NYU Stern

IOMS-Statistics Research Seminars

2011-2012 Academic Year

Spring 2012

Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are held on Fridays from 11:30am to 12:30pm.
Speaker Date/Location Title and Abstract
Nina Kajiji
University of Rhode Island
 
Feb. 3rd
KMC 5-85
On The Behavioral Specification and Multivariate Neural Network Estimation of Cognitive Scale Economies
Xiao-Li Meng
Harvard University
 
Feb. 24th
KMC 5-85
Trivial Mathematics but Deep Statistics: Simpson’s Paradox and Its Impact on Your Life
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Thomas A. Severini
Northwestern
 
March 9th
KMC 5-85
Asymptotic Properties of Integrated Likelihood Functions
Ostap Okhrin
Humboldt Universitat
 
March 23rd
KMC 5-85
Properties of the Hierarchical Archimedean Copulas
George Michailidis
Univ. of Michigan
 
March 30th
KMC 5-85
Joint Estimation of Multiple Graphical Models
Tamas Rudas
Eotvos Lorand University
 
May 4th
KMC 5-85
On Relational Models for Contingency Tables


Fall 2011
Speaker Date/Time Location Title and Abstract
Mark Tygert
NYU Courant
 
Sept. 9th
11:30am-12:30pm
 
KMC 5-85 Chi-square and classical exact tests often wildly misreport significance;
the remedy lies in computers
Jianguo (Tony) Sun
University of Missouri
 
Sept. 23rd
11:30am-12:30pm
 
KMC 5-85 Some Methods for Informatively Interval-Censored Failure Time Data
Krista Gile
UMass
 
Oct. 14th
11:30am-12:30pm
KMC 5-85 Analysis of Partially-Observed Social Network Data
Tony Cai
Wharton
 
Oct 21st
11:30am-12:30pm
KMC 5-85 Statistical Inference on Covariance Structure and Sparse Discriminant Analysis
Victoria Stodden
Columbia University
 
Oct. 28th
11:30am-12:30pm
KMC 5-85 Reproducible Research in Computational Science: Strategies for Innovation
E.W. (Jed) Frees
University of Wisconsin
 
Nov. 4th
11:30-12:30pm
 
KMC 5-85 Summarizing Insurance Scores Using a Gini Index

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