The 40th Anniversary Celebration of FSU's Statistics Department
 
 

Friday, April 21, 2000
The Turnbull Center for Professional Development (CPD)


12:30pm Registration
1:00pm - 1:10pm Opening Remarks, Donald J. Foss
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences.

 

SESSION I: 1:10pm- 3:15pm (Room 110)


Chair Myles Hollander
   
1:10pm - 1:35pm The First and the Fortieth.
  Ralph A. Bradley, University of Georgia.
   
1:35pm - 2:00pm Investment Strategies: Maximize Your Portfolio of Expertise.
  Ron Hobbs, Twin Action Properties, Inc.
   
2:00pm - 2:25pm Toward 2001: A Statistics Odyssey.
  Richard L. Scheaffer, University of Florida
   
2:25pm - 2:50pm On the Asymptotic Properties of Least Trimmed Squares Estimators.
  Constance L. Wood (Speaker) and Arnold J. Stromberg,
  University of Kentucky.
   
2:50pm - 3:15pm Confidence Limits for the Onset and Duration of Treatment Effect.
  Dennis Boos, North Carolina State University.
   

3:15pm - 3:45pm         Coffee Break and Photo Session
 
 
 
 
 

Friday, April 21, 2000
 

SESSION II: 3:45pm - 5:50pm (Room 110)


 


Chair1:00pm - 1:10pm Jayaram Sethuraman
   
3:45pm - 4:10pm Revisiting Some Lifetesting Problems Developed at FSU.
  Ibrahim A. Ahmad, University of Central Florida
   
4:10pm - 4:35pm Advances in Aggregate Exposure Assessment.
  Bob Sielken, JSC Sielken
   
4:35pm - 5:00pm Intensity-Based Goodness-of-Fit Tests and Generalized
  Residuals in Failure-Time Models.
  Edsel A. Peña, Bowling Green State University.
   
5:00pm - 5:25pm Reliability Estimation Based on Ranked Set Sampling.
  Emad El-Neweihi, University of Illinois at Chicago.
   
5:25pm - 5:50pm Censoring on the Cause of Failure.
  Frank M. Guess, University of Tennessee

 
6:00pm - 6:45pm Reception at the Fireside Lounge
  Cheese, Wine, and Beer
   
6:45pm - Banquet
  Banquet Talk: Academic Humor
  Robert L. Taylor, University of Georgia.

 
 
 

Saturday, April 22, 2000



 

8:00am - 8:30am Morning refreshments/Continental Breakfast.

 

SESSION III-A: 8:30am- 10:35am (Room 110)


Chair Fred Huffer
   
8:30am - 8:55am Baseball's All-Time Best Hitters: How Statistics
  Can Level the Playing Field.
  Michael J. Schell, University of North Carolina.
   
8:55am - 9:20am The Tale of a Government Executive.
  Ruth Ann Killion, Bureau of Census.
   
9:20am -9:45am The Role of Mathematician/Statistician in AIDS Research.
  Hulin Wu, Frontier Science & Technology
  Research Foundation, Inc.
   
9:45am - 10:10am Provably Efficient Changepoint Estimation of Dependence 
  Parameters for Stationary LRD Processes. 
  T. V. Kurien, Niksun Inc.
   
10:10am - 10:35am Computing in Statistics Departments: Issues and Challenges.
  Balasubramanian Narasimhan, Stanford University.
   
   

 
 
 

Saturday, April 22, 2000
 
 

SESSION III-B: 8:30am- 10:35am (Room 107)


Chair Ian McKeague
   
8:30am - 8:55am U-Statistics and Imperfect Ranking in Ranked Set Sampling.
  Brett Presnell (Speaker) and Lora L. Bohn, University of Florida.
   
   
8:55am - 9:20am Empirical Likelihood Regression Analysis for
  Right Censored Data.
  Gang Li, University of California at Los Angeles.
   
9:20am - 9:45am Nonparametric Regression Estimation for Current Status Data.
  Shanti Gomatam, University of South Florida.
   
9:45am - 10:10am Model Checking Based on Biased Samples.
  Yanqing Sun (Speaker), Ram C. Tiwari and Sufang Cui,
  University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
   
10:10am -10:35am Statistical Challenges in Comparing Chemotherapy and
  Bone Marrow Transplantation as a Treatment for Leukemia.
  John Klein and Mei-Jie Zhang (Speaker),
  Medical College of Wisconsin.
   

 
10:35am - 10:50am Coffee Break

 

Saturday, April 22, 2000
 
 

SESSION IV-A: 10:50am- 12:55pm (Room 110)


Chair Fred Leysieffer
   
10:50am - 11:15am Modeling Reliability Growth and Repairable Systems.
  Larry H. Crow, Advanced Technology Systems.
   
11:15am - 11:40am A Brief Survey of Limit Theorems for Negatively Dependent
  Random Variables.
  Robert L. Taylor, University of Georgia
   
11:40am - 12:05pm An Exponential Order Statistics Representation and
  Its Implications.
  James Lynch, University of South Carolina.
   
12:05pm - 12:30pm Multivariate Probit and Logit Models for Binary and Ordinal
  Response Data with Covariates.
  Harry Joe, University of British Columbia.
   
12:30pm - 12:55pm Ranked Set Sampling From the Location-Scale Families
  of Distributions.
  Ram Tiwari, University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
   

 

Saturday, April 22, 2000
 
 

SESSION IV-B: 10:50am- 12:55pm (Room 107)


Chair Duane Meeter
   
10:50am - 11:15am Statistics, Statisticians and Cancer Research. 
  Bill Blot, International Epidemiology Institute.
   
10:15am - 11:40am A Factorization of a Positive Definite Matrix 
with Applications.
  N. Rao Chaganty, Old Dominion University.
   
11:40am - 12:05pm On Bivariate Sign Tests. 
  Ron Randles, University of Florida.
   
12:05pm - 12:30pm Nonparametric Mixture Models for Incorporation of
Heterogeneity
  Into Multiple Capture Studies.
  Jim Norris, Wake Forest University.
   
12:30pm-12:55 pm Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) Methodology
and Nonparametric Statistics in the Evaluation of 
Diagnostic Tests.
Gregory Campbell, Division of Biostatistics, Food and 
Drug Administration
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Social Hour at the Home of Glee and Myles Hollander
2926 Shamrock South
7:15 pm - Dinner at Lucy Ho's Oriental Bistro
1700 Halstead Blvd.