Past Colloquia

2012-2013 Colloquia

Dr. Frank Shen
Abbott Laboratories
Friday, 14 September 2012, 3-4pm, DU 176 (joint with AIC)
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Dr. Martin Dubar
Abbott Laboratories
Friday, 5 October 2012, 2pm, DU 280
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Professor Peter Muller
(Graduate Colloquium)
Department of Mathematics-University of Texas-Austin
Friday, 12 October 2012, 2pm, DU 280 and 4-5pm DU 322
Coffee following presentation in DU 359 3-3:50pm

Professor Jun Zhu
Department of Statistics-University of Wisconsin-Madison
Friday, 19 October 2012, 2pm, DU 280
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Professor Lei Hua

Friday, 2 November 2012, 2pm, DU 280

Coffee following presentation in DU

359

Division of Biostatistics

Friday, 9 November 2012, 2pm, DU 280

Coffee following presentation in DU 359

2011-2012 Colloquia

Professor Emiliano Valdez
Department of Mathematics - University of Connecticut
Thursday, 26 April and Friday, 27 April 2012, Time TBA
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Professor Tirthankar Dasgupta
Department of Statistics - Harvard University
Thursday, 12 April and Friday, 13 April 2012, Time TBA
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Professor Eric Kolaczyk
Department of Mathematics and Statistics - Boston University
Thursday, 22 March and Friday, 23 March 2012, Time TBA
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Professor Sanjay Chaudhuri
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability - National University of Singapore
Friday, 24 February 2012, 2:00 pm, DU 406
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Dr. Vivekenanda Roy
Department of Statistics - Iowa State University
Friday, 18 November 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Dr. Thomas O'Gorman
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
Friday, 11 November 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Professor Kashinath Chatterjee
Visiting Department of Statistics - Purdue University
Friday, 28 October 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Professor Joyee Ghosh
Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science - University of Iowa
Friday, 21 October 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Dr. V. Devanarayan
Director, Exploratory Statistics  - Abbott Laboratories
Friday, 14 October 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Professor Bimal Kumar Sinha
Department of Mathematics & Statistics & - University of Maryland Baltimore County
Friday, 30 September 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Dr. Tapabrata Maiti
Department of Statistics & Probability - Michigan State University
Friday, 23 September 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Professor Peng Shi
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
Friday, 9 September 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

Professor Ranjan Maitra
Department of Statistics - Iowa State University
Friday, 2 September 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

2010-2011 Colloquia

Dr. Paul H. Johnson, Jr.
Department of Mathematics - University of Illinois - Urbana
Friday, 29 April 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

SPONSORED BY
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Professor Emiliano Valdez 

Department of Mathematics 
University of Connecticut

Thursday, 26 and Friday, 27 April 2012

SPONSORED BY
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Dr. Karen Kafadar
Department of Statistics
Indiana University Bloomington 

Statistical Analysis of Bullet Lead Composition as Forensic Evidence
Friday, 22 April 2011, 2 pm, DU 212 
Coffee following presentation

Measuring The Effect of Length Biased Sampling Randomized Cancer Screening Trials
Friday, 22 April 2011, 4 pm, DU 148 

Professor Arindam Chatterjee
Indian Statistical Institute
Kolkata, India

Higher Order Properties of the Bootstrapped Adaptive Lasso Estimator in Increasing Dimensions
Monday, 18 April 2011, 11 am, DU 228
Coffee following presentation in DU 359
 

SPONSORED BY
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Dr. Robert D. Gibbons, Director
Center for Health Statistics
University of Chicago

Statistical Issues in Drug Safety
Friday, 15 April 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in WH 110

Meta-Analysis of Adverse Events Data
Friday, 15 April 2011, 4 pm, DU 448

SPONSORED BY
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Professor Tirthankar Dasgupta 
Department of Statistics 
Harvard University

Thursday, 12 and Friday, 13 April 2012

SPONSORED BY
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Dr. Sudipto Banerjee
School of Public Health
University of Minnesota 

On Hierarchical Low-Rank Spatial Process Models
Friday, 8 April 2011, 4 pm, DU 448
Coffee following presentation

Geo-Statistics: Art & Science of Melding Spatial Information for a Better Environment & Healthier Life
Friday, 8 April 2011, 2 pm, DU 212

Dr. Arunava Chakravartty, Statistician - Abbott Laboratories

Methods for synergy assessments in drug combinations
Friday, 25 March 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Esfandiar Eslami, Visiting Scholar
Department of Electrical Engineering
Northern Illinois University

A Fuzzy Similarity Measure of Intuitionistic Fuzzy Sets for Color Image Retrieval Systems
Friday, 11 March 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Dr. Sven Mensing
Group Leader, Pharmacometrics III 
Abbott GmbH & Co.KG
Ludwigshafen, Germany

