STA 395 Speakers

Monday Wednesday
Jan 13 Michael Lavine
Jan 18: MLK holiday Jan 20 Jim Berger
Jan 25 Jim Berger Jan 27 Ken Land (Sociology)
Feb 1 Brani Vidakovic Feb 3 Tom DiPrete (Sociology)
Feb 8 Mark Peot Feb 10 215++: Section 2.1, Giovanni Parmigiani
Feb 15 Jim Clark (Botany) Feb 17 215++: Sections 4.1-4.2, Peter Mueller
Feb 22 215++: Section 4.3, Maria de Iorio Feb 24 215++: Section 2.3, Lurdes Inoue, "Information"
Mar 1 215++: Section 4.4, "Unbiased Tests", Marco Ferreira Mar 3 215++: Section 5.1, "Point Estimation", Michael Lavine
Mar 8 215++: Robust Estimation, Michael Lavine Mar 10 215++: Section 5.3, "The Bootstrap", David Higdon
Mar 15: Spring Recess Mar 17: Spring Recess
Mar 22 215++: Section 7.1, Rui Paolo Mar 24 Tim Berry
Mar 29 215++: Section 7.3, Rui Paolo Mar 31 215++: Section 7.4, Hedibert Lopes
Apr 5 215++: Section 5.2, Ed Iversen Apr 7 215++: The Stein phenomenon, Sining Chen
Apr 12 215++: More Stein Estimation, Giovanni Parmigiani Apr 14 Dubois Bowman
Apr 19 Rui Paolo Apr 21 215++: Robust Bayes, Section 8.6.3, Michael Lavine>


215++ will be a series of lectures based on Mark Shervish's book Theory of Statistics. We plan to cover sections 2.1, 4.1-4.5, 5.1-5.2, 7.1, and 7.3-7.5. The series is organized by Peter Mueller, Giovanni Parmigiani and Michael Lavine. We will give introductory talks on each chapter. Other talks will be contributed by students.

M. Lavine
January '99