Recent Seminar Abstracts
Statistics / Biostatistics 290
To request a seminar abstract, please contact Pete Scully (pscully
wald.ucdavis.edu)
Summer 2008
Spring 2008
Winter 2008
Fall 2007
Summer 2007
Spring 2007
Winter 2007
Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Winter 2006
Summer 2008 |
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Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 |
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John Aston (University of Warwick, UK) |
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Runs, Patterns and Change-points: an HMM Perspective |
Winter 2008 |
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Thursday February 28th, 2008 |
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Aaron Smith (Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis) |
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Markov Breaks in Regression Models |
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Thursday February 21st, 2008 |
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Jonathan Hill (Economics, University of North Carolina) |
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Tail Trimmed Sums for Dependent, Heterogeneous Data, with Applications to Robust GMM |
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Thursday February 14th, 2008 |
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Xiao Wang (University of Maryland, Baltimore) |
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Nonparametric estimation of dark matter distributions |
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Thursday February 7th, 2008 |
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Cari Kaufman (SAMSI, NCAR) |
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Models for models: statistical methods for climate model output and other massive datasets |
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Monday, February 4th, 2008 |
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Richard Umstaetter (NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
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Bayesian strategies for gravitational radiation data analysis |
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Thursday January 31st, 2008 |
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Marc Coram (Biostatistics, Health Research & Policy, Stanford University) |
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Allele frequency estimation by borrowing |
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Wednesday January 30th, 2008 |
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Bodhisattva Sen(Dept. Statistics, University of Michigan) |
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Bootstrap in some Non-standard Problems |
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Tuesday January 29th, 2008 |
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Ethan Anderes(UC Berkeley) |
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Two Topics in Spatial Statistics: Estimating Cloud Height from Multi-Angle Satellite Imagery and Deformed Random Fields |
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Thursday January 24th, 2008 |
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Ben Morris(Dept. Mathematics, UC Davis) |
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Improved Mixing Time Bounds for the L-Reversal Chain and Thorp Shuffle |
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Thursday January 24th, 2008 |
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Ingileif Hallgrímsdóttir |
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Title: |
The Statistics of Interaction in Genetics |
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Friday January 18th, 2008 |
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Faming Liang(Texas A&M University) |
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Stochastic Approximation Monte Carlo and Its Applications |
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Thursday January 17th, 2008 |
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Jean Opsomer (Dept. Statistics, Colorado State University) |
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Title: |
Endogenous Post-stratification in Surveys |
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Tuesday January 15th, 2008 |
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David Mason (University of Delaware) |
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Title: |
Risk bounds for kernel density estimators |
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Thursday January 10th, 2008 |
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Speaker: |
Per Mykland (Dept. Statistics, University of Chicago) |
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Title: |
Inference forcontinuous semimartingales observed at high frequency: a general approach |
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Tuesday January 8th, 2008 |
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Speaker: |
Bo Li (UCAR) |
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Title: |
Nonparametric Assessment of Properties of Space-Time Covariance Functions and its Application in Paleoclimate Reconstruction |
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Fall 2007 |
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Tuesday December 11th, 2007 |
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Chi-Hse Teng (Non-clinical Statistics, Pfizer St. Luois and La Jolla lab) |
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A real story of searching for hopes - an overview of a genomics project for searching biological targets |
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Thursday November 29th, 2007 |
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Ching-Shui Cheng (UC Berkeley) |
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Construction of minimum aberration designs |
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Thursday November 16th, 2007 |
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Kaare Christensen (The Danish Twin Registry, University of Southern Denmark) |
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Title: |
Why do we age so differently? The Danish twins and oldest-old studies |
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Thursday November 8th, 2007 |
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Chuck McCulloch (Biostatistics, UC San Francisco) |
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Title: |
Prediction of random effects and effects of misspecification of their distribution |
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Thursday November 1st, 2007 |
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Kevin J. Grimm (Psychology, UC Davis) |
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Multitrait-multimethod models for developmental research |
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Thursday October 25th, 2007 |
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Eric Chi (Amgen) |
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Drug development and some statistical applications in the biopharmaceutical industry |
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Thursday October 18th, 2007 |
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Carrie Grimes (Google) |
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Title: |
Statistical problems at google: estimation of web-page change rates |
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Thursday October 11th, 2007 |
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Ji Meng Loh (Columbia University) |
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Bootstrapping spatial data |
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Thursday October 4th, 2007 |
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Arne Bang Huseby (University of Oslo, Norway) |
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Signed domination of oriented matroid system |
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Thursday September 27th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Jane-Ling Wang (Dept. Statistics, UC Davis) |
