Seminars in Current Semester

Department Seminars

• 30 November 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  to be announced, (Dept Seminar) W. Q. Meeker, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
• 16 November 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  to be announced, (Dept Seminar) Volodymyr Melnykov, North Dakota State University
• 09 November 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  Issues in the Application of Latent Class Models for Survey Evaluation: An Agenda for Future Research, (Dept Seminar) Paul Biemer, RTI International and University of North Carolina
• 02 November 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  Weight and See, (Other) Antony Unwin, Augsburg University, Germany
• 26 October 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  Censored quantile regression, (Dept Seminar) Huixia Judy Wang, North Carolina State University, Raleigh
• 19 October 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor Hall
  Tracking Flu Epidemics Using Google Trends and Particle Learning Algorithms, (Dept Seminar) Vanja Dukic, The University of Chicago, Department of Health Studies
• 12 October 4:10 pm,
  Mixture Model Component Trees: Finding and Visualizing Hierarchical Component Structure (with Applications in Cognitive Diagnosis), (Dept Seminar) Rebecca Nugent, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon U., Pittsburgh, PA
• 09 October 4:10 pm, Snedecor 2113
  Gene set testing and gene selection using permutation testing procedures, (Other) Megan Orr
• 05 October 4:10 pm, Snedecor 3105
  Sliced Space-filling Designs, (Dept Seminar) Peter Z. G. Qian
• 05 October 4:11 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  Sliced Space-filling Designs, (Dept Seminar) Peter Z. G. Qian, Department of Statistics, U of WI - Madison
• 28 September 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  A Separability Index for Clustering and Classification Problems, (Dept Seminar) Anna Peterson, Department of Statistics, ISU
• 21 September 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  Model-free Inference Problems with Dependent Data, (Dept Seminar) Dan Nordman, Department of Statistics, ISU
• 14 September 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  It Didn't Just Happen, (Dept Seminar) William Barnes and Tom Rosborough, Olson-Larsen Galleries, West Des Moines, IA
• 31 August 4:10 pm, 3105 Snedecor
  Testing for the Supremacy of a Multinomial Cell Probability, (Dept Seminar) Dan Nettleton, Department of Statistics
• 24 August 4:10 pm, 0003 Physics
  What's New; Who's New in the Department of Statistics?, (Dept Seminar) Kenneth Koehler
• 07 August 1:10 pm, 1219 Coover Hall
  Analysis of binary output computer validation experiments, (Dept Seminar) Patric Chapin
• 17 June 1:00 pm, 1116 Sweeney
  Memory Indicators and Their Incorporation into Dynamic Models, (Dept Seminar) Wen Li
• 05 May 8:00 am, 3149 Pearson
  Warranty Prediction Based on Dynamic Use-rate Data, (Dept Seminar) Yili Hong, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
• 27 April 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Bayesian Pseudo Empirical Likelihood Inferences for Complex Surveys, (Dept Seminar) Changbao Wu, University of Waterloo, Ontario Canada
• 20 April 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  α-Stable Autoregressive Modeling, (Dept Seminar) Beth Andrews, Department of Statistics, Northwestern U
• 20 April 8:00 pm, Sun Room, Memorial Union
  How Obama Really Won the Election, (Dept Seminar) Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight.com
• 20 April 3:30 pm, Pioneer Room, Memorial Union
  Reception/Question and Answer Session, (Dept Seminar) Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight.com
• 13 April 4:10 pm,
  Efficient classification for time course gene expression data, (Dept Seminar) Annie Qu, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois-Urbana
• 06 April 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Dynamic Multiscale Spatio-Temporal Models, (Dept Seminar) Marco Ferreira, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri - Columbia
• 01 April 8:00 pm, South Ballroom, Memorial Union
  Damned Lies and Statistics, (Dept Seminar) Joel Best, Professor of Sociology, University of Delaware
• 01 April 12:00 pm, 8 Curtiss
  If This Goes on...: The Rhetorical Construction of Future Problems, (Dept Seminar) Joel Best, Professor of Sociology, University of Delaware
• 30 March 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Rhetorical Questions and Statistical Answers, (Dept Seminar) Greg Wilson, Ph.D., English Department, Iowa State University
• 23 March 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Exploring Poststratification in Complex Sample Designs, (Dept Seminar) J. Michael Brick*, Westat, Rockville, MD
• 09 March 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Ordered Inference Using Observed Confidence Levels, (Dept Seminar) Alan Polansky, Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL
• 04 March 4:10 pm, 202 Carver
  Modeling 3-Dimensional Rotations with Applications to Measured Crystal Orientations, (Dept Seminar) Melissa Bingham, Department of Statistics, ISU
• 02 March 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  An adaptive design approach to testing chemical and biological threat detection, (Dept Seminar) Shane Reese, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