Pharmacometrics: Using nonlinear mixed effect models to improve drug development
Friday, 25 February 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Sponsored by
NIUActuarial Club

Wayne (Yanwei) Zhang, F.C.A.S.
CNA Commercial Property and Casualty Insurance

The Property-Casualty Actuaries - A Statistician's View
Wednesday, 23 February 2011, 6:30 pm, DU 461
Pizza and drinks at 6:15 pm

Dr. Melvin Munsaka
Analytical Science Department 
Takeda Global Research & Development, Inc.Deerfield, Illinois

Compartment Models in Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamics Research
Friday, 18 February 2011, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

SPONSORED BY
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Dr. Ajit Tamhane
Senior Assoc. Dean (Graduate Studies & Planning), McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science
Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Professor (by courtesy), Department of Statistics
Northwestern University

Multiple Test Procedures Based on p-Values
Friday, 19 November 2010, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in WH 110

Gatekeeping Procedures Based on p-Values
Friday, 19 November 2010, 4 pm, DU 459

Dr. Tapabrata Maiti
Department of Statistics and Probability - Michigan State University
Rescheduled for
Friday, 23 September 2011, 2 pm
Friday, 25 February 2011, 2 pm
Friday, 5 November 2010, 2 pm
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Dr. Jie Zhou
Department of Computer Science - Northern Illinois University

Computational Analysis of Multi-dimensional Biological Images: From Auto-Counting to Auto-Annotation
Friday, 29 October 2010, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

JOINTLY WITH 
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

Dr. Martha Morin
Senior Research Analyst
TransUnion
Statistical Approaches to Measuring Variability In Credit Scoring

Friday, 22 October 2010
3 pm - DU 176
Coffee following presentation
DU 176

Dr. Junhui Wang
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science - University of Illinois - Chicago

Consistent selection of the number of clusters via clustering stability
Friday, 15 October 2010, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Dr. Richard Chappell
Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics - University of Wisconsin, Madison

Paradoxes in Equivalence Trials - It Is Time to Readjust Your Intuition
Friday, 8 October 2010, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Dr. Ping Yao
School of Nursing and Health Studies - Northern Illinois University

Adaptive Design for Selecting Drug Combination Based on Efficacy-Toxicity Response
Friday, 24 September 2010, 2 pm DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Dr. Kalyan Raman
Northwestern University

Noise: Friend or Foe?
Friday, 17 September 2010, 2 pm, DU 212
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

2009-2010 Colloquia

Dr. Narinder Nagia
Abbott Laboratories
Friday, 16 April 2010, 2 pm, DU 461
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Dr. Alan Polansky
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
Friday, 2 April 2010, 2 pm, DU 461
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Dr. Samiran Ghosh
Assistant Professor of Statistics and
Director of theStatistical Consulting Center
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Friday, 19 March 2010, 2 pm, DU 461
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Ms. Suchitrita Sarkar
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
Friday, 5 March 2010, 2 pm, DU 461
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

SPONSORED BY
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Dr. Edward (Jed) W. Frees
Professor - Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance
School of Business - University of Wisconsin

Statistical Modeling of Homeowners Insurance
Friday, 26 February 2010, 2-2:50 pm, DU 461
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Modeling Fat-Tail Longitudinal Data Using Copulas
Friday, 26 February 2010, 4-4:50 pm, DU 440

Dr. Shuva Gupta
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University

A Study of Asymptotic Properties of Lasso Penalized Weighted Least Squares Estimator for Correlated Data
Friday, 19 February 2010, 2 pm, DU 461
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Ms. Arpita Chatterjee
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
A Bayesian Approach To Deal With Sparse Data In Meta Analysis
Friday, 20 November 2009, 2 pm, DU 459
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

SPONSORED BY
STAT Club and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Mr. Thomas J. Korellis
Abbott Laboratories
Data Management at Abbott Labs
Friday, 6 November 2009, 2 pm, DU 459
Coffee following presentation in DU 459

SPONSORED BY
GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS
Graduate Colloquium

Dr. N. Balakrishnan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics - McMaster University, Canada

New Multi-Sample Nonparametric Tests for Panel Count Data
Friday, 30 October 2009, 2:00 pm, DU 459
Reception following presentation in WH 110

Generalized Gamma Frailty Model and Applications
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 5:00 pm, DU 459

Dr. Liping Tong
Department of Mathematics and Statistics - Loyola University
Efficient Calculation of P-value and Power for Quadratic Form Statistics in Multilocus Association Testing
Friday, 23 October 2009, 2 pm, DU 459
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

SPONSORED BY
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES' AIC and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Dr. Marty King, Director and Associate Research Fellow
Abbott Laboratories

