Statistician Sponsors Seminars
Clifton Bailey, affiliate faculty member in the Department of Statistics, believes students benefit from going to seminars and professional conferences because “they need exposure to new ideas.”
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R. Clifton Bailey Seminar Series
Upcoming Fall Seminars 2024
Stay tuned for updates on the seminar schedule. If you are interested in receiving our weekly emails for more information and future seminars, please email us at stat@gmu.edu |
 Clifton Bailey of McLean, Virginia, who has several decades of experience working on high-profile statistical studies for the government, sponsors the weekly seminars. |
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Past Seminars
Fall 2024
Stage-Aware Learning for Dynamic Treatments
Date: November 15, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Annie Qu
Affiliation: Department of Statistics, University of California, Irvine
A Broad Overview of Response-Adaptive-Randomization With a Novel Application and Some New Insights
Date: November 08, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Lukas Pin
Affiliation: Medical Research Council (MRC) Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
Animal Color Vision: Implications, Applications, and Future Directions
Date: November 01, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Hanley
Affiliation: Department of Biology, George Mason University
Building Trustworthy Data Analyses
Date: October 25, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Roger Peng
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Data Science, University of Texas at Austin
Adversarial Risk Analysis
Date: October 18, 2024
Speaker: Dr. David Banksi
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
Tough choices in election forecasting: All the things that can go wrong
Date: October 11, 2024
Speaker: Andrew Gelman
Interviewed by: Edward Wu
Affiliation (speaker): Professor of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University
Affiliation (Interviewer): Data, Polling, and Election Analytics Senior Producer, CNN
Streaming Data Analysis for Efficient Quickest Decision-Making
Date: October 2, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Yajun Mei
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, School of Global Public Health, New York University
Interdisciplinary Odyssey into the Multi-Omic Jungle: Statistical Methodology and Computational Tools for Cancer Research
Date: September 27, 2024
Speaker: Dr. Kim-Anh Do
Affiliation: University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Using Partially Synthetic Frames to Evaluate Alternative Sample Designs for Estimating a Rare Business Characteristic
Date: September 20, 2024
Speaker: Katherine Jenny Thompson
Affiliation: U.S. Census Bureau
A response-adaptive multi-arm design for continuous endpoints using entropy-based allocation rule
Date: September 13, 2024
Speaker: Gianmarco Caruso
Affiliation: MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge, UK
Lightning Talks
Date: September 06, 2024
Speaker: Inchi Hu, David Kepplinger, Nicholas Rios, Wanli Qiao, Lily Wang, Taylor Lewis
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Mason University
Lightning Talks
Date: August 30, 2024
Speaker: Jonathan L. Auerbach, Ben Seiyon Lee, William Rosenberger, Abolfazl Safikhani, John Saufken, Jiayang Sun
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Mason University
Spring 2024
Bayesian Model Calibration and Sensitivity Analysis for Oscillating Biological Experiments
Date: April 26, 2024
Speaker: Youngdeok Hwang
Affiliation: Baruch College, CUNY
Advances in Adversarial Risk Analysis
Date: April 19, 2024
Speaker: Fabrizio Ruggeri
Affiliation: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy
A Surrogate Modeling Journey through Gaussian Process Modeling for Computer Simulation Experiments
Date: April 12, 2024
Speaker: Robert (Bobby) Gramacy
Affiliation: Virginia Tech
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State Policies
Date: April 5 2024
Speaker: Beth Ann Griffin
Senior Statistician, RAND Corporation
Recent Advances in Bayesian Optimization for the Physical Sciences
Date: March 29, 2024
Speaker: Simon Mak
Affiliation: Duke University
Network Analysis of Multimorbidity Patterns Across Multiple EHR Systems
Date: March 15, 2024
Speaker: Yaomin Xu
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University
Graphical Methods for Order-of-Addition Experiments
Date: March 1, 2024
Speaker: Nicholas Rios
Affiliation: George Mason University
Online Ensemble of Models for Optimal Predictive Performance with Applications to Sector Rotation Strategy
Date: Feb 23, 2024
Speaker: Pawel Polak
Affiliation: Stony Brook University
Transfer Learning with Applications in Genomics
Date: Feb 16, 2024
Speaker: Hongzhe Li
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Differentially Private Hypothesis Testing for High-Dimensional Federated Data
Date: Feb 9, 2024
Speaker: Lasse Vuursteen
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Psychometric Consideration for Multilingual Learners in Large-Scale Assessments in Education
Date: Feb 2,2024
Speaker: Jung Yeon (Ellie) Park
Affiliation: George Mason University
Capturing distributional patterns in sparse linguistic data
Date: Jan 26,2024
Speaker: Géraldine Walther
Affiliation: George Mason University
Inferential Challenges with Spatial Data in (Air Pollution) Epidemiology
Date: Jan 19,2024
Speaker: Kayleigh Keller
Affiliation: Colorado State University
Fall 2023
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Capturing Distributional Patterns in Sparse Linguistic Data
Date: Friday, November 17, 2023 (Rescheduled)
Speaker: Géraldine Walther
Affiliation: George Mason University
Challenges and Opportunities in Statistics and Data Science: Ten Research Areas
Date: Friday, November 10, 2023
Speaker: Xihong Lin
Affiliation: Harvard University
How to Design the Best Biomarker-Guided Clinical Trial?
