Fall, 2000

• Fri. Sep. 29, Anindya Roy, Dept of Mathematics, U. of Maryland, Baltimore County.
  " A Likelihood Based Estimator for Vector Autoregressive Processes. "
  
  
  
• Fri. Oct. 6, Jiayang Sun, Department of Statistics, CWRU.
  " Bumps, Mixtures and Models with Measurement Errors. "
  
  
  
• Wed. Oct. 11, Hemant Ishwaran, Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
  " GENERALIZED WEIGHTED CHINESE RESTAURANT PROCESSES FOR SPECIES SAMPLING MIXTURE MODELS. "
  
  
  
• Fri. Oct. 13, Alfred S. Carasso, Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology.
  " DIRECT BLIND DECONVOLUTION AND LEVY PROBABILITY DENSITIES. "
  
  
  
• Fri. Oct. 20, Jiahua Chen, Department of Statistics, U. of Waterloo.
  " MODIFIED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST FOR FINITE MIXTURE MODELS "
  
  
  
• Fri. Oct. 27, Joseph F. Koonce, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University
  " Contributions of Ecosystem Modeling to Understanding Instabilities of the Fish Community of Lake Erie. "
  
  
  
• Fri. Nov. 3, Mohammad Kazim Khan, Dept of Mathematics & Computer Science, Kent State University
  " Some Refinements of Jensen's Inequality. "
  
  
  
• Fri. Nov. 10, Harold Haller, Harold S Haller & Company and High Performance Glass Innovations, LTD
  " The Statistician's Role in Creating Technical Breakthroughs: A case study from High Performance Glass Innovations, LTD. "
  
  
  
• Fri. Nov. 17, Nicholas Schork, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CWRU
  " Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping: Theory and Applications. "
  
  
  
• Fri. Dec. 1, Meral Ozsoyoglu, EECS Department, CWRU
  " Database Systems: From Structured to Semistructured Data. "
  
  
  
• Fri. Dec. 4 & 8, Catherine Loader, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, NJ
  " Local Regression and Liklihood. "
  
  
  
• Fri. Dec. 8, Aloke Dey, Indian Statistical Institute & University of Akron
  " OPTIMAL FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL PLANS WITH BLOCKS. "