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Seminars

Monday, April 3, 2000: (Joint with the Department of Mathematics Optimization Seminar); Lisa A. Korf, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle; "Ergodic Limit Laws for Stochastic Optimization Problems."; Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
Tuesday, April 4, 2000: Final Examination:; Enrica Bellone; "Nonhomogeneous hidden Markov models for downscaling synoptic atmospheric patterns to precipataion amounts."; Advisor: Peter Guttorp and Jim Hughes; Smith 407 at 3:00 P.M.
Thursday, April 13, 2000: (Joint with the Department of Biostatistics); Nilanjan Chatterjee, Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute; "Association and aggregation analysis using kin-cohort designs with applications to genotype and family history data from the Washington Ashkenazi Study."; Health Sciences T-639 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, April 24, 2000: Somesh Das Gupta, Indian Statistical Institute; "Gini Association and the Pseudo-Lorenz Curve."; Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
Wednesday, May 3, 2000: (Joint with CSSS); Julian Besag, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; "Geographical Analysis and Ethical Dilemmas in the Study of Childhood Leukemias in Great Britain."; Savery 209 at 12:30 P.M.
Thursday, May 4, 2000: (Joint with the Department of Biostatistics); Ron Pyke, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington; "Parrondo's Paradox: Winning Mixtures of Losing Games."; Health Sciences T-639 at 3:30 P.M.
Wednesday, May 10, 2000: (Joint with CSSS); Gary King, Department of Government and Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences, Harvard University; "Inference in Case-Control Studies with Limited Auxilliary Information."; Physics and Astronomy Building A-110 at 3:30 P.M.
Wednesday, May 17th, 2000: (Joint with CSSS); Babette Brumback, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington; "Perspectives on Causal Inference and Longitudinal Interventions.""; Savery 209 at 12:30 P.M.
Monday, May 22th, 2000: Marten H. Wegkamp, Yale University; "Model Selection Procedures in Non-parametric Regression."; Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
Friday, May 26, 2000: General Examination:; Moulinath Banerjee; "Likelihood Ratio Inference in a Class of Non-regular Problems."; Advisor: Jon Wellner; Thompson 325 at 2:30 P.M.
Wednesday, May 31, 2000: (Joint with CSSS); Peter Guttorp, Department of Statistics, University of Washington; "Environmental Standards from a Statistical Point of View."; Savery 209 at 12:30 P.M.