CUNY Statistics Seminar Series
Location: The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), room 7314
Time: Fridays, 3-4 pm
Coordinator: Dana Draghicescu, email dana.draghicescu@hunter.cuny.edu, phone 212-772-5748
Fall 2009
September 18, 2009. Organizational meeting.
September 25, 2009
Speaker: Iuliana Ismailescu, Pace University
The Reaction of Emerging Market Credit Default Swap Spreads to Sovereign Credit Rating Changes - flyer
October 2, 2009
Speaker: Andrew Robertson, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Hidden Markov Models for Daily Rainfall Modeling and Dowscaling of Climate Predictions - flyer
October 16, 2009
Speaker: Benjamin Baumer, PhD Program in Mathematics, The Graduate Center, CUNY
A Survey of Methods for the Statistical Evaluation of Defensive Ability in Major League Baseball - flyer
October 30, 2009
Speaker: Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College
Finding the Untold Story: What Can the Data Tell Us? - flyer
December 4, 2009
Speaker: Alexia Iasonos, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
The Continual Reassessment Method in Dose-Finding Phase I Trials
- flyer
December 11, 2009
Spring 2009
February 6, 2009. Organizational meeting.
February 13, 2009
Speaker: Hammou ElBarmi, Baruch College
Peakedness and Peakedness Ordering in Symmetric Distributions
February 20, 2009
Speaker: Jay Verkuilen, The Graduate Center
Nominal Factor Analysis by Log-Multiplicative Association Models
March 13, 2009
Speaker: Alessandra Giannini, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Climate change in the African Sahel
March 27, 2009
Speaker: Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
Bootstrap in some Non-standard Problems
April 3, 2009
Speaker: Rongning Wu, Baruch College
A negative binomial model for time series of counts
April 24, 2009
Speaker: Subir Dhamoon, The Graduate Center
May 1, 2009
Speaker: Jennifer Hill, New York University
Non-parametric identification of lack of support in potentially
high-dimensional covariate space
May 8, 2009
Speaker: Jose Blanchet, Columbia University
Fast Sampling Procedures for Large Excursions of Gaussian Processes
May 15, 2009 - Seminar organized jointly with NYC ASA - different location: Hunter College, East Building (SE corner of Lexington Avenue and 68th Street), room 920
Speaker: Jay Emerson, Yale University
The bigmemory package: massive data, shared memory, and concurrent programming
Fall 2008
September 5, 2008. Organizational meeting.
September 19, 2008
Speaker: Ronald Neath, Baruch College
Regenerative simulation for variable-at-a-time Metropolis-Hastings algorithms
October 3, 2008
Speaker: Jingchen Liu, Columbia University
Statistics Statistics Can Lie But Can Also Correct for Lies: Reducing Response Bias in NLAAS via Bayesian Imputation
October 10, 2008
Speaker: Kobi Abayomi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Copula Based Independent Component Analysis
October 17, 2008
Speaker: Roger Pinkham, Stevens Institute of Technology
The Birthday Problem
October 24, 2008
Speaker: Robert A Yaffee, NYU
An Experiment in Epidemiological Forecasting: Comparing the Forecast Accuracies of Different Forecasting Methods on a "Difficult" Time Series
October 31, 2008
Speaker: Colin Begg, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Statistical Methods for Differential Diagnosis of Second Primary
Cancers from Metastases
November 7, 2008
Speaker: David Kim, Manhattan College
Tests of Uniformity and Stochastic Order on (0,1)
November 14, 2008
Speaker: Hyokyoung (Grace) Hong, Baruch College
Prediction of Functional Status for the Elderly
Based on a New Ordinal Regression Model
November 21, 2008
Speaker: Yu (Ryan) Yue, Baruch College
Bayesian Adaptive Smoothing Priors
December 5, 2008
Speaker: Ilana Belitskaya-Levy, New York University School of Medicine
Systematic Missing-At-Random (SMAR) Design and Analysis for Translational Research Studies
December 12, 2008
Speaker: Ying Wei, Columbia University
An approach to multivariate covariate-dependent quantile contours with application to bivariate conditional growth charts
Spring 2008
January 25, 2008. Organizational meeting, GC 4214-03.
February 1, 2008. Baruch College, Vertical Campus (24th and Lexington), room 11-160, 10-11 am.
Speaker: Shulamith Gross, Baruch College
Multivariate Censored Data: Models and Methods
February 8, 2008
Speaker: Matthew Johnson, Baruch College
A Bayesian Non-parametric Item Response Model for Multiple
Dichotomous Responses
February 22, 2008
Speaker: Makram Talih, Hunter College
Geodesic Markov Chains on Covariance Matrices
February 29, 2008
Speaker: Olympia Hadjiliadis, Brooklyn College
Optimal quickest detection of two-sided alternatives and connections to drawdown and rally processes
March 7, 2008
Speaker: Dobrin Marchev, Baruch College
A Theoretical Comparison of the Data Augmentation, Marginal Augmentation
and PX-DA Algorithms
March 14, 2008
Speaker: Jay Verkuilen, The Graduate Center
How Cheating A Little Can Hurt You A Lot: Dangers of Likelihood Estimation on Bounded Sample Spaces in the Presence of Boundary Observations
March 28, 2008
Speaker: David Kim, Manhattan College
Rank Adapted Kernel Density Estimation
April 4, 2008
Group talk on the status of Statistics within CUNY; discussion leader Hammou ElBarmi, Baruch College
April 11, 2008
Speaker: Marc Scott, NYU; visiting Hunter College 2007-2008
11 am -12 pm, Hunter College, Room 920 East (SE corner of Lexington Avenue and 68th Street, 9th floor)
Models for Categorical Sequences with a Large State Space:
Application to Labor Market Transitions
April 18, 2008
Speaker: Joshua Tebbs, University of South Carolina
Group testing regression models with fixed and random effects: Applications to chlamydia and gonorrhea screening
May 2, 2008
Speaker: Ronald Neath, Baruch College
Convergence rates for variable-at-a-time Metropolis-Hastings algorithms
May 9, 2008
Speaker: Dana Draghicescu, Hunter College
Space-Time Quantile Surfaces
May 16, 2008
Speaker: Todd Ogden, Columbia University
Regression Models with Signals or Images as Predictors
May 23, 2008
Speaker: Wei Biao Wu, The University of Chicago
New Perspectives in the Theory of Time Series