Date
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Location
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Speaker
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Title
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Friday
September 14
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Arden Miller, University of Auckland
|
Using Supersaturated Designs for Screening Applications |
Canceled
|
ASB 10900
|
Liza Levina, University of Michgan
|
Regularized Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices |
Friday
October 12
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Fanny Lin, Feng Chia University
|
Wavelet-based Forecasting of Mortality Improvement Rates at Advanced Ages |
Friday
October 26
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Jiahua Chen, University of British Columbia
|
Extended Bayesian Information Criteria for Model Selection with Large Model Spaces |
Friday
November 2
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Guangzhe Fan, University of Waterloo
|
Kernel-Induced Classification Trees and Random Forests |
Friday
November 9
1:30
|
To be announced
|
Pacific Northwest Statistics Meeting
|
To be announced |
Monday
Novermber 26
14:00
|
ASB 9896
|
Bovas Abraham, University of Waterloo
|
Gamma Stochastic Volatility Models |
Friday
November 30
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Raphael Gottardo, University of British Columbia
|
Statistical challenges in high-throughput chromatin immunoprecipitation assays |
Friday
December 7
12:30-4:00
|
The Diamond Family Theatre, BC Cancer Research Center
|
Jiahua Chen, UBC and Tom Loughin, SFU
|
Joint SFU/UBC and BRG seminar |
Friday
December 14
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Jeffrey S. Pai, University of Manitoba
|
Temperature Derivatives Using Forecasts of Vector ARFIMA Processes |
Friday
January 11
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Liza Levina, University of Michgan
|
Permutation-invariant regularization of large covariance matrices |
Friday
January 18
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Melissa Dobbie, AusCan Scholar 2008, CSIRO, Australia
|
PIMS talk: Monitoring the health of Queensland’s rivers: steps to designing an optimal spatial sampling scheme |
Friday
January 25
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Chunfang Lin, Simon Fraser University
|
A Flexible Method for Constructing Designs for Computer Experiments |
Friday
February 1
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Thérèse A. Stukel, University of Toronto
|
Analysis of Observational Studies in the Presence of Treatment Selection Bias |
Friday
February 8
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Jim Ramsay, McGill University
|
Parameter Cascading for High Dimensional Models |
Friday
February 15
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Michael Dowd, Dalhousie University
|
Sequential Monte Carlo Approaches for Parameter and State Estimation |
Friday
February 22
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
William A. Brenneman, The Procter & Gamble Company
|
Examples of Industrial Problems Leading to Statistical Research |
Friday
February 29
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Jock MacKay, University of Waterloo
|
Watfactory – A Virtual Environment for Process Improvement |
Wednesday
March 5
12:30
|
ASB 10940
|
Karen Kopciuk, the Alberta Cancer Board
|
Estimation and study design issues for characterizing genes with variability in age-at-onset disease phenotypes |
Friday
March 7
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Nitis Mukhopadhyay, University of Connecticut
|
On Fixed-Width Confidence Intervals |
Friday
March 14
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Lang Wu, University of British Columbia
|
Mixed Effects Models with Incompletely Observed Data |
Thursday
March 20
SPECIAL TIME: 2:45
|
ASB 10900
|
Doug Nychka, National Center for Atmospheric Research
|
Robust Spline and Wavelet Curve Estimates Using Pseudodata |
Friday
March 28
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Stephen J. Blumberg, U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
|
Cell Phones and Telephone Surveys: New Biases and New Challenges |
Tuesday
April 1
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Helen MacGillivray, Queensland University of Technology
|
Real data, real students, real projects: Learning statistical thinking through statistical discovery tours |
Friday
April 4
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Hyun Ja Lim, University of Saskatchewan
|
Semiparametric Failure Time Models for the Analysis of Recurrent Event Data |
Friday
April 11
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Geneviève Lefebvre, University of British Columbia
|
Comparing traditional regression and inverse-probability-weighting for estimating causal effects: a Bayes risk approach |
Wednesday
April 16
11:00
|
ASB 10900
|
Lei Sun, University of Toronto
|
The multiplicity problem in Genome-Wide Association (GWA) studies |
Friday
April 18
1:30
|
ASB 10900
|
Patrick Wessa, U Leuven in Belgium
|
Let us free statistics of irreproducible research |
Wednesday
April 23
1:30
|
ASB 10940
|
Zuzana Hrdlickova, UBC at Okanagan
|
Comparison of different approximations of powers of some tests in multivariate generalized linear models |
Friday
April 24-25
|
UBC
|
National Program in Complex Data Structures
|
Statistical Innovation for the Analysis of Complex Data in Medical and Health Sciences |
Monday
May 12
2:00
|
K9509
|
Cynthia Wilson Garvan, University of Florida
|
Collaborating with Physicians |
Wednesday
June 11
1:30
|
K9509
|
Philippe Artzner, Strasbourg University
|
RISK MEASURES AND EFFICIENT USE OF CAPITAL |
Wednesday
July 23
1:30
|
K9509
|
Arthur Pewsey, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain
|
Modelling Circular Data |