Departmental Seminars in 2007

October 18 Hira L. Koul Michigan State University Minimum Distance Inference in Unilateral Autoregressive Lattice Processes

October 15 Rebhi Bsharat Kansas State University Evaluation of nCk Estimators

October 11  Yevhen Yankovskyy Kansas State University Internship Report: Modeling the Company retention rate

October 4  Ronald L. Iman Southwest Technology Consultants Albuquerque, NM  Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Frequency – Truth or Fiction?

September 27 Anatoli A. Maslak Vice Chancellor for Research of Slaviansk-on-Kuban State Pedagogical Institute, Russia Measurement of Latent Variables in Education and Other Social Systems

September 13  Weixing Song Kansas State University Model Checking in a Partial Linear Regression Model with Berkson Measurement Errors

August 23  John Boyer Kansas State University The Life of Holly Fryer

June 21   Yoonsung Jung  Kansas State University Analysis of Crossover Designs When Treatments Have Unequal Variances

April 10 Peter Hall. Bootstrap Aggregation For Cross-Valdiation and Inference Under Constraints

April 05 Allan Rossman. California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo .  Concepts of Statistical Inference: A Randomization-Based Curriculum

March 29 Christina Smith. Kansas State University.  Estimation of Treatment Effects Under Combined Sampling and Experimental Designs

March 14 Ying Liu. Kansas State University.  A Goodness-of-fit Test for Logistic Regression Model

March 3 Gary L. Gadbury. University of Missouri-Rolla.  Challenges and Approaches to the Analysis of High-dimensional Data

March 1  Christina Sweeney.  Quintiles, Inc. 

Feb 26  J.P. Morgan.  Virginia Tech.  Robust Block Designs

Feb 21  Charles McCulloch.  UCSF.  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Joint Modeling Using Shared and Correlated Random Effects

Feb 16  Aparna Huzurbazar.  University of New Mexico.  Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data: Extensions and Applications

Feb 5  Dongfeng Wu.  Mississippi State University.  Bayesian Inference for the Lead Time in Periodic Cancer Screening

Jan 30  Richard Evans.  Iowa State University.  Combining Expert Information for the Analysis of Diagnostic Tests and Estimation of Disease Prevalence

Jan 22  Yanbing Zheng.  Wisconsin University.  Spatial Panel Data Analysis via Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling

Jan 19  Inyoung Kim.  Texas A&M.  Bayesian Semi-parametric Method for Pathway

Jan 16  Weixin Yao.  Penn State University.  Modal Local Linear Regression

Jan 12  Yan Lu.  Arizona State University.  Longitudinal Estimation in Dual Frame Surveys

Departmental Seminars in 2006

Sept 7   Raymond J. Carroll.  Texas A&M University. Measuring Dietary Intake

Sept 21   Rebhi Bsharat.  Kansas State University. Assessment of dose-response methods - Identifying the minimum effective dose

Oct 12   Ryan Elmore.  Colorado State University. Nonparametric Density Estimation From Covariate Information

Oct 05   Abigail Jager.  Kansas State University. Likelihood Methods for Potential Outcomes

Oct 19   Scott Urquhart.  Colorado State University. Designing Monitoring Surveys Over Time (Panel Surveys) Power, Variance and Related Topics

Oct 26   Frank Curriero.  Johns Hopkins University. Parameter Estimation in Spatially Correlated Regression Models with a Mix of Geocoded and Spatially Censored Locations

Nov 17  Lyman McDonald.  Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc. Resource Selection Functions and Patch Occupancy Models: Similarities and Differences

Nov 30  Mike Anderson.  Kansas State University.  A Modified Mood's Rank Test For Comparing Two Crossing Disributions

Jan 12    Yunxun Wang.  Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. MS Report

Jan 20    Brent Johnson.  Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. MS Report

Jan 25    Ray McCubrey, Zhongwen Tang, Sam Wilson.  Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Consulting Reports

Jan 26   Changxuan Mao.  Dept. of Statistics, University of California, Riverside.  Population Size Estimation using the Rasch Model

Feb 02   Clare Nelson.  Dept. of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University.  Mating operators and hidden-Markov models: making genetic maps in complex mating series

Feb 14   Mevin Hooten.  University of Misouri-Columbia (Faculty Candidate).  Non-linear process specifications in hierarchical spatio-temporal models

Feb 17   Xiangrong Yin.  University of Georgia (Faculty Candidate).  Dimension reduction in regression: Methods with a unified index

Mar  02    Kerby A Shedden.  Dept. of Statistics, and Dept. of Biostatistics,  Univ. of Michigan.

