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Thursday, November 24

Mohammad Jafari Jozani (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “Some Pitman Closeness Properties Pertinent to Symmetric Populations”

Thursday, November 17

Katherine Davies (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “The Pitman Closeness Criterion in Progressive Censoring”

Thursday, November 10

Xiaofeng Wang (Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Biostatistics Section, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute): “Heteroscedastic Deconvolution: Alternative Approaches to Fourier-based Methods”

Monday, November 7

Dr. Gordon Lan (Janssen Pharmaceutical Company): “Brownian Motion Process and Clinical Trial Data Monitoring”

Thursday, October 27

Peter A. Parker (Langley Research Center, NASA): “Statistical Practice and Applications at NASA”

Tuesday, October 25

Christian Léger (Département de Mathématiques et de Statistique, Université de Montréal): “An Introduction to the Bootstrap and Some Current Problems”

Thursday, October 13

Dianliang Deng (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Regina): “Modeling Sustained Treatment Effects in Tumor Xenograft Experiments”

Friday, October 7

Angelo Canty (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University): “A Longitudinal Genome Wide Association Study of Blood Pressure in Type 1 Diabetes”

Thursday, October 6

John F. Brewster (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba ): “Objective Bayesian Inference of Fixed Effects and Variance Components in Split-Plot Experiments”

Friday, September 30

S. Ejaz Ahmed (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Windsor): “Perspectives on Machine Bias Versus Human Bias”

Thursday, September 22

Julieta Frank (Department of Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics, University of Manitoba): “Time Series Analysis of Open-Outcry Trading”

Thursday, September 15

Aerambamoorthy Thavaneswaran (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “Inference for Nonlinear Time Series via Estimating Functions”

Tuesday, April 19

Saumen Mandal (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “Descriptive Measures for Nominal Categorical Variables”

Thursday, April 14

Mohammad Jafari Jozani (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “Design Based Estimation for Ranked Set Sampling in Finite Populations”

Thursday, April 7

Saman Muthukumarana (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “Introduction to Bayesian Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Regression”

Thursday, March 31

Dave Gabrielson (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “Parallel R: Xgrid”

Thursday, March 24

Omer Ozturk (Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University): “Statistical Inference Based on Partially Rank Ordered Set Samples”

Wednesday, March 23

Brad C. Johnson (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “Randomized Nomination Sampling in Finite Populations”

Thursday, March 17

Alexander Paseka (Department of Accounting and Finance, Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba): “A Generalized Earning-Based Stock Valuation Model with Learning”

Thursday, March 10

Xikui Wang (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “Modeling the Process of Sequential Information Gathering and Stochastic Control”

Friday, March 4

Duncan Murdoch (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Western Ontario): “Debugging in R”

Friday, March 4

Duncan Murdoch (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Western Ontario): “Using Sweave with R”

Thursday, March 3

Duncan Murdoch (Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Western Ontario): “Nearly Perfect Sampling: Possible in Practice?”

Thursday, February 24

Deli Li (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Lakehead University): “New Versions of Some Classical Stochastic Inequalities”

Thursday, February 17

Mikelis G. Bickis (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Saskatchewan): “Calibration of P-values via the Dirichlet Process”

Thursday, January 27

Darren M. Gillis (Department of Biological Sciences, University of Manitoba): “Inferred Information Networks in a Commercial Fishery using Vessel Monitoring Data: Information and Fishing Performance”

Monday, January 24

He Li (Department of Statistics, University of Manitoba): “Second-Order Least Squares Estimation in Generalized Linear Mixed Models”

Thursday, January 20

Catherine Njue (Centre for Vaccine Evaluation, Health Canada): “Statistical Issues and Challenges in the Review of Clinical Trials for Biologics: A Regulatory Perspective”