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Consulting
Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA)
Colloquium Schedule
Fall 2008
Each colloquium is held from 3:30 to 4:45 in room 204 in Hutcheson Hall.
Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Title
September 4
David Banks
Duke University
Risk Analysis of the Department of Homeland Security
September 11
Benjamin Redelings
NC State
Bayesian Co-estimation of Evolutionary Trees and Molecular Sequence Alignments
September 18
Laura Gunn
Georgia Southern University
Bayesian Methods for Assessing Ordering in Hazard Functions
October 2
Hua Liang
University of Rochester Medical Center
Semiparametric Regression Models with Measurement Errors
October 9
Michael Lavine
University of Massachusetts
Optical Images of the Brain During Surgery: Detection of Hemodynamic in Response to Electrical Stimulus
October 16
Dong-Yun Kim
Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech
Asymptotic Test of Mixture Model and its Applications to QTL Interval Mapping.
October 23
Frosty Levy
East Tennessee State University
Inferring Pathogen Transmission using Bayesian Modeling, Cluster Analysis and DNA Markers
October 30
Ed Wolfe
Department of Education, Virginia Tech
Psychometric Models for Examining Rater Effects
November 20
Bill Woodall
Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech