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.