THE STATISTICS SEMINAR

SPRING 2002

The seminar meets Thursdays in room LN 2205 from 10:05am to 11:30pm. This semester we shall cover topics from the monograph Sequential Analysis : Tests and Confidence Intervals by David Siegmund. The active participation in this seminar fulfils the requirements for the graduate course Math 605: Seminar in Statistics.

Organizer: Miguel Arcones
Email: arcones@math.binghamton.edu

• February 7
  Speaker: S. Zacks
  Topic: Stopping variables and basic results I
• February 14
  Speaker: S. Zacks
  Topic: Stopping variables and basic results II
• February 21
  Speaker: Q. Yu
  Topic: Sequential Probability Test I
• February 28
  Speaker: Q. Yu
  Topic: Sequential Probability Test II
• March 7
  Speaker: M. Brown
  Topic: Tests of composite hypothesis
• March 14
  Speaker: F. Kong
  Topic: Optimality and criticism of the sequential probability test
• April 4
  Speaker: Yishi Wang
  Topic: Cusum Procedures
• April 11
  Speaker: Xuequin Wang
  Topic: Sequential Probability Test for the Brownian motion
• April 18
  Speaker: Xuequin Wang
  Topic: Truncated sequential tests
• May 2
  Speaker: M. Arcones
  Topic: Attained significance level and confidence intervals
• May 9
  Speaker: Q. Yu
  Topic: Group sequential tests and the accuracy of Brownian approximations