CSI/Statistics Colloquium Series
Fall 1993
September 10
Ralph Bradley and Robert McClelland, Bureau of Labor Statistics
``An Improved Nonparametric Test for
Misspecification of Functional Form''
September 17
David Scott, Rice University
``Multivariate Cross-Validation of Density Estimates''
September 24
Informal group discussion
The State of the Statistical
Sciences: Big Topics and Small
October 1
Ibrahim A. Ahmad, Northern Illinois University
``Modification of Some Goodness of Fit Statistics
To Yield Asymptotocally Normal Null Distributions''
October 8
Daniel Carr, George Mason University
``Mapping Smoothed Cancer Rates'':
Examples and Informal Discussion
October 15
Seymour M. Kwerel, Professor Emeritus, City University of New York
``A Personal Retrospective of Interactions and
Friendships with Leading Early Founding
Researchers in Statistics and Econometrics''
October 22
Stephen Miller, Bureau of Labor Statistics
``Conditional Mean Square Error Estimation for
Small Area Estimators''
October 29
Sally Howe, National Coordination Office for HPCC
``The Federal High Performance Communications and Computing Programs''
November 5
Ferdinand T. Wang, American University
``The $L_{1}$ Method for Robust Nonparametric Regression''
November 12
Informal group discussion
The State of the Statistical
Sciences: Big Topics and Small
November 19
Kevin J. Coakley, National Institute for Standards and Technology
``A Monte Carlo Scheme for Smoothing Maximum Likelihood Reconstructions of
Positron Emission Tomography Images''
November 26
No seminar
December 3
Karen Kafadar, National Institutes of Health
``Geographic Trends in U.S. Prostate Cancer Mortality''
December 10
James Filliben, National Institute for Standards and Technology
``Graphical Displays for Exploratory Data Analysis''