Seminars
- Monday, March 30, 1998
- No Seminar.
- Monday, April 6, 1998
- Roberto Altschul, Boeing Applied Statistics Group and Affiliate Associate Professor, Statistics Dept., UW
- "Statistics at the Boeing Company."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 13, 1998
- No Seminar.
- Monday, April 20, 1998
- Alejandro Murua, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
- "Automated Recognition of Bioacoustic Signals."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Wednesday, April 22, 1998
- General Examination:
- Cibele Queiroz Da Silva
- "Capture-Recapture Estimation of Bowhead Whale Population Size and Adult Survival Rate Using Photo Identification Data."
- Advisors: Judy Zeh and David Madigan
- Thomson Hall 334 at 3:30 P.M.
- Thursday, April 23, 1998
- General Examination:
- Sharon Browning
- "Monte Carlo Likelihood for Identity-by-Descent Data."
- Advisor: Elizabeth Thompson
- Balmer 306 at 12:00 P.M.
- Monday, April 27, 1998
- R. L. Tweedie, Colorado State University and O. Stramer, University of Iowa
- "Self-Targeting Candidates for Metropolis-Hastings Algorithms."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Wednesday, April 29, 1998
- R. L. Tweedie, Colorado State University
- "Perfect Sampling of Harris Recurrent Markov Chains."
- Thomson 202 at 2:30 P.M.
- Monday, May 4, 1998
- Andy Siegel, Management Science and Finance, University of Washington
- "Analysis of Sequence-Tagged-Connector Strategies for DNA Sequencing."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, May 11, 1998
- Jean-Francois Cardoso, CNRS/ENST
- "Independent Component Analysis."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, May 18, 1998
- Frank E. Harrell, Jr., Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics,
- Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Health Evaluation Sciences,
- University of Virginia School of Medicine
- "Regression Modeling and Validation Strategies, with an Interactive Analysis of Titanic Passenger Survival."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Wednesday, May 20, 1998
- Probability Seminar, Department of Mathematics
- Peter Green, University of Bristol, UK
- "Exact sampling from a continuous state space."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Thursday, May 21, 1998
- (Joint with the Department of Biostatistics)
- Peter Green, University of Bristol, UK
- "Bayesian exploration of heterogeneity, with the aid of variable dimension MCMC."
- Health Sciences T-639 at 3:30 P.M
- Monday, June 1, 1998
- Richard Karp, Departments of Computer Science and Engineering and Molecular Biotechnology
- "Analysis of a Strategy for Sequencing the Human Genome."
- Thomson 101 at 3:30 P.M.
- Thursday, June 4, 1998
- Final Examination:
- Ying Zhang
- "Estimation for Counting Processes with Incomplete Data."
- Advisor: Jon Wellner
- Communications Building 326 at 3:30 P.M.
- Friday, June 5, 1998
- General Examination:
- Enrica Bellone
- "Hidden Markov Models for Precipitation."
- Advisors: Peter Guttorp and Jim Hughes
- Johnson Hall 123 at 10:00 A.M.