Fall 2007

Note: All colloquia will be held at 2:00pm in Gambrell Room 005, unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served at 3:15pm in LeConte 213.

• March 20:   Mike Daniels , Department of Statistics and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Florida
       Joint Models for the Association of Longitudinal Binary and Continuous Processes with Application to a Smoking Cessation Trial
  This Seminar is Jointly Sponsored with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

   
  

• December 6:   Bo Cai, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina
       Bayesian Semiparametric Modeling using Mixtures for Stratified Survival Data
  This Seminar is Jointly Sponsored with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

   
  

• November 29:   Franciso Vera, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University
        Acceleration of the EM Algorithm in Mixture Models
  This seminar will take place in LeConte College, Room 210A

   
  

• November 15:   Mahlet G. Tadesse, Department of Mathematics, Georgetown University
       Unified Bayesian Methods for Variable Selection and Clustering
  This Seminar is Jointly Sponsored with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

   
  

• November 8:  Robert Henson, Department of Educational Research Methodology, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
       Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimation for a Family of Cognitive Diagnosis Models

   
  

• November 1:  Leonard A. Stefanski, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
      Contributions to the Practice and Teaching of Regression and Variable Selection

   
  

• October 25:   Lee Van Horn , Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina
       Moderation Without a Moderator: Assessing Regression Mixture Models

   
  

• Wednesday, October 17:   David B. Dunson Biostatistics Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
        Nonparametric Bayes Methods for Flexible Regression with Epidemiologic Applications
  This Seminar is Jointly Sponsored with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  It will be held in HESCH Room 114 at 12:30 p.m.

   
  

• September 6:   Don Edwards Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina
        Exact, Flexible Sequential Acceptance Sampling for Attributes, With Applications to Medicare Fraud Investigations
  This seminar will be held in LeConte College, Room 210A