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Past ASA Detroit Chapter Activities
November 1, 2022
Presentation by Jeff Buzas
"Relations between margin-based binary classifiers and logistic regression"
October 11, 2022
Presentation by Aleksey S. Polunchenko, Department of Mathematical Sciences, SUNY Binghamton
"Quickest Change-Point Detection: The Shiryaev-Roberts Approach"
September 13, 2022
Presentation by Qin Shao, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Toledo
"Inference for Time Series with Trend"
April 12, 2022
Presentation by Liang Hong, University of Texas at Dallas
"Instantaneous and limiting behavior of an n-node blockchain under cyber-attacks from a single hacker"
February 8, 2022
Presentation by Xiaoli Kong, Department of Mathematics, Wayne State University
"Recent developments in high-dimensional two-sample tests: parametric, semiparametric and nonparametric approaches"
January 11, 2022
Presentation by Dong Pham, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Oakland University
"Three-Stage Minimum Risk Point Estimation with Termination Defined via Gini’s Mean Difference"
November 9, 2021
Presentation by Rod Little, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Four Seminal Papers in Statistics
October 20, 2021
Careers in Statistics Discussion
October 12, 2021
Presentation by Jay Herson, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore
"Bias and Randomization 1980 – 2020 – 2060"
April 13, 2021
Presentation by Nathan Soderborg
“Better before Bigger Data: Laying a Foundation for Successful Analytics"
February 9, 2021
Presentation by Edward Caughell, Birmingham Seaholm HS
Teaching Statistics at the High School Level
November 10, 2020
Presentation by Zhixin Lun, University of California, San Francisco
"Simulation and Probability Computation for Multivariate Lomax (Pareto Type II)
and Its Related Distributions"
September 15, 2020
Presentation by Stephanie Quesnelle, Data Driven Detroit
"Community Data for Action: Understanding and Supporting Local Community
Organizations"
November 19, 2019
Presentation by Robert Podolsky, Beaumont Health
"Non-linear trajectories, random coefficients and the analysis of MRI images:
Keeping an eye on the prize"
September 10, 2019
Presentation by David Corliss, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
"Fifteen Questions in Statistical and Data Ethics"
April 9, 2019
Presentation by Stephen Iaquaniello, SAS Institute Inc.
" Open Source Analytics Software - the Positives and the Pitfalls"
March 13, 2019
Science Fair Judging, Cobo Hall
February 12, 2019
Presentation by Ramin Homayouni, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
"Machine Learning with Unstructured Text: Applications in Genomics and Population Health"
January 15, 2019
Video presentation moderated by David Corliss and/or Robert Podolsky
"The radical prescription for change" (discussion of p-value controversy)
Note: this was a continuation of the November 2018 meeting
November 13, 2018
Video presentation moderated by David Corliss and/or Robert Podolsky
"The radical prescription for change" (discussion of p-value controversy)
October 9, 2018
Presentation by Scott Sterbenz, Ford Motor Company
" CRUSH THE REAL ESTATE MARKET WITH MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION"
September 11, 2018
Presentation by David Corliss, Ford Motor Company
"Real-time analysis of Twitter posts"
April 7, 2018
Science Fair Judging at Kettering University, Flint
March 8, 2018
Presentation by Lance K. Heilbrun, Ph.D. Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University
"What Is Data Science?"
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February 8, 2018
Prerecorded presentation by Mike Gluck, Gluckworks Inc.
