Past Seminars
Date |
Speaker |
Title/Abstract |
| March 19/19 | Wei Xu University of Toronto |
Statistical Methodology and Applications on Cancer Pharmacogenomic Research |
| Jan 8/19 | Dr. Reza Arabi Belaghi McMaster University |
Shrinkage Estimators in Gamma Regression Model |
| Dec 4/18 | Paul McNicholas McMaster University |
Matrix Variate Distributions and Clustering |
| Oct 30/18 | N. Balakrishnan McMaster University |
Multivariate Stochastic Comparisons in Actuarial Science and Applications |
| Oct 23/18 | Peter Macdonald McMaster University |
Fitting Finite Mixture Distributions with the R Package mixdist |
| Oct 2/18 | Nikola Pocuca McMaster University |
Modeling Frequency and Severity of Claims with the Generalized Cluster-Weighted Model |
| Sept 18/18 | Shui Feng, McMaster University | Dirichlet Process and Poisson-Dirichlet Distribution: Constructions and Asymptotic Results |
| Apr 3/18 | Nkhahle Thabane, McMaster University | The Creation of the CONSORT Statement and its Impact on the Reporting of Randomized Control Trials Abstracts |
| Mar 27/18 | Forrest Paton, McMaster University | Natural Language Processing: A tutorial |
| Mar 20/18 | Youngki Shin McMaster University |
Optimal Estimation with Complete Subsets of Instruments |
| Mar 13/18 | Francis Kiwon McMaster University |
Soothing the ‘Curse of Dimensionality’ by Generalized Local Polynomial Regression |
| Mar 6/18 | Mu Tian McMaster University |
Ensemble Learning Methods in Machine Learning |
| Feb 27/18 | Jeffrey Racine McMaster University |
Bootstrap Model Averaging Unit Root Inference |
| Feb 6/18 | Yi Shen University of Waterloo |
Operator-scaling Gaussian random fields via aggregation |
| Jan 30/1 | Chenxing (Robin) Li DeGroote School of Business McMaster University |
A Brief Review of Bayesian Financial Time-Series and A New MGARCH-Jump Mixture Model |
| Jan 23/18 | Arman Siddique McMaster University |
Causal Inference for polypharmacy: Propensity score estimation with multiple concurrent medications |
| Jan 16/18 | Jonathan Dushoff Department of Biology, McMaster University |
Is Statistical “Significance” a Thing? Bridging between science and statistical theory |
| Jan 9/18 | Rui Zhu Capital Normal University, Beijing |
Small World effect and the modified Newman-Watts Small World |
| Dec 5/17 | Feras Samain McMaster University |
Actuarial Reserving for Property and Casualty Insurance Liabilities |
| Nov 28/17 | Ben Bolker McMaster University |
Current Status of the Mixed-Modeling Ecosystem in R |
| Nov 21/17 | Dr. Vaneeta Kaur Grover GSK |
Applications of Design of Experiments in Topical Formulations |
| Nov 14/17 | Jing Cai McMaster University |
Indian Buffet Process: Motivation, Application and Extensions. |
| Oct 31/17 | Dr. Arash Jamshidpey IMPA |
Quenched martingale problem, duality method, and some applications for population models in random environments |
| Oct 24/17 | Dr. Yang Tang McMaster University |
Dimensionalilty Reduction with Non-Gaussian Mixtures |
| Oct 17/17 | Melanie Poulin-Costello Roche Canada |
Statistical Power of Drug Development |
| Oct 3/17 | Shui Feng McMaster University |
Diversity Index and Random Discrete Probabilities |
| April 7/17 | Robert N. Rodriguez SAS Institute |
Methods, Models, Motivation, and More: Recent Developments in SAS/STAT Software |
| April 4/17 | Marianthi Markatou Department of Biostatistics University at Buffalo |
The Role of Kernels in Data Analysis: A Statistical Perspective |
| Mar 21/17 | Lehana Thabane Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence and Impact McMaster University |
The “statistical” pleasures of formal collaborations in medical |
| Mar 16/17 | Hon Keung Tony Ng Department of Statistical Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A. |
Expectation-maximization and stochastic expectation-maximization algorithms for the analysis of system lifetime data |
| Mar 7/17 | Tao Tan Math & Stats Dept McMaster University |
