Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI)
Statistics Research Seminar Series Autumn 2006
Unless otherwise stated, all seminars take place on Thursday afternoons in
room 5A in the Maths Building (B54). Tea and biscuits are served between the
seminars. Further details are available at
http://www.s3ri.soton.ac.uk/events/seminars/statrsch/statrsch.php
October 19
3pm B58 Murray Lecture Theatre
David Hand (Imperial College)
The S3RI Seminar: Statistical issues in retail banking
Followed by a drinks reception
November 2
2.15pm
Dave Collett (UK Transplant)
Some statistical problems in organ donation and transplantation
3.45pm
Julian Faraway (University of Bath)
Statistics for human motion modeling
November 23
2.15pm
Wicher Bergsma (London School of Economics)
A new correlation coefficient and associated tests of independence
3.45pm
Sven Ove Samuelsen (University of Oslo)
Stratified case-cohort analysis of general cohort sampling designs
December 14
2.15pm
Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge)
First order properties of k-nearest neigbour and bagged nearest-neighbour
classifiers
3.45pm
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Lancaster University)
TBA
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