Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI) Statistics Research Seminar Series Spring 2007 Unless otherwise stated, all seminars take place on Thursday afternoons in room 8B 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 or http://www.soton.ac.uk/maths/research/statistics/seminars.php February 22 2.15pm Steve Coad (Queen Mary, University of London) Corrected Confidence Intervals for Adaptive Nonlinear Regression Models 3.45pm Sujit Sahu (University of Southampton) High Resolution Space-Time Ozone Modeling for Assessing Trends March 15 2.15pm Holger Dette (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Optimal designs, continued fractions and random matrices 3.45pm Nema Dean (University of Glasgow) Variable Selection for Model-Based Clustering May 2 (Wednesday) 2.15pm Maths 5A Jeroen Vermunt (Universiteit van Tilburg) Multilevel Variants of Discrete and Continuous Latent Variable Models: The Latent GOLD Framework 3.45pm Maths 5A Roseanne McNamee (University of Manchester) TBA May 17 3pm Venue TBA David Spiegelhalter (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge) The S3RI Seminar: Statistical science and monitoring healthcare systems: experience in the NHS Followed by a drinks reception