Fall 2006 Statistics Seminar Schedule
Date	Time and Place	Speaker	Title and Abstract
September 29	4:30pm-5:30pm Room 199, Cupples I	Professor Jimin Ding, Department of Mathematics,  Washington University	Introduction to longitudinal data analysis
October 6	4:30pm-5:30pm Room 199, Cupples I	Mr. Qing Li, Department of Mathematics,  Washington University	Functional principal component analysis
October 13	4:30pm-5:30pm Room 199, Cupples I	Mr. Ruibin Xi, Department of Mathematics,  Washington University	Dirichlet process and its applications to Bayesian analysis
October 27	4:30pm-5:30pm Room 199, Cupples I	Professor Stanley Sawyer, Department of Mathematics,  Washington University	Bayesian Mixture models: A Success Story for MCMC Methods
November 3	4:30pm-5:30pm Room 199, Cupples I	Professor Nan Lin, Department of Mathematics,  Washington University	Bayesian analysis of longitudinal data with mixed models and the robustness issue
November 10	4:30pm-5:30pm Room 199, Cupples I	Ms. Amei, Department of Mathematics, Washington University	A Time-dependent Poisson random field model for polymorphism within and between two related species
November 17	4:30pm-5:30pm Room 199, Cupples I	Mr. Chunlin Fan, Department of Mathematics, Washington University	Generalized estimating equation in longitudinal study
December 1	4:30pm-5:30pm Room 199, Cupples I	Professor Carol Woods, Department of Psychology, Washington University	Davidian-Curve Item Response Theory
December 8	4:30pm-5:30pm Room 199, Cupples I	Dr. Adam Hafdahl, Department of Mathematics,  Washington University	Meta-Analysis for Functions of Correlations