• 02 March 2:15 pm, 2625 N. Loop Drive, #2500, Room 2540
  Hierarchical Bayesian Model Selection Utilizing Benchmarking, (Dept Seminar) Lu Lu
• 23 February 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Statisticians I Have Met, (Dept Seminar) H. A. David, Department of Statistics, ISU
• 16 February 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  A minimum distance estimation in semiparametric models*, (Dept Seminar) Jingjing Wu, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
• 12 February 4:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney
  A Robust Sign Test for Panel Unit Roots Under Cross Sectional Dependence, (Dept Seminar) Dong Wan Shin, Ewha University, Seoul, Korea
• 09 February 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Model Based Spatial Sampling Design With Application To Sensor Network Design, (Dept Seminar) Zengyuan Zhu, Department of Statistics & Operations Research, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• 05 February 4:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney
  Semi-supervised Learning with Additive Models, (Dept Seminar) Mark Vere Culp, Department of Statistics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
• 02 February 4:00 pm, 305 Carver
  Powering up with Space-Time Wind Forecasting, (Dept Seminar) Amanda Hering, Department of Statistics, Texas A & M
• 02 February 1:10 pm, 3119 Pearson
  Optimum Step-Stress Accelerated Life Test Plans for Log-Location-Scale Distributions, (Dept Seminar) Haming Ma, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
• 26 January 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Computational Methods for General State-Space Models, (Dept Seminar) Jarad Niemi, Duke University, Durham, NC
• 22 January 4:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney
  Multi-objective Experimental Designs for Event-Related Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, (Dept Seminar) Ming-Hung (Jason) Kao, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia
• 19 December 1:00 pm, 0074 Carver
  Fractional Regression Nearest Neighbor Imputation, (Dept Seminar) Minhui Paik
• 08 December 4:10 pm, 305 Carver Hall
  The R Package bigmemory: Supporting Efficient Computation an d Concurrent Programming with Large Data Sets*, (Dept Seminar) Jay Emerson, Department of Statistics, Yale University
• 03 December 4:10 pm, 1213 Hoover
  Sliced Inverse Regression Under Data Contamination, (Dept Seminar) Ulrike Genschel, Department of Statistics, ISU
• 01 December 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Challenges and opportunities for nonlinear mixed models in biological assays, (Dept Seminar) David Lansky, Ph.D. , Precision Bioassay
• 21 November 1:10 pm, 270 Town Engineering
  Computationally Efficient Resource Allocation for Complex System Reliability Studies, (Dept Seminar) Jessica Chapman, Department of Statistics, Iowa State U
• 17 November 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Kullback--Leibler Property of Kernel Mixture Priors in Bayesian Density Estimation, (Dept Seminar) Subhashis Ghosal, Dept. of Statistics, North Carolina State University
• 11 November 9:00 am, 2005 Black Engineering
  Modeling Spectral-Temporal Data From Point Source Events, (Dept Seminar) Monica Reising, Department of Statistics, ISU
• 10 November 4:10 pm, 305 Carver Hall
  MRI Tissue Classification Using Bayesian Hidden Markov Normal Mixture Models, (Dept Seminar) Luke Tierney, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
• 03 November 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  MetWAMer: eukaryotic translation initiation site prediction, (Dept Seminar) Michael E. Sparks, Dept. Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
• 27 October 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Composite Response Surface Designs for Factors with Jointly Symmetric Effects, (Dept Seminar) Max Morris, Departments of Statistics and Industrial & Mfg. Systems Engineering
• 20 October 4:10 pm, 305 Carver Hall
  Some recent advances in model specification tests and goodness-of-fit tests, (Dept Seminar) Yongzhao Shao, Department of Statistics, ISU
• 15 October 11:00 am, Carver 1
  Laurence H. Baker Lecture: Learning From the Experience of Others, (Dept Seminar) Bradley Efron, Stanford University
• 06 October 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Centering for Autologistic Models: Interpretability and Bivariate Extensions, (Dept Seminar) Petrutza Caragea, Department of Statistics, Iowa State U
• 30 September 10:00 am, 1213 Hoover
  Envelope Models and Methods, (Dept Seminar) R. Dennis Cook, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
• 29 September 4:10 pm, 305 Carver Hall
  Zyskind Lecture: Likelihood-based Sufficient Dimension Reduction for Regression, (Dept Seminar) R. Dennis Cook, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
• 15 September 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Inferring likelihoods and climate system characteristics from climate models and spatio-temporal tracer data, (Dept Seminar) Murali Haran, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
• 08 September 4:10 pm, 305 Carver
  Clustering in the Presence of Scattering, (Dept Seminar) Ivan Ramler, Department of Statistics, Iowa State U.
