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Seminars

Monday, April 5, 1999: R. Douglas Martin, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; "Modern Robust Regression with Applications in Finance."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, April 12, 1999: Guy Nason, University of Bristol; "Time Scale Analysis."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, April 19, 1999: Werner Stuetzle, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; "Scanning and Modeling the Human Body for Mass Customization of Garments."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, April 26, 1999: No seminar.
Monday, May 3, 1999: (Joint with the Department of Sociology); Mark S. Handcock, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University; "Relative Distribution Methods in the Social Sciences."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Tuesday, May 4, 1999: (Joint with the Department of Sociology); Martina Morris, The Pennsylvania State University; "Networks and HIV: The structure of transmission."; Savery 209 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, May 10, 1999: John Moody, Oregon Graduate Institute; "Minimizing Downside Risk via Stochastic Dynamic Programming."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, May 17, 1999: Leo Breiman, Department of Statistics , University of California, Berkeley; "Reducing Bias and Variance Using Adaptive Bagging."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, May 27, 1999: General Examination:; Barnali Das; "Global Covariance Modeling: A Deformation Approach to Anisotropy."; Advisor: Peter Guttorp; Electrical Engineering 218 at 9.15 A.M.
Friday, June 4, 1999: (Joint with the CSDE); Alberto Palloni, University of Wisconsin; "Estimating the Influence of Social Networks on Migration Decisions."; Savery 209 at 12:30 P.M.
Friday, June 4, 1999: Final Examination:; Derek C. Stanford; "Fast Automatic Unsupervised Image Segmentation and Curve Detection in Spatial Point Processes."; Advisor: Adrian E. Raftery; Loew 201 at 12.30 P.M.
Friday, June 11, 1999: General Examination:; Floretina Bunea; "A Model Selection Approach to Partially Linear Regression."; Advisor: Jon Wellner; Thompson 334 at 1.30 P.M.
Friday, June 18, 1999: Final Examination:; Sharon Browning; "Monte Carlo Likelihood Calculation for Identity by Descent Data."; Advisor: Elizabeth Thompson; Thompson 325 at 10.30 A.M.