A Joint Modeling Approach for Multiple Ordinal Processes January 1, 2013 - 10:39am Full Title: A joint modeling approach for multiple ordinal processes via generalized estimating equations Speaker: Abdus S. Wahed University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, USA Date/Time: Monday, January 7, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT To be announced

Item Response Theory Modelling in Analysing Rating Scale Data January 8, 2013 - 8:55am Full Title: Item Response Theory Modelling in Analysing Rating Scale Data Speaker: Asaduzzaman Khan, PhD The University of Queensland and The University of New England, Australia Date/Time: Tuesday, January 15, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Rating scales are increasingly

Arsenic variations in shallow groundwater January 15, 2013 - 8:01pm Full Title: Arsenic variations in shallow groundwater of Bangladesh explained by generalized regression modeling Speaker: M. Shamsudduha, PhD University College London, UK Date/Time: Monday, January 21, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT The impact of widespread groundwater-fed irrigation and increased recharge on arsenic (As)

Macroeconomic Determinants and Forecasting of Stock Market Capital January 31, 2013 - 5:51am Full Title: Macroeconomic Determinants and Forecasting of Stock Market Capital: Empirical Evidence from Bangladesh Speaker: Md. Azim Uddin, MSc Bangladesh Bank and PhD Candidate in Applied Statistics Date/Time: Saturday, February 2, 2013, 3:30pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT To diagnosis stock market

Higher-Order Asymptotic Approximations and Their Applications February 3, 2013 - 10:48am Full Title: Higher-Order Asymptotic Approximations and Their Applications Speaker: Hyung-Tae Ha, PhD Gachon University, South Korea Date/Time: Saturday, February

Alternatives to Extreme Value February 16, 2013 - 10:25am Full Title: Alternatives to Extreme Value: Lévy Spectral Risk Measures applied to leading stock indices Speaker: Sharif Ullah Mozumdar, PhD Department

Measures to assess the predictive ability of risk models for survival data March 20, 2013 - 12:08pm Full Title: A simulation study of measures to assess the predictive ability of

Variable Selection with The Modified Buckley--James Method March 30, 2013 - 6:05pm Full Title: Variable Selection with The Modified Buckley--James Method and The Dantzig Selector for High--dimensional Survival Data Speaker:

Unsupervised Feature Learning with Probabilistic Models April 22, 2013 - 9:41pm Full Title: Unsupervised Feature Learning with Probabilistic Models Speaker: Md. Faijul Amin, DEng Khulna University of Engineering and Technology,

Modelling longitudinal change-point data June 25, 2013 - 11:58am Full Title: Modelling longitudinal change-point data Speaker: Shahedul Ahsan Khan, PhD University of Saskachewan, Canada Date/Time: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 3pm Venue: ISRT Seminar Room   ABSTRACT Continuous changepoint data may exhibit one of two types of transitions: gradual or abrupt. Modeling the trend for such data