Evaluating The Probability Of Success In Clinical Trials
Friday, 16 October 2009, 3 pm, DU 176

Ms. Yarong Yang
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
DualKS: Defining Gene Sets With Tissue Set Enrichment Analysis
Friday, 2 October 2009, 2 pm, DU 459
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

Dr. Balakrishna Hosmane
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
Exposure-Response Modeling Approach for Assessing QT Effect in 'Thorough' QT/QTc Studies
Friday, 25 September 2009, 2 pm, DU 459
Coffee following presentation in DU 359

2008-2009 Colloquia

SPONSORED BY NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Joseph Ibrahim
Department of Biostatistics - University of North Carolina

Diagnostic Measures in General Parametric Model
Friday, April 24, 2009

Historical Data in Cancer Clinical Trials
Thursday, April 23

Sati Mazumdar, Professor of Biostatistics and Psychiatry
Department of Biostatistics - University of Pittsburgh
Friday, April 17, 2009

Dr. Karthik Devarajan
Fox Chase Cancer Center Philadelphia, PA
Friday, April 10

Dr. Zhiwu Yan
Abbott Laboratories
Crossover Versus Parallel Design: Dose-Escalation Design Considerations for First-In-Human (FIH) Studies
Balakrishna Hosmane
Friday, April 3, 2009

Jie Yang, Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
University of Illinois at Chicago
Sliced Inverse Moment Regression Using Weighted Chi-Squared Tests for Dimension Reduction
Friday, March 20, 2009

Lianng Yuh, PhD
Dendreon Corporation
Friday, February 6, 2009

Claudine Myers, Instructor
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
Online Course Delivery
Friday, November 21, 2008

Olcay Akman, Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics - Illinois State University
Ask Not What Mathematics Can Do For Biology - Ask What Biology Can Do For Mathematics
Friday, November 7, 2008

SPONSORED BY DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES and DIVISION OF STATISTICS (Joint With AIC)

Dr. Alula Hadgue
Center for Disease Control

Statistical Test Evaluation of New Diagnostic Tests in the Absence of a Gold-Standard Test
Friday, October 31, 2008

Dan Nordman, Assistant Professor

Department of Statistics - Iowa State University
A Tapered Empirical Likelihood For Time Series Data
Friday, October 17, 2008

Yi-Liu Chiu, PhD
Abbott Laboratories
Continuous Reassessment Method in Phase 1 Dose Finding Studies
Friday, October 10, 2008

Udaya Valluri, Contract Statistician
Astellas, Deerfield, IL
SAS Programming and Uses In Pharmaceutical Industry
Friday, October 3, 2008

SPONSORED BY NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS
Graduate Colloquium

Lynne Stokes, Professor
Department of Statistical Science - Southern Methodist University

Fitting Multilevel Models To Complex Survey Data
Friday, September 26, 2008

Detecting Motivation Problems In Our 12th-Graders
Thursday, September 25

Tim McMurry, Assistant Professor of Statistics
Department of Mathematical Sciences - DePaul University
Nonparametric Smoothing With Infinite Order Kernels

Priya Kohli, Graduate Student/Instructor
Division of Statistics - Northern Illinois University
Statistics Blackboard Orientation
Friday, September 5, 2008

2007-2008 Colloquia

2006-2007 Colloquia

Prof. Mohsen Pourahmadi
Division of Statistics – Northern Illinois University

The Rise & Fall of Partial Correlations: A Centennial Review
Friday, April 27, 2007

Prof. Scott Holan
Department of Statistics – University of Missouri-Columbia

A Spectral Approach for Locally Assessing Time Series Model Misspecification
Friday, April 6, 2007

Prof. Sanjib Basu
Division of Statistics – Northern Illinois University

Bayesian competing risks analysis of cancer survival data from the SEER program
Friday, March 30, 2007

Prof. Mathias Drton
Department of Statistics – University of Chicago

Identification and Likelihood Inference for Recursive Linear Models with Correlated Errors
Friday, March 23, 2007

David Stone, Ph.D., Director & Michael Spires, Research Development Specialist
Office of Sponsored Projects – Northern Illinois University

Introduction to External Funding and New Ways of Working with the Office of Sponsored Projects
Friday, February 23, 2007

Prof. Pulak Ghosh
Department of Mathematics and Statistics – Georgia State University

Parametric and Nonparametric Bayesian Analysis for Longitudinal Two-Part Model: An Application to Emesis Volume Data in Acupuncture Clinical Trial
Friday, February 16, 2007

Mr. Daniel Adrian (Graduate Student)
Division of Statistics – Northern Illinois University

