USC Statistics - Colloquium Series

University of South Carolina, Department of Statistics

Department of Statistics Colloquium Series

Spring 2002

Note: All colloquia will be held at 2:30-3:30pm in LeConte 210A unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served at 3:30-4:00pm in LeConte 213.

January 14: Colloquium will be from 3:15-4:15 in LC 412, with refreshments at 4:15 at LC Rm 213
Dr. Eric Chicken, Department of Statistics, Purdue University, IN
Title: Density Estimation Using Block Thresholding (Abstract)

January 18: Colloquium will be from 3:30-4:30 in LC 210A, with refreshments at 3:00 at LC Rm 213
Kerrie Nelson, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, WA
Title: Estimation in Generalized Linear Mixed Models: Comparison of Maximum Likelihood with Iterative Bias Correction (Abstract)

January 25: Dr. Robert Delongchamp, National Center for Toxicological Research,
Title: Statistical issues in normalizing gene expression data form cDNA arrays (Abstract)

February 1: Colloquium will be from 3:30-4:30 in LC 210A, with refreshments at 3:00 at LC Rm 213 Dr. Zhengjun Zhang , Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Title: Multivariate Extremes, Max-Stable Process Estimation and Dynamic Financial Modeling (Abstract)

February 8: Dr. Robert Taylor, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Title: Consistency and Validity of Dependent Bootstrap Estimators (Abstract)

February 15: NO COLLOQUIUM

February 22: NO COLLOQUIUM (Week of Dean's Visit to Department)

March 1: (This talk is joint with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics)

Dr. Ram Tiwari, National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Title: NIH Funding Mechanism and Funding Opportunities in Statistics

March 8: NO COLLOQUIUM (Before Spring Break)

March 15: NO COLLOQUIUM (Spring Break)

March 22: Dr. Roger Berger, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC.

Title: The Exact Size of the Chi Squared Test for Comparing Two Binomial Proportions (Abstract)

March 29: Dr. Elizabeth Slate, Department of Biometry and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

Title: Detecting Changes in Trend Data (Abstract)

April 5: Dr. R. Webster West, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

Title: Changepoint Alternatives to the NOAEL (Abstract)

April 12: Dr. Fred Hulting, General Mills Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota. [Talk partially supported by the Section of Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) of the American Statistical Association.]

Title: Statistics in New Product Development (Abstract)

April 19: "Recognition Colloquium" with Dr. James Lynch, Chair, Moderating.

April 26: SCASA Meeting. Please see announcement later or contact Professor Brian Habing (habing@stat.sc.edu). Titles and Abstracts of Talks are in http://www.stat.sc.edu/scasa/Apr02.html.

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