##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematics and Statistics * **September 5** \\ Speaker: ** David Collins (internal)** \\ Title: Nonconcave Penalized Likelihood With NP-Dimensionality \\ [[seminars:stat:Sep52024|Abstract]] * **September 12** \\ Speaker: ** Bahareh Baharinezhad (internal) ** \\ Title: Revenge of the stock pickers\\ [[seminars:stat:Sep122024|Abstract]] * **September 19** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://www.danielrkowal.com/|Dan Kowal]] (Cornell) ** \\ Title: Monte Carlo inference for semiparametric Bayesian regression \\ [[seminars:stat:Sep192024|Abstract]] * **October 10** \\ Speaker: ** Yangsheng Wang (internal) ** \\ Title: A framework for analysing longitudinal data involving time-varying covariates\\ [[seminars:stat:Oct102024|Abstract]] * **October 17** \\ Speaker: ** Samruddhi Thakar (internal) ** \\ Title: Quantifying Uncertainty in Random Forests via Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Tests. \\ [[seminars:stat:Oct172024|Abstract]] * **October 24** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://gileshooker.com/|Giles Hooker]] (University of Pennsylvania) ** \\ Title: Trees and V's: Inference for Ensemble Models\\ [[seminars:stat:Oct242024|Abstract]] * **October 31** \\ Speaker: ** Geran Zhao (internal) ** \\ Title: DiffusionEdge: Diffusion Probabilistic Model for Crisp Edge Detection\\ [[seminars:stat:Oct312024|Abstract]] * **November 7** \\ Speaker: ** Zifan Huang (internal) ** \\ Title: The Buckley–James Estimator and Induced Smoothing\\ [[seminars:stat:Nov072024|Abstract]] * **November 21** \\ Speaker: ** [[https://xwdeng80.github.io//|Xinwei Deng]] (Virginia Tech) ** \\ Title: Quantity Matters, Order Matters: Statistical Learning of Data with Quantitative-Sequence Inputs\\ [[seminars:stat:Nov212024|Abstract]] * **December 5** \\ Speaker: ** Baozhen Wang (internal)** \\ Title: Conformal Prediction Methods for Distribution Shifts and Causal Effect Estimation\\ [[seminars:stat:Dec052024|Abstract]]