2011 - Spring Seminars

• Shrinkage Estimation in Heteroscedastic Hierarchical Models
  Wednesday January 19, 2011 -- Xianchao Xie, Harvard University
  [xxie@fas.harvard.edu]
• Coupling optional Polya trees --- a Bayesian nonparametric approach to case-control studies
  Monday January 24, 2011 -- Li Ma, Stanford University [marlee1982@gmail.com]
• Regularization For Cox’s Proportional Hazards Model With Np-Dimensionality
  Wednesday January 26, 2011 -- Jelena Bradic, Princeton University [jbradic@Princeton.EDU]
• Monte Carlo Maximum Likelihood for Exponential Random Graph Models: A Multiple Bridge Sampling Appr
  Friday January 28, 2011 -- Kevin Bartz, Harvard University [bartz@fas.harvard.edu]
• Adaptive confidence intervals for non-smooth functionals
  Monday January 31, 2011 -- Eric Laber, University of Michigan [laber@umich.edu]
• Covariate Adjusted Precision Matrix Estimation (CAPME) with Application in Genomics
  Wednesday February 2, 2011 -- Jichun Xie, University of Pennsylvania [jichun@mail.med.upenn.edu]
• Covariance Matrix Estimation for Time Series
  Monday February 7, 2011 -- Han Xiao, University of Chicago [xiao@galton.uchicago.edu]
• Envelope models: efficient estimation in multivariate linear regression
  Wednesday -- February 9, 2011--Sophia Su, University of Minnesota [zhihua.sophia@gmail.com]
• Likelihood-Based Volatility and Covariance Estimation with High Frequency Financial Data
  Friday -- February 11, 2011--Dacheng Xiu, Princeton University [dachengx@math.princeton.edu]
• False Discovery Control Under Arbitrary Dependence
  Monday -- February 14, 2011--Xu Han, Princeton University [xhan@princeton.edu]
• High Dimensional Time Series Modeling
  Wednesday, February 16, 2011 --Richard Song, University of California-Berkeley [ssoonngg123@hotmail.com]
• The Solution Path of the Generalized Lasso
  Friday, February 18, 2011 --Ryan Tibshirani, Stanford University [ryantibs@stanford.edu]
• Functional Boxplots for Visualization of Complex Curve/Image Data: An Application to Precipitation and Climate Model Output
  Wednesday, March 9, 2011 --Marc G. Genton, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University[genton@stat.tamu.edu]
• Efficient Distribution Estimation for Data with Unobserved Sub-population Identifiers
  --Yanyuan Ma, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University [ma@stat.tamu.edu]
• Strange attractors, linear prediction, and climate modeling
  Wednesday, March 23, 2011 --Michael LuValle, OFS Laboratories [mjl@ofsoptics.com]
• Are we up to speed on comparative effective research methodology?
  Wednesday,March 30, 2011 --Tom Tenhave, University of Pennsylvania [ttenhave@upenn.edu]
• Flexible Quantile and Expectile regression with confidence bands and temperature shifts.
  Wednesday, April 6, 2011 -- Wolfgang K. Hardle, Princeton University [wolfgang.haerdle@googlemail.com]
• Some Asymptotic Results and Computational Methods of Gaussian Random Fields
  Wednesday, April 13, 2011 --Jingchen Liu, Columbia University [jcliu@stat.columbia.edu]
• Hypothesis testing and variable selection for Studying Rare Variants in Sequencing Association Studies
  Wednesday April 20, 2011 --Xihong Lin, Harvard University [xlin@hsph.harvard.edu]
• Data Depth for Multivariate Statistics: Multivariate Spacings, Ordering and Beyond
  Wednesday April 27, 2011--Regina Liu, Rutgers University [rliu@stat.rutgers.edu]