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Seminars

Monday, January 11, 1999: Alejandro Murua, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; "Modeling Spectrograms for Speech Recognition."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, January 25, 1999: Rob Tibshirani, Department of Health Research and Policy and Dept of Statistics, Stanford University; "The global pairwise approach to radiation hybrid mapping."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, February 1, 1999: (Joint with the Department of Biostatistics); Michael Newton, Department of Statistics and Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics,; University of Wisconsin Madison; "Statistical methods for a cancer mutagenesis experiment."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, February 8, 1999: (Joint with the Department of Biostatistics); Giovanni Parmigiani, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University; "Modeling Inherited Susceptibility to Breast Cancer."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, February 11, 1999: General Examination:; Beatrix Jones; "Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Parametric Migration Models."; Advisor: Elizabeth A. Thompson; Gould 435 at 1.30 P.M.
Friday, February 12, 1999: (Joint with the Department of Biostatistics); Jon Wakefield, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College School of Medicine; "The Bayesian Approach To Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling."; Health Sciences T-639 at 3:30 P.M.
Thursday, February 18, 1999: Dean Billheimer, Applied Statistics, Boeing Phantom Works; "Statistical Methods for Shape Analysis."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Friday, February 19, 1999: Final Examination:; Antonio Eduardo Gomes; "Lifetime and Disease Onset Distributions from Incomplete Observations."; Advisor: Jon Wellner; Loew 102 at 1.30 P.M.
Friday, February 19, 1999: Herbert Lee, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University; "A Framework for Nonparametric Regression Using Neural Networks."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, February 22, 1999: Jonathan J Forster, University of Southampton; "Bayesian inference for multivariate categorical data."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Tuesday, February 23, 1999: Susan Paddock, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University; "Randomized Polya Trees: Bayesian Nonparametrics for Exploration of Multidimensional Structures."; Savery 249 at 12:30 P.M.
Thursday, February 25, 1999: Final Examination:; Cibele Queiroz da Silva; "Capture-recapture estimation of bowhead whale population size using photo-identification data."; Advisors: Judy Zeh, David Madigan; Electrical Engineering Building 222 at 2.30 P.M.
Monday, March 1, 1999: Alon Levy, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington; "Web-site Management Based on Declarative Specifications."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Wednesday, March 3, 1999: Final Examination:; Nilanjan Chatterjee; "Semiparametric Inference Based on Estimating Equations in Regressions Models for Two Phase Outcome Dependent Sampling."; Advisors: Norman E. Breslow, Jon A. Wellner; Thompson 125 at 3.30 P.M.
Thursday, March 4, 1999: Matthew Cooper, Center for Imaging Science, The Johns Hopkins University; "Information Measures for Object Recognition Accommodating Signature Variation."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Friday, March 5, 1999: Mark Berman, CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences, Sydney, NSW, Australia; "Algorithms and Software for the Automated Identification of Minerals using Field Spectra or Hyperspectral Imagery."; Padelford C-301 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, March 8, 1999: John Castelloe, SAS Institute, Inc; "Issues in Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Composite EM Analysis, Applied to Spatial Poisson Cluster Process."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.
Tuesday, March 9, 1999: Johanna Hardin, Division of Statistics, University of California Davis; "The Distribution of Robust Distances."; Miller 301 at 12:30 P.M.
Thursday, March 11, 1999: General Examination:; Gregory Kirk Ridgeway; "Methods for Boosting and Massive Dataset Bayesian Inference."; Advisors: David Madigan, Thomas S. Richardson; Thompson 325 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, March 15, 1999: Prof. Fortunato Pesarin, Dr. Luigi Salmaso, Department of Statistics, University of Padova; "A Resampling Procedure for Nonparametric Combination of Several Dependent Tests."; Communications 120 at 3:30 P.M.