• 25 August 4:10 pm, 305 Carver Hall
  Welcoming Seminar, (Dept Seminar) Dr. Ken Koehler

Discussion Groups

• 06 November 3:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  Bayesian Analysis through WinBUGs for Everyday Statistics Needs --- Part 2, (Engineering Statistics) Ming Li, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
• 05 November 4:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  MCMC for Hierarchical and Mixed Models, (RTG) Jon Hobbs, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
• 04 November 3:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor Hall
  Minimizing Structural Errors in Synthetic MR Image Estimation, (Survey Statistics) John Riddles, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
• 30 October 3:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor Hall
  Bayesian Analysis through WinBUGs for Everyday Statistics Needs, (Engineering Statistics) Ming Li, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
• 27 October 4:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor Hall
  Discussion on two papers - double robustness, (Survey Statistics) Min Kim, Department of Statistics, Iowa State U
• 19 October 1:10 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  Statistical Inference for Visual Methods, (Graphical Statistics) Dianne Cook
• 12 October 1:00 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  "Chat" about Computing and Graphics in the Statistics Curriculum, (Graphical Statistics) Rebecca Nugent, Carnegie Mellon, Department of Statistics
• 29 September 4:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  NASS Field Office Experience, (Survey Statistics) Stephanie ZImmer
• 29 September 1:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  Statistics in Atmospheric Science, (RTG) Jon Hobs
• 28 September 1:10 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  ABPM: A Statistical Package for the Visualization, Analysis, and Modeling of Ambulatory Blood Pressure Data, (Graphical Statistics) Xiaoyoung Sun, Department of Statistics, ISU
• 25 September 3:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  ASA/NISS Writing Workshop, (Engineering Statistics) Steven Vardeman, Department of Statistics, ISU
• 24 September 4:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor (large conference room)
  Joint distribution to improve estimation precision for incomplete data, (RTG) Ming Li
• 23 September 3:10 pm, 3221 Snedecor
  Decomposability of high-dimensional diversity measures..., (RTG) Pingshou Zhong
• 23 September 4:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  Efficient Kriging for Large Spatial Fields, (Statistical Computing) Karl Pazdernik
• 22 September 4:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  A Difference in the Mechanisms Shaping Trust in National and Local Politics, (Survey Statistics) David A. M. Peterson, Department of Political Science, Iowa State U
• 22 September 1:00 pm, 2102 Snedecor
  Climate Change, (Ecological / Environmental Statistics) Professor Gene Takle
• 21 September 1:10 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  Turning Statistical Ideas into Animations, (Graphical Statistics) Yihui Xie
• 18 September 3:00 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  Engineering and Physical Science VIGRE, (Survey Statistics)
• 15 September 1:00 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  Working Group in Environment and Ecology, (Ecological / Environmental Statistics) Mark Kaiser
• 15 September 4:10 pm, 2113 Snedecor
  Post Election Audit Project, (Survey Statistics) Luke Fostvedt
• 14 September 1:10 pm, Howe 2624
  Debugging on Chromatoplots, (Graphical Statistics) Tengfei Yin
