STATISTICS SEMINAR

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Welcome to the STATISTICS SEMINAR web site!

This seminar is organised by the Graduate Program in Statistics through the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at McMaster University. Every person interested in the seminar talks, from inside or outside the McMaster community, is welcome to attend. We usually cover a wide range of topics ranging from very applied problems to the most current theoretical developments in the discipline.

Below you will find the list of speakers and the topics or titles of their talks, and a list of past seminars. There are links to pages with the abstract, information about the speaker, and a list of references for each week.

Any suggestions are welcome. Just send e-mail to the Seminar Coordinator.

You can find out about other seminar series in Southern Ontario at the SORA web site and the list of upcoming seminars there.

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Speakers for 1998-99

Wednesdays, BSB-108 at 3:30 PM

Meet the Speaker - Refreshments in BSB-202 at 3:00 PM!

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Past Seminars

September 30

Dr Remco van der Hofstad Fields Institute and Delft University of Technology

Topic: "Random Polymers and Weakly Interacting Lattice Trees"

October 7	Joanna Biernacka Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics, University of Toronto	"Tracking Trout: A Cutthroat Analysis"
October 10-11	International Indian Statistical Association Conference	At McMaster University
October 14	Dr Stephen W. Link Department of Psychology, McMaster University	"Predicting Individual Choice"
October 21	No seminar, due to the Britton Lectures in Mathematics.	No statistics seminar.
October 28	Dr Duncan Luce Distinguished Professor in (and founder of) the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California-Irvine.	"A Non-Linear Surprise in the Utility of Gains and Losses"

November 4	Dr Augustine Wong Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University	"Accurate Approximate Likelihood Based Inference"
November 11	Dr Moti L. Tiku Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University	"Statistical Inference With Time Series Data"
November 18	Dr Hugh Chipman Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo	"Tree Models: Roots and Recent Branches"
November 25	Dr Sylvia Esterby Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University	"Statistics in the Environment"

January 20	Dr Peter Macdonald Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University	"Mixture Distributions"
January 27	Dr Harry Pavlopoulos Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics & Business, and Center for the Study of Earth from Space, University of Colorado at Boulder	"Scaling Properties of Rain Fields"

February 10	Dr Alison Burnham Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University	"Some Implications of the Latent Variable Regression Model - Inference on Regression Coefficients"
February 24	Dr John Fox Department of Sociology, McMaster University	"Perception of 3D Graphs" ** This talk will start at 4:30 ** *** in KTH-103 *** No Refreshments This Week

March 3	Movie Day Lecture by George Box (1982), 45 minutes, taped by the American Statistical Association.	"The Importance of Practice in the Development of Statistics"
March 17	Thierry Duchesne Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo	"Alternative Time Scales in Survival Analysis"
March 31	Dr Masoud Asgharian Department of Mathematics & Statistics, York University	"On Modelling Covariates in Multipath Changepoint Problems"

April 7	Dr Sri Gopal Mohanty Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University	"Some Combinatorial Aspects of Random Walks"
April 19	Christopher S. Sigouin Project Defense - M.Sc. in Statistics	"Great Lakes Fish Eaters Project: Analysis of Data on Individuals Eating Great Lakes Fish" Monday April 19, 9:00 AM, in BSB-101
April 26	Joseph T. Farruggia Project Defense - M.Sc. in Statistics	"Statistical Evaluation and Identification of Improvement Opportunities of the Hot Rolling Process at Dofasco" Monday April 26, 11:00 AM, in BSB-101

June 15	Dr B. Chandrasekar Loyola College, India ** Tuesday at 10:30 in BSB-101	"Simultaneous Equivariant Estimation"
June 16	Dr. Ivana Horová Masaryk University, Brno, CZ ** Wednesday at 10:30 in BSB-101	"Kernel Smoothing and Additive Models"
June 21	Dr Kazuyuki Suzuki The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo ** Monday at 11:00 in BSB-101	"The Optimum Threshold of the k-out-of-n Monitor, an Extension of System With Dual Failures"

Statistics Seminars 1997-98

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ABSTRACTS AND REFERENCES

Upcoming Seminars

Past Seminars

• September 30 - van der Hofstad
• October 7 - Biernacka
• October 14 - Link
• October 28 - Luce
• November 4 - Wong
• November 11 - Tiku
• November 18 - Chipman
• November 25 - Esterby
• January 20 - Macdonald
• January 27 - Pavlopoulos
• February 10 - Burnham
• February 24 - Fox
• March 3 - Movie Day
• March 17 - Duchesne
• March 31 - Asgharian
• April 7 - Mohanty
• June 15 - Chandrasekar
• June 16 - Horová
• June 21- Suzuki

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Graduate Program in Statistics