Date |
Presenter |
Article |
Pizza |
| Sept 26 | Matt McCall |
Controversies in the Foundations of Statistics Bradley Efron (1978) American Mathematical Monthly |
Yes |
| Oct 10 | Hao Wu |
A Tutorial on Hidden Markov Models and Selected Applications in Speech Recognition Lawrence R. Rabiner (1989) Proceedings of the IEEE |
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| Oct 24 | Catherine Thomas |
Parachute use to prevent death and major
trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials Gordon Smith and Jill Pell (2003) BMJ (British Medical Journal) The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute Megan Lim, Margaret Hellard, and Campbell Aitken (2005) BMJ (British Medical Journal) |
Yes |
| Nov 7 | Jessie Myers |
Greedy Function Approximation: A Gradient Boosting Machine Jerome H. Friedman (1999) Technical Discussion: Foundations of TreeNet(tm) |
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| Nov 21 | Bruce Swihart |
Explaining the Gibbs Sampler George Casella and Edward I. George (1992) The American Statistician Understanding the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm Siddhartha Chib and Edward Greenberg (1995) The American Statistician |
Yes |
| CANCELLED | |||
| Jan 30 | Simina Boca |
Statistical Data Analysis in the Computer Age Bradley Efron and Robert Tibshirani (1991) Science |
Yes |
| Feb 13 | Hong Zhu |
Censored Data and the Bootstrap Bradley Efron (1981) Journal of the American Statistical Association |
Yes |
| Feb 27 | Nick Reich |
A Commentary on the Mechanical Analogue to the Reed-Frost Epidemic Model Paul E. M. Fine (1977) American Journal of Epidemiology |
Yes |
| CANCELLED | |||
| Mar 27 | Haley Hedlin |
Ignorance and Altruism Richard M. Royall (1992) Journal of Clinical Ethics Trial and Error Deborah Hellman (1998) The New Republic |
Yes |
| Apr 10 | CANCELLED | ||
| Apr 24 | Jennifer Feder |
Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures Leo Breiman (2001) Statistical Science |
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| May 8 | Samara Kiihl |
Summaries of Affymetrix GeneChip probe level data Rafael Irizarry et. al. (2003) Nucleic Acids Research |
Yes |