THE STATISTICS SEMINAR

FALL 2006

The seminar meets Thursdays in room LN 2205 at 1:15pm. We continue with covering material from the book Categorical Data Analysis by Alan Agresti.

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

• August 31
  Organisational Meeting
• September 7
  Speaker: A. Schick
  Topic: Estimating the error distribution in nonparametric regression. Part I. The result and preliminaries.
• September 14
  Speaker: A. Schick
  Topic: Estimating the error distribution in nonparametric regression. Part II. Properties of locally linear smoothers
• September 21
  Speaker: A. Schick
  Topic: Estimating the error distribution in nonparametric regression. Part III. Proof of the main result
• September 28
  Speaker: Y. Hsu
  Topic: Model checking on the Weibull distribution.
• October 5
  Speaker: J. Du
  Topic: Estimating the error variance in nonparametric regression.
  Remark: This is Jichang's qualifying exam.
• October 12
  Speaker: A. Kagan (University of Maryland)
  Topic: Fine properties of the Pitman estimators in small samples.
  Announcement
  Abstract
• October 19
  Speaker: J. Wang
  Topic: Chapter 8
• October 26
  Speaker: P. Zhang
  Topic: Chapter 9
• November 2
  Speaker: C. Chen
  Topic: Asymptotic distribution of BJE in linear regression with mixed interval-censored data
• November 10
  Remark: This is a Friday, and the talk is at 4:40 PM.
  Speaker: Hongwen Guo, Michigan State University
  Topic: Regression model fitting with long memory
  Abstract
• November 17
  Remark: This is a Friday, and the talk is at 4:40 PM.
  Speaker: Marc Hallin, University of Brussels
  Topic: The General Dynamic Factor Model: Determining the Number of Factors.
  Abstract
• November 23
  THANGSGIVING:
• November 30
  Speaker: H. Qin
  Topic:
• December 7
  Speaker: H. Qin
  Topic:
• December 12
  Speaker: P. Roy, Cornell
  Topic: Ergodic Theory, Abelian Groups and Extremes of Stable Random Fields
  Abstract

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