2018 Seminars

A pooling strategy to effectively use genotype data in quantitative traits genome-wide association studies
Date: Friday, 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: Friday, April 27, 2018
Speaker: Niloofar Ramezani
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – George Mason University

Outlier Statistics for Molecular Studies in Cancer
Date: Friday, April 20, 2018
Speaker: Michael Ochs
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics – The College of New Jersey

Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions
Date: Friday, April 13, 2018
Speaker: Jing Lei
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – Carnegie Mellon University

Stein Discrepancy Methods for Robust Estimation and Regression
Date: Friday, April 6, 2018
Speaker: Emre Barut
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – George Washington University

Empirical likelihood for the bivariate survival function under univariate censoring
Date: Friday, March 30, 2018
Speaker: Yichuan Zhao
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics – Georgia State University

Density estimation in infinite dimensional exponential families
Date: Friday, 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: Friday, March 9, 2018
Speaker: Linda Williams Pickle
Affiliation: StatNet Consulting

Limiting distributions of Polya and Ehrenfest Processes
Date: Friday, March 2, 2018
Speaker: Srinivasan Balaji
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – George Washington University

Revisiting Group Testing Procedures
Date: Friday, February 23, 2018
Speaker: Yaakov Malinovsky
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics – University of Maryland

Transportation Without Representation Is Travesty
Date: Friday, 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: Friday, February 2, 2018
Speaker: William Rosenberger
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – George Mason University

The Role of Statisticians in Developing Regulatory Policy at the Food and Drug Administration
Date: Friday, 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: Friday, 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: Friday, 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: Friday, November 9, 2018
Speaker: Robert Krafty
Affiliation: Department of Biostatistics – University of Pittsburgh

Limiting distributions of Polya and Ehrenfest Processes
Date: Friday, 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: Friday, 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: Friday, 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: Friday, October 12, 2018
Speaker: Refik Soyer
Affiliation: Department of Statistics – George Washington University

Finite Sample Simulation Based Switched Z-estimation (SwiZs) and Inference
Date: Friday, October 5, 2018
Speaker: Maria-Pia Victoria-Feser
Affiliation: Geneva School of Economics and Management – Université de Genève

Semi-Low-Dimensional Inference With High-Dimensional Data
Date: Friday, September 28, 2018
Speaker: Cun-Hui Zhang
Affiliation: Department of Statistics and Biostatistics – Rutgers University

Prediction-runtime efficient modeling and optimization
Date: Friday, 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: Friday, 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: Friday, September 7, 2018
Speaker: Hedibert F. Lopes
Affiliation: INSPER