Bivariate autoregressive conditional duration model and associated inference |
| Feb 28/17 | Sayantee Jana Math & Stats Dept McMaster University |
Estimation of the Parameters of the Growth Curve Model under Multivariate Skew Normal Distribution |
| Feb 14/17 | N. Balakrishnan Math & Stats Dept McMaster University |
A Random-Sum Wilcoxon Statistic and Its Application to Analysis of ROC and LROC Data |
| Jan 31/17 | Tatjana Miljkovic Miami University, Oxford |
Mixture Modeling of Loss Data with Multiple Right-Censoring Points and Partial Censoring |
| Jan 17/17 | Sameer Parpia Depts of Oncology & Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics McMaster University |
Application of the Mixture Cure Model to Medical Research |
| Nov 29/16 | Sandip Barui McMaster University |
Analysis of some destructive cure rate models under proportional hazards and associated inference |
| Nov 22/16 | Giorgos Afendras Univ. of Buffalo |
Uniform Integrability of the OLS Estimators, and the Convergence of their Moments |
| Nov 1/16 | Ben Bolker McMaster University |
Session 2 Basics of distributed and parallel computation (‘parallel’, ‘foreach’ packages).More information/URL for all material is at https://github.com/bbolker/compstatsR |
| Nov 8/16 | Ben Bolker McMaster University |
Session 3 Interfacing R with higher-performance languages, specifically introduction to Rcpp (‘Rcpp’: touch on ‘RcppEigen’, ‘RcppArmadillo’).More information/URL for all material is at https://github.com/bbolker/compstatsR |
| Nov 15/16 | Ben Bolker McMaster University |
Session 4 |
| Oct 3/16 | blank | Basic Latex – Information Session 2 |
| Sept 27/16 | blank | Exact nonparametric inference for reliability in multi-sample situation: New wine in an old bottle |
| Apr 12/16 | Yuehua (Amy) Wu | Multiple mean-shift detection in location models |
| Apr 5/16 | Melody Ghahramani University of Winnipeg |
A Semi-parametric Model for Autocorrelated Count Data |
| Mar 15/16 | Tao Tan, PhD Candidate McMaster University |
Bivariate Birnbaum-Saunders AutoregressiveConditional Duration Model |
| Mar 8/16 | Petar Jevtic Math & Stats McMaster University Luca Regis IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, AXES Research Unit |
A continuous-time model for the mortality surface of multiple populations |
| Feb 9/16 | Kirill Mayorov Royal Bank of Canada |
Goodness-of-fit Tests for Selection of Severity Distributions in Operational Risk Modeling |
| Feb 2/16 | Math & Stats Dept McMaster University |
Reproducible research in the R ecosystem |
| Jan 26/16 | N. Balakrishnan McMaster University |
It’s all BS! |
| Jan 19/16 | Hon Yiu So McMaster University |
One-shot device testing analysis with competing risks |
| Jan 12/16 | S.D. Walter McMaster University |
Latent class modelling of randomised trials where the outcome is subject to measurement error |
| Dec 1/15 | Angelo Canty Dept of Math & Stats McMaster University |
Longitudinal Genome-Wide Association Studies: Methodology and a Case Study |
| Nov 24/15 | Zeny Feng University of Guelph |
Cluster analysis of micro biome data via mixture of Dirichlet-multinomial regression models. |
| Nov 10/15 | Ivor Cribben University of Alberta |
A new method for estimating spectral clustering change points for multivariate time series |
| Nov 3/15 | Sunny Wang St. Francis Xavier University Nova Scotia |
Classifying Imbalanced Drug Discovery Data with Adaptively Chosen k & Weighted K-Nearest Neighbou method |
| Oct 27/15 | Thierry Duchesne Universite Laval Quebec |
Analysis of Animal Movement from GPS Data: Two Modeling Paradigms |
| Oct 20/15 | Matthieu Marbac Math & Stats Dept McMaster University |
Mixture model of Gaussian copulas |
| Oct 6/15 | Jean-Francois Plante HEC, Montreal |
Challenges, Tools and Examples for Big Data Inference |
| April 14/15 | S. Ejaz Ahmed Brock University |
Big Data Analysis: Is the Universe Sparse? |
