CUNY Statistics Seminar
Location: The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), room 3212
Time: Fridays, 3-4 pm
Coordinator: Ron Neath, email rneath@hunter.cuny.edu
Spring 2013
February 8, 2013. Organizational meeting.
March 1, 2013.
April 19, 2013.
April 26, 2013.
May 3, 2013.
May 10, 2013.
Fall 2012
September 14, 2012. Organizational meeting.
September 28, 2012.
October 26, 2012.
November 16, 2012.
December 7, 2012.
Spring 2012
February 3, 2012. Organizational meeting.
February 24, 2012.
Pavlina Rumcheva
Model Estimation and Hypothesis Testing for Directional Data
March 2, 2012.
Dobrin Marchev
Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms for the Bayesian Logistic Regression Model
March 9, 2012.
Hammou Elbarmi, Baruch College
Inferences for Survival Functions under Uniform Stochastic Ordering
March 30, 2012.
Jay Verkuilen, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Model Comparison is Judgment, Model Selection is Decision Making
April 20, 2012.
Rongning Wu, Baruch College
Least Absolute Deviation Estimation for General Autoregressive Moving Average Time Series Models
May 4, 2012.
Zhiliang Ying, Columbia University
On a General Class of Transformation Models
May 11, 2012.
Zhigang Zhang, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
A Class of Transformed Mean Residual Life Models under Right Censoring
May 18, 2012.
Calandra Moore, College of Staten Island
Studying Conditional Relationships via Partial Rank Correlation: Statistical Applications in Machine Translation Evaluation and other Natural Language Processing Tasks
Spring 2011
February 4, 2010. Organizational meeting.
February 18, 2011
Iryna Lobach, NYU School of Medicine
Haplotype-Based Regression Analysis of Case-Control Studies with Unphased Genotypes and Measurement Errors in Environmental Exposures
March 18, 2011
Rachel Schutt, Google
Statistics at Google
April 1, 2011
Olympia Hadjiliadis, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center
Sequential on-line detection and classification in 3D Computer
Vision
April 8, 2011
Katarzyna Wyka, PhD Program in Educational Psychology, The Graduate Center
The Structure and Covariates of PTSD in a Population of Disaster Workers - Latent Class Analysis
April 15, 2011
Asohan Amarasingham, City College
An Analysis of Connectivity in a Neuronal Population
April 29, 2011
Fei Liu, IBM Watson Research Center
Bayesian Regularization via the Graph Laplacian Prior
May 6, 2011
John Cardinale, PhD Program in Educational Psychology, The Graduate Center
Case Residuals in SEM
May 13, 2011
Marc Scott, NYU Steinhardt
Clustering Community College Student Transcripts
May 25, 2011, Baruch College, 12-170 Vertical Campus (24th Street and Lexington Avenue), 2-3 pm
Kobi Abayomi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Statistics for re-identification in networked data models
Fall 2010
September 3, 2010. Organizational meeting.
September 24, 2010
Ying Lu, NYU Steinhardt
Understanding Complex Legislative and Judicial Behavior via
Hierarchical Ideal Point Estimation
October 1, 2010
Elayne Livote, PhD Program in Educational Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Validating Use of a Symptom Assessment Scale in Palliative Care: Assessing Measurement Invariance
October 8, 2010
Alexander Schliep, Rutgers
Heterogenous Data and Mixture Models
October 15, 2010
Iordan Slavov, Visiting Nurse Service of New York
Inference in Observational Studies Using Generalized Propensity Score
October 22, 2010
Anastasios Markitsis, Teachers College, Columbia University
The Proportion of True Null Hypotheses in Gene Expression Microarray Data
November 5, 2010
Yongtao Guan, Yale School of Public Health
Estimating Individual-level Risk in Spatial Epidemiology Using Spatially
Aggregated Information on the Population at Risk
November 12, 2010
Ying Liu, Fordham University
An IRT-based Framework for Filter Question Design with Mixed Response Types
November 19, 2010
Jay Verkuilen, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Wait... Probabilities Add to One, Don't They? Resolving Sample Space Ambiguity in Subjective Probabilities Using Finite Mixture Models
Spring 2010
February 5, 2010. Organizational meeting.
