Fall 2008

Note: All colloquia will be held at 2:00pm in LeConte College, Room 210A unless otherwise noted. Refreshments will be served at 3:00pm in LeConte 213.

• August 28:   Joshua Habiger , Department of Statistics , University of South Carolina
        Modern Multiple Hypotheses Testing

   
  

• September 4:   Peng Cheng, Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina
       Maximum Likelihood Method to Analyze Assay Data with Quantification Limit in Clinical Trials

   
  

• September 11:   Leslie Hendrix, Department of Statistics , University of South Carolina
       Assessing Model Fit in IRT using PPMC Methodology without MCMC

   
  

• October 2:   JiaJia Zhang, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina
       Mixture Cure Frailty Model

   
  

• October 16:   Yehua Li, Department of Statistics, University of Geotgia
       Deciding the Dimension of the Effective Dimension Reduction Space for Functional Data

   
  

• October 23:   Xiaoyan (Iris)Lin , Department of Statistics, University of South Carolina
        Bayesian Hierarchical Models for the Recognition-Memory Experiment

   
  

• October 30:   Huxia Judy Wang, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
        Locally Weighted Censored Quantile Regression

   
  

• November 6:Sharon Yeatts, Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina
        The Role of an Academic Statistician in Clinical Trials

   
  

• November 13: Robert E. Ployhart, Moore School of Business,University of South Carolina
       The Space Between What's Wrong and Right: Multilevel and Longitudinal Modeling in Management and Applied Psychology