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| RTG Work Group | Iowa State RTG Grant |
RTG Student Work Group
Fall 2007 Schedule
Seminar Chairs:
Jessica Chapman and Adam Pintar
| Date | Speaker | Title | Other |
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| Sept. 10 | Lucas Beverlin | Using Classification Trees and Bootstrap Aggregation to Identify Compositions of Tourmaline | |
| Sept. 17 | Jessica Chapman | Comparing Competing Resource Allocation Strategies Using Entropy and "Strategic Binning" for Reliability of Complex Systems | |
| Sept. 24 | Jessica Chapman Brian Weaver Steve Lund Jostein Reiners Jon Hobbs |
Partner Site Visit Discussion | Google LANL (Slides) NCAR (Slides) |
| Oct. 1 | Jessica Chapman Adam Pintar |
Paper Discussion: Vardeman, S. B. and Morris, M. D. (2003), "Statistics and Ethics: Some Advice for Young Statisticians," The American Statistician, 57, 21-26. |
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| Oct. 8 | Cherie Alf Matt Paul |
Paper Discussion: Casella, G. and George, E. I. (1992), "Explaining the Gibbs Sampler," The American Statistician, 46, 167-174. |
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| Oct. 15 | Karl Pazdernik Adam Pintar |
Paper Discussion: Annis, D. H. and Wu, S. S. (2006), "A Comparison of Potential Playoff Systems for NCAA I-A Football," The American Statistician, 60, 151-157. |
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| Oct. 22 | Garritt Page | Skill Importance by Basketball Position | |
| Oct. 30 | Michael Hamada LANL |
Blowing Bubbles and Collecting Rain Experiencing the Practice of Statistics by Trying Simple Experiments | |
| Nov. 12 | Maria Joseph | Diversity and Probability of Nutrient Intake Adequacy Among Women in Bangledesh |