Seminars
- Monday, March 25, 1996
- Galen Shorack, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
- "The effect of trimming in the Central Limit Theorem."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Wednesday, March 27, 1996
- General Examination
- Hui-lin Hu, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
- "Large Sample Theory for Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood Estimates in Semiparametric Models."
- Advisor: Jon A. Wellner
- Raitt Hall 107 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 1, 1996
- Art Owen, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
- "Monte Carlo meets quasi-Monte Carlo."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 8, 1996
- Thomas S. Richardson, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
- "A unified approach to representing the structure of Markov Equivalence classes."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Friday, April 12, 1996
- Pacific Northwest Statistics Meeting
- Monday, April 15, 1996
- (Joint with Department of Biostatistics)
- Elizabeth A. Thompson, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
- "Inferences from the distribution of variant alleles in human populations."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 22, 1996
- Soren Hojsgaard, Aalborg University, Denmark and Danish Institute of Plant and Soil Science,
- Dept. of Biometry and Informatics, Research Centre Foulum
- "Split models - an extension of graphical models."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 29, 1996
- Heidi Anderson, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science,Aalborg University, Denmark
- "Computing the observed Fisher information in graphical models with incomplete data using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, May 6, 1996
- Guido Consonni, Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, University of Pavia, Italy
- "Hierarchical Partition Models."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Thursday, May 9, 1996
- General Examination
- Sandra N. Catlin, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
- "A Hidden Two-Dimensional Irreversible Stochastic Compartment Model."
- Advisor: Peter Guttorp
- Loew Hall 113 at 1:00 P.M.
- Monday, May 13, 1996
- Christian Posse, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
- "On the Density of the Maximum of Smooth Gaussian Processes."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, May 20, 1996
- Gary Donaldson, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Department of Statistics, University of Washington
- "Broken Symmetries: SEMS (Structural Equation Models), MEMS (Mixed Effects Models), and the Longitudinal Lens."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, May 27, 1996
- No seminar (Memorial Day).
- Monday, June 3, 1996
- David S. Newman, Senior Principal Scientist, Applied Statistics, Boeing Information and Support Services (Retired)
- "Composite Models for the Distribution of Species."
- Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.