Presentations at Conferences (Berwin A Turlach)

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics | University of Western Australia

``Having Fun with Lottery Data'', given at the 2009 WA Young Statistician Workshop, July 12, 2009, Perth, WA, Australia (PDF [1.2M], PostScript [9.3M]). An extended version of this talk was given on 18 August 2009 to the Western Australian Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia, Inc., is also available (PDF [1.2M], PostScript [9.3M]).
``Nonparametric Density Deconvolution By Weighted Kernel Estimators'', given in the session Nonparametrics and Functional Data Analysis—Contributed during the Joint Statistical Meetings, August 3–7, 2008, Denver, Colorado, USA (PDF [349K], PostScript [116K]).
``Simultaneous Variable Selection'', given in the Technometrics Invited Session during the Joint Statistical Meetings, August 6–10, 2006, Seattle, Washington, USA (PDF [470K], PostScript [219K]).
``On homotopy algorithms in statistics'', keynote talk during the Symposium on Optimisation and Data Analysis in honour of Mike Osborne's 70^th birthday, September 21–23, 2005, Canberra, ACT, Australia (PDF [157K], PostScript [102K]).
``On Algorithms for Solving Least Squares Problems under an L₁ Type Penalty or Constraint'', invited talk in the session The Lasso and LARS during the Joint Statistical Meetings, August 8–12, 2004, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (PDF [117K], PostScript [ 86K]).
``Variable Selection via Constrained Regression'' during the 15^th Australian Statistical Conference, July 3–7, 2000, Adelaide, SA, Australia (handout [253K] of a more extensive version with the same title given at the Western Australian Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia, Inc.; the Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and the Department of Physics and Mathematics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland).
``Applications of Constrained Optimisation in Statistics'' during the workshop on Computational Mathematics at the International Conference on Supercomputing, July 12–17, 1998, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (handout [ 96K], essentially the talk that I gave at the Interface '98).
``Knot Selection for Regression Splines using the LASSO'' during the Interface '98, 30th Symposium on the Interface: Dimension Reduction, Computational Complexity and Information, May 13–16, 1998, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (handout [ 96K] of a more extensive talk with the same title given as a seminar talk at the University of Adelaide, Friday, 1 May, 1998; paper [138K]).
``On local polynomial smoothers and their competitors'' during the 5^a Conferência CEMAPRE: Mathematics Applied to Economics and Management, May 26–28, 1997, Lisbon, Portugal (handout [ 46K]; paper [158K]).
``Bagging in the Presence of Outliers'' during the Interface '97, 29th Symposium on the Interface: Mining and Modeling Massive Data Sets In Science, Engineering, and Business, May 14–17, 1997, Houston, Texas, USA (handout [ 26K]; paper [ 97K]).
``On the Estimation of a Convex Set and Its Support Function'', during the Joint Statistical Meetings, August 4–8, 1996, Chicago, Illinois, USA (handout [106K]).
``Local Polynomial Smoothing under Qualitative Constraints'' during the Interface '96, 28th Symposium on the Interface: Graph-Image-Vision, July 8–10, 1996, Sydney, NSW, Australia (handout [ 36K]; paper [117K]).
``Convolution and Interpolation: Competitors with Local Polynomial Smoothing'' during the 13th Biennial Australian Statistical Conference, July 8–12, 1996, Sydney, NSW, Australia (handout [ 37K]).
``Smoothing and Regression with XploRe'' (joint talk with T. Kötter) during the Compstat '94 Satellite Meeting on Smoothing: Statistical Theory and Computational Aspects, August 27–28, 1994, Semmering, Austria.
``Fast Implementation of Average Derivative Estimation'' during the Interface '94, 26th Symposium on the Interface: Computationally Intensive Statistical Methods, June 15–18, 1994, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA (handout [ 72K]; paper [108K]).
``Semiparametric Models in Action'' during the conference 40. Biometrisches Kolloquium, March 15–18, 1994, Münster, Germany.
``Model Checking with Average Derivative Estimation'' during the Annual Meeting of the Société Belge de Statistique, October 1–2, 1993, de Haan, Belgium.
``Using Average Derivative Estimation for model checking'' during the workshop Computer-aided Semiparametric Modeling, March 1–2, 1993, Berlin, Germany.
``Discretized Version of Average Derivative Estimation'' during the meeting on Curves, Images and Massive Computations, February 21–27, 1993, Oberwolfach, Germany.
``On Bandwidth Selection in Nonparametric Density Estimation'' during the conference Statistische Woche, September 21–25, 1993, Braunschweig, Germany.
``Nonparametric Methods applied to Generalized Linear Models'' during the conference 17 Symposium in Operation Research, August 25–28, 1992, Hamburg, Germany.
``Nonparametric Approaches in Generalized Linear Models'' (joint talk with Prof. W. Härdle) during the conference GLIM '92 and 7th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, July 13–17, 1992, München, Germany.

Author: Berwin A Turlach
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