Tuesday, January 26, 1999 -- "Value Distribution of Additive Statistics of Random Permutations", Eugenijus Manstavicius, Vilnius University.

Thursday, January 28, 1999 -- "Sign and Rank Covariance Matrices," Hannu Oja, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Wednesday, February 3, 1999 -- "Regression Graphics: Identifying Outliers and Mixtures", Dennis Cook, University of Minnesota, 12:20 p.m., 118 Thomas Bldg.

Tuesday, February 9, 1999 -- "Allele Sharing Models for Gene Mapping: A Likelihood Approach", Dan Nicolae, University of Chicago

Thursday, February 11, 1999 -- "Optimization Transfer Algorithms in Statistics", David Hunter, University of Michigan

Monday, February 15, 1999 -- "Monte Carlo Likelihoods for Identity by Descent Data", Sharon Browning, University of Washington, 12:20 p.m., 215 Thomas Building.

Tuesday, February 16, 1999 -- "Joint Modelling of Measurement Error and Missing Data", Jouni Kuha, Nuffield College

Tuesday, February 23, 1999 -- "National Mortality, Morbidity and Air Pollution Study: Statistical Challenges", Francesca Dominici, Johns Hopkins University

Thursday, April 1, 1999 -- "Estimating the Structural Dimension of Regression Problems Via Inverse Regression", Efstathia Bura, George Washington University

Thursday, April 8, 1999 -- "Geometry of UMVUEs From Categorical Data", Abram Kagan, University of Maryland

Thursday, April 15, 1999 -- "Mixed-Effects Models in S-PLUS: Version 3.0 of NLME", Jose Pinheiro, Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies.