THE STATISTICS SEMINAR

FALL 2003

The seminar meets Thursdays in room LN 2205 at 10:15 am. This semeseter we shall be covering material from the book The Elements of Statistical Learning by T. Hastie, R. Tibshirani and J. Friedman.

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

• September 18
  Speaker: S. Zacks
  Topic: Three procedures for prediction and classification with covariates.
• September 25
  Speaker: Q. Yu
  Topic: Overview of supervised learning.
• October 2
  Speaker: A. Schick
  Topic: Shrinkage estimators.
• October 9
  Speaker: M. Brown
  Topic: Classification of data.
• October 16
  Speaker: M. Arcones
  Topic: Basis using splines.
• October 23
  Speaker: M. Arcones
  Topic: Smoothing splines.
• October 30
  Speaker: Y. Wang
  Topic: Automatic selection of the smoothing parameters
• November 6
  Speaker: C. Chen
  Topic: Local regression
• November 13
  Speaker: F. Kong
  Topic: Local likelihood
• November 20
  Speaker: J. Du
  Topic: Bias-Variance Decomposition
• November 27
  THANKSGIVING
• December 4
  Speaker: M. Brown
  Topic: Detection of changes in the arrival rate of a Poisson process.
• December 11
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