University of Sydney Statistics Seminar
Semester 1, 2012
Unless otherwise specified seminars are held on Fridays at 2pm in Carslaw 273 (note the room change for this semester)
March 9, 2012:
Tommaso Proietti
Business School, The University of Sydney
The Exponential Model for the Spectrum of a Time Series: Extensions and Applications
March 23, 2012:
John Kolassa
Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
Infinite Parameter Estimates in Polytomous Regression
March 30, 2012:
David Hobson
Department of Statistics, University of Warwick
Robust hedging of variance swaps
April 27, 2012:
Simon Ho
School of Biological Sciences, The University of Sydney
Estimating evolutionary timescales using DNA
May 11, 2012:
Ray Chambers
Centre for Statistical and Survey Methodology (CSSM), University of Wollongong
M-Quantile Regression for Binary Data wih Application to Small Area Estimation
May 18, 2012:
Chris Lloyd
Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne
Computing Highly Accurate Confidence Limits from Discrete data using Importance Sampling
May 25, 2012:
Barry Quinn
Department of Statistics, Macquarie University
Estimating the period of a Point Process/ Estimating the parameters in an exponentially damped sinusoid
June 8, 2012:
John Robinson
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney
TBA
Enquiries about the Statistics Seminar should be directed to
Uri Keich.