Previous Seminars This Year

Sept 18, 2007	Dr. N. Balakrishnan McMaster University	Over/underdispersed Poisson distributions and processes
Sept 25, 2007	Dr. Harry Joe University of British Columbia	Generating random correlation matrices based on partial correlation vines and the onion method.
Oct. 2, 2007	Dr. Zengjing Chen Shandong University, China	Nonlinear Expectations and Nonlinear Pricing
Oct. 16, 2007	Prof. Sri Gopal Mohanty McMaster University	Transient Behaviour of Batch Queues: A Combinatorial Approach
Oct. 23, 2007	Dr. Paul McNicholas University of Guelph	Model Based Clustering: An Overview
Oct. 30, 2007	Dr. Tulay Koru-Sengul McMaster University	Handling Missing Values
Nov. 6, 2007	Dr. Stephen Walter McMaster University	Do You Want Your Surgeon to be an Expert?
Nov. 20, 2007	Dr. Jeffrey Racine McMaster University	Nonparametric Estimation of Regression Functions in the Presence of Irrelevant Regressors
Nov. 27, 2007	Dr. Eleanor Pullenayegum McMaster University	Fitting Marginal Structural Models
Jan. 15, 2008	Xingqui Zhao McMaster University	Multi-sample Nonparametric Tests for Panel Count Data
Jan. 22, 2008	Jerry Lawless University of Waterloo	Regression Analysis of Recurrent Event Data
Jan. 29, 2008	Melissa Dobbie CSIRO, Australia	Sparse Sampling: Spatial Design for Aquatic Monitoring
Feb 5, 2008	Tim Trussell SAS Canada	SAS in a Growing Analytic World
Feb. 12, 2008	Zilin Wang Wilfrid Laurier University	A Resampling Approach to Estimate Variance Components of Multilevel Models
Feb 26, 2008	Rong Zhu McMaster University	Model Clustering and its Application to Ecoli Classification.
Mar. 4, 2008	Ali Ghodsi University of Waterloo	Distance Metric Learning Vs. Fisher Discriminant Analysis
Mar. 11, 2008	Abdel El-Shaarawi National Water Research Institute, Burlington	On Spatial Skew-Gaussian Processes and Applications
Mar. 18, 2008	R. J. Kulperger University of Western Ontario	Prediction of Option Prices With GARCH Models
Mar. 25, 2008	Cathlin Sarafin Statistics Canada	The Weighting Strategy for the Canadian Community Health Survey

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