Seminars

Monday, January 13, 2003
Lisa Korf, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Washington
"Statistical Estimation from an Optimization Viewpoint"
Mary Gates Hall 389 at 3:30

Friday, January 24, 2003
Sergio Firpo, Dept. of Economics, University of California - Berkeley
"Efficient Semiparametric Estimation of Quantile Treatment Effects"
Thomson 125 at 3:30

Monday, January 27, 2003
Sibel Sirakaya, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Recidivism and Social Interactions"
Mary Gates Hall at 3:30

Wednesday, January 29, 2003
Bradley Efron, Dept. of Statistics, Stanford University
"Prediction Error: Covariance Penalties and Cross-validation"
EE1 105 at 3:30

Monday, February 3, 2003
John Moody, Oregon Health & Science University
"What is the 'True Price'? -- State Space Models for High Frequency Financial Data"
Mary Gates Hall 389 at 3:30

Wednesday, February 5, 2003
Ivan Jeliazkov, Dept of Economics, Washington U. in St. Louis
"Semiparametric Hierarchical Bayes Analysis of Discrete Panel Data with State Dependence"
Savery 209 at 12:30

Monday, February 10, 2003
Brad Bell, Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington
"Considerations and approaches regarding the deconvolution of an unknown function of one variable from a finite set of measurements"
Mary Gates Hall 389 at 3:30

Monday, February 24, 2003
Claudia Tebaldi, National Center for Atmospheric Research
"Bayesian Analysis of multi-model ensembles for assessing uncertainty in climate change projections"
Mary Gates Hall 389 at 3:30

Wednesday, February 26, 2003
Fred L. Bookstein, University of Vienna, University of Michigan
"Numbers and Reasons: Why some quantitative scientific arguments seem to work so well"
Bagley 260 at 3:30

Monday, March 3, 2003
Tilmann Gneiting, Dept. of Statistics, Univ. of Washington
"Stochastic models that separate fractal dimension and Hurst effect"
Mary Gates Hall 389 at 3:30

Monday, March 10, 2003
Lurdes Y.T. Inoue, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
"Pragmatic Bayesian Designs For Clinical Trials"
Mary Gates Hall 389 at 3:30