Fourth Annual Bahadur Memorial Lectures
The Department of Statistics is proud to present
the Fourth Annual Bahadur Memorial Lectures in honor of Raj Bahadur's
fundamental contributions to statistics and to our department.
We are pleased to have Adrian Baddeley,
Professor of Statistics from the Department of Mathematics and Statistics
at the University of Western Australia as our honored speaker.
"Counting Leaves on a Tree and Neurons
in the Brain"
Eckhart Hall, Room #133
5734 South University Avenue
Friday, May 17th, 2002 at 4:00 PM
A human brain contains about 10^10 neurons.
There is heated controversy about this number, about how to determine
it, and about whether it decreases inexorably with age or disease. The
science of stereology makes it possible to "count" numbers
of cells and to obtain statistical estimates of other quantities like
volume, surface area and length of structures. Stereology is in fact
an application of very simple classical principles of survey sampling.
The talk presents some examples starting with a technique described
in the 4th century Hindu epic, the Mahabharata.
"Practical Maximum Pseudolikelihood for
Spatial Data"
Eckhart Hall, Room #133
5734 South University Avenue
Monday, May 20, 2002 at 4:00 PM
Pseudolikelihood is a classical rough approximation
to likelihood. Has fallen out of favour, but has some surprisingly useful
features. Computational devices enable us to fit arbitrary point process
models to real data in seconds.
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