Department of Statistics

Seminar programme 2002-03

All seminars take place at 11am in room 120, Mathematics & Computing, unless otherwise stated. For further information, please contact Catriona Queen.

• 9 September 2002 (14:30 in CMR1)
• Sarel Steel and Nelmarie Louw (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

Variable selection in discriminant analysis: measuring the influence of individual cases

• 13 September 2002
• Gentiane Haesbroeck (University of Liège, Belgium)

Robust estimation of multivariate location and scatter


• Michaël Schyns (University of Namur, Belgium)

Smooth optimisation for the MCD estimator

• 27 September 2002
• Anthony Ledford (Man Investment Products)

Some statistical aspects of quantitative futures

• 25 October 2002
• Internal Research Morning - Postponed

• 18 November 2002 (11:00 in Room3, Michael Young Building)
• Inge Koch (University of Newcastle, Australia)

Are normal kidneys Gaussian?

• 29 November 2002
• Arthur Pewsey (Universidad de Extremadura, Spain)

Testing for symmetry and modelling asymmetry, on the circle

• 2 December 2002 (10:00 in CMR3)
• Internal Research Morning

• 13 December 2002
• Simon Godsill (University of Cambridge)

Bayesian harmonic models for musical signal analysis

• 17 January 2003
• Rachel Hilliam (University of Birmingham)

Statistical aspects of chaos with applications to communication modeling

• 14 February 2003
• Alan Girling (University of Birmingham)

Rank tests for ROC curves

• 14 March 2003 (10:00 in M120)
• Internal Research Morning

• 2 May 2003
• Ana M. Pires (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)

A closer look at confidence intervals for a binomial proportion

• 16 May 2003
• Richard Boys (University of Newcastle)

Stochastic modelling and inference for simple genetic regulatory networks

• 6 June 2003
• Bärbel Finkenstädt (University of Warwick)

Time series modelling of disease transmission

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