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Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data |
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Summer 2007 |
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Friday June 22nd, 2007 |
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Damla Senturk (Pennsylvania State University) |
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Title: |
Conditional Correlation for Covariate Adjustment |
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Tuesday June 19th, 2007 |
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Yichao Wu (Princeton University) |
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Title: |
Semiparametric estimation of covariance matrices for longitudinal data |
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Spring 2007 |
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Thursday May 31st, 2007 |
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Joel A. Dubin (Univ. Waterloo, ON) |
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Longitudinal modeling of a response and time-dependent covariate measured at different time points |
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Wednesday May 23rd, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Ken Newman (Fish and Wildlife Services, UC Davis) |
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Bayesian hierachical models for multi-year ecological studies |
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Thursday May 17th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Peter Hall (Dept of Statistics, UC Davis) |
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Title: |
Bootstrap aggregation for cross-validation and inference under constraints |
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Thursday May 10th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Terry Speed (University of California, Berkeley) |
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Title: |
High-Density Short Oligonucleotide Microarrays: A low-Level viewpoint |
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Thursday May 3rd, 2007 |
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Guenther Walther (Stanford University) |
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Scan statistics for quantitating differences in distributions |
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Thursday April 26th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Alan Hubbard (University of California, Berkeley) |
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Variable Importance measures inspired from causal inference in microarray studies of aging |
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Thursday April 19th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Lihong Qi (Dept of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis) |
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Title: |
Statistical Methods for Proportional Hazards Regression With Missing Covariates |
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Tuesday April 17th, 2007 |
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Helen Massam (York University, Toronto) and Bala Rajaratnam (SAMSI). |
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Title: |
Flexible Covariance estimation in Gaussian graphical models |
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Thursday April 12th, 2007 |
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Makram Talih (City University of New York, Hunter College) |
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Title: |
Geodesic Markov Chains on Covariance Matrices |
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Thursday April 5th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Danielle Harvey (Dept of Public Health Sciences, UC Davis) |
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Biologically driven data reduction of high dimensional spatially correlated data |
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Thursday March 29th, 2007 |
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Anandamayee Majumdar (Arizona State University, Phoenix) |
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Title: |
Gradients in Spatial Response Surfaces, with an Application to Urban Land Values |
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Winter 2007 |
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Thursday March 1st, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Romain Neugebauer (Assistant Researcher, Division of Biostatistics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health) |
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Title: |
Causal inference in air pollution epidemiology -- Overcoming violation of the experimental treatment assignment assumption. |
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Tuesday February 27th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Subharup Guha |
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Bayesian Hidden Markov Modeling of Array-CGH Data |
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Thursday February 22nd, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Alexander Aue (Clemson University) |
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Distinguishing between random walks and changes in the mean |
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Tuesday February 20th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Yingying Fan |
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Title: |
High Dimensional Classification Using Features Annealed Independence Rules |
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Thursday February 15th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Guodong Li (Univ. Hong Kong) |
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Testing for threshold moving average with conditional heteroscedasticity |
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Monday February 12th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Crystal Linkletter |
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Title: |
Latent Socio-Spatial Process Model for Social Networks |
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Thursday, February 8, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Jane Fridlyand (Assistant Professor, Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Comprehensive Cancer Center Bioinformatics Core, UCSF) |
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Title: |
Analysis and Integration of Array CGH Data: methods and applications |
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Wednesday February 7th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Debashis Mondal (Univ. Washington) |
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Wavelet Variance Analysis for Time Series and Random Fields |
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Tuesday February 6th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Chunming Zhang (Assoc. Professor, Department of Statistics, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) |
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Semiparametric Detection of Significant Activation for Brain fMRI |
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Thursday February 1st, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Mark R. Segal (Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Molecular Biostatistics, UCSF) |
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Title: |
Chess, Chance and Conspiracy |
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Thursday January 25th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Yunming Mu, Assistant Professor, visitor from Dept of Statistics Texas A&M University |
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Title: |
Power Transformation Techniques in Quantile Regression |
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Thursday January 18th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Bruce Rannala, (UC Davis Genome Center and Evolution & Ecology) |
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Inferring Somatic Mutation Rates Using the Stop-EGFP Mouse |
