Biostatistics/SAGE (Survival Analysis Group Enhancement) Seminar Series

Prof. John Braun is giving the Winter 2016 Biostatistics/SAGE Seminar entitled “De-assisted local polynomial regression”: Use of higher-order local polynomial regression is often problematic in cases of data sparsity (which might be a result of data missing at random, for example). Although local constant regression is usable when data is sparse, the results can be misleading. If the underlying regression function is are assumed to satisfy or approximately satisfy a differential equation, a procedure with similar variance properties to local constant regression can be employed while achieving reasonable bias properties. This technique is illustrated with a problem involving growth curves.

Location:

MS 431 Math Sciences Building

Speaker:

Prof. John Braun, Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences, University of British Columbia-Okanagan

More information at http://www.ucalgary.ca/events/calendar/biostatisticssage-survival-analysis-group-enhancement-seminar-series