Last Updated:  3-21-97

CONTRIBUTED TALKS:  (To be scheduled later this month.)

1.  Michael Trosset 12/30 Rice University
	"Applications of Multidimensional Scaling to
	 Molecular Conformation"
2.  Jason Bond and George Michailidis 10/25 UCLA
	"A Software Package for Interactive Correspondence
	 Analysis"
3.  John E. Hinkle 11/26 GE Capital Mortgage Co
	"Reciptrocal Curves"
4.  Todd Ogden 1/28 South Carolina
         TBA: On wavelet application
5.  Gary D. Tasker, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 2/3
       "Estimating Magnitude and Frequency of Flood
	Peaks at Ungaged Site Using Regression"
6.  Jorge L. Romeu, SUNY Cortland 2/4
	"Further Monte Carlo Investigations of a Model for
         Non Gaussian Radar Clutter Generation"
7.  Martin Theus and Heike Hofmann 2/5  "Selection Sequences ---
	Interactive Analysis of Massive Data Sets"   U. Augsburg
8.  Danielle MIHRAM, USC & G. Arthur MIHRAM, Princeton   2/8
	"On Rules For Conducting Statistically Analyzable Experiments
	 with Seeds for Stochastic Simulation Models."
9.  William C. Wojciechowski & E. James Harner, Stat& CS, W.Virginia U. 2/12
	"Learning Statistical Concepts using Web-based Dynamic Graphics"
10. E. James Harner & William C. Wojciechowski, Stat& CS, W.Virginia U. 2/12
	"A Web-enhanced Introductory Statistics Course"
11. Moved to sess 23
12. Jeffrey L. Solka & David J. Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center 2/13
	"A New Data Driven Mixture Estimator for Spatially Dependent
	 Observations"
13. Mark Farmen, Ohio State University 3/1
	"A Smoothed Bootstrap Adaptive Density Estimator via The Fast 
	 Gauss Transform"
14. CANCELED 3/13
15. Aaron Aragaki & Naomi Altman (*), Cornell University  2/14
	"Local Polynomial Regression for Binary Response"
16. Jose A. Lozano(*) & Pedro Larranaga, U Basque Country,
                   San Sebastian,Spain 2/15
	"Genetic Algorithms Applied to Partitional and
         Pyramidal Clustering"
17. CANCELED  2/15
18. Pedro Larranaga, Basilio Sierra, Ramon Etxeberria, Jose A. Lozano(*),
	U Basque Country, San Sebastian,Spain 2/15
	"Triangulation, Structure Learning and Fusion of Bayesian
	 networks by Genetic Algorithms"
19. Virginia Torczon & Michael W. Trosset, William & Mary/Rice U  2/17
	"From Evolutionary Operation to Parallel Direct Search:
	 Pattern Search Algorithms for Numerical Optimization"
20. Rafiq I. Chowdhury, M. Ataharul Islam, M.A. Shah, Syed A. Mohsin 2/24
		Kuwait University, Kuwait and others
	"Estimation of Multistate Survival Model"
21. Marina Vannucci and Fabio Corradi, U. Kent   2/24
	"Some Findings on the Covariance Structure of Wavelet
	 Coefficients: Theory and Models in a Bayesian Perspective"
22. Philip J. Brown, Marina Vannucci(*), and Tom Fearn 2/24
	"Multivariate Bayesian variable selection and prediction"
23. Karen Kafadar & Markus Emsermann, U of Colorado-Denver  2/27
	"The Effects of Non-Gaussian Noise and Different Boundary
	 Rules on Two-Dimensional Linear and Nonlinear Smoothers"
24. Charles B. Roosen, MathSoft, Inc., Seattle, WA 2/28
	"Bootstrapping for the Masses:  User-Friendly
         Bootstrapping in S-PLUS"
25. Jose G. Ramirez & Isabel S. Llatas(*), Digital Semiconductors,
              Hudson, Ma 3/2
	"Upper confidence bounds for Soft Error Rates in
         Integrated Circuits"
26. Robert Oehmke, Janis Hardwick(*), Quentin F. Stout, U Michigan  3/2
	"A Parallel Program for 3-Arm Bandits"
