THE STATISTICS SEMINAR

FALL 2004

The seminar meets Thursdays in room LN 2205 at 10:05am. This semester we shall continue to cover 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 23
  Speaker: F. Kong
  Topic: Neural Networks
• September 30
  Speaker: C. Chen
  Topic: Support Vector Classifiers
• October 7
  Speaker: Y. Wang
  Topic: Support Vector Machines
• October 14
  Speaker: D. Mason
  Topic: Uniform in Bandwidth Consistency of Kernel-Type Function Estimators
  Talk will be given during the usual colloquium time.
• October 21
  Speaker: J. Du
  Topic: Prototype Methods and Nearest-Neighbors
• October 28
  Speaker: S. Zacks
  Topic: Distributions of Stopping Times in Sequential Estimation: The Exponential Case. Part I
• November 4
  Speaker: S. Zacks
  Topic: Distributions of Stopping Times in Sequential Estimation: The Exponential Case. Part II
• November 11
  Speaker: Q. Yu
  Topic: Estimation with case cohort data under linear regression models.
• November 18
  Speaker: Y. Wang
  Topic: Candidacy Exam
• November 25
  THANKSGIVING
• December 2
  Speaker: Q. Yu
  Topic: Estimation with case cohort data under linear regression models (continued).
• December 9
  Speaker: M. Arcones
  Topic: Large deviations of certain series