Date: Friday, November 03, 2023
Speaker: Anatasia Ivanova
Affiliation: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
A Novel Extreme Value Autoencoder Framework for Probabilistic Model Emulation and Calibration
Date: Friday, October 27, 2023
Speaker: Likun Zhang
Affiliation: University of Missouri
Functional Data Analysis Through the Lens of Deep Neural Networks
Date: Friday, October 20, 2023
Speaker: Guanqun Cao
Affiliation: Michigan State University
From Algorithms for Anomaly Detection to Spatial and Temporal Modeling and Bayesian Ultra-High Dimensional Variable Selection
Date: Friday, October 13, 2023
Speaker: Hsin-Hsiung Huang
Affiliation: University of Central Florida
Another Look at Assessing Goodness-of-Fit of Time Series Using Fitted Residuals
Date: Friday, October 6, 2023
Speaker: Richard Davis
Affiliation: Columbia University
Depth Functions and Their Applications to Classification and Clustering
Date: Friday, September 29, 2023
Speaker: Giacomo Francisci
Affiliation: George Mason University
Mining Your Fantasy: From Professor to Fugitive
Date: Friday, September 22, 2023
Speaker: Dennis Peng
Journalist, True Voice of Taiwan
Exact Conditional Independence Testing and Conformal Inference with Adaptively Collected Data
Date: Friday, September 15, 2023
Speaker: Lucas Janson
Affiliation: Harvard University
Data Science at the Singularity
Date: Friday, September 1, 2023
Speaker: David Donoho
Affiliation: Stanford University
Real-time Discriminant Analysis in the Presence of Label and Measurement Noise
Date: Friday, August 25, 2023
Speaker: Mia Hubert
Affiliation: KU Leuven
Spring 2023
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Sufficient Cause Urn Analysis of Principal Stratification Methods
Date: Friday, April 28, 2023
Speaker: Jaffer Zaidi
Affiliation: George Mason University
Causal Inference with Interference
Date: Friday, April 21, 2023
Speaker: Michael Hudgens
Affiliation: University of North Carolina
Generating Space-Filling Designs for Computer Experiments
Date: Friday, April 14, 2023
Speaker: Lin Wang
Affiliation: Purdue University
Power and Sample Size Calculations for Rerandomized Experiments
Date: Friday, April 7, 2023
Speaker: Zach Branson
Affiliation: Carnegie Mellon University
A Multiple Imputation Procedure for Record Linkage and Causal Inference to Estimate the Effects of Home-Delivered Meals
Date: Friday, March 31, 2023
Speaker: Roee Gutman
Affiliation: Brown University
Bayesian Modeling with Spatial Curvature Processes
Date: Friday, March 10, 2023
Speaker: Aritra Halder
Affiliation: Drexel University
Prognostic Digital Twins: Current and Future Applications
Date: Friday, March 3, 2023
Speaker: Arman Sabbaghi
Affiliation: Unlearn.AI
Garbage In, Einstein Out: A Mathematical Study of "Einstein from Noise"
Date: Friday, February 24, 2023
Speaker: I-Ping Tu
Affiliation: The Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei
Efficient and Targeted COVID-19 Border Testing via Reinforcement Learning
Date: Friday, February 17, 2023
Speaker: Hamsa Bastani
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Interview Talks
Date: Wed January, 25 - Fri February, 10
Fall 2022
Check out the link for more information on each seminar.
