Applications of Statistical Science Seminar Series
ORGANIZERS:
Nancy Reid (Statistics, University of Toronto)
Don Dawson (Fields Institute)
A new joint seminar series will be held monthly at the Fields Institute
in Room 230.
The purpose of the seminar is to provide a forum for presentation of
wide-ranging applications of statistics and probability to problems
of current scientific interest, in diverse fields from the medical,
physical, engineering, mathematical, and social sciences.
This series was co-sponsored with the Statistics Department of the
University of Toronto.
December 17, 1998
Additive Logistic Regression: a
Statistical View of Boosting
Rob Tibshirani, Stanford University
January 5, 1999
Randomly coloured self-avoiding walks
Stuart Whittington, Chemistry, University of Toronto
February 2, 1999
Statistics and the Genetics of Complex
Human Disease
Shelley Bull, Mount Sinai Hospital & University of Toronto
March 2, 1999
The smell of greasepaint, the roar
of the computer: 25 years of television network election night forecasting.
David Andrews, University of Toronto
April 6, 1999
Computational solutions to problems encountered
in spatial data analysis
Carl Amrhein, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto (Joint
work with David Buckridge, MD, MSc University of Toronto and Southeast
Toronto Health Data Mapping Project)
May 4, 1999
Estimating and Improving Generalization
Error for non-i.i.d Data
Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal
June 1, 1999
Statistical Issues in Population Health
Dan Krewski, University of Ottawa
