January 29
Organizational meeting.

February 5
Speaker: Xiaojie Du (Binghamton University)
Topic: Proof of Lindeberg's Central Limit Theorem
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February 12
Speaker: Zhihan Lin (Binghamton University)
Topic: Proof of the non-existence of a fixed-sample-size fixed-width confidence interval for the unknown mean of a normal distribution with unknown variance
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February 19
Speaker: Lishun Li (Binghamton University)
Topic: On a minimax property of the sample mean when the population is normally distributed
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February 26
Speaker: Lin Yao (Binghamton University)
Topic: Proof of order-two asymptotic efficiency of the Chow-Robbins sequential procedure to construct a fixed-width confidence interval for the unknown mean of a normal distribution with unknown variance
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March 5 (DEFENSE)
Speaker: Wenyu Du (Binghamton University)
Topic: Accurate and efficient numerical performance evaluation of the Generalized Shiryaev–Roberts procedure for quickest change-point detection
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March 12
Speaker: Heng Yang (Graduate Center, City University of New York)
Topic: Simultaneous detection and identification with post-change uncertainty
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March 19
Speaker: Bo Yan (Binghamton University)
Topic: A numerical method to evaluate the performance of the Chow–Robbins sequential estimation procedure
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March 26
Speaker: Fangfang Wang (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Topic: Realized periodogram-based estimation of integrated volatility in the presence of microstructure noise
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April 2
Speaker: Mary Lowry (Binghamton University)
Topic: Stein's two-stage estimation procedure: A case study
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April 9
No seminar: Spring Recess

April 16
Speaker: Ruiqi Liu (Binghamton University)
Topic: Density estimation for power transformations—Paper Discussion
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April 23
Seminar moved to Friday, April 24 (see below)

April 24 (CANCELED)
Speaker: Yifan Xu (Case Western Reserve University)
Topic: Fast clustering using adaptive density peak detection
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April 30
Speaker: Zuofeng Shang (Purdue University)
Topic: A Bayesian splitotic theory for nonparametric models
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May 7
Speaker: Aleksey S. Polunchenko (Binghamton University)
Topic: Analytic formulae for the performance of the Generalized Shiryaev–Roberts change-point detection procedure under exponential data
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