"EVERYDATA (TM): Understanding the Misinformation in the Little Data You Consume Every Day"
January 11, 2018
Presentation by Robert C. Bondar, BASF Corporation
"Evaluation of Powder-Cast Polyvinylchloride Processing Conditions for Improved Adhesion to Polyurethane Foam"
November 14, 2017
Presentation by Brandy R. Sinko, Univ of Michigan
"Using SAS® to Generate P-Values with Monte Carlo Simulation"
October 10, 2017
Presentation by Ratna Babu Chinnam, Wayne State Univ
"The Data Science & Business Analytics M.S. Program at Wayne State"
September 12, 2017
Presentation by Mary Ann Ritter, Univ of Michigan
"Communication Challenges and Strategies for Applied Statisticians"
April 11, 2017
Presentation by David Corliss
"Data For Good"
April 1, 2017
Science Fair Judging at Kettering University, Flint
February 14, 2017 Annual Membership Meeting
Presentation by Scott Sterbenz
"Completing Technical Six Sigma Projects: Combining Physics with Statistics"
January 17, 2017
Presentation by Susan Murphy (at Ann Arbor Chapter)
"Micro-Randomized Trials and Time-Varying Treatment Effects in Mobile Health"
November 10, 2016
Presentation by Ashish Singh and Brian Ball
"Marketing Attribution"
October 13, 2016
Presentation by Kurt Metzger
"My 40 Years of Advocating for True Data-Driven Decision Making in Detroit"
September 13, 2016
Presentation by Patricia (Patty) Becker
"The American Census"
April 12, 2016
Presentation by Seongho Kim, Karmanos Cancer Institute
"Power Estimation and Sample Size Determination for Logistic Regression Using Transformation"
March 11, 2016
SE Michigan Science Fair Judging at Washtenaw Community College
February 9, 2016
Presentation by Gary McDonald, Oakland University
"A Graphical Aid for Sensitivity Analysis of Estimated Regression Coefficients"
January 12, 2016
Annual Membership Meeting
Presentation by Tom Brown, Exponent
"How to Analyse Spatial Data of Different Types"
November 10, 2015
Presentation by David Corliss
"Using Big Data Predictive Analytics to Create Complex Match Keys to Track People using Publicly Available Data"
October 15, 2015 (NOTE: Thursday, not Tuesday)
Presentation by Kurt Metzger and Erica Raleigh
"The History and Origins of Detroit Regional Data Gathering, and of Data Driven Detroit"
September 15, 2015
Presentation by Scott C. Sterbenz
"Leveraging DoEs for Success"
April 14, 2015
Presentation by George Divine
"The Oregon Medicaid Experiment"
March 13, 2015
SE Michigan Science Fair Judging at Washtenaw Community College
February 10, 2015
Presentation by Gregory Turco and Robert Bondar
"Extreme Vertices Mixture Design for Exploration of Ingredient Blend Space in Industrial Foam Formulation"
January 13, 2015
Annual Membership Meeting
Presentation by Mark Isken
"Introducing open source statistical and data science tools to business analytics students and professionals"
November 11, 2014
Presentation by Scott C. Sterbenz
"Binary Logistic Regression - Manufacturing (DMAIC) and Design (DFSS) Applications"
October 14, 2014
Presentation by Nathan Soderborg
"Following Data from the Factory Floor: A Root Cause and Validation Journey"
September 9, 2014
Presentation by Michael Cavaretta
"Big Data and Innovation in the Automotive Industry"
April 8, 2014
Presentation by Daniel Reich
Enhancing the Engineer's Decision-Making Process for Crash Test Scheduling with Optimization
March 14, 2014
SE Michigan Science Fair Judging at Washtenaw Community College
February 11, 2014
Presentation by Ron Tracy
The Southeastern Michigan Economic Outlook Project
January 14, 2014
Annual Membership Meeting
Presentation by David Corliss
Stellar Eruption Modeling using Time Series Cluster Analysis
November 12, 2013
Presentation by Vasiliy Krivtsov
Reliability Analysis of ?Sibling? Components
October 8, 2013
Presentation by Yazan Roumani
Modeling Patient Flow in a Network of Intensive Care Units (ICUs)
March 8, 2013
SE Michigan Science Fair Judging at Washtenaw Community College
Feb 12, 2013
Annual Membership Meeting
Presentation by Paul Traub
U.S. and Michigan Economic Outlook and Data
Jan 15, 2013
Presentation by Stephanie Casey and Andrew Ross
Meeting the Needs of Future Teachers in your Statistics Class: Addressing Statistical Knowledge for Teaching
Nov 13, 2012
Presentation by David Doane
Senior Swim Times
Oct 9, 2012
Workshop Presentation by Anamaria Kazanis
JMP for statistics
Sept 11, 2012
Presentation by Heinz Plaumann and Robert Bondar
Statistical Strategies to Improve Quality of Flexible Polyurethane Foams
April 10, 2012
Presentation by Jim Norton
Interesting Statistical Examples Useful in Teaching Undergraduates and Medical Residents
March 9, 2012
SE Michigan Science Fair Judging at Washtenaw Community College
Feb 21, 2012
Presentation by Brady T. West
An Overview of Current Software Procedures for Fitting Linear Mixed Models
Jan 17, 2012
Annual Membership Meeting
Presentation by George Divine
Observations Related to the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test
Nov 8, 2011
Presentation by Dave Doane
Measuring Skewness: A Forgotten Statistic?
