RAND Statistics Seminar Series
The RAND Statistics Group holds periodic seminars that are open to all
RAND employees and members of the public. The chair of the seminar
series is Amelia Haviland.
Please contact Denise Miller if you would like to attend a seminar or have your name added to our seminar announcement e-mail list.
Upcoming Seminars
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Recent Seminars
Exploring the Housing Crisis with ggplot2 and plyr in R
Presented by Hadley Wickham, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, Rice University
Friday, November 6, 2009
Santa Monica, CA
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Lessons from the Netflix Prize
Presented by Dr. Robert Bell, AT&T Labs-Research, Florham Park, NJ
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Santa Monica, CA
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Using the Whole Cohort in Two-Phase Study Designs
Presented by Professor Thomas Lumley, University of Washington
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Santa Monica, CA
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Data Large-Scale Prediction Problems
Presented by Professor Bradley Efron, Stanford University
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Santa Monica, CA
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Everything is Dangerous: A Controversy
Presented by Stanley Young, Ph.D., Assistant Director for Bioinformatics, NISS Triangle Park, NC
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009
Pittsburgh, PA
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Information, Knowledge, and Truth: Replacing Secrecy, Ignorance, and Myth in the Wake of Atrocity
Presented by Patrick Ball, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Director, Human Rights Programs
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Pittsburgh, PA
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Proxy Pattern-Mixture Analysis for Survey Nonresponse
Presented by Roderick J. Little, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Santa Monica, CA
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Accounting for Complex Sample Designs via Mixture Models
Presented by Michael Elliott, Ph.D., University of Michigan
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Santa Monica, CA
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Visualizing Hierarchical Cluster Structure via Density-Based Linkage Methods and Component Trees
Presented by Rebecca Nugent, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University
Friday, November 21, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA
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Data Assimilation for Epidemiologic Air Exposure Assessment
Presented by Ana G. Rappold, Ph.D., USEPA
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Santa Monica, CA
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Statistics and Public Policy
Presented by David A. Marker, PhD, WESTAT, Rockville, MD
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA
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Analysis of Gene Expression Leukemia Data using Split-Merge Markov
Chain Monte Carlo
Presented by Sonia Jain, Ph.D., University of California – San Diego
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Santa Monica, CA
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Causal Inference for Randomized Trials of Two Active Treatments Subject to Non-compliance
Presented by Jason Roy, PhD, Geisinger Center for Health Research
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA
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Spectral Analysis of Faint Astronomical Objects: Bayesian Modeling, Computation, and Inference
Presented by David van Dyk, University of California, Irvine
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Santa Monica, CA
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A Stimulus-Locked VAR Model for fMRI Event-Related Connectivity
Analyses
Presented by Wesley Thompson, University of Pittsburgh
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Pittsburgh, PA
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Robust Standard Errors and Experimental Design
Presented by Larry Hedges, Northwestern University
Thursday, December 6, 2007
Pittsburgh, PA
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Simultaneous Inference: When Should Hypothesis Testing
Problems Be Combined?
Presented by Bradley Efron, Stanford University
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Santa Monica, CA
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Secure Logistic Regression with Distributed Databases
Presented by Aleksandra Slavkovic, Pennsylvania State University
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Pittsburgh, PA
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Enabling Knowledge Networks in 21st Century Organizational Forms: From Disasters to WoW
Presented by Dr. Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, July 26, 2007
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
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Improving Efficiency of Inferences in Randomized Clinical Trials
Using Auxiliary Covariates
Presented by Dr. Marie Davidian, North Carolina State University
Thursday, May 17, 2007
RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
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A Multivariate Nongaussian Bayesian Spatial Modeling Framework for Hurricane Surface Wind Fields
Presented by Montserrat Fuentes, North Carolina State University,
Department of Statistics
Thursday, April 12, 2007
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
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"Proof" in Medicine: The Role of Research Synthesis
Presented by Professor Joel B. Greenhouse, Carnegie Mellon University,
Department of Statistics
Thursday, March 15, 2007
RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA
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Visualization Databases for Loseless Analysis of Complex Data Sets
Presented by William Cleveland, Purdue
Thursday, February 15, 2007
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
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Clustering Functional Data: Methods and Applications
Presented by Catherine Sugar, USC
Thursday, December 14, 2006
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
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Treed Gaussian Processes and Limiting Linear Models, with applications to Computer Experiments
Presented by Herbie Lee, UCSC
Thursday, October 5, 2006
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
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Doing Thousands of Hypothesis Tests at the Same Time
Presented by Brad Efron, Stanford
Thursday, September 21, 2006
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
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Strategies for Model-Based Imputation in High-Dimensional Incomplete Data Sets
Presented by Thomas R. Belin, UCLA Dept. of Biostatistics
Thursday, May 11, 2006
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
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Statistical Analysis of Social Networks
Presented by Stanley Wasserman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thursday, March 9, 2006
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Extensions of Respondent-Driven Sampling: Analyzing
Continuous Variables and Multivariate Analysis Using Dual-Component
Sampling Weights
Presented by Douglas Heckathorn, Dept. of Sociology, Cornell University
Thursday, December 8, 2005
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Speaker Biography
Uncertainty Quantification for Combining Experimental Data and Computer Simulations
Presented by Brian Williams, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Thursday, December 1, 2005
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
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Fifty Years of Empirical Bayes
Presented by Bradley Efron, Stanford University
Thursday, October 27, 2005
10:30 a.m.
