Thursday, September 8, 2005 -- "Statistical Analysis of Metabolomic Data " David Banks, Duke University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, September 15, 2005 -- "L-Moments", Jonathan Hosking, IBM Research Division, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, September 22, 2005 -- "Protecting Confidentiality Via Synthetic, Multiply-Imputed Datasets", Jerry Reiter, Duke University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, September 29, 2005 -- "ESUP Accept/Reject Sampling", Brian Caffo, Johns Hopkins University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, October 6, 2005 -- "Two New Approaches to Variable Selection", Len Stefanski, North Carolina State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Monday, October 17, 2005 -- Clifford Clogg Memorial Lecture --"Meeting the Future in Managing Chronic Disorders: Individually Tailored Interventions", Susan Murphy, University of Michigan, 8:00 pm, 100 Life Sciences Bldg.

Monday, October 17, 2005 -- Statistics Brown Bag Lunch -- "Experiments and Dynamic Treatment Regimes", Susan Murphy, University of Michigan, 12:00 pm, 327 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005 -- Sociology Brown Bag Lunch -- "Dynamic Treatment Regimes: Are They Relevant for Chronic Conditions such as Poverty or Criminality?", Susan Murphy, University of Michigan, 12:00 pm, 406 Oswald Tower.

Thursday, October 20, 2005 -- "The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST): An Extension of Randomized Clinical Trials", Linda Collins, Methodology Center, Penn State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, October 27, 2005 - "Markovian Multistate Models for Cardiovascular Diseases", Somesh Chattopadhyay, Florida State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, November 3, 2005 - "Time-Varying Covariances: A Cholesky Decomposition Approach", Hedibert Lopes, University of Chicago, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, November 10, 2005 -- "Binary Models for Marginal Independence", Thomas Richardson, University of Washington, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Lab.

Thursday, November 17, 2005 -- "Combining Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Modeling, Estimation and Prediction of Spatial-Temporal Environmental Processes", Montse Fuentes, North Carolina State University, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, December 1, 2005 -- "Re-Modeling Introductory Statistics", Daniel Kaplan, Macalester College, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, December 8, 2005 -- "A Bayesian Model for Integrating Heterogeneous Biological Information", Shane Jensen, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 4:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.