Department of Mathematical Sciences
and
Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics

SPRING 2002 STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Seminars are held on Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in Cullimore 611 unless noted otherwise

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Special Day, Time, and Location

Tuesday, January 15, 2002 at 2:00 PM

Medical Science Building, Room B610, UMDNJ - New Jersey Medical School, 185 S. Orange Avenue, Newark

Weichung Joe Shih, Ph.D.

Professor of Biostatistics Division of Biometrics, UMDNJ-School of Public Health and Director of Biometrics, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, RWJ Medical School

Title: The Dropout Problem in Clinical Trials: Issues and Suggestions

Wednesday, March 6, 2002 at 2:30 PM

The INFORMS 2001 Edelman Award Presentation

Russ Labe

Vice President and Director in the Merrill Lynch Management Science group

Raj Nigam

Chief Scientist, Director and Vice President of the Management Science group at Merrill Lynch

Title: The Pricing Analysis for Merrill Lynch Integrated Choice

Co-sponsored by the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering

Wednesday, March 13, 2002 at 2:30 PM

Srinivasan Balaji

Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Title: Passage Time Moments for Diffusion Processes

Special Day and Time

Monday, March 18, 2002 at 11:30 AM

Peter Olofsson

Department of Statistics, Rice University

Title: Sampling in Branching Processes: Theory and Biological Applications

Special Day and Time

Thursday, March 21, 2002 at 11:30 AM

Yu-Yun Ho

Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies

Title: Data Mining in Uncovering Terrorist Networks

Special Place

Wednesday, April 10, 2002 at 2:30 PM
Kupfrian Hall, Room 103

Sudhansu Baksi

Analytic Modeling Group, Management Systems Center, AT&T Labs

Title: Inventory Monitoring and Auditing with PPS Sampling

Special Place

Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 2:30 PM
Kupfrian Hall, Room 103

Ken Johnson

Principal Technical Staff Member at AT&T Labs in the Statistical Modeling & Survey Analysis Group

Title: Forecasting and Consulting - An Interesting Example

Special Day and Time

Monday, May 13, 2002 at 11:30 AM

Agnes Kovacs

Project/Senior Statistician at BioCor

Title: Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the Poly-Weibull Model

Special Time

Wednesday, May 15, 2002 at 11:00 AM

Jun Ying

Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut

Title: Estimation of Bivariate Measurements Having Different Change Points, with Application to Cognitive Aging

Special Day and Time

Friday, May 17, 2002 at 11:00 AM

Antai Wang

Department of Biostatistics, University of Rochester

Title: Parameter Estimation in Bivariate Copula Models



For more information about the Seminars contact:

Tom Spencer, (973) 642-4496

email: tspencer@adm.njit.edu