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Seminars

Friday, October 2, 1998: Donald Richards, University of Virginia; "Hierarchies of FKG Inequalities."; Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, October 5, 1998: Donald Richards, University of Virginia; "Plug-in quadratic discriminant functions in multivariate analysis."; Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, October 12, 1998: R. Douglas Martin, University of Washington; "An Introduction to Option Pricing- Black-Scholes, Biniomial Trees and Other Comments."; Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, October 26, 1998: David Donoho, Stanford University; "The Shannon Estimator."; Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Friday, October 30, 1998: Paul C. Shields, University of Toledo, Ohio; "Consistent estimation of Markov order."; Communications Building B-004 at 2:30 P.M.
Monday, November 2, 1998: Allan Marcus, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; "Particulate Matter Measurement Error, Correlation, and Confounding: How Serious a Problem?."; Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, November 9, 1998: Eric Jacquier, Assistant Professor of Finance, Boston College; "MCMC estimation of Stochastic Volatility Models."; Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, November 16, 1998: Michael D. Perlman, University of Washington; "The Emperor's New Tests: A Defense of the Likelihood Ratio Criterion."; Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, November 23, 1998: No seminar.
Monday, November 30, 1998: General Examination:; Daniel Walsh; "Methods for Detecting Features in Spatial Point Processes, with an Application to Minefield Detection."; Advisor: Adrian Raftery; Balmer 203 at 10.30 A.M.
Monday, November 30, 1998: Nilanjan Chatterjee, University of Washington; "A Semiparametric Method for Two Phase Studies."; Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, December 7, 1998: Jon Wakefield, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Imperial College School of Medicine; "Accounting for inaccuracies in population counts and case registration in cancer mapping studies."; Communications Building 120 at 3:30 P.M.