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


Michael Lavine

Assessing Procedures vs Assessing Evidence Many statistical analyses are characterized by how often a procedure works: how often an interval covers a true value, a null hypothesis is rejected, an item is correctly classified, etc. But assessing how often a procedure works differs from assessing the evidence in a data set. Understanding the difference is prerequisite to understanding what matters in a given analysis: the procedure, the evidence,…


Jungjin Lee

Developing an Web-based Dynamic Graphical Software for Statistics Education, eStat Recent advance in IT and network technology has enabled to develop the statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS and R for mass data processing. However, these well-known packages have not paid their attention to develop a module for statistics education. Many individual developers have developed software for statistics education, but the most of them are limited to…


Colloquium: Yajun Mei

A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach for Online Monitoring High-Dimensional Streaming Data We investigate the problem of online monitoring high-dimensional streaming in resources constrained environments, where one has limited capacity in data acquisition, transmission or processing, and needs decide how to smartly observe which local components or features of high-dimensional streaming data at each and every time so as to detect potential anomaly…


Colloquium: Ryan Martin


Colloquium: L. Jason Anastasopoulos

Regularization Adjusted Local Average Treatment Estimation for Regression Discontinuity Designs The regression discontinuity design is one of the most popular and credible methods available for causal inference with observational data.   Estimation of local average treatment effects in RDDs are typically based on local linear regressions using the outcome variable, a treatment assignment variable, and a continuous running variable.…


Colloquium: Jinfeng Zhang


Dissertation Defense: Yaotong Cai

Symbolic Data Analysis: Statistical Inference on Interval Data Regression


Colloquium: Joe Bible


Colloquium: Yuki Kawakubo


Dissertation Defense: Chul Moon

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