Seminars

Seminars - Spring 2007

• Modern protocol design with modeling and simulation: A case study on comparing primary analysis methods.
  Wednesday -- January 17, 2007 -- Jose Pinheiro, Novartis
  
• Sequential Monte Carlo methods and their applications: An overview and recent developments.
  Wednesday -- January 24, 2007 -- Rong Chen, University of Illinois at Chicago
  
• Robust inference using higher order influence function.
  TUESDAY -- January 30, 2007 -- Lingling Li, Harvard University
  
• High dimensional classification using features annealed independence rules.
  Wednesday -- January 31, 2007 -- Yingying Fan, Princeton University
  
• Sure independence screening for ultra-high dimensional feature space.
  Thursday Noon -- February 1, 2007 -- Jinchi Lv, Princeton University
  
• Aggregation and sparsity in high dimensions: l₁ regularization and on-line algorthims.
  Tuesday Noon -- February 6, 2007 -- Florentina Bunea, Florida State University
  
• Classification with a reject option.
  Wednesday -- February 7, 2007 -- Marten Wegkamp, Florida State University
  
• Biased sampling, Monte Carlo integration, and causal inference.
  Tuesday Noon -- February 13, 2007 -- Zhiqiang Tan, Johns Hopkins
  
• Limiting distribution of the MLE for current status data with competing risks.
  Wednesday -- February 14, 2007 -- Marloes Maathuis, University of Washington
  
• Oracle equivalence of the proportion of non-zero normal means: with applications to CGH array.
  Tuesday Noon -- February 20, 2007 -- Jiashun Jin, Purdue University
  
• False discovery rates for spatial signals.
  Wednesday -- February 21, 2007 -- Ruth Heller, Tel Aviv
  
• Non-conventional sampling techniques in massive data.
  Tuesday -- February 27, 2007 -- Ping Li, Stanford University
  
• Climate, sea level, and impact studies: How does statistics help?
  Wednesday -- February 28, 2007 -- Kenneth G. Miller, Rutgers University
  
• Item reduction in a scale for screening.
  Wednesday -- March 7, 2007 -- Zhezhen Jin, Columbia Biostatistics
  
• l1 regularization in infinite dimensional feature space.
  Wednesday -- March 21, 2007 -- Saharon Rosset, IBM
  
• CANCELLED.
  Wednesday -- March 21, 2007
  
• Maximizing your pleasure: Optimal investment and consumption policies in continuous time.
  Wednesday -- April 4, 2007 -- Adam Jonsson, Statistics, Rutgers
  
• Structured Association Testing, Regional Admixture Mapping, and Random Effects Models: Bringing it all together.
  TUESDAY NOON -- April 10, 2007 -- David Allison, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  
• Integration within the Felsenstein equation for improved MCMC methods in population genetics.
  Wednesday -- April 11, 2007 -- Jody Hey, Genetics, Rutgers
  
• Multi-level mixture modeling and Simultaneous subset selection, with applications to clustering and significance analysis of gene expression data.
  Wednesday -- April 18, 2007 -- Rebecka Jornsten, Statistics, Rutgers University
  
• Estimating the mean of high valued observations in high dimensions.
  Wednesday -- April 25, 2007 -- Eitan Greenshtein
  
• Robust quantile regression with non-elliptical covariates.
  Wednesday -- May 2, 2007 -- Matias Salibian-Barrera, University of British Columbia
  
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