aspects of Agreement Among Measurements Thursday, April 27, 2006 2:00 p.m. DU 274 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
Prof. Jie Zhou – Northern Illinois University
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Unsupervised data driven decomposition for multi-class classifiers Thursday, April 25, 2006 3:30 p.m. Graham Hall 435 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
Prof. Sanjib Basu – Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
CANCELLED
Dr. Adam Molnar – University of Chicago
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Bayesian Data Mining: Trees and Neural Networks Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:30 p.m. Graham Hall 435 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
Prof. Debashis Ghosh – Department of Biostatistics - University of Michigan
CANCELLED
Prof. Bing Liu – University of Illinois at Chicago
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Learning from Positive and Unlabeled Examples Tuesday, April 11, 2006 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Graham Hall 435 3-3:30 – DU 359
Prof. Kathryn Chaloner – Van Andel Research Institute
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Experimental Design for Non-linear Mixed Effects Models: with Applications to Studies of Viral Dynamics Friday, April 7, 2006 2:00 p.m. DuSable 246 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
Dr. Sok Kean Khoo – The University of Iowa
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Dissecting the Genetics of Isolated Familial Somatotropinomas (IFS) Tuesday, April 4, 2006 2:00 p.m. DuSable 456 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
SPONSORED BY NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS Graduate colloquium Prof. Robert Stine - The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	A Sequential Feature Selection Using the Excess Discovery Count Friday, March 31, 2006 2:00 p.m. DuSable 246 3:00 p.m. - DU 359
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE:	The Role and Growth of Data Mining In the Information Age Thursday, March 30, 2006 3:30 p.m. Graham Hall, Room 435
Dr. Saurav Guha – University of Cincinnati
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Human Genetics and Application of Statistics: A Basic Overview Friday, March 24, 2006 2:00 p.m. DuSable 246 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
Prof. Ramesh Gupta – The University of Maine
CANCELLED
Prof. Kenneth Wilder – University of Chicago
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Some Challenges Of Computationally Demanding Statistical Problems Friday, March 3, 2006 2:00 p.m. DuSable 246 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
Prof. Akihiko Inoue – Hokkaido University, Japan
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Optimal long-term investment model with memory Friday, February 17, 2006 2:00 p.m. DuSable 246 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
Prof. Denise Scholtens – Northwestern Medical School
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Local Modeling of Protein Complexes Friday, February 3, 2006 2:00 p.m. DuSable 246 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
Dr. Melvin Munsaka – Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Lincolnshire, IL
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	On Less Restrictive Low Dose Extrapolation Procedures in Carcinogenesis Risk Estimation Friday, December 2, 2006 2:00 p.m. DuSable 280 3:00 p.m. – DU 359
SPONSORED BY NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS Graduate colloquium Prof. Jack Kalbfleisch-Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Michigan
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE:	Resampling methods for estimating functions with U-statistic structure Friday, November 18, 2005 12:00 p.m. DuSable 406
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE:	Exaggerating Data Thursday, November 17, 2005 7:00 p.m. DuSable 440
SPONSORED BY NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS Graduate colloquium Prof. Roderick Little-University of Michigan
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Robust likelihood-based analysis of multivariate data with missing values Friday, November 11, 2005 2:00 - 2:50 p.m. DuSable Hall 280 3:00 p.m. - DU 359
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	The role of randomization in large medical studies: two case studies Friday, November 11, 2005 9:00 - 9:50 a.m. DuSable Hall 474 10:00 - 10:30 a.m. DU 359
Prof. Chunming Zhang-University of Wisconsin
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Nonparametric modeling and inference for event-related functional MRI data Friday, November 4, 2005 2:00 p.m. DuSable 280 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. DU 359
Prof. Joseph Lang-University of Iowa
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Profile confidence Intervals for contingency table parameters Friday, October 28, 2005 3:00 p.m. DuSable 280 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. DU 359
Dr. Robert Johnson-DSM Desotech, Inc. Elgin, Illinois
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	The roles of a statistician in an industrial environment Friday, October 21, 2005 2:00 p.m. DuSable 280 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. DU 359
Prof. Thomas O'Gorman-Northern Illinois University
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Adaptive tests of significance and confidence intervals Friday, October 7, 2005 2:00 p.m. DuSable 280 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. DU 359
Prof. Balakrishna Hosmane-Northern Illinois University
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Non-inferiority testing in thorough QT/QTc Studies Friday, September 30, 2005 2:00 p.m. DuSable 280 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. DU 359
Dr. Siuli Mukhopadhyay-University of Florida
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Comparison of designs for bivariate binary logistic regression models using Quantile Dispersion Graphs Friday, September 23, 2005 2:00 p.m. DuSable 280 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. DU 359
Joint AIC Seminar/Statistics Colloquium James H. Resau, PhD-Van Andel Institute Deputy Director and Senior Scientific Investigator Grand Rapids, Michigan
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE:	Anatomical pathology, past, present and future. Application of objective measurable criteria to diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Friday, September 16, 2005 DuSable 176
Payal Pagni-Nielsen Media Research
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	A two-phase probability sampling process Friday, September 9, 2005 2:00 p.m. DuSable 280 3:00 - 3:30 p.m. DU 359
Instructors Cathy Poliak and Tim Sullivan-NIU Division of Statistics
TITLE: DATE: TIME: PLACE: COFFEE:	Statistics Blackboard Orientation (handout) Friday, September 2, 2005 2:00 p.m. DuSable 280 Following orientation - DU 359
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