| Mar 31/15 | Joel A. Dubin McMaster University |
Challenges in Modeling Multivariate Longitudinal Smoking Cessation Data |
| Mar 24/15 | Paula Murray McMaster University |
A Hidden Truncation Hyperbolic Distribution |
| Mar 17/15 | Paul McNicholas McMaster University |
The formation of, and clustering data from, sensory-informed designs |
| Mar 10/15 | Nickos Papadatos University of Athens |
Orthogonal polynomials and variance bounds in the Integrated Pearson family |
| Mar 3/15 | Hon Yiu So McMaster University |
EM Algorithm for One-shot Device Testing under Two Exponential Competing Risks |
| Feb 24/15 | Steven Walter Professor Emeritus McMaster University |
Can we take patient preferences for treatment into account in clinical trials |
| Feb 10/15 | Peter Macdonald McMaster University |
Fitting Finite Mixture Distributions with the R Package mixdist |
| Jan 27/15 | Mateen Shaikh McMaster University |
Assessing Constraints of Dirichlet-Multinomial Mixture Models for Human Microbiome Analysis |
| Jan 20/15 | Suvra Pal WITS, South Africa |
EM-Based Likelihood Inference for the Destructive Exponentially Weighted Poisson Cure Rate Model with Generalized Gamma Lifetime and Model Discrimination |
| Dec 9/14 | John Fox Department of Sociology McMaster University |
Visualizing Lack of Fit in Complex Regression Models: Adding Partial Residuals to Effect Display |
| Dec 2/14 | Brian Franczak McMaster University |
Mixture of Skewed Distributions with Hypercube Contours |
| Nov 25/14 | Harry Shannon Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics McMaster University |
Sampling in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging |
| Nov 18/14 | Gregory Pond Department of Oncology McMaster University |
Progresson-Free Survival: The Use of Surrogate Endpoints in Oncology |
| Nov 11/14 | Adelchi Azzalini Universita de Padova Padova, Italia |
Clustering based on non-parametric density estimation: a proposal |
| Nov 4/14 | Helton Saulo McMaster University |
A family of autoregressive conditional duration models applied to financial data |
| Oct 28/14 | Roman Viveros-Aguillera McMaster University |
Some Aspects of Quality Control |
| Oct 21/14 | Lehana Thabane McMaster University |
Debunking the myths about pragmatic trials:separating fiction from fact |
| Oct 14/14 | Cristina Tortora McMaster University |
Cluster Analylsis using the Generalized Hyperbolic Distribution |
| Oct 7/14 | Erhard Cramer RWTH-Aachen Germany |
Nonparametric statistical intervals based on ordered data |
| Sept 30/14 | Francesco Palumbo Univeristyof Naples, Frederico II |
Categorical Data Clustering |
| Sept 5/14 | Yan-Xia Ren | A Strong Law of Large Numbers for Super-stable Processes |
| Apr 1/14 | blank | The Joy of Statistics – A Movie |
| Mar 25/14 | Angelo Canty McMaster University |
Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Complex Multivariate Phenotypes |
| Mar 18/14 | Oana Danila University of Waterloo |
The Assessment of Binary Measurement Systems-Current Challenges and Solutions |
| Mar 11/14 | Amanda Lafontaine Northbridge, Toronto |
The Role of Statistics in Applied Business Research |
| Mar 4/14 | Xiaojun Zhu McMaster University |
On the Birnbaum-Saunders Distribution and Associated Inference |
| Feb 11/14 | Sathish Pichika HRM, McMaster University |
Variable Selection and Data Integration Using Sparse Canonical Correlation Analysis |
| Feb 4/14 | Chu-Shu Gu HRM, McMaster University |
A Quasi–Likelihood Approach to Detect Differentially Expressed Genes in RNA–Seq Data |
| Jan 21/14 | Roman Viveros-Aguilera McMaster University |
Estimation and Inference for Integer Parameters |
| Jan 14/14 | N. Balakrishnan McMaster University |
Ordering Order Statistics |
| Dec 3/13 | Ashley Bonner McMaster University |
Sparse Statistical Methodology for High-dimensional Data: Simulations of Sparse Principal Component Analysis and Applications to Genomics with a Look Towards Data Integration Problems |