• 23 March 12:00 pm, Pearson 3149
  Nonresponse Bias Effects in Dual Frame Surveys, (Survey Statistics) Mike Brick, Westat
• 09 December 11:00 am, 2624 Howe Hall
  Assessing Judging Bias: an Example from the 2000 Olympic Games*, (Graphical Statistics) John W. Emerson, Department of Statistics, Yale University
• 04 December 3:30 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  Polling Methodology, (Graphical Statistics) Sarah Nusser
• 21 November 12:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney Hall
  Linking Geospatially Referenced Roller-Integrated Measurements in Earthwork Construction to Tradition Point Based QA Measurements, (Engineering Statistics) Professor David White
• 21 November 9:00 am, Pearson Hall 3157
  Latent Nonparametric Logistic Regression for Modeling Gene Co-regulation in Microarray Data, (RTG) Long Qu
• 18 November 11:00 am, 1401 Wilson
  Efficient methods for clustering directional data, (Statistical Computing) Ivan Ramler
• 17 November 3:10 pm, Carver 298
  AAPOR’s response rate, (Survey Statistics) David Rockoff and Mahbub Majumder
• 14 November 9:00 am, Pearson Hall 3157
  Multinomial Markov Random Field Model, (RTG) Kim Mueller
• 14 November 3:10 pm, Kildee 108
  Incorporating Gene Effects into Parametric Empirical Bayes Methods for Microarrays, (Bioinformatics and Genetic Statistics) Steven Lund
• 14 November 12:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney Hall
  A Bayesian approach to ranking intersections in the State of Iowa: The example of Boone County, (Engineering Statistics) Kristian Schmidt
• 13 November 3:30 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  How to Access Large Data for Data Analysis and Exploration, (Graphical Statistics) Group Discussion
• 10 November 3:10 pm, Carver 298
  Survey of Consumer Finances, (Survey Statistics) Kristian Schmidt and Michael Larsen
• 07 November 1:10 pm, Head 268 B
  Nonparametric Option Pricing, (Finance) Yili Hong
• 07 November 9:00 am, Pearson Hall 3157
  Graduate School and Research, (RTG) Dr. Dan Nordman
• 07 November 3:10 pm, Kildee 108
  IMPROVING HIV-1 RAPID GENOTYPING TOOLS USING BAYESIAN ADDITIVE REGRESSION TREES, (Bioinformatics and Genetic Statistics) Misha Rajaram
• 07 November 12:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney
  Analysis of casting surface anomalies captured through spatial mapping, (Engineering Statistics)
• 06 November 3:30 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  Windup of Graphics for Polls, (Graphical Statistics) Group Discussion
• 04 November 12:10 pm, 1401 Wilson
  Using R API in C and Fortran, (Statistical Computing) Wei-Chen Chen
• 03 November 3:10 pm, Carver 298
  A Calibration Experiment in a Longitudinal Survey with Errors-in-Variables, (Survey Statistics) Cindy Yu
• 31 October 12:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney
  A Noise Interference Model for Estimating Probability of Detection for Nondestructive Evaluations, (Engineering Statistics) Ming Li
• 30 October 3:30 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  ASA Expo Data 2009, (Graphical Statistics) Heike Hofmann, Discussion Leader
• 27 October 12:10 pm, 1401 Wilson
  Making an R package with C and Fortran codes, (Statistical Computing) Wei-Chen Chen
• 27 October 3:10 pm, Carver 298
  The National Resources Inventory, (Survey Statistics) Andrew Bell
• 24 October 1:10 pm, 268C Heady Hall
  Modern Treatments of Option Pricing, (Finance) Shan Yang
• 24 October 9:00 am, Carver 205
  How to Use Beamer (LaTeX) to Make Presentation Slides, (RTG) Dr. Ulrike Genschel
• 24 October 3:10 pm, Kildee 108
  Introduction to Overlapping Codon Model, (Bioinformatics and Genetic Statistics) Wei-chen Chen
