Spring 1999

Linear and Log-Linear models for covariance matrices
Dr. Mohsen Pourahmadi
Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University
Friday, January 22, 1999
DuSable Hall Room 322
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

The Logrank Statistic: A Generalization for Estimation and Inference of
Relative Risk, and a New Distributional Approximation
Dr. Art Roth
G.D. Searle & Co.
Thursday, February 4, 1999
DuSable Hall Room 322
3:30pm to 4:30pm
Coffee: 3:00pm to 3:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

Oracle Inequality and Adaptive Wavelet Estimation
Professor Tony Cai
Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Friday, February 19, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

On inference for partially observed non-linear diffusion models
using the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm
Professor Osnat Streimer
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
Friday, February 26, 1999
DuSable Hall Room 322
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

Order Restricted Inference for Covariance Hypotheses in Mixed Nonlinear
Models
Dr. Jens Praestgaard
Friday, March 19, 1999
DuSable Hall Room 322
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

TBA
Dr. David Morris
Friday, March 26, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

Bayesian Analysis of Zero-inflated Regression models
Professor Sujit K. Ghosh
Department of Statistics, NC State University
Thursday, April 1, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

TBA
Professor Arjun Gupta
Bowling Green University
Friday, April 2, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

Jointly sponsored by Department of Economics, Social Sciences Research
Institute and Division of Statistics
TBA
Arnold Zellner
Thursday, April 8, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
10:00am to 11:00am

Jointly sponsored by Department of Economics, Social Sciences Research
Institute and Division of Statistics
TBA
Arnold Zellner
Thursday, April 8, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
4:00pm to 5:00pm

TBA
Gordon Lan
PFizer Inc.
Friday, April 9, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

TBA
Profesor Alan Agresti
University of Florida
Tuesday, April 13, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
9:00am to 10:00am
Coffee: 10:00am to 10:30am in DuSable Hall Room 359

TBA
Dr. Chunfu Qiu
Abott Laboratories
Friday, April 16, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

Graduate Colloquium
Some current trends in Sample Survey Methods and Practice
Professor Jon N.K. Rao
Thursday, April 22, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Coffee: 6:30pm to 7:00pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

Graduate Colloquium
Resampling methods in Survey Sampling
Professor Jon N.K. Rao
Friday, April 23, 1999
DuSable Hall Room TBA
3:00pm to 4:00pm
Coffee: 4:00pm to 4:30pm in DuSable Hall Room 359

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