A Distributed Approach for Learning Spatial Heterogeneity
Date: Friday, December 2, 2022
Speaker: Zhengyuan Zhu
Affiliation: Iowa State University
Are Decision Trees as Powerful as Neural Networks?
Date: Friday, November 18, 2022
Speaker: Jason M. Klusowski
Affiliation: Princeton University
Principal Flow, Sub-Manifold and Boundary
Date: Friday, November 11, 2022
Speaker: Zhigang Yao
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Dynamic Mechanistic Spatio-Temporal Modeling for (Re)Emerging Epidemics
Date: Friday, November 4, 2022
Speaker: Ali Arab
Affiliation: Georgetown University
Environmental Exposures and Public Health
Date: Friday, October 28, 2022
Speaker: Jenna Krall
Affiliation: George Mason University
Challenges in Constructing Human-centric Natural Language Interfaces
Date: Friday, October 21, 2022
Speaker: Ziyu Yao
Affiliation: George Mason University
Efficient Shape-constrained Inference for the Autocovariance Sequence from a Reversible Markov Chain
Date: Friday, October 14, 2022
Speaker: Hyebin Song
Affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University
Copula-based approaches for analyzing non-Gaussian spatial data
Date: Friday, October 7, 2022
Speaker: Huixia Judy Wang
Affiliation: George Washington University
Explaining Adverse Actions in Credit Decisions Using Shapley Decomposition
Date: Friday, September 30, 2022
Speaker: Tianshu Feng
Affiliation: George Mason University
Scalable Bayesian p-generalized Probit and Logistic Regression Via Coresets
Date: Friday, September 23, 2022
Speaker: Katja Ickstadt
Affiliation: Technical University of Dortmund
Big Spatial Data Learning: A Parallel Solution
Date: Friday, September 09, 2022
Speaker: Shan Yu
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Spring 2022
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Association and Causation: Attributes and Effects of Judges in Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Litigation Outcomes
Date: Friday, May 6, 2022
Speaker: Michael Sobel
Affiliation: Columbia University
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)—"Addressing the Spectrum Crunch at the Federal Communications Commission"
Date: Fri April, 29
Speaker: Karla Hoffman
Affiliation: George Mason University
Least Squares Estimation of a Quasiconvex Regression Function
Date: Fri April, 22
Speaker: Rohit Patra
Affiliation: University of Florida
Spatiotemporal modeling of an estuarine decapod using Bayesian inference: environmental drivers of juvenile blue crab abundance
Date: Fri April, 15
Speaker: Grace Chiu
Affiliation: Virginia Institute of Marine Science
New measures for assessing non-ignorable selection bias in non-probability samples and low response rate probability samples
Date: Fri April, 8
Speaker: Brady T. West
Affiliation: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
“Geographer’s” perspectives on analyzing spatial data
Date: Fri April, 1
Speaker: David Wong
Affiliation: George Mason University
Equivariant machine learning, structured like classical physics
Date: Fri March, 25
Speaker: Soledad Villar
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
Pathfinder: Parallel quasi-Newton variational inference
Date: Fri March, 11
Speaker: Bob Carpenter
Affiliation: Flatiron Institute
Statistical hurdles and swamps in predicting future forests and winegrowing regions
Date: Fri March, 4
Speaker: Elizabeth Wolkovich
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Improved Small Domain Estimation via Compromise Regression Weights
Date: Fri February, 25
Speaker: Thomas A. Louis
Affiliation: Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Marginal and Conditional Sufficient Variable Screening for Ultrahigh Dimensional Data
Date: Fri February, 18
Speaker: Chenlu Ke
Affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University
Let’s Talk About Data Ethics
Date: Fri February, 11
Speaker: Wendy Martinez
Affiliation: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Interview Talks
Date: Mon January, 24 - Thu February, 10
Fall 2021
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Randomization Tests: The Forgotten Component of the Randomized Clinical Trial
Date: Fri December, 3
Speaker: William F. Rosenberger
Affiliation: George Mason University
Optimal Relevant Subset Designs
Date: Fri November, 19
Speaker: Adam Lane
Affiliation: University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Copula-Based Bivariate for Poisson Time Series Models
Date: Fri November, 5
Speaker: Norou Diawara
Affiliation: Old Dominion University
Accounting for Overdiagnosis in Estimating Components of Survival Time in Randomized Cancer Screening Trials
Date: Fri October, 29
Speaker: Karen Kafadar
Affiliation: University of Virginia
Tensor Quantile Regression for Neuroimage Study of Human Intelligence
Date: Fri October, 15
Speaker: Heping Zhang
Affiliation: Yale University School of Public Health
Learning from a large number of chi-squared tests
Date: Fri October, 1
Speaker: Inchi Hu
Affiliation: George Mason University
Real-time sufficient dimension reduction through principal least squares support vector machines
Date: Fri September, 24
Speaker: Yuexiao Dong
Affiliation: Temple University
Supervised Network Centrality Estimation and Prediction
Date: Fri September, 17
Speaker: Linda Zhao
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania
