Statistics Seminar Series, 1999

December

2

Leopold Simar, Nonparametric Frontier Models: The Statistical Approach

November

18

Michael C. Minnotte, Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Binned Density Estimation

September

9

Thomas Yee, Vector Generalized Additive Models

2

Aparna V. Huzurbazar, Flowgraphs Models and Competing Risks

August

17

Owen Jones, Large Deviations for Supercritical Branching Processes

12

Adelchi Azzalini, Some Statistical Issues Related to Audit Data

5

Geoffrey Grimmet, Percolation and Random Labyrinths

July

29

Madan Puri, Conditional U-Statistics with Applications in ARMA Processes, Discrimination and Hidden Markov Models

22

Chip Heathcote, Modelling Non-homogeneous Markov Chains

15

Azaria Paz, GRAPHOIDS: A Graph Based Theory for Investigating Relevance Relations Induces by Probabilistic Distributions

June

22

Prakasa Rao, On Bayes Estimation for some Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

17

Songxi Chen, Confidence Intervals for Nonparametric Regression Based on a Local Linear Smoother

10

Ben Hambly, Diffusion on Graph Directed Fractals

Eugene Seneta will speak in the MSI Colloquium at 4:00pm

May

13

Daryl Daley, Sources of Long Range Dependence in Service Systems

March

18

Satish Iyengar, Diffusion Models for Neural Activity

11

Gurami Tsitsaishvili, Cooperative Effects in Queueing Systems

10

Jerome Friedman, Greedy Function Approximation: A Gradient Boosting Machine

09

Jerome Friedman, Additive Logistic Regression: a Statistical View of Boosting

04

Rafail Khasminskii, Parameter Estimation for Linear Homogeneous Stochastic Differential Equations (SDE)

February

16

Dawei Huang, Some Non-linear Time Series Problems: an Information Theory Approach

11

Hans Mueller, Discontinuous versus Smooth Regression

04

John Rice, Nonparametric Mixed Effects Models for Unequally Sampled Noisy Curves

January

28

Valentin Rousson, Adaptive Confidence Interval for the Mean of Symmetric or Asymmetric Populations

21

John Braun, Analyzing Markov Chains with the Censoring Technique