Statistics
Research Seminar Program 2010

Statistics research seminars are held on the 4th Friday of the month (plus additional seminars as noted) from 3:15pm to 4:30pm in Room V103 of the Mathematics Building, unless otherwise specified. If you have questions about any events listed, or wish to enquire about future seminars on particular topics, please contact the Research Seminar Program Coordinator.

Visitors are welcome and anyone is invited to subscribe to our mailing list to receive regular announcements about upcoming events.

Additonal Access Grid Room (AGR) seminars from other Universities are also held on a regular basis. These will only be shown if enough interest has been expressed in advance. Notices about relevant upcoming AGR seminars will be sent out via the mailing list, inviting you to confirm your interest in specific seminars to the coordinator. Full information about the AGR seminar program, including abstracts, is published in the Access Grid Seminars page of the ICE-EM website.

Semester 1
Date Presenter Title Abstract
26 March Dr Frank Tuyl
The University of Newcastle		 Conditional coverage:  another argument in favour of the Bayes-Laplace prior

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30 Apr Dr Alan Gore                  Reflections on a decade in industry abstract
28 May Dr Eric Beh                            The University of Newcastle A very concise review of association measures for contingency tables

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16 Jul  V105 Junaidi                                  PhD Student                          The University of Newcastle Adjusting for heterogeneity in meta-analysis  abstract

Semester 2
Date Presenter Title Abstract
6 Aug Prof John Rayner               University of Newcastle Testing Equality of Variances for Two Univariate Populations abstract
03 Sep Dr Robert King                   University of Newcastle A joint Statistical Meeting special, including "Beyond Technical Confidentiality: Enabling Interagency Data Sharing as a Means of Enhancing Regional Governance abstract
01 Oct Dr Trevor Moffiet &          Barrie Stokes                           University of Newcastle Recent developments in bivariate relationship modelling  abstract
20 Oct AGR   3-4.30pm World Statistics Day details
05 Nov Ann B. Koehler                   Miami University, USA Forecasting Compositional Time Series with Exponential Smoothing Methods abstract
12 Nov Junaidi,                                 PhD Student               University of Newcastle Adjusting for heterogeneity in meta-analysis abstract
02 Dec 11am AGR Professor Hannes Leeb     University of Vienna             (via La Trobe Uni) Conditional predictive inference post model selection  abstract