UF Statistics Seminar Schedule

Seminars are held on Thursdays from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. in Griffin-Floyd 100 unless otherwise noted.

Refreshments are available before the seminars from 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. in Griffin-Floyd Hall 230.

Fall 2012

Click here for the Student Seminar schedule.

Date	Speaker	Title (click for abstract)	Comments
Sep 13	Sean Meyn (University of Florida)	Why is Monte-Carlo estimation difficult for skip-free Markov chains, and what to do about it
Sep 20	Sanjay Chaudhuri (National University of Singapore)	An Conditional Empirical Likelihood Approach to Combine Sampling Design and Population Level Information
Oct 11	Isabel Molina (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)	Small area estimation of general parameters, with application to poverty mapping
Oct 18	Mihai Giurcanu (University of Florida)	Bootstrap Inference For Misspecified Over-Identified Models
Oct 25	Babette Brumback (University of Florida)	Conditional Pseudolikelihood and Generalized Linear Mixed Model Methods to Adjust for Confounding due to Cluster with Ordinal, Multinomial, or Nonnegative Outcomes and Complex Survey Data
Oct 30	Alin Dobra (University of Florida)	R for Large Scale Data Processing
Nov 8	David Bristol (Statistical Consulting Services, Inc.)	Two Adaptive Procedures for Comparing Two Doses to Placebo Using Conditional Power
Nov 15	Changbao Wu (University of Waterloo, Canada)	Semiparametric Fractional Imputation and Sparse and Efficient Replication Variance Estimation for Complex Surveys

Past Seminars

Spring 2012	Fall 2011
Spring 2011	Fall 2010	Spring 2010	Fall 2009
Spring 2009	Fall 2008	Spring 2008	Fall 2007
Spring 2007	Fall 2006	Spring 2006	Fall 2005
Spring 2005	Fall 2004	Spring 2004	Fall 2003
Spring 2003	Fall 2002	Spring 2002	Fall 2001
Spring 2001	Fall 2000	Spring 2000	Fall 1999

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