Mark Glickman, Boston University
Title: MODELING THE EFFECTS OF GENETIC FACTORS ON LATE-ONSET DISEASES IN COHORT STUDIES
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Speaker: Dr. Bimal Sinha, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Title: Meta-Analysis: Combination of independent F-tests.
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Speaker: Shaun Wulff, Dept. of Statistics, University of Wyoming
Title: Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation in Normal Variance Components Models.
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Speaker: Ed Thomas, Sandia National Labs.
Title: Development of Robust Multivariate Calibration Models
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Speaker: Dan Pless, Dept. of Computer Science, UNM
Title: An Introduction to Bayesian Networks (with some tears)

Speaker: Kevin Anderson, Intel Corp.
Title: The Power of Positive Spatial Statistics
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Undergraduate Research Presentations:

Please come and join us for this special seminar where we will have the opportunity to hear about the research experiences of our undergraduate statistics majors. Each speaker will have about 15 minutes to describe their work for us. We will have refreshments at 11:30am in the lounge.


• Maxcine Bates
  • Title: Classification of Gene Functions Using Heterogeneous Data
  • Maxcine will discuss her experiences and research project as an intern at the National Center for Genome Resources (NCGR) in Sante Fe.
  
  
• Colin O'Rourke
  • Title: Modeling Response Mode for the Ohio State Poll
  • Colin will talk about his experiences and his research project as a participant in The Ohio State University REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) Program.
  
  
• Teresa Schellhamer
  • Title: Data Collection for Social Sciences Projects
  • Teresa will describe some of her work at the UNM-affiliated Institute for Social Research (ISR).

This seminar is sponsored by the ASA's Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences (SPES) Industrial Speaker's program.
Speaker: Greg Piepel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Title: Mixture Experiment Techniques for Reducing the Number of Components Applied to Modeling Waste Glass Sodium Release
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In addition to the seminar there will be an hour set aside for students to meet informally with Dr. Piepel about careers at PNL and also industrial careers in general.
Click here for a brief biographical sketch of Dr. Piepel and information on the SPES Industrial Speakers program.

Speaker: Roger Bilisoly, Sandia National Laboratories
Title: Solving Physics Problems With Bayesian Statistical Models
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Speaker: Joe Cavanaugh, University of Missouri, Columbia
Title: DISCREPANCY-BASED MODEL SELECTION CRITERIA USING CROSS VALIDATION
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Mark Glickman, Boston University
Title: MODELING THE EFFECTS OF GENETIC FACTORS ON LATE-ONSET DISEASES IN COHORT STUDIES
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