THE STATISTICS SEMINAR

FALL 2000

The seminar meets Thursdays in room LN 2205 at 10:05 am. This semester we shall cover the monograph Approximate Computation of Expectations (Vol 7. IMS Lecture Notes-Monograph Series) by Charles Stein.

Organizer: Anton Schick
Email: anton@math.binghamton.edu

• September 1
  Organizational meeting.
• September 8
  Speaker : Shelly Zacks
  Topic: Introduction
• September 15
  Speaker: Shelly Zacks
  Title: Hitting Probabilities
• September 22
  Speaker: Anton Schick
  Title: A Proof of the Lindeberg-Feller CLT via the Stein-Chen Method.
• September 28
  Speaker: John Forrester
  Topic: Chapter I
• October 5
  Cancelled
• October 12
  Speaker: Qiqing Yu
  Topic: Chapter II
• October 19
  Speaker: Dan Ghezzi
  Topic: Chapter II
• October 26
  Speaker: H. Peng
  Topic: Chapter II (continued)
• November 2
  Speaker: X. Wang
  Topic: Chapter III
• November 9
  Speaker: X. Wang
  Topic: Chapter IV
• November 16
  Speaker: M. Arcones
  Topic: Chapter V
• November 23
  Thanksgiving
• November 30
  Speaker: M. Arcones
  Topic: Chapter VI
• December 7
  Speaker: H. Peng
  Topic: Chapter VIII