Fall, 1997

• Fri. Aug. 29, Joseph Sedransk, Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
  "Small Area Inference for Binary Variables in the National Health Interview Survey"
  
  
• Fri. Sep. 05, Jiming Jiang , Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
  "Method of sieves and its application in REML estimation"
  
  
• Fri. Sep. 12, Robert Elston, Epidemiology and BioStat, Case Western Reserve University
  "The study of candidate genes in drug trials"
  
  
• Fri. Sep. 19, Joseph B. Kadane, Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
  "Reasoning to a foregone conclusion"
  
  
• Fri. Sep. 26, Pete Kernan, Physics and Statistics, Case Western Reserve University
  "The Solar Neutrino Observatory: will the next Galactic Supernovae provide evidence for Neutrino masses?"
  
  
• Fri. Oct. 03, Roger A. Bielefeld , Epidemiology and BioStat, Case Western Reserve University
  "Artificial Neural Networks and Applications in Biomedical Research"
  
  
• Fri. Oct. 10, Ming Tan, Biostat and Epidem, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
  "Analysis of Clustered Ordinal Data with Subclusters via a Bayes Hierarchical Model Using Gibbs Sampler"
  
  
• Wed, Oct 22, Fred Bookstein, Medical School, The University of Michigan
  "`Endophrenology': New morphometric techniques applied to brain form "
  
  
• Fri. Oct. 31, Grace L. Yang , Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland
  "Asymptotic Normality in Statistical Experiments -- Contiguity and Applications"
  (postscript version is here)
  
  
• Tue, Nov 4, Marek Musiela , Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australi
  "Models of Libor Rates, Calibration and Pricing of Exotic Options"
  Joint with Department of Operations Research and Operations Management
  
  
• Fri. Nov. 07, Zhen Luo , Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University
  "Backfitting in Smoothing Spline ANOVA"
  
  
• Fri. Nov. 14, Craig Zirbel , Mathematics and Statistics, Bowling Green State University
  "Statistical mechanics for ideal magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)"
  
  
• Wed . Nov 19, Peter Bickel, Statistics, University of California at Berkeley
  "Semiparametric Models for Time Series and Approximating Sieves"
  Special Schedule: Refreshments 2:30 - 3:00 p.m. and Talk 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. on Wed at 327 Yost.
  
  
• Fri. Nov 28, Thanksgiving, No Seminar
  
  
• Fri. Dec 05, Norman Rushforth, Biology, Case Western Reserve University
  "Epidemiological studies of violent death in Cleveland region"
  
  

1996-1997 Colloquium Series

Seminar Organizer, jiayang@sun.cwru.edu