Department of Mathematics & Statistics Calendar
February 23 March 1, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
3:30 PM Algebra Seminar 445 MSc
Dr. Warren Wm. McGOVERN, BGSU
³Prufer Domains²
4:30 PM Calculator Workshop 445 MSc
³Linear Regression²
Content applicable to MATH 112, 122, & 115.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
10:45 AM MATH 112 Instructor¹s Meeting 459 MSc
1:00 PM MATH 115 Instructor's Meeting 400 MSc
1:30 PM Analysis Seminar 447 MSc
Ozgür MARTIN, BGSU
³N-supercyclic Operators, Part IV²
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
12:30 PM Statistics Seminar 459 MSc
Deniz AKDEMIR, BGSU
³ON A CLASS OF MULTIVARIATE SKEW DISTRIBUTIONS:
PROPERTIES AND INFERENTIAL ISSUES²
ABSTRACT: Flexible parametric distribution models that can represent
both skewed and symmetric distributions, namely skew symmetric
distributions, can be constructed by skewing symmetric kernel densities
by using weight functions. In this talk, we study a multivariate symmetric
family that has either centrally symmetric or spherically symmetric kernel.
Specifically, we define multivariate skew symmetric forms of uniform,
normal, Laplace, Logistic distributions by using the cdf¹s of the same
distributions as weight functions. Matrix variate extension of these
distributions are also introduced herein. To bypass the unbounded likelihood
problem related to the inference about this model, we propose an estimation
procedure based on the maximum product of spacings method. This idea also
leads to bounded model selection criteria that can be considered as an
alternative to Akaike¹s and other likelihood based criteria when the
unbounded likelihood may be a problem. Applications of skew symmetric
distributions to data are also considered.
3:30 PM Education Seminar 459 MSc
Ray HEITGER, BGSU
³Delving into Devlin and Bressoud²
ABSTRACT: I will introduce the audience to Keith
Devlin (NPR¹s ³Math Guy²) and David Bressoud via
their MAA online articles. Though pure mathematicians,
Each has a concern and writes much about mathematics
Education.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
11:00 AM Foundational Math Committee Meeting 400 MSc
TOPIC: MATH 128/130 textbook
1:30 PM Advisory Committee Meeting 400 MSc
Friday, February 27, 2009
12:30 AM Graduate Student Seminar 400 MSc
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Sunday, March 1, 2009
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