Algorithmic Robustness in Classification
Date: Fri September, 3
Speaker: Jie Shen
Affiliation: Stevens Institute of Technology
Spring 2021
Fri April, 30
Optimal designs for testing the efficacy of heterogeneous experimental groups
Marco Novelli (University of Bologna)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri April, 23
Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Transformation Model With Interval-Censored Data in Two-Phase Cohort Studies
Fei Gao (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri April, 16
Multi-Year Bayesian Hierarchical Framework to Smoothly Fill Missing Data Gaps in Mark-Resight Studies
Audrey Beliveau (University of Waterloo)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri April, 9
Gaining Outlier Resistance with Progressive Quantiles: Fast Algorithms and Theoretical Studies
Yiyuan She (Florida State University)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri April, 2
Penalized empirical likelihood inference for abundance from capture-recapture data
Pengfei Li (University of Waterloo)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri March, 26
Generating Poisson-Distributed Differentially Private Synthetic Data
Harrison Quick (Drexel University)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri March, 19
Statistics, Topology and Data Analysis
Vasileios Maroulas (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri March, 5
Bipartite Causal Inference with Interference: Estimating Health Impacts of Power Plant Regulations
Cory Zigler (University of Texas at Austin)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri February, 19
Dynamic Shrinkage Processes
David Matteson (Cornell University)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri February, 12
TBA
Aiyi Liu (National Institute of Health)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fri February, 5
Simultaneous Curve Registration and Clustering of Digital Electrocardiogram
Wei (Peter) Yang (University of Pennsylvania)
Time: 11am–noon; Location: Zoom
Fall 2020
The shapes of an epidemic: using Functional Data Analysis to characterize COVID-19 in Italy
Date: Fri November, 20, 2020
Speaker: Marzia Cremona
Affiliation: Department of Operations and Decision Systems – Université Laval
Differentially Private Inference Via Noisy Optimization
Date: Fri November, 13, 2020
Speaker: Marco Avella Medina
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – Columbia University
Robust Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic in US Counties
Date: Fri November, 6, 2020
Speaker: Mengyang Gu
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Applied Probability – University of California Santa Barbara
Unlinked Monotone Regression
Date: Fri October, 30, 2020
Speaker: Charles Doss
Affiliation: School of Statistics – University of Minnesota
Communicating Science in the Modern Era of Distractions
Date: Fri October, 23, 2020
Speaker: Vince Tedjasaputra
Affiliation: AAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow – National Science Foundation
A Nearest-Neighbor Based Nonparametric Test for Viral Remodeling in Heterogeneous Single-Cell Data
Date: Fri October, 16, 2020
Speaker: Gourab Mukherhjee
Affiliation: Department of Data Sciences and Operations – University of Southern California
Joint Bayesian analysis of multiple response-types using the hierarchical generalized transformation model
Date: Fri October, 9, 2020
Speaker: Jonathan Bradley
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – Florida State University
Spring 2020
An Online Capstone Activity
Date: Fri April, 24, 2020
Speaker: Beth Chance
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - California Polytechnic State University
Drug discovery in neglected parasites: advances and limitations
Date: Fri March, 6, 2020
Speaker: Mostafa Zamanian
Affiliation: Department of Pathobiological Sciences – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Conditional Functional Graphical Models
Date: Fri February, 14, 2020
Speaker: Kuang Yao Lee
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science - Temple University
Estimation and Inference Methods in Generalized Additive Models with Shape and Order Constraints
Date: Fri January, 31, 2020
Speaker: Mary Meyer
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - Colorado State University
Fall 2019
Defining and addressing dependent observation schemes in life history studies
Date: Fri November, 22, 2019
Speaker: Richard Cook
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science - University of Waterloo
Robust Divergence Based Inference for Finite Mixture Regression
Date: Fri November, 15, 2019
Speaker: Lei Li
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Mason University
Uncertainty Quantification and Bayesian Model Calibration Applied to Stochastic Systems
Date: Fri November, 8, 2019
Speaker: David Higdon
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - Virginia Tech
An Optimal Semiparametric Method for Two-Group Classification
Date: Fri November, 1, 2019
Speaker: Seungchul Baek
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Optimal EMG Placement for a Robotic Prosthesis Controller with Sequential Adaptive Functional Estimation (SAFE)
Date: Fri October, 25, 2019
Speaker: Jon Stallrich
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - North Carolina State University
