Seminars

Monday, January 8, 1996
Leonhard Knorr-Held, Seminar fur Statistik, Universitat Munchen.
"Dynamic modelling of multicategorical data: some aspects and applications."
Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, January 15, 1996
No seminar (MLK Day).

Monday, January 22, 1996
Charles Kooperberg, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
"Hazard and density estimation for bivariate survival data."
Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, January 29, 1996
Michael D. Perlman, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
" An alternative Markov property for chain graphs."
Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, February 5, 1996
Nicolaas M. Faber, Center for Process Analytic Chemistry, University of Washington.
" Chemometrics and "statistical thinking."
Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, February 12, 1996
Simon Heath, Department of Statistics, University of Washington.
"A Gibbs sampling approach to the genetic mapping of genes affecting quantitative traits."
Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, February 19, 1996
No seminar (President's Day).

Monday, February 26, 1996
Mark Hansen, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies.
"Triograms: bivariate function estimation through the use of spline spaces defined over adaptively constructed triangulations."
Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Monday, March 4, 1996
Somesh Das Gupta, Indian Statistical Institute.
"Optimal predictive selection."
Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Tuesday, March 5, 1996
Final Examination
Yihui Zhan, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Bootstrapping functional M-estimators."
Thomson Hall 211 at 2:30 P.M.

Wednesday, March 6, 1996
Dongping Fang, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
"Modeling the correlation structure of the TOMS ozone data."
Thompson 101 at 3:30 P.M.

Thursday, March 7, 1996
Christopher Meek, Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University
"Prediction, intervention and discovery."
Savery 239 at 3:30 P.M

Friday, March 8, 1996
Naoki Saito, Schlumberger-Doll Research
"Local discriminant bases and their applications."
Smith 102 at 12:30 P.M.

Monday, March 11, 1996
Yingnian Wu, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
"A theory for texture modeling and random field approximation."
Savery 249 at 3:30 P.M