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 
Registration
1:05 pm - 
1:15 pm
Opening Remarks.
Donald J. Foss, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
SESSION I:  1:15 pm - 3:10 pm
Chair
Myles Hollander, Florida State University
1:15 pm - 
1:50 pm
Contract Warranties and Equilibrium Properties.
Nozer Singpurwalla, George Washington State University
1:50 pm - 
1:55 pm
Short Break
1:55 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 Florida
2:20 pm - 
2:45 pm
Statistical Estimation of Locations of Lightning Events
Aicha Elhor, University of Central Florida
2:45 pm - 
3:10 pm
Empirical Bayes Estimators for Borel-Tanner Distribution
George Yanev, University of South Florida
3:10 pm - 
3:30 pm
Coffee Break
SESSION II: 3:30 pm - 5:25 pm
Chair
Shanti Gomatam, University of South Florida
3:30 pm - 
4:05 pm
Bayesian Methods for Case-control Studies
Malay Ghosh, University of Florida
4:05 pm - 
4:10 pm
Short Break
4:10 pm - 
4:35 pm
Nonparametric Control Charts
Raid Amin, University of West Florida
4:35 pm - 
5:00 pm
League Table: A Study of the Competition to Underwrite Floating Rate Debt
James Ang and Shaojun Zhang*, FSU
5:00 pm - 
5:25 pm
Nonparametric Influence for the Proportionality Function in the Random Censorship Model
Glen Laird*, Myles Hollander, and Kai-Sheng Song, FSU
5:30 pm -
6:15 pm
Reception at the Fireside Lounge
Cheese, Wine, and Beer
6:15 pm - 
Banquet
Banquet Talk:  Reliability in the 21st Century:  Testing the Untestable
Nozer Singpurwalla, George Washington University
Saturday, February 19, 2000
8:30 am - 
9:00 am
Continental Breakfast at the Fireside Lounge
SESSION III:  9:00 am - 11:05 am
Chair
Jayaram Sethuraman, FSU
9:00 am - 
9:10 am
Presentation to Student Competition Winner and Announcements
Jayaram Sethuraman, FSU
9:10 am - 
9:45 am
Computer Vision as Statistics?
Ulf Grenander, Brown University
9:45 am -
9:50 am
Short Break
9:50 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 Florida
10:15 am - 
10:40 am
Study of the Reliability of Bridge-Structure System in a Random Environment
Subhash C. Bagui, University of West Florida
10:40 am -
11:05 am
An Empirical Comparison of Record Linkage Procedures 
Shanti Gomatam, University of South Florida
11:05 am - 
Business Meeting