The 40th Anniversary Celebration of FSU's Statistics
Department
Friday, April 21, 2000
The Turnbull Center for Professional Development (CPD)
The 40th Anniversary Celebration of FSU's Statistics
Department
Friday, April 21, 2000
The Turnbull Center for Professional Development (CPD)
| 12:30pm | Registration |
| 1:00pm - 1:10pm | Opening Remarks, Donald J. Foss |
| Dean, College of Arts and Sciences. |
SESSION I: 1:10pm- 3:15pm (Room 110)
| Chair | Myles Hollander |
| 1:10pm - 1:35pm | The First and the Fortieth. |
| Ralph A. Bradley, University of Georgia. | |
| 1:35pm - 2:00pm | Investment Strategies: Maximize Your Portfolio of Expertise. |
| Ron Hobbs, Twin Action Properties, Inc. | |
| 2:00pm - 2:25pm | Toward 2001: A Statistics Odyssey. |
| Richard L. Scheaffer, University of Florida | |
| 2:25pm - 2:50pm | On the Asymptotic Properties of Least Trimmed Squares Estimators. |
| Constance L. Wood (Speaker) and Arnold J. Stromberg, | |
| University of Kentucky. | |
| 2:50pm - 3:15pm | Confidence Limits for the Onset and Duration of Treatment Effect. |
| Dennis Boos, North Carolina State University. | |
3:15pm - 3:45pm
Coffee Break and Photo Session
Friday, April 21, 2000
SESSION II: 3:45pm - 5:50pm (Room 110)
| Chair1:00pm - 1:10pm | Jayaram Sethuraman |
| 3:45pm - 4:10pm | Revisiting Some Lifetesting Problems Developed at FSU. |
| Ibrahim A. Ahmad, University of Central Florida | |
| 4:10pm - 4:35pm | Advances in Aggregate Exposure Assessment. |
| Bob Sielken, JSC Sielken | |
| 4:35pm - 5:00pm | Intensity-Based Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Generalized |
| Residuals in Failure-Time Models. | |
| Edsel A. Peña, Bowling Green State University. | |
| 5:00pm - 5:25pm | Reliability Estimation Based on Ranked Set Sampling. |
| Emad El-Neweihi, University of Illinois at Chicago. | |
| 5:25pm - 5:50pm | Censoring on the Cause of Failure. |
| Frank M. Guess, University of Tennessee |
| 6:00pm - 6:45pm | Reception at the Fireside Lounge |
| Cheese, Wine, and Beer | |
| 6:45pm - | Banquet |
| Banquet Talk: Academic Humor | |
| Robert L. Taylor, University of Georgia. |
Saturday, April 22, 2000
| 8:00am - 8:30am | Morning refreshments/Continental Breakfast. |
SESSION III-A: 8:30am- 10:35am (Room 110)
| Chair | Fred Huffer |
| 8:30am - 8:55am | Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters: How Statistics |
| Can Level the Playing Field. | |
| Michael J. Schell, University of North Carolina. | |
| 8:55am - 9:20am | The Tale of a Government Executive. |
| Ruth Ann Killion, Bureau of Census. | |
| 9:20am -9:45am | The Role of Mathematician/Statistician in AIDS Research. |
| Hulin Wu, Frontier Science & Technology | |
| Research Foundation, Inc. | |
| 9:45am - 10:10am | Provably Efficient Changepoint Estimation of Dependence |
| Parameters for Stationary LRD Processes. | |
| T. V. Kurien, Niksun Inc. | |
| 10:10am - 10:35am | Computing in Statistics Departments: Issues and Challenges. |
| Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Stanford University. | |
Saturday, April 22, 2000
SESSION III-B: 8:30am- 10:35am (Room 107)
| Chair | Ian McKeague |
| 8:30am - 8:55am | U-Statistics and Imperfect Ranking in Ranked Set Sampling. |
| Brett Presnell (Speaker) and Lora L. Bohn, University of Florida. | |
| 8:55am - 9:20am | Empirical Likelihood Regression Analysis for |
| Right Censored Data. | |
| Gang Li, University of California at Los Angeles. | |
| 9:20am - 9:45am | Nonparametric Regression Estimation for Current Status Data. |
| Shanti Gomatam, University of South Florida. | |
| 9:45am - 10:10am | Model Checking Based on Biased Samples. |
| Yanqing Sun (Speaker), Ram C. Tiwari and Sufang Cui, | |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte. | |
| 10:10am -10:35am | Statistical Challenges in Comparing Chemotherapy and |
| Bone Marrow Transplantation as a Treatment for Leukemia. | |
| John Klein and Mei-Jie Zhang (Speaker), | |
| Medical College of Wisconsin. | |
10:35am - 10:50am Coffee Break
Saturday, April 22, 2000
SESSION IV-A: 10:50am- 12:55pm (Room 110)
| Chair | Fred Leysieffer |
| 10:50am - 11:15am | Modeling Reliability Growth and Repairable Systems. |
| Larry H. Crow, Advanced Technology Systems. | |
| 11:15am - 11:40am | A Brief Survey of Limit Theorems for Negatively Dependent |
| Random Variables. | |
| Robert L. Taylor, University of Georgia | |
| 11:40am - 12:05pm | An Exponential Order Statistics Representation and |
| Its Implications. | |
| James Lynch, University of South Carolina. | |
| 12:05pm - 12:30pm | Multivariate Probit and Logit Models for Binary and Ordinal |
| Response Data with Covariates. | |
| Harry Joe, University of British Columbia. | |
| 12:30pm - 12:55pm | Ranked Set Sampling From the Location-Scale Families |
| of Distributions. | |
| Ram Tiwari, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. | |
Saturday, April 22, 2000
SESSION IV-B: 10:50am- 12:55pm (Room 107)
| Chair | Duane Meeter |
| 10:50am - 11:15am | Statistics, Statisticians and Cancer Research. |
| Bill Blot, International Epidemiology Institute. | |
| 10:15am - 11:40am | A Factorization of a Positive Definite Matrix
with Applications. |
| N. Rao Chaganty, Old Dominion University. | |
| 11:40am - 12:05pm | On Bivariate Sign Tests. |
| Ron Randles, University of Florida. | |
| 12:05pm - 12:30pm | Nonparametric Mixture Models for Incorporation of
Heterogeneity |
| Into Multiple Capture Studies. | |
| Jim Norris, Wake Forest University. | |
| 12:30pm-12:55 pm | Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Methodology
and Nonparametric Statistics in the Evaluation of Diagnostic Tests. Gregory Campbell, Division of Biostatistics, Food and Drug Administration |
| 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm | Social Hour at the Home of Glee and Myles Hollander
2926 Shamrock South |
| 7:15 pm - | Dinner at Lucy Ho's Oriental Bistro
1700 Halstead Blvd. |