Regression Analysis of Call Center Data
Friday, February 2, 2007

SPONSORED BY
NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS
Graduate Colloquium
Prof. Hira Koul - Michigan State University

Minimum Distance Regression Model Checking with Berkson Measurement Errors
Friday, November 17, 2006

Minimum Distance Estimation in Regression/Time Series Models
Thursday, November 16, 2006

Prof. Jack Mosevich – DePaul University

Hedge Fund Return Characteristics and Risk Measurement
Friday, November 3, 2006

SPONSORED BY
NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS
Graduate Colloquium
Prof. Paola Sebastiani - Department of Biostatistics
Boston University School of Public Health

Bayesian networks for genetic dissection of complex traits
Friday, October 20, 2006

The challenge of complex traits
Thursday, October 19, 2006

Instructor Cathy Poliak
Division of Statistics – Northern Illinois University

Statistics Blackboard Orientation
Friday, September 1, 2006

2005-2006 Colloquia

Prof. Jostein Paulsen
University of Chicago and University of Bergen, Norway

Prof. Bikas Sinha
ISI, Kolkata and UIC, Chicago

Prof. Jie Zhou
Northern Illinois University

Dr. Adam Molnar
University of Chicago

Prof. Bing Liu
University of Illinois at Chicago

Prof. Kathryn Chaloner
Van Andel Research Institute

Dr. Sok Kean Khoo
The University of Iowa

SPONSORED BY
NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS

Prof. Robert Stine
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Saurav Guha
University of Cincinnati

Prof. Kenneth Wilder
University of Chicago

Prof. Akihiko Inoue
Hokkaido University, Japan

Prof. Denise Scholtens
Northwestern Medical School

Dr. Melvin Munsaka
Takeda Pharmaceuticals, Lincolnshire, IL

SPONSORED BY
NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS
Graduate Colloquium

Prof. Jack Kalbfleisch
Dept. of Biostatistics, University of Michigan

SPONSORED BY
NIU GRADUATE SCHOOL and DIVISION OF STATISTICS
Graduate Colloquium

Prof. Roderick Little
University of Michigan

Prof. Chunming Zhang
University of Wisconsin

Prof. Joseph Lang
University of Iowa

Dr. Robert Johnson
DSM Desotech, Inc., Elgin, Illinois

Prof. Thomas O'Gorman
Northern Illinois University

Prof. Balakrishna Hosmane
Northern Illinois University

Dr. Siuli Mukhopadhyay
University of Florida

Joint AIC Seminar/Statistics Colloquium

Dr. James H. Resau
Van Andel Institute, Deputy Director and Senior Scientific Investigator
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Instructors Cathy Poliak and Tim Sullivan
NIU Division of Statistics

Spring 2003 Colloquia

Mohsen Pourahmadi, Northern Illinois University
24-Jan-03

Wei Wu, University of Chicago - Tentative
31-Jan-03

Michael D. Larsen, University of Chicago
21-Feb-03

V. Chinchilli - Graduate School Colloquium
28-Feb-03

Dan Nicolae, University of Chicago
07-Mar-03

Balakirshna Hosmane - Tentative
21-Mar-03

Long Mao, Biology
28-Mar-03

J.S. Marron - Graduate School Colloquium
04-Apr-03

Ibrahim Ahmad
11-Apr-03

Chong He, University of Missouri - Tentative
18-Apr-03

J. Huang, University of Pennsylvania
25-Apr-03

Fall 2002 Colloquia

Sanjib Basu
Northern Illinois University
Bayesian Analysis of Competing Risks
Friday, September 27, 2002

Division of Statistics Joint With AIC:

David Morris
Abbott Laboratories
Estimating the Probability of Success in Phase 3 Drug Development
Friday, October 4, 2002

Roberto Furlan
Northern Illinois University
Conjoint Analysis: Traditional Methods and Some New Approaches
Friday, October 11, 2002

Graduate Colloquium
Jointly Sponsored by the Division of Statistics and the Graduate School

Terry Speed
Department of Statistics, University of California - Berkeley

Genes, Disease and Genetic Disease
Thursday, October 17, 2002

Reprocessing of cDNA Microarray Data
Friday, October 18, 2002

Stacy Lindborg
Eli Lilly and Company
Regulatory Registration: The Role of a Clinical Statistician Friday, November 8, 2002

Sean Weldon
Northern Illinois University
Statistical Analysis of Data Collected from Lightning Using OTD and NLDN at NASA
Friday, November 15, 2002

Spring 2002 Colloquia

Scott Berry
Berry Consultants
Bayesian Statistics: Leaving the Ivory Tower for the Real World
Friday, January 25, 2002

Ehsan Soofi
School of Business Administration
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Bayes Estimate and Inference for Entropy and Information Index of Fit with Applications
Friday, February 8, 2002

