AMS Sectional Meeting Program by Special Session

Current as of Tuesday, April 12, 2005 15:09:40

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Saturday September 27, 1997, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, I
Room 220, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Gerard G. Letac, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, France letac@cict.fr
- 8:00 a.m.
  Fitting smooth histories to rotation data
  Martin S. Hanna*, University of Kansas
  Ted Chang, University of Virginia
  (924-62-258)
- 8:35 a.m.
  Lie algebras, matrix spaces, and probability measures
  Philip J Feinsilver*, AMS
  Michael Giering,
  (924-60-304)
- 9:10 a.m.
  Representation of an exponential dispersion model and allplications
  G\'erard Letac, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  H\'el\`ene M Massam*, York University and University of Virginia
  (924-62-157)
- 9:45 a.m.
  The representations of the Wishart distributions
  Gerard G. Letac*, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
  (924-62-115)
- 10:20 a.m.
  Deriving moments in multivariate statistics
  Dietrich von Rosen*, Uppsala University
  (924-62-270)

Saturday September 27, 1997, 2:30 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, II
Room 220, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Gerard G. Letac, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, France letac@cict.fr
- 2:30 p.m.
  Cumulants, partition lattices and generalizations of the FKG inequality
  H\'el\`ene M. Massam,
  Donald St.P. Richards*,
  (924-60-182)
- 3:05 p.m.
  Estimation and testing for lattice conditional independence models on Euclidean Jordan algebras
  Erhard Neher*, University of Ottawa
  (924-62-189)
- 3:40 p.m.
  The covariance structure of random permutations
  Marlos Viana*, The University of Illinois at Chicago
  (924-62-227)

Sunday September 28, 1997, 9:15 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
Special Session on Algebraic Methods in Statistics, III
Room 220, Z Wing, Pavillon Principal de l'Universit\'e de Montr\'eal
Organizers:
Gerard G. Letac, Universit\'e Paul Sabatier, France letac@cict.fr
- 9:15 a.m.
  Density estimation on the circle and FFT.
  Harrie Hendriks*, University of Nijmegen
  (924-62-232)
- 9:50 a.m.
  Canonical Estimating Functions
  Abram M. Kagan*, University of Maryland
  (924-62-216)
- 10:25 a.m.
  Umbral Calculus and Exponential Families
  Alessandro Di Bucchianico*, Eindhoven University of Technology
  (924-62-163)

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