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Thursday January 11th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Patrice Koehl, Department of Computer Science and Genome Center, UC Davis |
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Protein structure and Protein sequence spaces |
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Tuesday January 9th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
David M. Mason, Statistics Program, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA, davidm |
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Title: |
Local U-Statistic Processes: Methods and Applications |
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Thursday January 4th, 2007 |
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Speaker: |
Charles H. Langley (Section of Evolution and Ecology & Center for Population Biology, UCD) |
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Title: |
Estimates and inferences for Drosophila population genomics |
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Fall 2006 |
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Thursday December 7th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Noureddine El Karoui, (Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley) |
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Title: |
Random matrix theory and multivariate Statistics |
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Thursday November 30th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
David Wittman (Dept of Physics, UC Davis) |
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Large Optical Astronomy Surveys |
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Thursday November 16th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Raissa D’Souza (UC Davis, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Dept of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering) |
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Growth and Function of Networks |
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Thursday November 9th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Pei Wang, Cancer Prevention Program, PHS, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center |
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A statistical method for alignment of liquid-chromatography mass-spectrometry (LC-MS) data |
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Thursday November 2nd, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Jeng-Min Chiou, Institute of Statistical Science Academia Sinica |
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Title: |
Functional clustering of longitudinal data |
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Thursday October 26th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Ethan Anderes, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley |
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Title: |
Estimating Deformations of Gaussian Random Fields |
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Thursday October 19th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Katherine Pollard, Department of Statistics and Genome Center, University of California, Davis |
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Title: |
What Made Us Human? |
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Thursday October 12th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Wolfgang Jank, Department of Decision & Information Technology, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland |
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Modeling Concurrency of Events in Online Auctions via Spatio-Temporal Semiparametric Models |
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Thursday October 5th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Souray Chatterjee, Dept of Statistics, UC Berkeley |
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Title: |
Transcriptome Variance Decomposition |
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Thursday September 28th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Sergey Nuzhdin (Section of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis) |
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Title: |
What Made Us Human? |
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Spring 2006 |
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Thursday June 1st, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Nicolai Meinshausen (ETH Zürich, Switzerland; visiting UC Berkeley) |
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Title: |
The search for small objects in the outer solar system. How many are there? |
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Thursday May 25th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Philip B. Stark (UC Berkeley) |
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Title: |
Shaking Down Earthquake Predictions |
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Thursday May 18th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Oscar Jorda (Economics, UC Davis) |
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Title: |
Projection Minimum Distance: An Estimator for Multivariate Dynamic Systems |
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Thursday May 11th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Debashis Paul (Department of Statistics, UC Davis) |
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Title: |
Principal Component Analysis for Structured High Dimensional Data |
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Thursday May 4th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Ingo Steinwart (Los Alamos National Laboratory) |
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Title: |
Surrogate loss functions for finding density level sets |
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Thursday April 27th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Richard Davis, Dept of Statistics, Colorado State University |
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Title: |
Structural Break Detection in Time Series Models |
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Monday April 24th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Moshe Shaked (Dept. of Mathematics, University of Arizona) |
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Title: |
Stochastic ordering of Minima |
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Thursday April 20th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Myles Hollander (Florida State University) |
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Title: |
Random matrix theory and multivariate Statistics |
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Thursday April 13th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Norm Matloff (Dept of Computer Science, UC Davis) |
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Title: |
How One Can Estimate Web-Access Rates with (Almost) No Data |
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Thursday April 6th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Katherine S. Pollard (Department of Statistics, UC Davis) |
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Title: |
Multiple hypothesis testing for high dimensional biological data |
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Thursday March 30th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Emilio Ferrer (Department of Psychology, UC Davis) |
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Title: |
A Linear Dynamic Model of Difference Scores for Studying Developmental Dynamics |
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Winter 2006 |
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Thursday March 9th, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Lutz Duembgen (University of Bern, Switzerland) |
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Title: |
Log-Concavity and Density Estimation |
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Thursday March 2nd, 2006 |
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Speaker: |
Alexandre Tsybakov (University of Paris VI) |
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Title: |
Learning by mirror averaging |
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