February 19, 2010
Jay Verkuilen, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Statistical theory of the list experiment/item count technique to measure socially sensitive attitudes
March 19, 2010
Matt Johnson, Teachers College, Columbia University
Marginal Maximum Likelihood of Nonparametric Item Response Theory Models
April 9, 2010
Samantha Sartori, University of Milan, Italy; Visiting Student, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Ageing, Working Hours and Work Ability
April 16, 2010
Makram Talih, Hunter College
A symmetric, entropy-based, relative and quasi-absolute measure
of health disparities: An example using dental caries in U.S. children
and adolescents
April 23, 2010
Andrew Neath, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Model Evaluation, Discrepancy Function Estimation, and Social Choice
Theory
April 30, 2010
Ben Baumer and Dana Draghicescu, CUNY
Mapping Batter Ability in Baseball by Using Spatial Statistics Techniques
May 7, 2010
Jianhui Zhou, University of Virginia
Model Selection of Correlation Structure for Clustered Data
Fall 2009
September 18, 2009. Organizational meeting.
September 25, 2009
Iuliana Ismailescu, Pace University
The Reaction of Emerging Market Credit Default Swap Spreads to Sovereign Credit Rating Changes
October 2, 2009
Andrew Robertson, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Hidden Markov Models for Daily Rainfall Modeling and Dowscaling of Climate Predictions
October 16, 2009
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
October 30, 2009
Elizabeth Sklar, Brooklyn College
Finding the Untold Story: What Can the Data Tell Us?
December 11, 2009
Alexia Iasonos, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
The Continual Reassessment Method in Dose-Finding Phase I Trials
Spring 2009
February 6, 2009. Organizational meeting.
February 13, 2009
Hammou ElBarmi, Baruch College
Peakedness and Peakedness Ordering in Symmetric Distributions
February 20, 2009
Jay Verkuilen, The Graduate Center
Nominal Factor Analysis by Log-Multiplicative Association Models
March 13, 2009
Alessandra Giannini, The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Climate change in the African Sahel
March 27, 2009
Bodhisattva Sen, Columbia University
Bootstrap in some Non-standard Problems
April 3, 2009
Rongning Wu, Baruch College
A negative binomial model for time series of counts
April 24, 2009
Subir Dhamoon, PhD Program in Mathematics, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Local Times and Intersection Local Times for Symmetric Stable Processes
May 1, 2009
Jennifer Hill, New York University
Non-parametric identification of lack of support in potentially
high-dimensional covariate space
May 8, 2009
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
Jay Emerson, Yale University
The bigmemory package: massive data, shared memory, and concurrent programming
Fall 2008
September 5, 2008. Organizational meeting.
September 19, 2008
Ronald Neath, Baruch College
Regenerative simulation for variable-at-a-time Metropolis-Hastings algorithms
October 3, 2008
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
Kobi Abayomi, Georgia Institute of Technology
Copula Based Independent Component Analysis
October 17, 2008
Roger Pinkham, Stevens Institute of Technology
The Birthday Problem
October 24, 2008
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
Colin Begg, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Statistical Methods for Differential Diagnosis of Second Primary
Cancers from Metastases
November 7, 2008
David Kim, Manhattan College
Tests of Uniformity and Stochastic Order on (0,1)
November 14, 2008
Hyokyoung (Grace) Hong, Baruch College
Prediction of Functional Status for the Elderly
Based on a New Ordinal Regression Model
November 21, 2008
Yu (Ryan) Yue, Baruch College
Bayesian Adaptive Smoothing Priors
December 5, 2008
Ilana Belitskaya-Levy, New York University School of Medicine
Systematic Missing-At-Random (SMAR) Design and Analysis for Translational Research Studies
December 12, 2008
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.
Shulamith Gross, Baruch College
Multivariate Censored Data: Models and Methods
February 8, 2008
Matthew Johnson, Baruch College
A Bayesian Non-parametric Item Response Model for Multiple
Dichotomous Responses
February 22, 2008
Makram Talih, Hunter College
Geodesic Markov Chains on Covariance Matrices
February 29, 2008
Olympia Hadjiliadis, Brooklyn College
Optimal quickest detection of two-sided alternatives and connections to drawdown and rally processes
March 7, 2008
Dobrin Marchev, Baruch College
A Theoretical Comparison of the Data Augmentation, Marginal Augmentation
and PX-DA Algorithms
March 14, 2008
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
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
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
Joshua Tebbs, University of South Carolina
Group testing regression models with fixed and random effects: Applications to chlamydia and gonorrhea screening
May 2, 2008
Ronald Neath, Baruch College
Convergence rates for variable-at-a-time Metropolis-Hastings algorithms
May 9, 2008
Dana Draghicescu, Hunter College
Space-Time Quantile Surfaces
May 16, 2008
Todd Ogden, Columbia University
Regression Models with Signals or Images as Predictors
May 23, 2008
Wei Biao Wu, The University of Chicago
New Perspectives in the Theory of Time Series