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Spring Semester 1999 Seminars

January 12: Lynn Stallings, American University, (Tuesday, 4:10 p.m., Carver 408) "The use of nontraditional assessment techniques in introductory college-level courses in mathematics and statistics"
January 15: Peter Muller, Duke University, (Friday, 3:10pm, Atanasoff 214) "Simulation based optimal design and some applications in clinical trials "
February 4: Trent Buskirk, Arizona State University, (Thursday, 4:10 p.m., Snedecor 321) "Nonparametric Density Estimation Using Complex Survey Data"
February 8: Dale Zimmerman, University of Iowa, (Monday, 4:10 p.m., Snedecor 319) "Testing for Isotrop y in Spatial Data, With Two Applications"
February 12: Ruzong Fan, Harvard University, (Friday, 4:10 p.m., 1414 Molecular Biology) "Haplotype Mapping Models for Mutant Genes in Nonstationary Population Isolates"
February 15: Changbao Wu, Simon Fraser University, (4:10 p.m., Snedecor 319) "The Effective Use of Complete Auxiliary Information From Surveys Through Model Calibration and Empirical Likelihood"
February 16: Giovanni Parmigiani, Duke University, (4:10 p.m., Gilman 1652) " Bayesian Approaches to Survival Data in Genetic Epidemiology"
February 18: Bahman Shaffi, Idaho University, (Thursday, 4:10 p.m., Snedecor 321) "Statistical Analysis of Genotype-By-Environment Interaction Using the AMMI Model and Stability Estimates"
February 19: Michael Lavine, Duke University, (Friday, 3:10 p.m., Atanasoff B29) "Another Look at Conditionally Gaussian Markov Random Fields"
February 23: Cong Chen, Iowa State University, (Tuesday, 1:10pm, Snedecor 321) " Spline estimators of the distribution function of a variable measured with error"
February 24: Leigh Murray, New Mexico State University, (Wednesday, 4:10pm, Snedecor 321) "The Gardner and Eberhart Analyses II and III for Diallel Crosses of Non-Inbred Populations: What's Going On? "
February 25: Robert Paige, Colorado State University, (Thursday, 4:10pm, Snedecor 321) "Bayesian Inference in Neural Networks"
March 1: Junhyong Kim, Yale University, (Monday, 4:10 p.m., 1652 Gilman) "Searching for genes and reconstructing the past: Messy solutions to good problems and good solutions to messy problems"
March 4: John Chen, University of California, Berkeley, (Thursday, 4:10 p.m., 1652 Gilman) "Individual Hardy-Weinberg Proportion Testing"
March 10: John Evans, MIT, (Wednesday, 4:10 p.m., Snedecor 321) "Interoperable Web-based Geo-imagery Services"
March 22: Ludwig Hothorn, University of Hannover (Germany) , (4:10 p.m., Snedecor 319) "Incremental trend tests, with application in epidemiological exposure studies"
March 23: Juan Jose' Goyeneche, Iowa State University , (Tuesday 11 a.m., Snedecor 321) " Estimation of the distribution function using auxiliary information. "
April 1: Rebecca Doerge, Purdue University , (Thursday, 4:10 p.m., Snedecor 321) " Statistical Tests and Threshold Values for Locating Quantitative Trait Loci (QTL) in Experimental Populations"
April 5: Sunhee Kwon, Iowa State University , (4:10 p.m., Snedecor 319) "Clustering in Multivariate Data : Visualization, Case and Variable Reduction"
April 6: Jianlin Cheng, Iowa State University , (Tuesday, 2:10 p.m., ??) " Statistical analysis using finite mixtures of normal linear models"
April 12: Lynn Eberly, University of Minnesota , (4:10 p.m., Snedecor 319) "Bayes / Frequentist Compromise Rules for Outlier Detection"
April 19: Randy Sitter, Simon Fraser University , (4:10 p.m., Snedecor 319) "EFFICIENT RANDOM IMPUTATION FOR MISSING DATA IN COMPLEX SURVEYS"
April 26: Osnat Stramer, University of Iowa , (4:10 p.m., Snedecor 319) " On inference for partially observed non-linear diffusion models using the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm"
April 30: Fugee Tsung, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology , (Friday, 3:10pm, Atanasoff 214) " Statistical Monitoring and Diagnosis of Automatic-Controlled Processes"
May 10: Xiao-Li Meng, University of Chicago , (4:10 p.m., Snedecor 319) "Improving Perfect Simulation"