Wayne Taylor
Taylor Enterprises, Inc.
Role of Statistics in Six Sigma and Variation Reduction
Friday, February 22, 2002

Mei Wang
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
Models of Mechanisms of Non-Mendalian Inheritance - of Spore Shapes of a Type of AM Fungi
Friday, March 1, 2002

Yostin Paulsen
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
March 22, 2002

Kirti Shah
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Waterloo
Split Block Designs
Friday, March 29, 2002

Graduate Colloquium
Jointly Sponsored by the Division of Statistics and the Graduate School

Bob Mason
Statistical Analysis Section
Southwest Research Institute

Modern Statistical Process Control
Thursday April 11, 2002

Exploring Multivariate Statistical Process Control
Friday April 12, 2002

Jian Huang
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Iowa
Friday, April 19, 2002

Pamela Ohman-Strickland
School of Public Health
University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey
Friday, April 26, 2002

Fall 2001

Professor S. P. Mukherjee
Calcutta University
August 31, 2001

Dr. David Morris
Abbott Labs
Design and Analysis Issues in Estimating the Effect of Drugs on ECG
September 21, 2001

Dr. Xiangun Wang
Motorola
Applied Mathematics in Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical R&D
October 5, 2001

Dr. Radha G. Mohanty
Monsanto
A Nearest Neighbor Method for Multilocation Unreplicated Agricultural Trials
October 12, 2001

Graduate Colloquium
Co-Sponsored by the Division of Statistics and the Graduate School

Dr. David Moore
Purdue University
Statistical Thinking: How to Tell the Facts from the Artifacts
Thursday, October 18, 2001

Thinking About Teaching When Teaching With Technology
Friday, October 19, 2001

Dr. David Katz
Abbott Labs
Introduction to Pharmacogenetics
October 26, 2001

Dr. Paul Speckman
University of Missouri - Columbia
Department of Statistics
Activity Generation for Regional Transportation Modeling
November 2, 2001

Dr. Bill Notz
November 16, 2001

Spring 2001

Professor Thomas Severini
Northwestern University
Department of Statistics
Recent Developments in Likelihood-Based Statistical Inference
Friday, January 26, 2001

Professor Alan Polansky
Northern Illinois University
Division of Statistics
Student: The Man Behind the Name
Friday, February 9, 2001

Professor Sudipto Banerjee
Division of Biostatistics
University of Minnesota
Prediction, Interpolation and Regression for Spatially Misaligned Datasets
Friday, February 16, 2001

Professor Kambiz Farahmand
School of Information and Software Engineering
University of Ulster, United Kingdom
Random Polynomials
Friday, February 23, 2001

Professor Ming-Hui Chen
Mathematical Sciences Department
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Conjugate Priors for Generalized Linear Models
Friday, March 2, 2001

Dr. John Andersen
Eli Lilly Research Laboratories
The Role of Statisticians in Strategic Consulting
Friday, March 23, 2001

Graduate Colloquium
Jointly Sponsored by the Division of Statistics and the Graduate School

Professor Marco Avellaneda
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Thursday, March 29 and 30, 2001

Dr. Sarat Dass
Department of Statistics and Probability
Michigan State University
Unified Bayesian and Conditional Frequentist Testing Procedures
Friday, April 6, 2001

Professor Jay Kadane
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, April 20, 2001

Fall 2000

Dr. Kuey Chung Choi
Chosun University, S. Korea
Block Designs for Diallel Cross Experiments
Monday, August 21, 2000

Professor Rama T. Lingham
Division of Statistics
Northern Illinois University
Bayesian Inference for Normal Covariance Matricies Through Diagonalization
Friday, September 8, 2000

Professor Peter Mueller
Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences
Duke University
Nonparametric Regression with Wavelet Based Priors: Unequally Spaced Data and Dependent Priors
Friday, September 15, 2000

Professor Jim Albert
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Bowling Green State University
Friday, September 29, 2000

Professor Sanjib Basu
Division of Statistics
Northern Illinois University
Model Selection in Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Friday, October 6, 2000

Dr. Lawrence Lin
Baxter Corp.
Agreement Measuring Using Concordance Correlation Measurement
Tuesday, October 10, 2000

Professor Aloke Dey
Department of Statistics
University of Akron
Indian Statistical Institute
Optimal Fractional Factorial Plans with Blocks
Friday, October 20, 2000

Professor Syed Kirmani
Department of Mathematics
University of Northern Iowa
Some Results on Record Values
Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Professor Robert McCulloch
Graduate School of Business
University of Chicago
Friday, October 27, 2000

Professor R. Settimi
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
Friday, November 3, 2000

Graduate Colloquium
Sponsored Jointly by the Division of Statistics and The Graduate School

