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Last Year's Seminars

Fall 2007 Speaker Topic
September 6 No Seminar
First week of class
September 13 Gilbert W. Fellingham
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
Parametric and Nonparametric Bayesian Methods to Model Health Insurance Claims Costs
September 20 Keith Vorkink
Brigham Young University
Department of Business Management
Multivariate Realized Stock Market Volatility
September 27 Bruce J. Collings
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
Tennis Anyone? A Probabilistic Analysis of Generalized "Deuce" Games
October 4 Ronald Christensen
University of New Mexico
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Parametric Nonparametric Statistics: An Introduction to Mixtures of Finite Polya Trees
October 11 Summer Rupper
Brigham Young University
Department of Geological Sciences
Ice Core Paleoclimate Proxy Records and Climate—a "Weather-up" Approach
October 18 Jay R. Turner
Washington University in St. Louis
Department of Chemical Engineering
Apportioning Urban Ambient Air Particulate Matter Burdens to Emission Sources
October 25 Dean Billheimer
University of Utah
Huntsman Cancer Institute
Compositional Data in Biomedical Research
November 1 Dan S. Cooley
Colorado State University
Department of Statistics
Prediction for Max-Stable Processes via an Approximated Conditional Density
November 5 Simon Sheather, Chair
Texas A&M University
Department of Statistics
Diagnostics for linear mixed models
November 8 David Long
BYU Center for Remote Sensing
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Iceberg! A Remote Sensing Story
November 15 H. Dennis Tolley
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
GC-MS Data: Whence It Came, Where It Goes
November 22 No Seminar
Thanksgiving Day
November 29 Abdel El-Shaarawi
Environment Canada and
McMaster University
Upstream-Downstream Water Quality Monitoring
December 6 Keith Crandall
Brigham Young University
Department of Biology
Phylogenetics and the Tree of Life
December 13 W. Evan Johnson
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
Statistical Applications in Genomics and Epigenomics



Winter 2008 Speaker Topic
January 10 No Seminar
First week of class
January 17 G. Bruce Schaalje
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
Statistics: A DEAP Subject
January 24 Scott D Grimshaw
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
Control Charts for Spatial Data
January 31 Bob Krile and David Stromberg
Battelle—Columbus
Quantifying Bioterrorism Risk: A methodological development for low frequency, high consequence events
February 7 Charlie Casper
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Biostatistics &
Medical Informatics
Survival Estimation for a Composite Outcome When Ascertainment of Events Is Delayed
February 11 Michael Kosorok
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Department of Biostatistics
Efficient linear regression for time-to-event data under length-biased sampling
February 14 Merrill Liechty
Drexel University
Department of Decision Sciences
Bayesian Grouped Factor Models and Industry and Debt Classification
February 21 Raphael Gottardo
University of British Columbia
Department of Statistics
On-line Changepoint Detection and Parameter Estimation for Genome-wide Transcript Analysis
February 28 Suzanne Dubnicka
Kansas State University
Department of Statistics
Kernel Density Estimation with Missing Data and Auxiliary Variables
March 6 Joe Price
Brigham Young University
Department of Economics
Racial Discrimination Among NBA Referees
March 13 David Engler
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
Using Your Genome to Predict the Time to an Event
(and other secrets of mysticism)
March 20 Larry Bassist
Brigham Young University
Department of Statistics
Experiences in 20+ years in industry: The practice of statistics—good and bad—and what to watch out for.
March 27 Mu Sigma Rho
Faculty Feud
April 3 Moved to April 17
April 10 Brian Healy
Massachusetts General Hospital
Combining Retrospective and Prospective Data in Characterizing Accumulation of Antiviral Resistance Mutations
April 17 Suojin Wang
Texas A&M University
Department of Statistics
A New Semiparametric Procedure for Matched Case-Control Studies with Missing Covariate Data
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