| Nov 26/13 | Stephen Walter McMaster University |
The Impact of Early Stopping Rules in Randomised Trials on the Estimation of Treatment Benefit |
| Nov 12/13 | Ben Bolker McMaster University |
Generalized Linear Mixed Models (GLMMs) |
| Nov 5/13 | Fotios Milienos McMaster University |
Finite Markov Chain Imbedding Technique: Method and Applications |
| Oct 22/13 | Katherine Davies University of Manitoba |
A Two-Dimensional Renewal Model with Applications |
| Oct 15/13 | Sneh Gulati Florida International University |
Estimating the Quantiles of the Loss Distribution for the Public Hurricane Loss Model |
| Oct 8/13 | Stefan Steiner University of Waterloo |
Monitoring Medical Outcomes with Weighed Estimating Equations |
| Sep 17/13 | Dr. Joseph Beyene CE&B, McMaster University |
Integrative ‘biostatomics’: Concepts, Methods and Challenges Abstract |
| Apr 4/13 | Sheldon Ross University of Southern California |
Queueing Loss Models with Heterogeneous Servers and Discriminating Arrivals |
| Apr 2/13 | Paul McNicholas University of Guelph |
Recent Work on Non-Gaussian Methods |
| Mar 26/13 | Suvra Pal McMaster University |
Weibull Lifetimes and Likelihood-Based Inferential Aspects for Flexible Cure Rate Models |
| Mar 19/13 | Ick Huh McMaster University |
The bivariate EWMA with two unequal smoothing parameters |
| Mar 12/13 | Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan McMaster University |
A Random-Sum Wilcoxon Statistic and Its Application to Analysis of ROC and LROC Data |
| Mar 5/13 | Helton Saulo McMaster University |
Generalized Birnbaum–Saunders kernel density estimators and an analysis of financial data |
| Feb 26/13 | Ahmed Hossain CE&B, McMaster University |
Non-parametric statistical methods for the analysis of high-dimensional genomics data |
| Feb 12/13 | Jiwei Zhao Yale University |
Identifiability and Estimation in Statistical Models with Nonignorable Missing Data |
| Feb 5/13 | Thuvaraha Vanniyasingam McMaster University |
Predicting the occurrence of a major adverse cardiac event within 30 days of a patient’s vascular surgery: An individual patient-data meta-analysis |
| Jan 29/13 | Jeffrey Racine Economics, McMaster University |
Infinite Order Cross-validated Local Polynomial Regression |
| Jan 22/13 | Sayantee Jana McMaster University |
The Growth Curve Model for High Dimensional Data and its Application in Genomics |
| Jan 15/13 | William Volterman McMaster University |
Exact Nonparametric Analysis of Pooled Order Statistics Arising from Multiple Independent Samples |
| Nov 27/12 | Mariko Yamamura Hiroshima University |
Interpretation of the estimation result by logistic regression model |
| Nov 20/12 | Augustine Wong | Applications of saddlepoint-based methods |
| Nov 13/12 | Laila Alkhalfan McMaster University |
Inference for a Simple Gamma Step-Stress Model with Type-II Censoring |
| Nov 6/12 | Greg Pond Escarpment Cancer Research Institute, McMaster University |
Applied Biostatistics Research in Academic Oncology |
| Oct 30/12 | Joseph Beyene CE&B, McMaster University |
Assessing performance of meta-analytic models for intervention and diagnostic studies: Empirical and simulation studies |
| Oct 23/12 | Ashley Bonner CE&B, McMaster University |
Sparse Principal Component Analysis for High-Dimensional Data: A simulation study plus applications to genomic data |
| Oct 16/12 | Shojeddin Chenouri University of Waterloo |
Multivariate nonparametric control charts and change point detection |
| Oct 9/12 | Eleanor Pullenayegum CE&B, McMaster University |
Analysis of longitudinal data subject to irregular observation |
| Oct 2/12 | Jeffrey S. Racine Economics, McMaster University |
Enhanced LaTEX session (Reproducible Research) |
| Sep 25/12 | Erhard Cramer Institute of Statistics, Germany |
Type-I/Type-II hybrid progressive Type-I/Type-II censored data – models, properties, and recent results |