27. Peter F. Thall, Kathy E. Russell and Richard M. Simon.
              M.D. Anderson 3/3
	"Variable Selection in Regression Via Repeated Data Splitting"
28. Stephen Gulyas (*), Elizabeth Slate, and Bruce Turnbull, Cornell  3-4
	"Fitting Latent Changepoint Models for Serial Biomarkers 
	 Using the EM Algorithm"
29. Sam Efromovich, University of New Mexico
	"Wavelet Estimation Based On Quasi-Linear Approximation"
30. C. Shane Reese, Texas A&M University  3/4
	"Computing Cook's Distance for Nonlinear Regression in S-Plus"
31. Adalbert F.X. Wilhelm, U. Augsburg, Germany (George Mason visitor) 3/4
	"Generalised Linking as a Means of Analysing Complex Data Sets"
32. J. Jack Lee, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center  3/5
	"Applications of Spatial Statistics to the Quantitative
	 Analysis of Genetic Instability in Carcinogenesis"
33. R. Webster West and R. Todd Ogden, U. South Carolina   3/5
	"WebStat:  An Environment for Statistical Analysis on
	 the World Wide Web"
34. Donald R. Jensen and Donald E. Ramirez, VPI 3/5  OVERHEAD PROJ
	"Detecting Outliers in Statistical Data using Cook's D Statistic"
35.  Joseph Ladalla, uis.edu  3/5
	"Asymptotic Analysis in Bayesian Inference"
36.  Anatoly A. Naumov, Novosibirsk State Technical University,Russia 3/5
	"Robust Design of Experiments and Information Set of Experimenting"
37.  Ken Hung and David Cheng, Western Washington U/Nat'l Dong Hwa U 3/11
	"An Empirical Study on the Investment Risk of Taiwanese
	 Stock Market"
38.  W.D. Kaigh and E.F. Schuster (*) UT El Paso
	"Testing Partial Homogeneity for Multinomial Proportions"
39.  Trong Wu, Southern Illinois University    3/11
	"An Accurate Computation of the Gamma Distribution Function"
40.  Dan Steinberg,  San Diego State University  3/7
     Richard Carson, UC San Diego
     Leo Breiman, UC
	"Missing value imputation with iterated binary Recursive
	 Partitioning"  3/7
41.  Mithat G\"{o}nen, Applied Logic Associates, Houston
	"Posterior Intervals for Random Effects Using 
	 the Griddy Gibbs Sampler"
42.  Peter Hall and Berwin A. Turlach(*), ANU   3/8
	"Bagging in the Presence of Outliers"
43.  Humberto Vaquera, Colegio de Posgraduados, Mexico  3/10
     Jose A. Villasenor, Colegio de Posgraduados, Mexico
     Janet Hughes, Tulane University
	"The use of threshold statistical methods for detecting
	 long-term trends in urban ozone levels"
44.  Mary C. Meyer, U Michigan    3/11
	"An Extension of the Mixed Primal-Dual Bases Algorithm to
	 the Case of More Constraints than Dimensions, with
	 Applications to Nonparametric Shape Constrained Problems
	 in Regression, Maximum Likelihood Density Estimation, and
	 the Bioassay Problem"
45.  George R. Terrell, Virginia Polytechnic Institute  3/11
	"Gibbs Sampling for Estimating Linear Models for Ranks"
46.  Aparna V. Huzurbazar, Dept. of Statistics, Univ of New Mexico 3/12
	"Computational Aspects of Data Analysis using Flowgraph Methods"
47.  David M. Rocke, UC Davis 3/7
	"Partitioning and Subsampling to Uncover Subtle Structure
	 in Massive Data Sets"
48.  Michael C. Minnotte, Utah State University 3/10
     David J. Marchette, NSWC
     Edward J. Wegman, George Mason
	"The Bumpy Road to the Mode Forest"
49.  S. Huzurbazar & Canan Bilen,  University of Wyoming  3/13
	"Detection of Additive Outliers in Time Series data using Wavelets"
50.  William D. Shannon, Washington U School of Medicine
     David Banks, Carnegie Mellon University
	"An MLE Strategy for Combining CART Models
51.  Padraic G. Neville, SAS Institute, Inc.   3/14
	"Evaluating Decision Trees Using Trade-offs"
52.  Peter C. Wollan, Biostatistics Section, Mayo Clinic   3/14
	"O'Brien's Extended t-test for Paired Observations"
53.  Mark Fitzgerald, Los Alamos National Laboratory     3/14
	"An Interactive Graphical Tool for Exploring Sequential
	 Dependencies in Categorical Data"
54.  Bradley C. Wallet, Naval Surface Warfare Center & GMU
     David J. Marchette, Naval Surface Warfare Center
     Edward J. Wegman, Center for Computational Statistics, George Mason U
	"Cooperative Coevolutionary Subspace Pursuit"
55.  Alan Carle and Mike Fagan (*), Rice University  A/V overhead
	"Derivatives of Fortran Programs, Automatically"