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Fall Semester 1998 Seminars

August 31: Dean Isaacson, Iowa State University, (4:10 p.m., Gilman 1104) "Departmental Plans"
Sept. 8: Ludwig Arnold, University of Bremen, Germany, (Tuesday, 4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) "Random Dynamical Systems - A Survey"
Sept. 11: G. Jogesh Babu, Penn State University, (Friday, 3:10 p.m., B29 Atansoff) "Astrostatistics - Analysis of Gamma-Ray Bursts Data"
Sept. 21: Mark Kaiser, Iowa State University, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) "Modeling Nitrates in the Des Moines River"
Sept. 29: Kate Cowles, University of Iowa, (Tuesday, 4:10 p.m., Snedecor 321) "BAYESIAN MODELS for CD4 COUNT, VIRAL LOAD, and SURVIVAL"
Oct. 5: Dale Zimmerman, University of Iowa, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) "STRUCTURED ANTEDEPENDENCE MODELS FOR LONGITUDINAL DATA"
Oct. 9: Francesca Dominici, Johns Hopkins University, (Friday, 3:10 p.m., Atanasoff B29) "National Mortality, Morbidity and Air Pollution Study: Statistical Challenges"
Oct. 12: Giovanni Parmigiani, Duke University, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) "Modeling Inherited Susceptibility to Breast Cancer"
Oct. 20: Zyskind Lecture and Iowa Chapter Meeting: Rob Tibshirani, Department of Health Research and Policy and Department of Statistics, Stanford Univeristy, (8 p.m., Durham 171) "Using a car phone - like driving drunk?"
Oct. 21; Rob Tibshirani, Stanford University, (4:10 p.m., Sned. 321) "The covariance inflation criterion for model selection"
Oct. 26: Mary Christman, American University, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) "Sequential Sampling Designs to Estimate Abundance in Rare Populations"
Nov. 2: Noel Cressie, Iowa State University, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) "Inference for Spatio-Temporal Data"
Nov. 9: Mark Handcock, Penn State University, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) "Relative Distribution Methods"
Nov. 10: Steve Haslett, Massey University, (Tuesday, 4:10 p.m., 321 Snedecor) "Properties of the Similarity Index from DNA fingerprinting data"
Nov. 16: Partha Lahiri, University of Nebraska, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) "Jackknifing The Mean Squared Error of Empirical Best Predictor"
Nov. 19: Sharon Lohr, Arizona State University, (4:10 p.m., Snedecor 321) "Some Longitudinal Data Issues in Using the National Crime Victimization Survey"
Dec. 1: Snedecor Lecture: George Casella, Cornell University, (Tuesday, 11am, Snedecor 321) "Data-Driven Gibbs Sampling"
Dec. 7: Volker Brendel, Iowa State University, (4:10 p.m., Snedecor 319) "Data and statistical approaches in the genomics era of biology"