Thursday, January 17, 2002 -- "Two Statistical Problems in Genetics: Mutation Detection Based on Functional Data and Class Prediction Using DNA Microarrays", Efstathia Bura, George Washington University, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, January 24, 2002 -- "Genetic Algorithms", Donald Richards, University of Virginia, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg. Brown Bag Seminar- Friday, January 25 - "Exact Misclassification Probabilities for Plug-In Normal Quadratic Discriminant Functions", 12:20 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, January 31, 2002 -- "Coin-Tossing and Laplace Inversion", J. C. Gupta, Ohio State University, 4:00 pm. 104 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 7, 2002 -- "Models for Association in Cross-Classifications of Counts: Form and Function", Mark Becker, Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.

Friday, February 8, and Saturday, February 9, 2002 -- Statistics Alumni Workshop, Friday, February 8, "A Random Walk on the Statistical Path", Mark Becker, Dean, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 9:15 am, Eisenhower Auditorium.

Tuesday, February 12, 2002 - "Backward Haplotype Transmission Association (BHTA) Algorithm--A Fast Multi-Point Screening Method for Complex Traits", Tian Zheng, Columbia University, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, February 19, 2002 -- "Overdetermined Estimating Equations with Applications to Panel Data", Dylan Small, Stanford University, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 21, 2002 -- "Latent Differential Equation Modeling with Multivariate Multi-Occasion Indicators", Steven Boker, University of Notre Dame, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, February 26, 2002-- Clifford C. Clogg Memorial Lecture, "Did Illegally Counted Overseas Absentee Ballots Decide the 2000 U.S. Presidental Election?", Gary King, Harvard University, 8:00 pm, 201 Thomas Bldg., Sociology Colloquium, Tuesday, February 26, "How Factual is Your Counterfactual?" at 12:00 pm. 301 Steidle Bldg., Statistics Colloquium, Wednesday, February 27, "Estimating Risk and Rate Levels, Ratios, and Differences in Case-Control Studies", 12:20 pm , 216 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, February 28, 2002 - "Matching with Doses in an Observational Study of a Media Campaign Against Drug Abuse", Bo Lu, University of Pennsylvania, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, March 12, 2002 - "Design and Inference for Gaussian Random Fields", Zhengyuan Zhu, University of Chicago, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.,

Thursday, March 14, 2002 - "Optimal Design for Nonlinear Regression Models", Cong Han, University of Minnesota, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, March 26, 2002 -- "The Fisher Information of a Location Parameter Under Additive and Multiplicative Perturbations", Abram Kagan, University of Maryland, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Building.

Thursday, March 28, 2002 -- "Finding Regulatory Binding Sites in Genomic Sequences", Jun Liu, Harvard University, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday, April 11, 2002 -- "Dimension Reduction for Conditional Mean in Regression", Bing Li, Penn State University, 4:00 pm., 104 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, April 23, 2002 -- "Generalized Likelihood Ratio Theory with Applications to Financial Models", Jianqing Fan, University of North Carolina, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.

Thursday. April 25, 2002 -- "Sequential Filtering for High-Dimensional Space-Time Models", Jonathan Stroud, University of Pennsylvania, 4:00 pm, 104 Thomas Bldg.