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Seminars

Monday, January 8 2001: (Joint with NRCSE).; Paul Murtaugh, NRCSE, University of Washington.; "Before-After-Control-Impact Analysis in Ecology."; Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, January 15 2001: No Seminar.
Wednesday, January 17 2001: (Combinatorics and Geometry Seminar, Dept. of Mathematics).; Steven Gillispie, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington.; "Markov Equivalence Classes for Bayesian Belief Networks."; Joint work with Michael Perlman.; C401 Padelford Hall at 4:00 P.M.
Monday, January 22 2001: (Joint with NRCSE).; Paul Sampson, NRCSE and Department of Statistics, University of Washington.; "Georges Matheron, the Father of Geostatistics."; Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, January 29 2001: Fred Bookstein, University of Michigan.; "Missing Data in Morphometrics."; Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, February 5 2001: Chris Triggs, University of Auckland, New Zealand.; "The Strength of Evidence Found by Searching a Database."; Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, February 12 2001: Steve Stigler, University of Chicago.; "Risk and the Eighteenth Century French Lottery: Napoleon Meets his Chi-Square."; Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, February 19 2001: No Seminar.
Monday, February 26 2001: (Department of Mathematics Probability Seminar).; Jon Wellner, Department of Statistics.; "Some functionals of Brownian motion connected with estimation of montone and convex functions."; SMI 111 at 2:30 P.M.
Tuesday, February 27 2001: General Exam.; Ayesha Ali.; "Applying Graphical Models to Partially Observed Data Generating Processes."; Advisor: Thomas Richardson.; EE1 031 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, March 5 2001: (Department of Mathematics Optimization Seminar).; Marina Meila, Department of Statistics.; "Pairwise Clustering by Random Walks."; Padelford C-401 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, March 5 2001: (Joint with CSSS).; Nicolas Hengartner, Department of Statistics, Yale University.; "Nonparametric Estimation of the Time to the Discovery of a New Species."; Smith 205 at 3:30 P.M.
Tuesday, March 6 2001: (Joint with Department of Biostatistics and CSSS).; Hal Stern, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University.; "Loss Functions for Estimation of Extremes in Disease Mapping."; HSB T-639 at 3:30 P.M.
Monday, March 12 2001: (Joint with NRCSE).; Alan E. Gelfand, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut.; "On Model Determination for Spatial and Spatio-temporal Data."; Thomson 119 at 3:30 P.M.