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Department Seminars
General Information
When: Thursdays, 4:00–4:50 p.m.
Where: 1170 TMCB
Schedule of Upcoming Seminars
Click here to see a list of presenters from Fall 2006 and Winter 2007
| Fall 2007 | Speaker | Topic |
| September 6 | No Seminar First week of class |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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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