THE STATISTICS SEMINAR

SPRING 2004

The seminar meets Thursdays in room LN 2205 at 10:30 am. This semeseter 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

• February 12
  Speaker: J. Du
  Topic: The Bootstrap and Maximum Likelihood Methods
• February 19
  Speaker: J. Du
  Topic: Model Inference and Averaging
• February 26
  Speaker: F. Kong
  Topic: Generalized additive models and tree-based methods
• March 4
  Speaker: M. Brown
  Topic: Patient rule induction method and multivariate splines
• March 11
  BREAK
• March 18
  Speaker: C. Chen
  Topic: Boosting and additive trees
• March 25
  Speaker: J. Wang
  Topic: Additive boosting method with different loss function
• April 1
  Speaker: N. Wulwick
  Topic: Outlier Identification by the Criterion of Minimum Spread
• April 8
  BREAK
• April 15
  Speaker: M. Brown
  Topic: Detecting changes in Poisson processes
• April 22
  Speaker: Q. Yu
  Topic:
• April 29
  Speaker: M. Arcones
  Topic: Large deviations of MLE's
• May 6
  Speaker: A. Schick
  Topic: Root-n consistent density estimation