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Statistics Seminars 2006-07

Current seminars are found here.

Friday 29 September 2006
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5326
3:30 pm John Nelder (Imperial College London)
Double hierarchical generalized linear models, a broad class with a new fitting algorithm based on extended likelihood
Friday 13 October 2006
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2:15 pm Chris Jones (The Open University)
Parametric Families of Distributions and, Inter Alia, Nonparametric Quantile Estimation and Regression
Friday 13 October 2006
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5326
3:30 pm Tereza Neocleous (University of Edinburgh)
A likelihood ratio approach to evidence evaluation in the form of discrete data
Wednesday 22 November 2006
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM G.01
2:15 pm Adrian Bowman and Sarah Barry (University of Glasgow)
Statistics with a Human Face
Friday 15 Dec 2006
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 6206
3:15 pm Iain Currie
From Yates algorithm to multidimensional smoothing with GLAM
Friday 19 January 2007
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2:15 pm Ruth King (CREEM, University of St Andrews)
A Bayesian S.tudy of O.rnithological S.urveys
Monday 5 February 2007
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5326
3:15 pm David Elston (BioSS, Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen)
Some Ecological Applications of Models Random Effects
Friday 16 February 2007
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5326
3:15 pm Paul Garthwaite (Department of Statistics, Open University)
Selection of Weights for Weighted Model Averaging
Friday 23 February 2007
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM G.01
4.15 pm
Frank Ball (University of Nottingham
Statistical Inference for epidemics among a population of households
Friday 2 March 2007
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2:15 pm David Firth (Warwick)
Working with over-parameterized models
Friday 2 March 2007
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5215
3:15 pm Peter Avery (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Newcastle)
The Analysis of a Family Study Ascertained Through Hypertensive Probands
Friday 23 March 2007
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5327
3:15 pm Agostino Nobile (Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow)
Bayesian Analysis of Finite Mixtures using Allocation Sampler
Friday 20 April 2007
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2.15pm
Alexander McNeil (Heriot-Watt University)
Statistical Inference for Dependent Defaults and Credit Migrations
(Seminar on Applied Econometrics)
Friday 4 May 2007
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2.15pm
Andrew Patton (LSE)
Data-Based Ranking of Volatility Estimators
(Seminar on Applied Econometrics)
Friday 11 May
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 6206
3.15pm

Amanda Hepler (University College, Lomdon)
Object-oriented graphical representations of complex patterns of evidence
Friday 1 June 2007
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2.00 pm
Catalina Stefanescu (LBS)
The credit rating process: a Bayesian approach
(Seminar on Applied Econometrics)
Wednesday 18 July 2007
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2.15 pm
Shiqing Ling (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
A General Approach to Goodness-of-fit Tests for Time Series Models