FALL 2016

September 26, 2016: Department Orientation

October 3, 2016: Department of Statistics Faculty research introduction

October 10, 2016: Brian Sikora, Senior Director, Kaiser Permanente Title: Opportunities in Healthcare Analytics

October 17, 2016: Donald A. Pierce, Professor Emeritus Statistics, Oregon State University Title: Modern Likelihood - Frequentist Inference

October 24, 2016: Andrew Ferlitsch, Sharp Labs of America Title: Blazing a Trail on Collecting War Crime Data in Real Time

October 31, 2016: Claudio Fuentes, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University Title: Marginal Likelihood Estimation of Negative Binomial Parameters with Applications to RNA-Seq Data

November 7, 2016: Tomi Mori, Professor, Oregon Health Science University Title: Evaluation of Safety in Biomarker Driven Multiple Agent Phase IB Trial

November 14, 2016: No seminar

November 21, 2016: Jinna Liu, Ecova Title: How Big Data is Impacting Utility Industry

November 28, 2016: Xiaohui Chang, Oregon State University Title: Disease Risk Estimation by Combining Case-Control Data with Aggregated Information on the Population at Risk