Seminars held in 2010

Date Speaker Title
December 30, 2010

Professor David O. Siegmund

Multiple Comparisons in Searching for Local Signals

December 17, 2010

Dr. Tingting Zhang

Nonparametric Inference of Doubly Stochastic Poisson Process Data via the Kernel Method

December 15, 2010

Professor N. Balakrishnan

Some Cure Rate Models and Associated Inference and Application to Cutaneous Melanoma Data

December 13, 2010

Professor Kunlin Wei

Computational Approach in Sensorimotor Control

November 16, 2010

Professor Wing K. FUNG

Single-Marker and Haplotype Analyses for Detecting Parent-of-Origin Effects

November 10, 2010

Dr. Eric C.K. Cheung

A Variant of the Gerber-Shiu Function in the Dual Risk Model and Its Applications

October 26, 2010

Dr. Qingshuo Song

Outperforming the Market Portfolio with a Given Probability

September 24, 2010

Dr. Kwun Chuen Gary Chan

Efficiency and Robustness of Calibration Estimators in Missing Data Problems

September 21, 2010

Dr. Kevin Yuk-Lap Yip

Analysis of Genome-scale Datasets - Opportunities and Challenges

September 08, 2010

Dr. Enrico Biffis

Optimal insurance with counterparty default risk

August 30, 2010

Professor Yury Kutoyants

Identification of Threshold Models of AR and Ergodic Diffusion Processes

August 10, 2010

Dr. Takayuki Shiohama

Empirical Likelihood Estimation of Discretely Observed Diffusion

July 13, 2010

Professor Shui Feng

Asymptotic Behavior of the Poisson-Dirichlet Distribution

June 29, 2010

Dr. Yacine Ait-Sahalia

Financial Crises and Mutually Exciting Jumps

(joint work with Julio Cacho-Diaz, Ton Hurd and Roger Laeven)

April 27, 2010

Professor Qiwei Yao

Factor modelling for time series: from econometrics models to statistical approaches

March 30, 2010

Ms Hongyuan Cao

Large Scale Multiple Testing Based on Simultaneous Critical Values for t-tests

March 29, 2010

Mr. Yau Chun Yip

Likelihood inference for discriminating betweenlong-range dependence and change-point models

March 26, 2010

Dr. Jing Zhang

Bayesian Inference of Interactions in Biological Problems
March 23, 2010

Dr. Yam Sheung Chi Phillip

Justification of Some Folklore in Finance and Insurance
March 16, 2010

Prof. David A. van Dyk

Statistical Analysis of Stellar Evolution
March 2, 2010

Dr. Hiroshi Shiraishi

Bootstrap Estimation of Optimal Portfolios
February 23, 2010 Prof. Pierre R. Bertrand Estimation of the Hurst index on finite frequency bands. Applications in health