Northern Illinois University
Division of Statistics
Colloquium Schedule
Spring 1997
Analysis of Adverse Events
Professor Bala Hosmane
Northern Illinois University
Friday, January 24, 1997
DuSable Hall Room 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in Room 333
On Seperable Spatio-temporal Models
Professor Hao Zhang
Marquette University
Friday, January 31, 1997
DuSable Hall Room 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in Room 333
Study of Commercial Air Safety
Professor K. McFadden
Northern Illinois University
Friday, February 7, 1997
DuSable Hall Room 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in Room 333
Simulation-Extrapolation Methods for Heteroscedastic Measurement
Error Models and Replicate Measures
V. Devanarayan
Abbott Laboratories
Friday, February 14, 1997
DuSable Hall 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in Room 333
A Default Bayesian Hypothesis Testing for the Time-Truncated Power
Law Process
Professor Rama Lingham
Northern Illinois University
Friday, February 21, 1997
DuSable Hall 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in Room 333
Using Adaptive Methods to Increase the Power of Two-Sample Tests
Professor Tom O'Gorman
Northern Illinois University
Friday, February 28, 1997
DuSable Hall 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in Room 333
Fitting SPC Data Using a Sample Quantile Ratio
Professor Alan Polansky
Northern Illinois University
Friday, March 7, 1997
DuSable Hall 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in Room 333
Search Designs and Their Applications
Kashinath Chattergee
Memphis State University
Tuesday, March 18, 1997
DuSable Hall 220C
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Coffee: 2:00-2:30pm in DuSable Room 333
Estimation of Undetected Errors
Professor Sanjib Basu
Northern Illinois University
Friday, March 28, 1997
DuSable Hall 220C
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Room 333
Statistics and Quality of Life: Third World Perspectives
Professor P. K. Sen
University of North Carolina
Thursday, April 3, 1997
DuSable Hall 220C
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Generalized Linear Models in Biomedical Statistical Applications
Professor P. K. Sen
University of North Carolina
Friday, April 4, 1997
DuSable Hall 220C
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Room 333
Complex Models, Degrees of Freedom and Computers
Professor Mohsen Pourahmadi
Northern Illinois University
Friday, April 11, 1997
DuSable Hall 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Room 333
Multivariate Control Charts
Professor Steve Rigdon
Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville)
Tuesday, April 22, 1997
DuSable Hall 410
4:00pm to 5:00pm
Coffee: 3:30pm to 4:00pm in DuSable 333
On Empirical Choice of the Optimal Block Size for Block
Bootstrap Methods
Professor S. N. Lahiri
Iowa State University
Friday, April 25, 1997
DuSable Hall 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Room 333
Risk Assessment for Passenger Vessel Safety and Hazardous Cargo
Transportation: A Combination of Probability Modeling, Simulation,
and Expert Judgement
Professor Tom Mazzuchi
George Washington University
Friday, May 2, 1997
DuSable Hall 222D
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in Room 333