BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY
          DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS CALENDAR
 
                         Week of March 10-14

Tuesday, March 11

 2:30 PM  STATISTICS SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          Pranab K. Sen, Distinguished Lukacs Professor, BGSU. 
          "Statistical Functionals and Robustness Considerations"

 7:30 PM  KME EVENT  - Room 459 MSC
          !!!! Pizza and pop will be provided !!!!
          Charles Holland, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
          "Permutations of the Bells: The mathematics of change ringing"

Wednesday, March 12
      
 3:30 PM  STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY SEMINAR  - Room 300 MSC
          Edsel Pena, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
          "Smooth Goodness-of-Fit Tests"

Thursday, March 13

 2:30 PM  SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION SEMINAR  - Room 459 MSC
          So-Hsiang Chou, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, BGSU. 
          "Introduction to cell-centered finite differences"

Friday, March 14

 3:30 PM  Coffee
 3:45 PM  COLLOQUIUM  - Room 459 MSC
          Pranab K. Sen, Distinguished Lukacs Professor, BGSU. 
          "Bundle strength in a stochastic environment"
          Abstract: In the context of statistical strength of a bundle
            of parallel filaments, whose lengths, cross-sections,
            material compositions or other concomitant variates may be
            stochastic in nature, a class of (nonlinear/nonparametric)
            conditional sample functionals crop up in a natural way.
            Such conditional functionals show up in many other
            applications in biometry, reliability theory and survival
            analysis.

            Although stochastic approximation methodology is appealing
            in this context, there are some basic differences.  As
            such an alternative statistical analysis scheme is
            considered, and the relevant statistical properties are
            studied.

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