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Oct 11, 2011
Presentation by Robert Kushler
Statistical Modeling of Environmental Conditions in Paint Creek
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Sep 9, 2011
Presentation by Scott R. Millis
Introduction to Item Response Theory
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Aug 28, 2011 Annual Chapter Picnic
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Apr 12, 2011
Presentation by George W. Divine
Sample Size and Power, When is More, Less?
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Mar 11, 2011
SE Michigan Science Fair Judging at Washtenaw Community College
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Feb 11, 2011 (postponed from Jan due to inclement weather)
Presentation by Ron Tracy
Have U.S. Weather Patterns been Abnormal in Recent Years?
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Nov 9, 2010
Presentation by Greg Dyson
Characterizing the contribution of genetic variations to the prediction of human disease risk
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Oct 12, 2010
Presentation by Vasiliy Krivtsov
Survival Regression: From Bio-Statistics to Engineering
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Sep 14, 2010
Presentation by Rob Kushler
Some Lessons on Generalized Linear Models: the horseshoe crab data
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Jul 19, 2010
Annual Chapter Picnic
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Apr 13, 2010
Presentation by George W. Divine
The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney is a good test of medians. Not!
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Mar 12, 2010
SE Michigan Science Fair Judging at Washtenaw Community College
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Feb 9, 2010
Presentation cancelled due to weather threat
Jan 12, 2010
Presentation by Scott R. Millis
Statisticians Behaving Badly: Common Statistical Pitfalls & How to Avoid Them
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Nov 10, 2009
Presentation by Dorin Drignei
Selected Statistical Topics in Climatology
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October 13, 2009
Discussion led by Dave Fluharty
What should be in a High School Course in Statistics?
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September 15, 2009
Presentation by Jim Albert
Exploring PITCH F/X Data
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July 19, 2009
Annual Chapter Picnic
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May 15/18/27, 2009
Michigan State Poster Competition Awards Presentation
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April 14, 2009
Presentation by Xiaoli Gao
On the Study of Penalized LAD Methods
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March 13, 2009
Special Awards judging team for the Annual Southeast Michigan Science at Washtenaw Community College
February 10, 2009
Presentation by Xiangui (Harvey) Qu
Data Analysis and Optimal Design in High Throughput Screening
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January 13, 2009
Presentation by Robert Thomas
Prediction is very difficult, especially if it is about the future
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November 11, 2008
Presentation by David Doane
Are Textbooks Fairly Priced?
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October 14, 2008
Presentation by S. Ejaz Ahmed
Lasso and Shrinkage-type Estimation in Generalized Linear Models
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September 16, 2008
Presentation by Scott R. Millis
An Introduction to Bayesian Model Averaging
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August 17, 2008
DCASA Annual Picnic
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April 8, 2008
Presentation by Brady T. West
Linear Mixed Models: An Update
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March 7, 2008
Special Awards judging team for the Annual Southeast Michigan Science Fair
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Feb 12, 2008
Presentation by Christopher Mattingly and Teresa Soave
Linear Performance Pricing and Process
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Jan 15, 2008
Presentation by Wei Chen
Bayesian Methods in Clinical Research
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November 13, 2007
Presentation by Jon Oaks
The Impact of Non-Normality on X-bar and R Control Charts for Weibull
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October 9, 2007
Presentation by Vivienne Yu Chen
An Application of Structural Equation Modeling
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September 11, 2007
Presentation by Vasiliy Krivtsov
Some pitfalls of parametric survival analysis
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August 5, 2007
Annual Picnic
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May 8, 2007
Presentation by Maura Stokes
Introducing the GLIMMIX Procedure for Generalized Linear Mixed Models
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April 10, 2007
Presentation by Tony R. Laituri
Derivation and Evaluation of Risk Equations for Frontal Impacts: Various Theoretical Methods
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March 20, 2007 (postponed from Feb 13 due to inclement weather)
Presentation by Steve G. Heeringa
Responsive Design for Household Surveys
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March 9, 2007
Southeast Michigan Science Fair judging at Washtenaw Community College
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January 9, 2007
Presentation by Ellen Barnes
Identifying a Minimal Set of Significant Characteristics from Functional Responses in Engineering Design: a Case Study
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November 14, 2006
Presentation by Robert Kushler
Modeling and Forecasting Customer Complaint Data
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October 10, 2006
Presentation by Lance Heilbrun
Clinical research methodology - Clinical trials Part II
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September 12, 2006
Presentation by Lance Heilbrun
Clinical research methodology - Clinical trials Part I
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July 23, 2006
Fourth Annual DCASA Chapter picnic
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June, 2006
Presentation of statistics poster competition award winners at schools in the Detroit area
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May 12, 2006
Traveling Course: Presentation by Frank Harell, Jr.