Professor John Klein
Medical College of Wisconsin
Department of Biostatistics

Bone Marrow Transplants: Current Activities of the National Blood and Marrow Transplant Registry
Thursday, November 9, 2000

Multistate Models in Survival Analysis
Friday, November 10, 2000

Jointly Sponsored by COPSS and the Division of Statistics
Professor John Bailar
University of Chicago
Department of Health Studies
Recent Trends in Cancer Mortality
Friday, November 17, 2000

Professor Michael Ernst
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Tuesday, November 21, 2000 

Spring 2000

Dr. Thomas W. O'Gorman
Northern Illinois University
Division of Statistics
Adaptive Statistical Methods
Friday, February 4, 2000

Dr. Jeffrey D. Isaacson
Abbott Labs
Combining Temporally Correlated Environmental Data from Two Measurement Systems
Friday, February 11, 2000

Dr. J. Zhang
Abbott Labs
Mantel-Haenszel Test Statistics for Correlated Binary Data
Friday, February 25, 2000

Dr. Rao Chaganty
Old Dominion University
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Statistical Analysis of Some Multivariate Models Using Quasi-Least Squares
Friday, March 3, 2000

Dr. Gauri Datta
University of Georgia
Department of Statistics
On Asymptotic Comparison of Usual and Adjusted Likelihoods
Tuesday, March 7, 2000

Dr. B. L. S. Prakash Rao
Indian Statistical Institute and University of Iowa
Department of Statistics
Cramer-Rao Type Integral Inequalities
Tuesday, March 7, 2000

Dr. Joe Ibrahim
Harvard University
Department of Biostatistics
Wednesday, March 22, 2000

Dr. Kung-Sik S. Chan
Department of Statistics
University of Iowa
Testing for Multi-Modality for Dependent Data
Friday, March 31, 2000

Dr. Jim Booth
Department of Statistics
University of Florida
Monte Carlo Approximation of Exact Conditional Tests
Friday, April 7, 2000

Graduate Colloquium
Dr. Vijay Nair
Department of Statistics and Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan

Statistics in Industry: Challenges and Research Opportunities
Thursday, April 20, 2000

Monitoring Spatial Data and Detecting Clusters with Applications to Semiconductor Manufacturing
Friday, April 21, 2000
DuSable Hall Room 248

This talk is jointly sponsored by the Division of Statistics and the Graduate School at Northern Illinois University.

Dr. Dale Zimmerman
Department of Statistics
University of Iowa
Testing for Directional Symmetry of Spatial Correlation
Friday, April 28, 2000

Dr. Ashish Das
Indian Statistical Institute
Quasi-Orthogonal Arrays and Optimal Fractional Factorial Plans
Friday, May 5, 2000

Fall 1999

Dr. Alan Polansky
Division of Statistics , Northern Illinois University
Density Control Charts
Friday, September 10, 1999

Dr. Mohsen Pourahmadi
Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University
Graphical Comparison of Covariances of Multivariate Data
Friday, September 24, 1999

Graduate Colloquium Dr. Myles Hollander
Department of Statistics, Florida State University

Censored Data
Thursday, September 30, 1999

Nonparametric Inference for Recurrent Data
Friday, October 1, 1999

These talks are jointly sponsored by the Division of Statistics and the Graduate School at Northern Illinois University.

Dr. Sinha Bikas
Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science
Alice in Diceland
Friday, October 8, 1999

Dr. Michael Daniels
Iowa State University , Department of Statistics
Estimating Large Covariance Matricies with Applications to Hierarchical Models
Friday, October 15, 1999

Dr. Edsel A. Pena
Department of Mathematics and Statistics , Bowling Green State University
A Class of Smooth Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Survival and Reliability Models
Friday, October 15, 1999

Dr. David Morris
Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL
Design Issues in Clinical Trials
Friday, October 29, 1999

Dr. Barbara Bailey
University of Illinois At Urban-Champaign , Department of Statistics
Statistics and Modeling Dynamical Systems
Friday, November 5, 1999

Dr. M. Singh
International Centre for Agricultural Research In Dryland Areas, Syria
Genotype x Environment Interaction of Crossover Types: Detection of its Presence and Estimation of Crossover Point
Friday, November 12, 1999

Mr. Xuesong Zhang
Graduate Students, Northern Illinois University, Division of Statistics
Oracle PL/SQR Programming and Object-Oriented Data Base
Friday, November 19, 1999

Spring 1999

Dr. Mohsen Pourahmadi
Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University
Linear and Log-Linear models for covariance matrices
Friday, January 22, 1999 

Dr. Art Roth
G.D. Searle & Co.
The Logrank Statistic: A Generalization for Estimation and Inference of Relative Risk, and a New Distributional Approximation
Thursday, February 4, 1999 

