2013-2014
Fall 2013
Weizhen Wang | Wright State University
"Interval Estimation for Proportions and the Implementation in R"
Elaine Borland Hoffman | Brigham and Women's Hospital
"Applications of Path Analysis Structural Equation Models in Environmental Health Studies"
Paul Scanlon | National Center for Health Statistics, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
"For Validity's Sake: Integrating Qualitative Data and International Health Statistics"
Jorge Morel | Proctor and Gamble
"A Random-clumped Binomial Distribution for Modeling Overdispersion"
Karen Kafadar | Indiana University
"The Critical Role of Statistics in Development and Validation of Forensic Methods"
Stetson Siler | US Air Force, Retired
"My Career as an Air Force Operations Research Analyst"
David Edwards | Virginia Commonwealth University
"Selecting a D-Optimal Follow-Up Experiment Among Candidate Choices"
Spring 2014
Adriano Zambom | State University of Campinas
"Nonparametric Lack-of-Fit Testing and Variable Selection"
David Groff and Don Brockhmeier | Cincinnati Insurance
"Predictive Analytics: Transforming Data to Action"
Bonnie LaFleur | Ventana Medical Systems
"Averages versus Individuals: Issues in the Era of Personalized Healthcare"
Jessica Utts | UC-Irvine
"Combining Controversies: Psychic Claims and Bayesian Statistics"
Marie Davidian | Past President of the American Statistical Association North Carolina State University
"The Right Treatment for the Right Patient (at the Right Time): Personalized Medicine and Statistics"
Michael Robbins | RAND Corporation
"A General Regression Changepoint Test for Time Series Data"