Priors for Genotyping Polyploids
Date: Fri October, 18, 2019
Speaker: David Gerard
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics - American University
Stochastic Functional Linear Models for Gene-based Association Analysis of Quantitative Traits in Longitudinal Studies
Date: Fri October, 11, 2019
Speaker: Ruzong Fan
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, Biomathematics - Georgetown University Medical Center
Nonlinear and additive principal component analysis for functional data
Date: Fri October, 4, 2019
Speaker: Jun Song
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics - University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Limit theorems for out-of-sample extensions of spectral graph embeddings
Date: Fri September, 27, 2019
Speaker: Keith Levin
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - University of Michigan
Bias in Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials
Date: Fri September, 20, 2019
Speaker: Diane Uschner
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics - George Washington University
Structured Shrinkage Priors
Date: Fri September, 13, 2019
Speaker: Maryclare Griffin
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics - University of Massachusetts Amherst
Analyzing GPS data using density ranking
Date: Fri September, 6, 2019
Speaker: Yen-Chi Chen
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - University of Washington
Spring 2019
Object Oriented Data Analysis
Date: Fri May, 3, 2019
Speaker: J.S. Marron
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Operations Research - University of North Carolina
Isolating Bias in Association Indices
Date: Fri April, 26, 2019
Speaker: Charles Weko
Affiliation: Headquarters, Department of the Army
Copula-based Semiparametric Method for Bivariate Data under General Interval Censoring
Date: Wed April, 24, 2019
Speaker: Ying Ding
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics - University of Pittsburgh
On dual model-free variable selection with two groups of variables
Date: Fri April, 12, 2019
Speaker: Yuexiao Dong
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science - Temple University
Multivariate Ranks and Quantiles using Optimal Transportation and Applications to Statistics
Date: Fri April, 5, 2019
Speaker: Bodhisattva Sen
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - Columbia University
A Predictive Time-to-Event Modeling Approach with Longitudinal Measurements and Missing Data
Date: Fri March, 29, 2019
Speaker: Cheng Yong Tang
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science - Temple University
Feature extraction for multivariate and Hilbert-space valued data
Date: Fri March, 22, 2019
Speaker: Wolfgang Polonik
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - University of California at Davis
Sparse Sliced Inverse Regression Via Lasso
Date: Fri March, 8, 2019
Speaker: Zhigen Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Science - Temple University
Total Variation Smoothed Regression for Spatial and Temporal Data
Date: Fri March, 1, 2019
Speaker: Haochang Shou
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics - University of Pennsylvania
Adaptive Bayesian Spectral Analysis of High-dimensional Nonstationary Time Series
Date: Fri February, 22, 2019
Speaker: Zeda Li
Affiliation: Department of Information Systems and Statistics - Baruch College, City University of New York
Confidence distribution and a likelihood-free approximate computing method with statistical guarantees
Date: Fri February, 15, 2019
Speaker: Min-ge Xie
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Biostatistics - Rutgers University
Network analysis for Time Series data
Date: Fri February, 8, 2019
Speaker: Brandon Park
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Mason University
Multiple Breakpoint Detection: Mixing Documented and Undocumented Changepoints
Date: Fri February, 1, 2019
Speaker: Robert Lund
Affiliation: Department of Mathematical Sciences - Clemson University
Fall 2018
The Role of Statisticians in Developing Regulatory Policy at the Food and Drug Administration
Date: Fri December, 7, 2018
Speaker: John Scott
Affiliation: Division of Statistics - FDA Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Sampling-Based Estimation of in-Degree Distribution in Directed Complex Networks
Date: Fri November, 30, 2018
Speaker: Vladas Pipiras
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Operations - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Dependency Discovery via Multiscale Graph Correlation
Date: Fri November, 16, 2018
Speaker: Cencheng Shen
Affiliation: Department of Applied Economics and Statistics - University of Delaware
Empirical Frequency Band Analysis of Nonstationary Time Series
Date: Fri November, 9, 2018
Speaker: Robert Krafty
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics - University of Pittsburgh
Limiting distributions of Polya and Ehrenfest Processes
Date: Fri November, 2, 2018
Speaker: Srinivasan Balaji
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Washington University
Instrumental Variable Estimation of Mann--Whitney Causal Effect in Randomized Trials With Non-Compliance
Date: Fri October, 26, 2018
Speaker: Lu Mao
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Intensive Longitudinal Data: What is it? Where are we now? What happens next?