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Forum m-1226-1228
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Topic TBA
Presented by David Hinkley, University of California Santa Barbara
September 8, 2005
10:30 a.m. - 12:00
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
Forum m-1226-1228
Object Oriented Data Analysis
Presented by J.S. Marron
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
University of North Carolina
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Forum m-1226-1228, Santa Monica D.C.: Rm. 6201; Pittsburgh: Rm. 434
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Mixed-Effects Cox Models
Presented by Terry Therneau, Mayo Clinic
Thursday, April 07, 2005, 10:30 a.m.
Forum m-1226-1228, Santa Monica
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Identification of the Variance Components in the
General Two-Variance Linear Model
Presented by Jim Hodges, Division of Biostatistics and Director
Biostatistics Core
Minnesota Oral Health Clinical Research Center at the University of Minnesota
Friday, February 11, 2005, 10:30 a.m.
Forum m-1224, Santa Monica
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Responsive Design for Household Surveys:
Tools for Actively Controlling Survey Nonresponse and Costs
Presented by Robert M. Groves, Director University of Michigan Survey Research Center
Institute for Social Research Joint Program in Survey Methodology
Friday, January 7, 2005, 10:30 a.m.
Forum m-1226, Santa Monica
Sponsored by the RAND Statistics Group and the RAND Survey Research Group
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Modeling Massive Dynamic Graphs
Presented by Dr. Chris Volinsky, Director
Statistics Research Department
AT&T Research
Florham, Park, NJ
Thursday, January 27, 2005, 10:30 a.m.
Forum m-1226-28, Santa Monica
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Reasoning with Cause and Effect
Presented by Judea Pearl
University of California, Los Angeles
December 9, 2004, 10:30 a.m.
Forum m-1226 - Santa Monica
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Selection and Estimation for Large-Scale Simultaneous Inference
Presented by Brad Efron
Stanford University
October 28, 2004, 4:00 pm - reception at 3:30 p.m.
Santa Monica, CA
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Improved Minimax Prediction Under Kullback-Leibler Loss
Presented by Edward George
The Wharton School Statistics Department
June 17, 2004, 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Blending Statistics and Graphics in Visual Data Mining
Presented by Antony Unwin
University of Augsburg, Germany
May 20, 2004, 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Effect of Length Biased Sampled Sojourn Times on the Survival Distribution from Screen-Detected Diseases
Presented by Karen Kafadar
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado, Denver
Thursday, April 15, 2004, 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Visual Exploration of Graph Data in GGobi
Presented by Debby Swayne
AT&T Labs-Research
Florham Park, NJ
Thursday, March 18, 2004, 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Causal Inference with General Treatment Regimes: Generalizing the Propensity Score
Presented by David van Dyk
Department of Statistics
University of California at Irvine
Monday, January 26, 2004 4:00 p.m.
Main Conference Room
Listening Post
Presented by Mark Hansen
University of California, Los Angeles
Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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The Trouble with Harry (Markowitz)
Presented by James Thompson
Rice University
Thursday, October 23, 2003 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Large-scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing
Presented by Brad Efron
Department of Statistics
Stanford University
Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Random Effects Models for Dyadic Network Data
Presented by Peter Hoff, Assistant Professor
Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
University of Washington
Thursday, May 15, 2003 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Survival Analysis using Flowgraph Models
Presented by Aparna Huzurbazar, Senior Advisor and Statistician
RAND Corporation, Santa Monica
Thursday, June 19, 2003 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Bayesian Modeling and Analysis of Treatment-Response Data
Presented by Siddhartha Chib, Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics
Department of Statistics
John M. Olin School of Business
Washington University, St. Louis
Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Probability Measures of Fuzzy Sets
Presented by Nozer D. Singpurwalla, Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
The George Washington University
Friday, March 28, 2003 2:00 pm
Main Conference Room
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Egocentric Network Analysis
Presented by Christopher McCarty, Survey Director
Survey Research Center
University of Florida
Thursday, February 6, 2003 3:00 pm
Main Conference Room
Other Seminar Series
Unless otherwise noted, Statistics seminars take
place every Monday at 3 pm in MSB 6627.
Biostatistics seminars are organized by the
Department of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health.
Organized by the Information and Operations Management
Department.
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