Study group: Statistical literature

This is a series of seminars with presentations of papers from statistical journals. The topics range from theoretical to applied statistics and vary from time to time. We will in particular take up review papers.

The seminars are open and planned continuously based on the interests of the participants. If you are interested send me a mail (see bottom of this page) and I will put you on the mailing list to keep you informed.

Mailing list

The mailing list address is stat-lit@dina.kvl.dk. Click on the address to send a mail to everybody on the list.

Schedule

The seminars take place in room R644 (department library) on Thorvaldsensvej 40, opgang 6, 6th floor.

• Monday, 05-10-98, 14.30-16.00 Torben Martinussen.
  On tests of mean value hypotheses in mixed models, mainly based on
  Welham, S. J. \& Thompson, R. (1997). Likelihood ratio tests for fixed model terms using residual maximum likelihood. J.R. Statist. Soc. B, vol. 59, pp. 701--714.
  Cake: Ib
• Monday, 26-10-98, 14.30-16.00 Thomas Scheike.
  A review of the paper
  Li, B. (1996). A minimax approach to consistency and efficiency for estimating equations. Ann. Statist., vol. 24, pp. 1283-1297.
  Cake: Ingrid
• Friday, 27-11-98, 14.30-16.00 Anders Brix.
  A review of the paper
  Kenward, M.G. and Roger, J.H. (1997). Small sample inference for fixed effects from restricted maximum likelihood. Biometrics, vol. 53, pp. 983-997.
• Thusday, 17-12-98, 13.15-15.00 Claus Ekstrøm.
  A review of the paper
  Elston, D.A. (1998). Estimation of denominator degrees of freedom of F-distributions for assessing Wald statistics for fixed-effects factors in unbalnced mixed models. Biometrics, vol. 54, pp. 1085-1096.
  Note day and time!
  Cake: Torben
• Friday, 19-02-99, 14.00-15.30 Bendix Carstensen.
  A review of the paper
  Robinson, G.K. (1991). That BLUP is a good thing: The estimation of random effects. Statistical Science 6, 15-51.
  Note day and time - we are back to Fridays!
  Cake: ??
• Friday, 05-03-99, 14.00-15.30 Ruggero Bellio.
  A review of the paper
  Lee, Y. and Nelder, J.A. (1996). Hierarchical generalized linear models (with discussion). J. Royal Statist. Soc. B 58 (4), 619-678.
  Cake: Kristian K.

Proposed papers

The following papers have been suggested as potentially interesting for future seminars. Those already scheduled are not included below. (These are rather old suggestions - so new ones are welcome!).

On survival analysis and nonparametric maksimum likelihood:

• Lin, D.Y. and Ying, Z. (1994). Semiparametric analysis of the additive risk model. Biometrika 81, 61-71.
• Parner, E. Asymptotic normality in the correlated Gamma-frailty model. Manuscript.
• Parner, E. Consistency in the correlated Gamma-frailty model. Manuscript.
• Gill, R.D. (1989). Non- and semiparametric maximum likelihood estimators and the von Mises method. (Part 1). Scand. J. Statist. 16, 97-126.

On other issues:

Send me a mail if you want to propose a paper. You may (or may not) add a few lines about why it is of interest to you and others.



Author: ims@kvl.dk (Ib Skovgaard) 1999-02-03