| Program of the 2000
Florida Chapter of the ASA Annual Meeting |
Friday, February 18, 2000
The Turnbull Center for Professional Development (CPD) Room 123B
12:30 pm Registration1:05 pm -
1:15 pm Opening Remarks.
Donald J. Foss, Dean, College of Arts and SciencesSESSION I: 1:15 pm - 3:10 pm Chair Myles Hollander, Florida State University1:15 pm -
1:50 pm Contract Warranties and Equilibrium Properties.
Nozer Singpurwalla, George Washington State University1:50 pm -
1:55 pm Short Break1:55 pm -
2:20 pm A Monte Carlo Study of the Analysis of Means Version of Levene's Test for Odd Sample Sizes
Candace Coulter* and Peter S. Wludyka, University of North Florida2:20 pm -
2:45 pm Statistical Estimation of Locations of Lightning Events
Aicha Elhor, University of Central Florida2:45 pm -
3:10 pm Empirical Bayes Estimators for Borel-Tanner Distribution
George Yanev, University of South Florida3:10 pm -
3:30 pm Coffee BreakSESSION II: 3:30 pm - 5:25 pm Chair Shanti Gomatam, University of South Florida3:30 pm -
4:05 pm Bayesian Methods for Case-control Studies
Malay Ghosh, University of Florida4:05 pm -
4:10 pm Short Break4:10 pm -
4:35 pm Nonparametric Control Charts
Raid Amin, University of West Florida4:35 pm -
5:00 pm League Table: A Study of the Competition to Underwrite Floating Rate Debt
James Ang and Shaojun Zhang*, FSU5:00 pm -
5:25 pm Nonparametric Influence for the Proportionality Function in the Random Censorship Model
Glen Laird*, Myles Hollander, and Kai-Sheng Song, FSU5:30 pm -
6:15 pm Reception at the Fireside Lounge
Cheese, Wine, and Beer6:15 pm - Banquet
Banquet Talk: Reliability in the 21st Century: Testing the Untestable
Nozer Singpurwalla, George Washington UniversitySaturday, February 19, 2000 8:30 am -
9:00 am Continental Breakfast at the Fireside LoungeSESSION III: 9:00 am - 11:05 am Chair Jayaram Sethuraman, FSU9:00 am -
9:10 am Presentation to Student Competition Winner and Announcements
Jayaram Sethuraman, FSU9:10 am -
9:45 am Computer Vision as Statistics?
Ulf Grenander, Brown University9:45 am -
9:50 am Short Break9:50 am -
10:15 am It Does Take a Rocket Scientist: Cluster Analysis of Implications for a Privatized, Global Space Industry
Mark Soskin* and Warren McHone, University of Central Florida10:15 am -
10:40 am Study of the Reliability of Bridge-Structure System in a Random Environment
Subhash C. Bagui, University of West Florida10:40 am -
11:05 am An Empirical Comparison of Record Linkage Procedures
Shanti Gomatam, University of South Florida11:05 am - Business Meeting