Statistics Seminar Programme: Autumn Term 2008 Deaprtment of Mathematics, University of York The seminars in Autumn term will be held on Thursdays at 3.15pm in the seminar room V/X/331 in Grimston House, University of York. Tea and coffee will be available afterwards. All are welcome. November 6, Professor Qiwei Yao (London School of Economics and Political Science) Title: Stepwise Searching for Feature Variables in High-Dimensional Linear Regression November 13, Dr Simon Crouch (University of York) Title: Statistical Problems in Cancer Epidemiology Biology/Statistics joint seminar November 20, Professor Walley Gilks (University of Leeds) Title: TBA December 11, Professor Steven G. Gilmour (Queen Mary, University of London ) Title: Statistical Modelling in Randomized Experiments Further information is available from Dr Sonia Mazzi, Department of Mathematics, University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD and from http://maths.york.ac.uk/www/Home.