STAT 600: Graduate Seminar
Keck 101 – M: 1-1:50pm
Fall 2004
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Course
Description: Course Objective: |
The graduate
seminar in statistics is a professional preparatory course required for
graduate students in statistics. Students in the course are required to
attend and participate, through active questioning and commentary, in our
departmental colloquium. In the graduate student presentation portion of this
course, students are required to make a formal presentation of notable
statistical papers, their own work, or present a solution to a pre-specified
statistical Ph.D. level question. The objective of this course
is to develop students' knowledge in statistics as well as communication
skills and confidence with public presentations. |
*** NOTE: Executive summaries are expected to be done THROUGH 11/29/04.
* Hand in final executive summary to
Leticia or put in Dr. Thompson’s mailbox.
August 23, 2004 –
Lecture by Dr. Thompson - Person Index (ppt file)
August 30, 2004 –
Dr. Thompson continues his lecture about the history of statistics
September 6, 2004 –
LABOR DAY (No classes)
September 13, 2004 –
David Rossell and Hanane Jabri present What is the probability the sun will rise tomorrow? (ppt
file)
·
Solution to question is
forthcoming…Solution is here! (pdf file)
September
20, 2004 –
COFES
September 27, 2004 –
Galen Papkov and Lada Kyj present MLE vs. MoM (ppt file)
October 4, 2004 –
Shannon Neeley and Jenny Zhang present on Utility Theory (ppt file)
October 11, 2004 –
MID-TERM RECESS (No classes)
October 13, 2004 (Wed.) – Jamie Chatman and
Charlotte Hsieh present on Zea
Mays Data
October
18, 2004 –
Darrin Gershman and David Wilkerson present on Poisson Processes
October 25, 2004 –
Hongxiao Zhu and Teddy Petrou present on Gauss
and the Method of Least Squares (ppt file)
November 1, 2004 –
Colleen Kenney and Teresa Wollscheid present on Likelihood Ratio Test (ppt file)
November 8, 2004 –
Deborah Goldwasser presents Linkage Analysis in Genetics
November
15, 2004 –
Jamie Chatman will present on The effects of race,
ethnicity, and nativity on asthma
November 22, 2004 –
Galen Papkov will present on Data
Mining and ICA (ppt)
November
29, 2004 –
Lecture by Dr. Thompson
August 23, 2004 –
none
August 30, 2004 –
Wayne X. Shandera, Baylor College of Medicine, presents AIDS 23 years
into the outbreak: why
is
the pandemic not contained? (Shandera's
AIDS outbreak)
September 6, 2004 –
LABOR DAY (No classes)
September 13, 2004 –
Anthony J. Elam, Rice University, presents Gaming
- A Brief History and Overview
September
20, 2004 –
CoFES Conference
September 27, 2004 –
Barry Brown, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center, presents Economic Analysis of Screening for Cervical
Cancer
October 4, 2004 –
Roberto Guttierez, STATA
October 11, 2004 –
MID-TERM RECESS (No classes)
October
18, 2004 –
Andrew Meade
October 25, 2004 –
William Wojciechowski, Rice University
October 28, 2004 –
Howard Morgan - Distinguished Lecturer. 4-5 McMurtry Auditorium
November 1, 2004 –
H. Joseph Newton, Texas A&M, presents A
Brief History of ARIMA Type Modeling
November 8, 2004 –
Edward P. Richards, Louisiana State University Law Center, presents Modeling Bioterrorism: How do we
determine real risks of smallpox?
November 15, 2004 –
Linda Driskill, Rice University
November 22, 2004 –
Henry Braun, Educational Testing Service
November 29, 2004 –
Rick Stoll, Baker Institute - Rice University
December 3, 2004 –
LAST DAY OF CLASSES
December 6, 2004 –
Michael Trossett