Date: Fri October, 19, 2018
Speaker: Trent L. Lalonde
Affiliation: Department of Applied Statistics and Research Methods - University of Northern Colorado
Modeling of Multivariate Time Series of Counts: A Bayesian Perspective
Date: Fri October, 12, 2018
Speaker: Refik Soyer
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Washington University
Finite Sample Simulation Based Switched Z-estimation (SwiZs) and inference
Date: Fri October, 5, 2018
Speaker: Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser
Affiliation: Geneva School of Economics and Management - Universite De Geneve
Semi-Low-Dimensional Inference With High-Dimensional Data
Date: Fri September, 28, 2018
Speaker: Cun-Hui Zhang
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Biostatistics - Rutgers University
Prediction-runtime efficient modeling and optimization
Date: Fri September, 21, 2018
Speaker: Liang Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Information Science and Technology - George Mason University
A Spectral-Based Kolmogorov-Smirnov Method for Detecting the Information Loss of Temporal Aggregation
Date: Fri September, 14, 2018
Speaker: Bu Hyoung Lee
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics - Loyola University Maryland
Parsimony inducing priors for large scale state-space models
Date: Fri September, 7, 2018
Speaker: Hedibert F. Lopes
Affiliation: INSPER
Spring 2018
A pooling strategy to effectively use genotype data in quantitative traits genome-wide association studies
Date: Fri May, 4, 2018
Speaker: Wei Zhang
Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Power Analysis of Longitudinal Data with Time-Dependent Covariates Using Marginal Models: Application to Osteoarthritis Initiative Data
Date: Fri April, 27, 2018
Speaker: Niloofar Ramezani
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Mason University
Outlier Statistics for Molecular Studies in Cancer
Date: Fri April, 20, 2018
Speaker: Michael Ochs
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics - The College of New Jersey
Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions
Date: Fri April, 13, 2018
Speaker: Jing Lei
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - Carnegie Mellon University
Stein Discrepancy Methods for Robust Estimation and Regression
Date: Fri April, 6, 2018
Speaker: Emre Barut
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Washington University
Empirical likelihood for the bivariate survival function under univariate censoring
Date: Fri March, 30, 2018
Speaker: Yichuan Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics - Georgia State University
Density estimation in infinite dimensional exponential families
Date: Fri March, 23, 2018
Speaker: Bharath Sriperumbudur
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - Penn State University
Visual display and analysis of geo-referenced cancer data made easy with new R packages
Date: Fri March, 9, 2018
Speaker: Linda Williams Pickle
Affiliation: StatNet Consulting
Limiting distributions of Polya and Ehrenfest Processes
Date: Fri March, 2, 2018
Speaker: Srinivasan Balaji
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Washington University
Revisiting Group Testing Procedures
Date: Fri February, 23, 2018
Speaker: Yaakov Malinovsky
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics - University of Maryland
Transportation Without Representation Is Travesty
Date: Fri February, 16, 2018
Speaker: Thomas A. Louis
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Randomization: The Forgotten Component of the Randomized Clinical Trial: A Reprise of the 15th Armitage Lecture, University of Cambridge
Date: Fri February, 2, 2018
Speaker: William Rosenberger
Affiliation: Department of Statistics - George Mason University