Professor Tony Cai
Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Oracle Inequality and Adaptive Wavelet Estimation
Friday, February 19, 1999

Professor Osnat Streimer
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa
On inference for partially observed non-linear diffusion models using the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm
Friday, February 26, 1999

Dr. Jens Praestgaard
Order Restricted Inference for Covariance Hypotheses in Mixed Nonlinear Models
Friday, March 19, 1999

Dr. David Morris
Friday, March 26, 1999

Professor Sujit K. Ghosh
Department of Statistics, NC State University
Bayesian Analysis of Zero-inflated Regression models
Thursday, April 1, 1999

Professor Arjun Gupta
Bowling Green University
Friday, April 2, 1999

Arnold Zellner
Thursday, April 8, 1999

Jointly sponsored by Department of Economics, Social Sciences Research Institute and Division of Statistics

Gordon Lan
PFizer Inc.
Friday, April 9, 1999 

Profesor Alan Agresti
University of Florida
Tuesday, April 13, 1999

Dr. Chunfu Qiu
Abott Laboratories
Friday, April 16, 1999

Graduate Colloquium

Professor Jon N.K. Rao

Some current trends in Sample Survey Methods and Practice
Thursday, April 22, 1999

Resampling methods in Survey Sampling
Friday, April 23, 1999

Fall 1998

Marck D. Ecker
Department of Mathematics, University of Northern Iowa
Bayesian Hot Spot Detection in the Presence of Spatial Trend: Application to Total Nitrogen Concentrations in the Chesapeake Bay
Friday, September 25, 1998

Graduate Colloquium Douglas C. Montgomery
Department of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University

Designed Experiments for Process and Product Development
Thursday, October 8, 1998

Statistical Design for Robust Product and Process Deisgn and Development
Friday, October 9, 1998

Sanjib Basu
Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University
A Bayesian Test for Unimodality of Circular Data
Friday, October 23, 1998

Ibrahim Ahmad
Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University
A new approach to some classical goodness of fit problems
Friday, October 30, 1998

Joint colloquium of the Division of Statistics and the Department of Biology

Bernard Flury
Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
Developments in Principal Component Analysis: A Review
Friday, November 6, 1998

Michael Newton
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Friday, November 13, 1998

A.G.Miamee
Hampton University
Friday, November 20, 1998

Spring 1998

Alan Polansky
Division of Statistics, Northern Illinois University
Stabilizing Bootstrap-t Confidence Intervals
Friday, January 23, 1998

Mausumi Bose
Indian Statistical Institute and Ohio State University
Cross-Over Designs in the Presence of Higher Order Carry-Over and Interactions
Friday, January 30, 1998

Julia Varshavsky
Eli Lilly and Company
Statistics at Eli Lilly and Company
Friday, February 6, 1998 

Dibyen Majumdar
University of Illinois at Chicago
Efficient Designs Based on Semibalanced Arrays
Friday, February 27, 1998

Greg Miller
Stephen F. Austin State University
Lieklihood Estimation of Integer Valued Parameters for Popular Lifetime Distributions
Friday, March 6, 1998

Yasuo Amemiya
Iowa State University
Latent Variable Analysis of Multivariate Data with Nonlinear Structure
Friday, March 20, 1998

Girish Aras
Food and Drug Administration
Statistics of Interim Analysis in Clinical Trial
Friday, March 27, 1998

Graduate Colloquium
 
Richard F. Gunst
Southern Methodist University
Debunking the Stereotypes of Industry-Academic Collaboration: How do "Ivory-Tower Intellectuals" Conduct High Quality Science/Engineering with "Quarterly Profit Project Managers"?
Wednesday, April 8, 1998

An Autopsy of the Relationship Between Vehicle Weight and Fatality Risk: Critique of a Report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Thursday, April 9, 1998

Joint Statistics Colloquium of Northern Illinois University and University of Illinois at Chicago

Peter Brockwell
Colorado State University
Friday, April 17, 1998

Mousumi Banerjee
Wayne State University
Influence Diagnostics for Longitudinal Models
Friday, April 24, 1998

Fall 1997

Michael Karol
PK Department, Abbott Laboratories
Pharmacokinetic/Pharmacodynamic Modeling as Applied to Pharmacodynamically Based Drug Interactions
Friday, September 12, 1997

Ravindra Khattree
University of Oakland, Michigan
Andrews Plots for Multivariate Data: Some New Suggestions and Applications
Friday, October 3, 1997

Graduate Colloquium
Leonard A. Stefanski
North Carolina State University
Thursday, October 9 and 10, 1997

Jianming Ye
Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
Correcting the Effect of Model Selection: The Standard Error for a Regression Estimate
Friday, October 24, 1997

