Seminars
- Monday, March 26 2001
- (Joint with Department of Computer Science and Engineering).
- Brendan Frey, Department of Computer Science, University of Waterloo.
- "Part 1: Overview of Adaptive Algorithms Lab at the University of Toronto."
- "Part 2: ALGONQUIN: Fast Variational Methods for Robust Speech Recognition or Variational Methods Explained using Cartoons."
- EE1 105 at 3:30 P.M.
- Thursday, March 29 2001
- (Joint with Department of Biostatistics).
- Oliver Will, Center for Computational and Experimental Genomics, University of Southern California.
- "Molecular and Fossil Estimates of Primate Divergence: A Reconciliation."
- HSB T-639 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 2 2001
- Adrian Raftery, Department of Statistics.
- "Bayesian Multidimensional Scaling and Choice of Dimension."
- LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.
- Thursday, April 5 2001
- (Joint with Department of Biostatistics).
- Moulinath Banerjee, Department of Statistics.
- "Likelihood Ratio Inference for Current Status Data and Related Models Involving Nonparametric Estimation of a Monotone Function."
- HSB T-639 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 9 2001
- Michael Eichler, University of Heidelberg.
- "Causal Inference From Graphical Time Series Models."
- LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.
- Tuesday, April 10 2001
- General Examination.
- Russell Steele.
- "Importance Sampling Approaches to Missing Data Problems."
- Advisor: Adrian E. Raftery.
- Denny Hall 314 at 2:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 16 2001
- Vladimir I. Koltchinskii, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico.
- "Empirical Margin Distributions and Bounding the Generalization Error in Learning Problems."
- LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 23 2001
- Elizabeth Thompson, Department of Statistics.
- "Probabilities on Pedigrees: What? How? and Why?"
- LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, April 30 2001
- (Joint with NRCSE).
- Ernst Linder, University of New Hampshire.
- "Estimating Local Trends in Large Environmental Spatial Temporal Databases."
- LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, May 7 2001
- Chris Triggs, Department of Statistics, University of Auckland.
- "The Forensic and Statistical Science of Evidence Derived from Fragments of Glass."
- LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.
- Thursday, May 10 2001
- Final Examination.
- Jacob A. Wegelin.
- "Latent Models for Cross-Covariance."
- Advisors: Thomas Richardson and Paul Sampson.
- Thomson 125 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, May 14 2001
- Jon Wellner, Department of Statistics.
- "In Memory of Lucien Le Cam (1924 - 2000): Seven of Le Cam's Theorems Every Statistician Should Know."
- LOW 201 at 3:30 P.M.
- Thursday, May 17 2001
- General Examination.
- Jeremy Tantrum.
- "Model Based Document Clustering."
- Advisors: Alejandro Murua and Werner Stuetzle.
- ART 003 at 3:30 P.M.
- Monday, May 21 2001
- No Seminar. NRCSE workshop: Spatial Moving Average Models .
- Monday, May 28 2001
- No Seminar.
- Tuesday, May 29 2001
- (Joint with Electrical Engineering).
- Kit Withers, Industrial Research Limited, New Zealand.
- "The Distribution of Channel Capacity for Transmit/Receive Array Antennas."
- ART 003 at 11:00 A.M.
- Monday, June 4 2001
- Claudia Czado, University of Technology, Munich, Germany.
- "State space mixed models for longitudinal observations with binary and binomial responses."
- SMI 102 at 3:30 P.M.
- Wednesday, June 6 2001
- Charles J. Stone, Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley.
- "Extended Linear Modeling with Splines."
- LOW 105 at 3:30 P.M.