Thursday, May 7, 2015 (12:30 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Parameter Determination for a Channelized Hotelling Detectability Experiment
Speaker: Zhengyi Liu (Case Western Reserve University)
Advisor: Steven Izen (Professor, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: In CT scanning it is desirable to quantify when an object can be detected among a noisy background. This problem is an application...
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015 (4:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Overdispersion of Regression Models
Speaker: Feng Jin (Case Western Reserve University)
Advisor: Danhong Song (Lecturer, Case Western Reserve University)
Abstract: Overdispersion in Poisson models occurs when the response variance is greater than the mean.
It may cause standard errors of the estimates to be deflated or underestimated. In this presentation, the data set contains information on smoking behavior and other variables for...