Mortality modeling of white spruce and black spruce December 21, 2010 - 11:13pm Full Title: Mortality modeling of white spruce and black spruce using combine estimators Speaker: Suborna Ahmed, MSc

Simultaneous confidence intervals for multinomial proportions December 21, 2010 - 11:16pm Full Title: Simultaneous confidence intervals for multinomial proportions, their differences and ratios Speaker: Azaz Bin Sharif, MSc Department of

Variable selection technique for AFT models December 21, 2010 - 11:19pm Full Title: Variable selection technique for AFT models with regularized weighted least squares when p > n Speaker: Md

Application of propensity scores in epidemiology December 21, 2010 - 11:21pm Full Title: Application of propensity scores in epidemiology Speaker: Ehsan Karim, MSc Department of Statistics University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada Date/Time: Thursday, December 23, 2010, 1215 Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Randomization is recognized as a tool for removing bias in any

Visual statistical inference for regression parameters January 15, 2011 - 6:28am Full Title: Visual statistical inference for regression parameters Speaker: Mahbubul Majumder, MSc Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, USA Date/Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 3:00 PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Statistical graphics play a crucial role in exploratory data analysis, model checking and

Risk Prediction Models for Assessing 30-Day & Long Term Mortality February 9, 2011 - 4:39am Full Title: Risk Prediction Models for Assessing 30-Day & Long Term Mortality Following CABG/AVR in Australian Cohort Speaker: Baki Billah, PhD Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Monash University, Australia Date/Time: Saturday, February 5, 2011, 1500 Venue: ISRT Seminar Room  

Robustness of testing correlation and equality of variances February 9, 2011 - 4:41am Full Title: Robustness of testing correlation and equality of variances Speaker: Anwar H Joarder, PhD King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Date/Time: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 1500 Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Many statistical methods say testing correlation

Multi-stratum and split-plot designs in Industrial experiments November 19, 2011 - 7:49pm Full Title: Multi-stratum and split-plot designs in Industrial experiments Speaker: M. Lutfor Rahman School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary, University of London Date/Time: Saturday, November 26, 2011, 2:30 PM Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Hard-to-set factors lead to split-plot type designs and mixed

Bayesian Penalized Methods for High-Dimensional Data December 16, 2011 - 7:37am Full Title: Bayesian Penalized Methods for High-Dimensional Data and Network Analysis Speaker: Zakaria S Khondker University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Date/Time: Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 12:00 noon Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT The curse of dimensionality boils down to dealing with

Functional data analysis and its applications January 9, 2012 - 9:41am Full Title: Functional data analysis and its application Speaker: M. Shahid Ullah, PhD Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Date/Time: Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 3:00pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT The Functional Data Analysis (FDA) approach is proposed towards modelling time series data because of recognition