Regression Modeling Strategies
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April 11, 2006
Presentation by Ellen Barnes
Making Science Education Exciting by Linking It to the Real World: A Designed Experiment Using Ford's Egg Cart Crash Demonstration
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March 10, 2006
Southeast Michigan Science Fair Judging
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February 22, 2006
Presentation by Bob Thomas
Spreading Innovation
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January 10, 2006
Presentation by Janell D. Townsend
The Effects of Genre and Competition on New Entertainment Product Sales Performance
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December 13, 2005
Presentation by Karry Roberts
Using Paper Helicopters as a Classroom Example of Multifactor Design of Experiments
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November 8, 2005
Presentation by Gary MacDonald
A Bayes Approach to the Problem of Making Repairs
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May 2005
Presentation of statistics poster competition award winners (Detroit area)
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May 10, 2005
Presentation by Vasily Krivtsov
Life Data Analysis in Automotive Engineering Applications
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April 12, 2005
Presentation by Steven J. Littig and Mark W. Isken
Short Term Hospital Census Prediction
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March 11, 2005
Southeast Michigan Science Fair
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February 8, 2005
Presentation by Al Shulte
Klondike Solitaire: An Analysis Based (Mostly) on Simulation
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January 11, 2005
Presentation by Karry Roberts and Ellen Barnes
Statistical Applications in Engineering Design and Manufacturing
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December 14, 2004
Presentation by Sharon Burton
Applied Statistics - Not Your Father's Statistics
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November 9, 2004
Presentation by Karl Majeske
Approving Measurement Systems when using Calculated Values
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October 12, 2004
Presentation by David Doane
Demonstrating Multicollinearity
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July 18, 2004
Third Annual DCASA Chapter picnic
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April 20, 2004
Presentation by Bob Peterson and Kathy Peterson
Collaboration between Industry and Education
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March 12, 2004
Southeast Michigan Science Fair judging
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January 20, 2004
Presentation by Jim Wasiloff and Brent Biotti
Improving the Reliability and Robustness of a Pneumatic Paint Ball Marker System Through the Practical Application of Parameter Design Optimization Methodologies
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December 2 , 2003
Presentation by Agus Sudjianto
The Roles of Statistical and Engineering Models in Reliability Improvement
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September 16, 2003
Presentation by Karry Roberts
Advanced DOE on a Drawn Arc Stud Welding Process
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July 20, 2003
Second Annual DCASA Chapter picnic
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May 13, 2003
Presentation by Dave Doanne
LearningStats: Software to assist and Motivate Introductory Statistics students
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April 9, 2003
Presentation by Graham Duthie
A Brief Introduction to Analysis of Geographic Data with Applications to Automotive Engineering
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Mar 14, 2003
Southeast Michigan Science Fair judging
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November 19, 2002
Presentation by Gary McDonald
Why not use Experiments that change One factor at a Time
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September 17, 2002
Presentation by Ellen Barnes
Probability Plotting with Non-Independent Data
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July 21, 2002
First Annual ASA Detroit Chapter Picnic
Beverly Hills Park Pavilion
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April 25, 2002
Presentation by Albert Shulte
Probability & Statistics in Michigan's Mathematics Curriculum
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March 8, 2002
Statistics Judging at the 2002 Southeast Michigan Science Fair
Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor
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January 30, 2002
Presentation by Mukesh Bhargava
"Business Applications of Data Mining"
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May 1, 2001
Traveling Course 2001 - Detroit, Michigan
Co-hosted by ASA Detroit and Wayne State University
Presentation by Phillip Good
"Permutation Tests : A Guide for Practitioners"
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