THE STATISTICS SEMINAR

SPRING 2009

The seminar meets Thursdays in room LN 2205 at 1:15pm to 2:40pm. The seminar is listed as Math-605.

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

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• Janurary 29
  Organizational meeting.
  
• February 5
  Speaker: Olga Y. Savchuk, Texas A & M University.
  Topic: Choosing a Kernel for Cross-Validation.
  Abstract
  
• February 12
  Speaker: Shelley Zacks, Binghamton University.
  Topic: The exact distributions of the stopping times and their functionals in two-stage and sequential fixed-width confidence intervals of the exponential parameter.
  
• February 19
  Speaker: Yu-Ting Hsu, Binghamton University.
  Topic: A bivariate frailty Model with a cure fraction for modeling familial correlations in diseases.
  Abstract
  
• February 26
  Speaker: Hao Qin, Binghamton University.
  Topic: Bayesian analysis of masked series system lifetime data.
  Abstract
  
• March 5
  Speaker: Miguel A. Arcones, Binghamton University.
  Topic: Asymptotic distribution of the most powerful invariant test for invariant families.
  Abstract
  
• March 12
  Speaker: Xiaosong Ai, Binghamton University.
  Topic: Inference for mixtures of symmetric distributions, I.
  
• March 19
  Speaker: Wei-Yu Chang, Binghamton University.
  Topic: An analogy between nonparametric problems of estimating a distribution function and their parametric versions.
  
• March 26
  Speaker: Xiaosong Ai, Binghamton University.
  Topic: Inference for mixtures of symmetric distributions, II.
  
• April 2
  Speaker: Qiying Yu, Binghamton University.
  Topic: Is each npmle of a continuous bivariate distribution function with singly right-censored data really inconsistent?
  Abstract
  
• April 16
  Speaker: Jiahui Li, Binghamton University.
  Topic: A special case of the NPMLE of the joint distribution function with RMCR data.
  Abstract
  
• April 23
  Speaker: Peng Zhang, Binghamton University.
  Topic: An introduction to statistical properties of financial data.
  Abstract
  
• April 30
  Speaker: Yu-Ting Hsu.
  Topic: Candidacy exam.
  
• May 7
  Speaker: Jiaping Wang, Binghamton University.
  Topic: Asymptotical normality of the GMLE with mixed case interval censored and masked competing risks data.
  Abstract
  

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