The New England Statistical Society (NESS), alongside the 2020 NERDS Organizing Committee, is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a series of virtual webinars (Nov-Dec) focused on the current state of statistical and clinical research in rare disease drug development. We had a very successful NERDS 2019 event last year on Oct 11, where we […]
Events
– An Introduction to the UConn Statistics Cluster (November 2, 2020)
Seminar II: Only for all Graduate Students in the Statistics Department Time and Place: November 2, 4:40 pm — 5:30 pm Speaker: Daniel Parther, Administrator for the Statistics Computer Cluster Title: An Introduction to the UConn Statistics Cluster Abstract: The statistics computer cluster is available to the faculty and graduate students of the statistics department […]
2020 UConn Sports Analytics Symposium (October 10)
The UConn Sports Analytics Symposium (UCSAS) focuses specifically on students (graduate, undergraduate, and high school) who are interested in sports analytics. Organized by the UConn Statistical Data Science Lab of the Department of Statistics UCSAS aims to: 1) showcase sports analytics to students at an accessible level; 2) train students in data analytics with application […]
Paper of the Month: October 2020
Bollerslev, T. (1986) Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity. Journal of Econometrics 31, 307–327.
– The 25th Pfizer/ASA/UConn Distinguished Statistician Colloquium (October 14, 2020)
The 25th Pfizer/ASA/UConn Distinguished Statistician Colloquium The department of Statistics at the University of Connecticut is honored to announce the 25th Distinguished Statistician Colloquium. The Pfizer colloquium series ran from 1978 until 2012 and was renewed in 2018. The colloquium series featured C. R. Rao, Bradley Efron, D.R. Cox, Grace Wahba and many more. For a complete list, see https://stat.uconn.edu/pfizer-colloquium/. The […]
Paper of the Month: May 2020
Prentice, R. L. (1986) A case-cohort design for epidemiologic cohort studies and disease prevention trials. Biometrika, 73(1), 1-11.
Paper of the Month: February 2020
Efron, B., Hastie, T., Johnstone, I. and Tibshirani, R. (2004) Least angle regression. The Annals of Statistics, 32, 407–499.
Paper of the Month: November 2019
Albert, J. H., & Chib, S. (1993). Bayesian Analysis of Binary and Polychotomous Response Data, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 88(422), 669-679
Paper of the Month: October 2019
A. Azzalini and A. Dalla-Valle (1996). The Multivariate Skew Normal Distribution, Biometrika, Volume 83, Number 4, 715-726.
Paper of the Month: September 2019
Thomas S. Ferguson (1973). A Bayesian Analysis of Some Nonparametric Problems, Annals of Statistics, Volume 1, Number 2 (1973), 209-230.