2011 - Fall Seminars

• The Asymptotic Efficiency of the Spatial Median for Elliptically Symmetric Distributions
  Wednesday--December 7, 2011--Andrew Magyar, Rutgers Department of Statistics and Biostatistics [afmagyar@gmail.com]

• Some Properties of Random Networks
  Wednesday--November 30, 2011--Haiyan Cai NSF and Univ . Missouri [haiyan_cai@umsl.edu]

• Regularization for multivariate missing data in proteomic studies
  Wednesday--November 16, 2011--Dr. Pei Wang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Department of  Biostatistics, University of Washington [pwang@fhcrc.org]

• On Generalized Fiducial Inference
  Wednesday--November 9, 2011--Jan Hanning, UNC [jan.hannig@unc.edu]

• Algorithms for learning latent variable models
  Wednesday-- November 2, 2011--Daniel Hsu, Microsoft [dahsu@microsoft.com]

• Association Rules, Sequential Events, and Recommender Systems
  Wednesday--October 26, 2011--Cynthia Rudin, MIT Sloan School of Management [rudin@mit.edu]

• “The Statistics of Gapped Sequence Alignments”
  Wednesday-- October 19, 2011--John Spouge, NIH/NLM/NCBI (Joint with BioMaps) [spouge@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]

• Case-Based Reasoning in Comparative Effectiveness Research?  Nover Applications of Statistical Distances
  Wednesday--October 12, 2011--Marianthi Markatou, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM [mmarkat@us.ibm.com]

• Sparse estimation by exponential weighting
  Wednesday--October 5, 2011--Philippe Rigollet, Princeton [rigollet@Princeton.EDU ]

• "Self-controlled methods for postmarketing drug safety surveillance in large-scale longitudinal data"
  Wednesday--September 28, 2011--Dr. Shawn Simpson, Columbia University [shawn@stat.columbia.edu]

• Learning Sparse Signal Representations: Local Theory and Algorithms
  Wednesday-- September 21, 2011--John Wright (formerly Microsoft) [johnwright@ee.columbia.edu]

• Unit Root Tests - A Review
  Wednesday-- September 14, 2011--Sastry Pantula, NSF and North Carolina State [pantula@ncsu.edu]

• Fitting Logistic Regression and SVM on High-Dimensional Massive Data Using b-Bit Minwise Hashing
  Wednesday-- September 7, 2011--Ping Li, Cornell University [pingli@cornell.edu]

•  From Central Limit Theorems To Anisotropy Tests For Some Fractal Models in Medical Imaging
  Thursday -- September 1, 2011--Aline Bonami, Univesite D'Orleans, France [gundy@stat.rutgers.edu]