THE STATISTICS SEMINAR

FALL 2002

The seminar meets Thursdays in room LN 2205 at 10:05 am.

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

• September 19
  Speaker: S. Zacks
  Topic: Sequential methods in software reliability.
• September 26
  Speaker: Y. Wang
  Topic: Better Bootstrap Confidence intervals, part I
• October 3
  Speaker: Y. Wang
  Topic: Better Bootstrap Confidence intervals, part II
• October 10
  Speaker: T. Todorov
  Topic: Simple linear regression and the bootstrap method
• October 17
  Speaker: X. Wang
  Topic: The Theil-Sen Estimator, part I
• October 24
  Speaker: X. Wang
  Topic: The Theil-Sen Estimator, part II
• October 31
  Speaker: F. Kong
  Topic: Semiparametric modelling and likelihood estimation with estimation equations.
• November 7
  Speaker: C. Chen
  Topic: A note on the Borel-Cantelli Lemma
• November 14
  Speaker: M. Brown
  Topic: Exact tests for 2 by 2 contingency tables
• November 21
  Speaker: T. Todorov
  Topic: The Arcsine Law
• November 28
  THANKSGIVING
• December 5
  Speaker: X. Wang
  Topic: More on the Theil-Sen estimator
• December 12
  Speaker: F. Kong
  Topic: A new proof of strong consistency of kernel estimation of density function and mode under random censorship.