• 24 October 12:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney Hall
  The Choice of Statistical Models in Road Safety Countermeasure Effectiveness Studies in Iowa, (Engineering Statistics) Wen Li
• 23 October 3:30 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  Development in the Presidential Polls, (Graphical Statistics) Statistical Graphics Group
• 21 October 12:00 pm, 1401 Wilson
  Generating Gaussian mixtures with specified overlap, (Statistical Computing) Volodymyr Melnykov
• 20 October 3:10 pm, Carver 298
  Bioeconomy Survey, (Survey Statistics) Bin Liu and Shiyao Liu
• 17 October 1:10 pm, 333 Science II
  MCMC, Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods, (Ecological / Environmental Statistics) Professor Mark Kaiser
• 17 October 9:00 am, Pearson Hall 3157
  Development of a Soil Moisture Sampling Scheme: Based on Scale and Vaidation Problems, (RTG) Lisa Bramer
• 17 October 12:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney
  Sampling for Surveillance: A Brainstorming Session, (Engineering Statistics) Alyson Wilson
• 16 October 3:30 pm, Howe 2624
  Electoral Building Charts, (Graphical Statistics) Heike Hofmann, Discussion Leader
• 10 October 1:10 pm, Heady 368 C
  Capital Assest Pricing Models, (Finance) Hainnan Huang , Beijing Normal
• 10 October 9:00 am, Pearson Hall 3157
  A New Test for Normality, (RTG) Ming Zhou
• 10 October 3:10 pm, Kildee 108
  A Hidden Markov Model Approach to Testing Multiple Hypotheses on Gene Ontology Graph, (Bioinformatics and Genetic Statistics) Kun Liang and Dan Nettleton
• 10 October 12:10 pm, Sweeney 1116
  Input Modeling Issues For Successful Artificial Pancreas Development, (Engineering Statistics) Derrick K. Rollins, Sr.
• 09 October 3:30 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  Map Representation of Polling Data, (Graphical Statistics) Barret Schloerke
• 06 October 3:10 pm, Carver 298
  Survey Research Services at CSSM., (Survey Statistics) Jan Larson and Allison Tyler
• 03 October 2:10 pm, Heady 378C
  Finance Paper Discussions, (Theory) Shan Yang and Hainan Huang
• 03 October 12:10 pm, Room 1116 Sweeney
  Prediction of Remaining Life of Power Transformers Based on Left Truncated and Right Censored Lifetime Data, (Engineering Statistics) Yili Hong
• 03 October 9:00 am, Pearson Hall 3157
  Model Selection from the Perspective of Predictive Power, (RTG) Adam Pintar
• 02 October 3:30 pm, 2624 Howe Hall
  Semester Overview and Online Sources of Polling Data, (Graphical Statistics) Dianne Cook
• 29 September 3:10 pm, Carver 298
  Imputation for coarse data, (Survey Statistics) Jae-Kwang Kim
• 26 September 2:10 pm, 368B Heady Hall
  Continued Discussion on Proofs of the Option Price Formula, (Theory) Shan Yang
• 26 September 12:10 pm, 1116 Sweeney
  Using Accelerated Life Tests Results to Predict Product Field Reliability, (Engineering Statistics) William Q. Meeker
• 26 September 9:00 am, Pearson Hall 3157
  Modeling Outlying Labs in Inter-Laboratory Studies, (RTG) Garritt Page
• 26 September 3:10 pm, 108 Kildee
  Computationally Efficient Estimation of False Discovery Rate Using Sequential Permutation p-Values, (Bioinformatics and Genetic Statistics) Tim Bancroft
• 22 September 3:10 pm, Carver 298
  Web Panel Surveys, (Survey Statistics) Cherie Alf and Marcela Alfaro
• 19 September 2:10 pm, 368A Heady Hall
  The relationship between Put and Call options, (Theory) Zheng Xu
• 19 September 9:00 am, Sweeney 1123
  Hidden Markov Random Fields: Spatial Random Effects for Lattice Data, (RTG) Jon Hobbs
• 15 September 3:10 pm, Carver 298
  Relating Self-report and Accelerometer Physical Activity with Application to NHANES 2003-2004, (Survey Statistics) Nicholas Beyler