STA 395 Speakers

Speakers and Topics
Sept 01 Brani Vidakovic: Intro. Multiscale Statistical Methods Sept 03 Brunero Liseo: Bayesian Analysis with Azzalinni's Families
Sept 08 Hedibert Lopes: Predictive Computation in Factor Models Sept 10 Jacob Laading: Hierarchical deformation modeling for medical images
Sept 15 Jaeyong Lee: Acceleration of Metropolis-Hastings Algorithms Sept 17 Merlise Clyde: Model Uncertainty and Bayesian Model Averaging
Sept 22 Dongchu Sun: Random Effects in Generalized Linear Mixed Models Sept 24 Susie Bayarri: Conditional Measures of Surprise
Sept 29 Mike West: Multivariate Non-Gaussian Time Series: Bayesian Analysis of Longitudinal Data in a Case Study in the VA Hospital System, I Oct 01 Mike West: Multivariate Non-Gaussian Time Series: Bayesian Analysis of Longitudinal Data in a Case Study in the VA Hospital System, II
Oct 06 Jim Berger: Expected Posterior Priors for Model Selection and Mixture Models I Oct 08 Jim Berger: Expected Posterior Priors for Model Selection and Mixture Models II
Oct 13 OCTOBER BREAK Oct 15 Gabriel Katul: Modeling Turbulent Transport within Forested Canopies: Why statistics?
Oct 20 Giovanni Parmigiani: Statistical Issues in Understanding Disease Genes, I Oct 22 Giovanni Parmigiani: Statistical Issues in Understanding Disease Genes, II
Oct 27 Francesca Dominici: National Mortality, Morbidity and Air Pollution Study: Statistical Challenges Oct 29 Peter Mueller and Don Berry: Simulation Based Sequential Design: Optimal Stopping in a Clinical Trial
Nov 03 Lurdes Inoue, Peter Mueller, Gary Rosner, and Mark Dewhirst: A Bayesian Model for Detecting Changes in Nonlinear Profiles Nov 05 De Veaux, Department of Mathematics, Williams College: Hybrid Neural Networks for Environmental Process Control
Nov 10 Dave Higdon: Markov Random Fields and Applications in Image Analysis Nov 12 David Conesa: Bayesian Analysis of Bulk Arrival Queues
Nov 17 Jamie Robins, Harvard School of Public Health: Marginal Structural Models and Causal Inference in Epidemiology Nov 19 Peter Mueller, Brani Vidakovic: Bayesian Inference with Wavelets: Density Estimation
Nov 24 Jane Liu: Particle Filtering in Dynamic Models Nov 26 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Dec 01 Ed Iversen: A Model for Risk of Breast Cancer Dec 03 Jim Lynch: On the Ergodicity of General State Space Markov Chains


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