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Spring Semester 1998 Seminars

Jan. 16: Jeff Sloan, Mayo Clinic, "Statistical Analysis Considerations for Quality of Life (QQL) Endpoints in Oncology Clinical Trials"
Jan. 26: Yuhong Yang, ISU, "Effects of Long-Range Dependence on Nonparametric Regression"
Feb. 5: Gauri S. Datta, University of Georgia, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Bureau of the Census, "Approximations to Mean Squared Errors of Estimated Best Linear Unbiased Predictors in Small Area Estimation with An Application to Median Income for the U.S. States"
Feb. 9: Tenko Raykov, University of Melbourne, (11:00 a.m., 1134 Sweeney), Australia, "Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling of Plasticity in Fluid Intelligence of Older Adults"
Feb. 11: Thomas Loughin, Kansas State University, (4:10 p.m., 321 Snedecor) "Testing Independence With Correlated Binary Data"
Feb. 12: Ke-Hai Yuan, UCLA, (11:00 a.m., 213 Mackay) "Pseudo Maximum Likelihood Based Methods for Mean and Covariance Structure Analysis with Missing Data"
Feb. 13: Qunming Dong, John Hopkins University, (10:00 a.m., 103 Pearson) "Pairwise Comparisons of Normal Means via Improved Inclusion-Exclusion"
Feb. 16: George Michailidis, Stanford University, "Multilevel Homogeneity Analysis with Differential Weighting"
Feb. 17: Douglas G. Bonett, University of Wyoming, (11:00 a.m., 1810 Gilman), "Distribution-Free Confidence Intervals for Linear Contrasts of Medians with Applications in Psychology"
Feb. 18: Yazhen Wang, University of Missouri-Columbia (4:10 p.m., 1134 Sweeney) "Wavelets and Statistics"
Feb. 19: Montserrat Fuentes, University of Chicago,(11:00 a.m., 214 Atanasoff) "Prediction of Random Fields Combining Different Sources of Data "
Feb. 25: Philip Dixon, University of Georgia, (4:10 p.m., 321 Snedecor) "Testing for Bounded Trend: Amphibian Declines and Amphibian Fluctuations"
Feb. 27: Max Morris, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, (2:10 p.m., 152 Science I) "A Sequential Computer Experiment for Input Screening and Model Approximation"
Mar. 5: Becky Benner, Iowa State University, (10:00 a.m., 1219 Coover) "Contributions to Survival Analysis"
Mar. 6: Brian Habing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (11:00 a.m., 319 Snedecor) "Latent Dimensionality in Item Response Theory"
Mar. 23: Jay Parkes, The Pennsylvania State University, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) "Using Concept Maps to Reduce Task-Related Variance in Performance Assessment"
Mar. 30: Jean Opsomer, Iowa State University, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor), "Kriging with Nonparametric Variance Function Estimation"
Apr. 2: Xitao Fan, Utah State University, (4:10 p.m., 321 Snedecor), "STUDY 1 - Ethnic Group Representation in Test Construction Samples and Test Bias" and STUDY 2 - The Behaviors of Some Major Descriptive Model Fit Indices in Structural Equation Modeling"
Apr. 6: John L. Eltinge, Texas A&M, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor), "Graphical Comparisons of Subpopulations Based on Complex Sample Survey Data"
Apr. 9: Norman Bradburn, University of Chicago, (4:10 p.m., 1134 Sweeney), "The Millennium Census: Will It Live Up To The Challenges?"
Apr. 13: Andreas Buja, AT&T Labs, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor), "Multivariate Analysis as a Null Comparison"
Apr. 13: Miller Lecture - Andreas Buja, AT&T Labs, (8:00 p.m. 171 Durham), "Interactive Data Visualization - The Video Game"
Apr. 20: Shell Industrial Seminar - Edward F. Vonesh, Baxter Healthcare , (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor) , "Some General Estimation Methods for Longitudinal Data"
Apr. 27: Mark D. Ecker, University of Northern Iowa, (4:10 p.m., 319 Snedecor), "Bayesian Variogram Modeling"
May 5: Shuen-Lin Jeng, Iowa State University, (1:00 p.m., B29 Atanasoff), "Improved Approximate Confidence Intervals and Simultaneous Confidence Bands for Type I Censored Data"