Statistics 968: Advanced Methods in Applied Statistics

Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 pm, in Jeffery Hall 101.

This is a seminar on modern methods in applied statistics, with a focus on resampling methods, and on robust statistics. Everyone taking the course for credit will give one 50-minute presentation. The course is led by Julia Brettschneider and David Steinsaltz.

Schedule:

January 24: Peng Wu, Applications of reliability coefficients in cDNA microarray data analysis
January 31: Shiqin Helen Guan, Foundation for robust methods
February 7: David Steinsaltz, Introduction to the Bootstrap
February 14: Andrey Pavlov, Impact of bootstrap on estimating functions
February 28: David Thomson, Jackknifing Multitaper Spectrum Estimates
March 6: Ryan Graham, Block bootstrapping, and other tricks for resampling dependent data
March 13: Jenny Wilson & Aaron Smith, Bootstrap methods for evaluating phylogenetic trees
March 20: No seminar
March 27: Kyle Lepage