| February 9 | Anna Liu, Faculty Candidate, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California, Santa Barbara |
“Hypothesis Testing in Smoothing Spline Models” |
| February 12 | Yufeng Liu, Faculty Candidate, Department of Statistics, Ohio State University |
“Multicategory Psi-Learning and Support Vector Machine” |
| March 1 | Anandamayee Majumdar, Faculty Candidate, Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut |
“Gradients in Spatial Response Surfaces with Application to Urban Land Values” |
| March 11 | Scott H. Holan, Faculty Candidate, Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University |
“Time Series Exponential Models: Theory and Methods” |
| March 22 | Maximo Carreras, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
“Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation of a Mixing Distribution” |
| Wednesday, April 14: AT UCONN | UConn-UMass Joint Colloquium at University of Connecticut |
Speaker: John Staudenmayer, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| April 26 | Lisa Keller, School of Education, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
“Computerized Adaptive Testing: Promises and Pitfalls” |
| May 3 | Nicholas Horton, Department of Mathematics, Smith College |
“Maximum likelihood estimation of bivariate logistic models with multiple causes of missingness” |
| May 10 | David Pober, Department of Exercise Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
“Novel Analytic Technique to Assess Physical Activity” |