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AUTUMN QUARTER 2009

Kelly Macias
Kelly Macias
Administrative and Student Support Specialist
WEDNESDAY, November 18, 2009, at 4:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YINXIAO HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Recursive Kernel Estimation for Stationary Time Series

WEDNESDAY, November 18, 2009, at 10:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
XIAOHUI CHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Wavelet Analysis in Spatial Interpolation of High Frequency Monitoring Data

WEDNESDAY, November 18, 2009, at 8:45 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHANGGEE CHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Estimation of Covariance Matrix via the Sparse Cholesky Factor with Lasso

TUESDAY, November 17, 2009, at 2:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WINFRIED BARTA, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Some Aspects of Markov Chain Monte Carlo

TUESDAY, November 17, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HAN HAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
A Poisson Point Process Model with Its Applications
and
Network Analysis of Genome-wide Association Study

MONDAY, November 16, 2009, at 1:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
WENLI WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
A Study of the Individual and Combined Effects of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), Age, and Ethnicity
on Breast Cancer Incidence in the Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium (BCSC) Cohort Using Multiple Imputation


MONDAY, November 16, 2009, at 11:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
MYOUNGJI LEE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Understanding the Local Behavior of Unevenly Spaced Isotropic Stationary Gaussian Processes

FRIDAY, November 13, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
TIANXIAO ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Semiparametric Inference of Discretely Sampled Stable Lévy Processes

WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009, at 1:30 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
QI ZHONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Estimating Company Profitability Using Fundamental Data

WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009, at 12:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
ALAN HUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Semiparametric Exponential Tilt Regression Models

WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009, at 10:30 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
HAN XIAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Second Order Inference for Nonstationary Time Series
and
Asymptotic Distributions of Wald Statistics


WEDNESDAY, November 11, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
FANG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Application of Two Types of Multinomial Probit Models: Prediction of Number of Children in a Household and
Agricultural Land Use Change in the United States


TUESDAY, November 10, 2009, at 2:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
JAY RO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
The Grand Re-Opening: Modeling Week 1 DVD Sales

MONDAY, November 9, 2009, at 12:00 pm, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
YI CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Monte-Carlo Simulation Valuation of Cliquet Options

FRIDAY, October 23, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
CLIFFORD CLIVE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Making Better Use of Consumer Ratings Data: Reinterpreting the Ratings to Make More Accurate Predictions

FRIDAY, September 18, 2009, at 9:00 am, in Eckhart 110, 5734 S. University Avenue
SADIA MALIK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
Master's Thesis Presentation
Exploring Substructures in Bipolar Symptoms and Characteristics