H.N. Nagaraja
Ohio State University
Functions of Concomitants of Selected Order Statistics
Friday, October 31, 1997

John Stufken
Iowa State University
Cossover Designs
Friday, November 7, 1997

Longitudinal Data Analysis workshop
November 6-7, 1997

NIU STAT CLUB Student Colloquium
Edsel Baker, Elizabeth Powell and Jeff Reynolds
Northern Illinois University
Friday, November 14, 1997 

X.L. Meng
Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
AR(1), Bias, Correlation, Fisher, Fractional Derivatives, James-Stein Estimator, and Wiener Process
Friday, November 21, 1997

M. L. Agarwal
The University of Memphis
Recent Developments in Robust Parameter Design Techniques
Friday, December 5, 1997

Spring 1997

Professor Balakrishna Hosmane
Northern Illinois University
Analysis of Adverse Events
Friday, January 24, 1997

Professor Hao Zhang
Marquette University
On Seperable Spatio-temporal Models
Friday, January 31, 1997

Professor K. McFadden
Northern Illinois University
Study of Commercial Air Safety
Friday, February 7, 1997

V. Devanarayan
Abbott Laboratories
Simulation-Extrapolation Methods for Heteroscedastic Measurement Error Models and Replicate Measures
Friday, February 14, 1997

Professor Rama Lingham
Northern Illinois University
A Default Bayesian Hypothesis Testing for the Time-Truncated Power Law Process
Friday, February 21, 1997

Professor Tom O'Gorman
Northern Illinois University
Using Adaptive Methods to Increase the Power of Two-Sample Tests
Friday, February 28, 1997
DuSable Hall 222D

Professor Alan Polansky
Northern Illinois University
Fitting SPC Data Using a Sample Quantile Ratio
Friday, March 7, 1997

Kashinath Chattergee
Memphis State University
Search Designs and Their Applications
Tuesday, March 18, 1997

Professor Sanjib Basu
Northern Illinois University
Estimation of Undetected Errors
Friday, March 28, 1997

Professor P. K. Sen
University of North Carolina
Statistics and Quality of Life: Third World Perspectives
Thursday, April 3, 1997

Professor P. K. Sen
University of North Carolina
Generalized Linear Models in Biomedical Statistical Applications
Friday, April 4, 1997

Professor Mohsen Pourahmadi
Northern Illinois University
Complex Models, Degrees of Freedom and Computers
Friday, April 11, 1997

Professor Steve Rigdon
Southern Illinois University (Edwardsville)
Multivariate Control Charts
Tuesday, April 22, 1997

Professor S. N. Lahiri
Iowa State University
On Empirical Choice of the Optimal Block Size for Block Bootstrap Methods
Friday, April 25, 1997

Professor Tom Mazzuchi
George Washington University
Risk Assessment for Passenger Vessel Safety and Hazardous Cargo Transportation: A Combination of Probability Modeling, Simulation, and Expert Judgement
Friday, May 2, 1997

Spring 1996

Dr. Alan Polansky
Northern Illinois University, Division of Statistics
Smoothing the Bootstrap
Friday, January 26, 1996

Dr. Cyrus Mehta
President, Cytel Software Corporation
Harvard University, Department of Biostatistics
Smart Monte Carlo Methods for Exact Inference
Thursday, February 9, 1996

Dr. Sue Leurgans
Division of Biostatistics
Rush University Medical Center, Department of Preventive Medicine
Chicago, Illinois
Transformation of Data: Black Magic or Handy Tool?
Friday, February 9, 1996

Dr. D. Simpson
Friday, February 16, 1996

Dr. Bill Schucany
Southern Methodist University, Department of Statistical Science
Bootstrap Tests for Some One-sided Multivariate Problems
Friday, March 1, 1996

Dr. Munsup Seoh
Wright State University
Is CLT Still Alive? An Overview of Finite-Sample Perspectives
Friday, March 22, 1996

Dr. Rama T. Lingham
Northern Illinois University, Division of Statistics
Testing Hypotheses About the Power Law Process Using Intrinsic Bayes Factors
Friday, April 5, 1996

Dr. Siva Sivaganesan
University of Cincinnati, Department of Mathematical Sciences
An Overview of Bayesian Robustness
Friday, April 12, 1996

Dr. Alan Gelfand
Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut

Basics of Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Thursday, April 18, 1996

Implementation Issues
Thursday, April 18, 1996

Modeling Structures Where MCMC is Helpful
Friday, April 19, 1996

Challenging Applications
Friday, April 19, 1996

Dr. L. J. Wei
Harvard University

Play the Winners for Clinical Trials
Thursday, April 25, 1996

Survival Analysis with Transformation Models
Friday, April 26, 1996