Stochastic Modeling and Computational Statistics

Guidelines:

40 minutes for each talk + 20 minutes for discussion.
The talk should be accessible to all grad students who have completed 1 year of the program.
Informal style. For instance, chalk and blackboard talks are welcome.
Interruptions during the talk are welcome but they should only be for clarifications; longer questions are to be left to the discussion period.
Unpublished work may not be shared or discussed outside the group without the permission of the speaker/author.

Date	Speaker	Topic
January 24	Special talk: Kari Lock Morgan, Duke U.	Using Simulation Methods to Introduce Inference
January 31	Bing Li	On an additive semigraphoid model for statistical networks with application to pathway analysiss
February 7	Xizhen Cai	Variable Selection for the Proportional Odds Model
February 14	Kirsten Eilertson	Sorting out Superinfection with a Coalescent Model
February 21	Piercesare Secchi (Mathematics, Polytechnic University of Milan)	The Aneurisk project
February 28	Martin Tingley (Depts of Meteorology and Statistics, PSU)	A quantile regression analysis of North American summertime daily T-max
March 7	no talk/Friday before spring break
March 14	no talk (spring break)
March 21	CANCELED DUE TO GRAD STUDENT RECRUITMENT WEEKEND
March 28	Dennis Pearl (statistics education seminar)	PEA SOUP: Radical Change in Small Steps
April 4	Monia Ranalli	Mixture models for ordinal data: a pairwise likelihood approach
April 11	Jon Poterjoy/Fuqing Zhang (PSU Meteorology)	Ensemble filtering for highly nonlinear large-dimensional systems
April 18	Daisy Phillips	A non-parametric approach to identify reproducibility in replicate experiments
April 25	Saurabh Bansal	Estimating Distribution Parameters from Subjective Fractile Estimates
May 2	Lingzhou Xue	Covariance Regularization in High Dimensions

A look back at previous SMAC TALKS.