Invited Speaker Series
Spring 2016
Xiaoqian Sun | Clemson University
"Bayesian Variable Selection in Maximum Entropy Quantile Regression"
Dennis Lock | The Miami Dolphins
"Using Random Forests to Estimate In-Game Win Probability"
Greg Matthews | Loyola University Chicago
"openWAR: An open source system for overall player performance in major league baseball."
Regina Nuzzo | Gallaudet
"P-Values: Worth an Official Decree?"
Robert Park | CDC/NIOSH
"Interpreting Non-Linear Poisson Regression Models with Highly Classified Data."
Barry Nussbaum |President-elect of the American Statistical Association
"What Did They Say You Just Said?"
Kirk Mueller | Bureau of Labor Statistics
"Measuring Opportunity-One Statistician's Contributions to the 100-Year History of Current Employment Statistics"
Fall 2015
David Friedenberg | Batelle Labs
"A Neural Bypass System- Data Analysis Challenges"
Michael Anderson | Batelle Labs
"Evaluating the Effects of Commercial Vehicle Information Systems at Preventing Large Truck Crashes"
Brad Boehmke | Air Force
"Material Command Studies and Analysis Directorate Data Wrangling with R"
Volodymyr Melnykov | University of Alabama
"Merging Mixture Components for Clustering"
Trevor Butterworth | Sense About Science USA
"Words Are Not Enough: Why Statistics is the New Journalism"
Cathie Spino | Michigan Biostat
"Comparing and Communicating Adaptive Designs for a Dose-Ranging Study"
Tatjana Miljkovic | Miami University
"Loss Modeling with a Mixture of Distributions"