Statistics and Biostatistics Seminars 2008 - 2009

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CL & MD Rustagi Lecture Series


Spring 2009

3:30PM Thursday, April 2, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Catherine Scipione Forbes, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Australia
Modeling and predicting volatility and its risk premium: a Bayesian non-Gaussian state space approach

3:30PM Thursday, April 9, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Richard Gonzales, Department of Psychology, Statistics and Marketing, University of Michigan
Wherry Lecture
Data and models: a role for functional equations in data analysis

3:30PM Thursday, April 16, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Eric Fosler-Lussier, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University
Statistical learning for integrating linguistic insights in automatic and human speech recognition models

3:30PM Thursday, April 23, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
John Lafferty, Department of Computer Science, Machine Learning, and Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science Engineering-Statistics Joint Seminar
Estimating High Dimensional Graphs

3:30PM Thursday, April 30, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Carlos Carvalho, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Handling Sparsity via the Horseshoe

3:30PM Thursday, May 7, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
David van Dyk, Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine
Empirical Comparisons of Computer Models for Stellar Evolution

Thursday, May 14, 2009. The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland
The Cleveland Clinic-Case Western-The Ohio State University Joint Biostatistics Symposium

3:30PM Thursday, May 21, 2009, Room 160 Meiling Hall. (ME 160)
Greg Campbell, Division of Biostatistics, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA
Rustagi Lecture
The Promise of Personalized Medicine: The Challenges for Statistics, Bioinformatics and Biology in Pharmacogenomics

3:30PM Thursday, May 28, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Whitney Research Award Winners:
Juhee Lee, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University
Minimally Informative Nonparametric Bayesian Analysis
Yi Liu, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University
Testing for Efficacy in Primary and Secondary Endpoints by Partitioning Decision Paths


Winter 2009

3:30PM Thursday, January 22, 2009, Room 212 Cockins Hall (CH 212)
Seminar and Posters: 10th Anniversary of the SSES Program by SSES Program Affiliates and Students

3:30PM Thursday, January 29, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Andrew Gelman, Department of Statistics and Department of Political Science, Columbia University
Weakly informative priors
Cancelled due to the weather

3:30PM Thursday, February 5, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Yi Liu, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University
Decision Paths approach for Non-inferiority and Superiority Testing with Multiple Endpoints

3:30PM Thursday, February 12, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Angela Dean, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University
Screening for detection of interactions in experiments with large numbers of factors

3:30PM Thursday, February 19, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Matthias Schonlau, The RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh
Issues of Representation in Web Surveys

(Delayed start) 3:45PM Thursday, February 26, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Radu Herbei, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University
Hybrid samplers for ill-posed inverse problems

3:30PM Thursday, March 5, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Thérèse Stukel, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Can Standard Statistical Methods Remove Selection Bias in Observational Studies?

3:30PM Thursday, March 12, 2009, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Tim Hanson, Division of Biostatistics, University of Minnesota
Some Classes of Dependent Tailfree Processes and Applications


Autumn 2008

3:00PM Friday, September 26, 2008, Room 240 Cockins Hall (CH 240)
Rebecka Jornsten, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
Multi-level Mixture Models and Simultaneous Model Selection via Rate-Distortion Theory, with Applications to Clustering and Significance Analysis of Gene Expression Data

3:30PM Thursday, October 2, 2008, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Michael Pennell, Biostatistics Division, The Ohio State University
Modeling Survival Data using Bayesian Random Effects Threshold Regression

3:30PM Thursday, October 9, 2008, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Dongchu Sun, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri-Columbia
One-way ANOVA, Fixed or Random Effects

3:30PM Thursday, October 16, 2008, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Mark Beaumont, Animal and Microbial Sciences, University of Readingm UK
Approximate Bayesian Computation in Population Genetics

3:30PM Thursday, October 23, 2008, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Tim Liao, Department of Sociology, University of Illinois
A Rank-Based Clustering Method for the Analysis of Social Inequality Data

3:30PM Tuesday, October 28, 2008, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Fritz Scheuren, National Opinion Research Center (NORC), University of Chicago
Sampling and Nonsampling Errors in Exit Polling

3:30PM Thursday, October 30, 2008, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Erhard Cramer, Institut für Statistik und Wirtschaftsmathematik RWTH Aachen, Germany
Progressive Censoring - Some Recent Developments

3:30PM Thursday, November 6, 2008, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Vanja Dukic, Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
A Bayesian SEIR Approach to Modeling Epidemics

3:30PM Thursday, November 13, 2008, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Jia Li, Department of Statistics, Penn State University
Recent Advances in Clustering with Applications to Image Annotation

3:30PM Thursday, November 20, 2008, Room 170 Eighteenth Avenue Bldg. (EA 170)
Cari Kaufman, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Functional ANOVA Models for Comparing Sources of Variability in Climate Model Output


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Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics Events

Quantitative Studies in Consumer Behavior Seminars

Data Mining and Statistical Learning Study Group Seminars

Mathematical Biosciences Institute Seminars


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