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The Statistics Department hosts weekly colloquia on a variety of statistcal subjects, bringing in speakers from around the world.


Zhengwu Zhang


Ya Su


Yingying Fan


Kai Zhang

BET on independence


William Li


Marina Vannucci

Spike-and-slab priors for variable and edge selection and applications to large-scale data


Luo Xiao

Joint model for survival and multivariate sparse functional data with application to a study of Alzheimer’s disease


David Benkeser

Collaborative inference for causal effect estimation and general missing data problems


Deborah Kunkel


Whitney Huang

One of the commonly used approaches to estimating extremes is the peaks-over-threshold (POT) method. The POT method models exceedances over a threshold that is sufficiently high so that the exceedance has approximately a generalized Pareto distribution (GPD). This method requires the selection of a threshold that might affect the estimates. Here we propose an alternative method, the Log-Histospline (LHSpline), to explore modeling the tail…
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