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Department of Statistics Graduate Seminars

Seminars in Statistics

Next Seminars

Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 3 PM
Location: Room 49 Hardin Hall North
Title: Comparison of Hot deck and Multiple Imputation based on Latent Class Model for Categorical Data
Presented by: Yiyue Xu
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Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 3 PM
Location: Room 49 Hardin Hall North
Title: Study of Lag of Air Temperature and Body Temperature of Steers
Presented by: Zi Teng
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January Seminars 2011-12

Date: Wednesday, Jan 19th, 2011;
Title: Some Issues that Challenge our Approach to Core Graduate Statistics Curriculum
Presented by: Dr. Walt Stroup
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Date: Wednesday, Jan 25th, 2011;
Title: Statistics Consulting Developing Nations Mostly Africa and South America
Presented by: Dr. David Marx
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Date: Wednesday, Jan 25th, 2012;
Title: Some Statistical Problems in Design and Analysis

Presented by: Dr. Kent Eskridge
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February Seminars 2011-12

Date: Wednesday, Feb 9th, 2011;
Title: Development of an internet based system for modeling biotin metabolism using Bayesian networks
Presented by: Jinglei Zhou
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Date: Wednesday, Feb 9th, 2011;
Title: On Consistency of Self-Reported Smoking History and Smoking Habits: Reliablity and Validity Analysis on a Large Survey
Presented by: Steve Augustine
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Date: Wednesday, Feb 15th, 2012;
Title: Small Sample Behavior of GLMM Algorithms Separating Fact from Urban Legend
Presented by: Dr. Walter Stroup
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Date: Wednesday, Feb 22nd, 2012;
Title: Some Statistical Problems in Design and Analysis

Presented by: Dr. Kent Eskridge
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Date: Wednesday, Feb 29th, 2012;
Title: Marker-based selection on Steroids: Optimization of Genomic Selection for Plant Breeding.
Presented by: Dr. Aaron Lorenz
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March Seminars 2011-12

Date: Wednesday, Mar 9th, 2011;
Title: Analysis of culture-induced copy number variation in human embryonic stem cell lines using an Hidden Markov Model based method, PennCNV-Affy
Presented by: Chaomei  Zhang
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Date: Wednesday, Mar 30th, 2011;
Title: On Sample Size Estimation In Combination Drug Efficacy Studies
Presented by: Linlin Luo
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Date: Wednesday, Mar 30th, 2011;
Title: NBA Scout report: How to defend Kobe Bryant?
Presented by: Miao Zheng
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Date: Wednesday, Mar 7th, 2012;
Title: Some Statistical Problems in Design and Analysis
Presented by: Dr. Kent Eskridge
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Date: Wednesday, Mar 14th, 2012
Title: Evaluation of pre-operative calculators for the prediction of post-operative mortality risk For Veterans with Hip Fracture Surgery.
Presented by: Padmashri Ambeka
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Date: Wednesday, Mar 28th, 2012
Title: Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R and SAS .
Presented by: Gabo Madisa-Maseko, Pavel Chernyavskiy, Osval Montesinos Lopez, Trevor Hefley and Walt Stroup
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April Seminars 2011-124

Date: Wednesday, April 4th, 2012;
Title: National Household Travel Survey
Presented by: Li Min Chen
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Date: Wednesday, April 4th, 2012;
Title: Stat 218:  Making the Grade?
Presented by: Aimee Schwab
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Date: Monday, April 9th, 2012;
Title: A conversation about the Role(s) of Statistical Bioinformatics in a Department of Statistics, and at a University
Presented by: R.W. Doerge
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Date: Monday, April 9th, 2012;
Title: Modeling Next-Generation Sequencing Data and Related Statistical Issues
Presented by: R.W. Doerge
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Date: Wednesday, April 11th, 2012;
Title: Discriminant Analysis Using College Statistics to Predict Quarterback Success in the NFL
Presented by: Tucker Zeleny
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Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 3 PM
Location: Room 49 Hardin Hall North
Title: Comparison of Hot deck and Multiple Imputation based on Latent Class Model for Categorical Data
Presented by: Yiyue Xu
Abstract

Date: Wednesday, April 18th, 3 PM
Location: Room 49 Hardin Hall North
Title: Study of Lag of Air Temperature and Body Temperature of Steers
Presented by: Zi Teng
Abstract

Date: Wednesday, April 14th, 2011;
Title: Emerging scope of inference issues in Quantitative Genetics & Genomics
Presented by: Dr. Rob Tempelman, Michigan State University, Professor,
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Date: Wednesday, April 27th, 2011;
Title: Comparing Steer Body Temperature Time Series between Thermoneutral and Thermal Challenging Environments
Presented by: Xiang Li
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Date: Wednesday, April 27th, 2011;
Title:
Generalized Linear Mixed Model Analysis To Determine Factors Contributing To Summer Feedlot Deaths
Presented by: John Clausen
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May Seminars 2011-12

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Summer Seminars 2011-12

No Current Seminars

September Seminars 2011-12

Date: Wednesday, Sept 7th, 2011;
Title: Statistics in Sports

Presented by: Dr. David Marx
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Date: Wednesday, Sept 28th, 2011;
Title: Meta-Analysis of Experimental DATA
Presented by: Dr. Kathy Hanford
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October Seminars 2011-12

Date: Wednesday, Oct 19th, 2011;
Title: Modeling Repeated Measures Count Data Part I: How do autocorrelated count data arise?
Presented by: Martin Frenzel
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November Seminars 2011-12

Date: Wednesday, Nov 19th, 2011;
Title:
Statistical Indicators of the Transcritical Bifurcation in Population Monitoring Data
Presented by: Trevor Hefley
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Date: Wednesday, Nov 16th, 2011;
Title:
Heterogeneity of Covariances: Expanding the Linear Mixed Model
Presented by: Nora M. Bello, PhD, DVM
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Date: Wednesday, Nov 30th, 2011;
Title:
The Effect of Environment and Genotype x Environment Interaction on Detecting Quantitative Trait Loci in Plants
Presented by: Yong Zhao
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December Seminars 2011-12

Date: Wednesday, Dec 1st, 2010;
Title: Group Testing in Heterogeneous Populations using Splitting Algorithms
Presented by: Michael S. Black
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