==== Fall 2016 ====

     * **September 1**\\ Organizational meeting. Starts at 1:30 pm. 
    
     * **September 8**\\ //Speaker//: Qiqing Yu \\ //Topic//: Piecewise Cox Models With Right-Censored Data\\ [[seminars:stat:160908|Abstract]]

     * **September 15**\\ //Speaker//: Sanjeena Dang \\ //Topic//: Regression frameworks for microbiome data\\ [[seminars:stat:160915|Abstract]]

     * **September 22**\\ //Speaker//: Meimei Liu (Purdue University) \\ //Topic//: Computationally Efficient Nonparametric Testing: A Random Projection Approach\\ [[seminars:stat:160922|Abstract]]
     
     * **September 29**\\ //Speaker//: Yinsong Chen \\ //Topic//: Analysis of Casino Shelf Shuffling Machines\\ [[seminars:stat:160929|Abstract]]

     * **October 6**\\ //Speaker//: Pang Du (Virginia Tech) \\ //Topic//: Optimal penalized function-on-function regression under a reproducing kernel Hilbert space framework\\ [[seminars:stat:161006|Abstract]]

     * **October 13**\\ //Speaker//: Jacob Bien (Cornell University) \\ //Topic//: Graph-Guided Banding for Covariance Estimation\\ [[seminars:stat:161013|Abstract]]

     * **October 20**\\ //Speaker//: Subhashis Ghoshal (North Carolina State University) \\ //Topic//: 	A Bayesian Quantile Regression Analysis of Severity of Atlantic Hurricanes and US Urbanization\\ [[seminars:stat:161020|Abstract]]
 
     * **October 27**\\ //Speaker//: Haomiao Meng \\ //Topic//: Regression in Heterogeneous Problems\\ [[seminars:stat:161027|Abstract]]

     * **November 3**\\ //Speaker//: Aleksey Polunchenko \\ //Topic//: Asymptotic Near-Minimaxity of the Shiryaev-Roberts-Pollak Change-Point Detection Procedure in Continuous Time\\ [[seminars:stat:161103|Abstract]]

     * **November 10**\\ //Speaker//: Yuan Fang \\ //Topic//: Joint mean-covariance models with applications to longitudinal data: unconstrained parameterisation\\ [[seminars:stat:161110|Abstract]]

     * **November 17**\\ //Speaker//: Ruiqi Liu \\ //Topic//: Statistical inference on panel data: a kernel ridge regression approach\\ [[seminars:stat:161117|Abstract]]

     * **December 8**\\ //Speaker//: Xin Gu \\ //Topic//: **TBD**\\ [[seminars:stat:161208|Abstract]]

     * **December 1**\\ //Speaker//: Liping Gu \\ //Topic//:  Factors that influence the IMDB scores of a movie\\ [[seminars:stat:161201|Abstract]]