Mar  09    Richard A. Sundheim.  Business Computer Information Systems, St. Cloud State University.

Mar 30   Jiping Wang.  Dept. of Statistics, Northwestern University.

Apr 27   Shane Reese.  Brigham Young University. A Hierarchical Model for the Reliability of an Anti-aircraft Missile System

May 8   Alan W. Hartung.  Kansas State University. A Power Comparison of Matched-paired Methods with Random Censored Data

Departmental Seminars in 2005

Sept 01    Ying Nian Wu.  Department of Statistics, UCLA. Scale in Low-level Image Understanding.

Sept 08    Hiayan Wang.  Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Clustering Curves using Nonparametric Hypotheses Tests.

Sept 15    Xuming He.  Univ. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Inference for Quantile Regression.

Sept 22    Ronald Randles. University of Florida.  On Zeros in the Sign Test and Signed Rank Test.

Sept 29    Eric Higgins.  Finance Department, Kansas State University.  Two Studies in Finance - An Examination of the Different Methodologies Employed in Basic Finance Research.

Oct  06      Xueli Liu.  University of Florida.  Comparison of Clusterings/Classifications in Genomic Data Analysis.

Oct 13      Peter Njuho.  Visitor, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University.  Some Hiccups in Statistical Analysis of Soil Fertility Data.

Oct 20      Brent Johnson and Nanyan Weng.  Department of Statistics, Kansas State University.  Consulting Reports.

Oct  27     Martin S. Levy and Terri L. Byczkowski.  University of Cincinnati.  Planning a sample survey with a many-to-many frame structure: an empirical investigation of the effects of frame imperfections on estimates of population totals.

Nov 03    Jeffery Hart.  Texas A&M University.  An analysis of pulsation periods of long-period variable stars .

Nov 10    Jun Xie.  Purdue University.  Identifying gene regulatory sequences by hidden Markov model and integrative analysis of gene expression.

Nov 14    Rebhi Bsharat.  Kansas State University.  Prelimary Exam Thesis Proposal.

Nov 16    Jun Chen.  Kansas State University.  An Introduction to Micro-array Data Analysis.

Nov 17    Mindy McCann.  Oklahoma State University.  Multiple Comparisons for Odds Ratios.

Dec 01    Xuemei Yang.  Kansas State University.  Consulting Report.

Dec 08    Liang Fang.  Kansas State University.  PhD Defense.

Dec 08    Wijith Munasinghe.  Kansas State University.  Master Report.

Jun 08  Sadaf Waris. Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Parametric and nonparametric multiple comparisons in one-way layout.

Jun 09  Lieqi Bi. Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. A class of robust tests for the center of a symmetric distribution.

Jun 10  Sadaf Waris. Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Consulting report.

Jun 13  M. Shamsuddin. Visitor, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Three-directional 3(2^(n-2)) factorial experiment having maximum outcomes.

Jun 17  M. Shamsuddin. Visitor, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. The generation of rotation-conversion method of pseudo-factors for indirect construction and analysis of different confounded 4^n factorial designs.

Jul 11  Jennifer Hunter. Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Structural equation modeling with SAS CALIS.

Jul 13  Lance Ridpath. Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. 95% simultaneous confidence interval for log-odds ratio.

Jul 15  Qing Kang. Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Nonparametric tests for median for a size-biased sample.

Jul 21  Chris Vahl. Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Algorithms for constructing D-optimal designs for multilevel experiments.

Jul 26  Mike Anderson and Wijith Munasinghe. Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Consulting Reports.

Jul 27  Lane Senne.  Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. A Comparison of Powers When Applying Raw Methods vs. Ranked Methods of Analysis in Microarray Data.

Jul 28  Jin Shang.  Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Selecting a Covariance Structure for Repeated Measures Experiments.

Jul 29  Ying Liu, Jin Shang and Yunxun Wang.  Department of Statistics, Kansas State University. Consulting Reports.

Updated: March 3, 2008 (lp)