The Snake River Chapter’s annual business meeting, held on June 4 in Boise, Idaho, featured an invited talk by Robert Lund, an ASA Fellow and professor in the department of mathematical sciences at Clemson University. Lund’s talk, “Changepoints in Climatology,” provided an interesting overview of time series changepoint tests and illustrated these methods in applications to climatic time series.
The meeting also included the following talks from chapter members and friends:
- Bayesian Nonparametric Bioassay Estimation, by Bahman Shafii of the University of Idaho
- Model Selection by Constrained L1 Regularization, by Leming Qu of Boise State University
- Equivalent Sample Sizes in Time Series Regressions, by Jaechoul Lee of Boise State University
- A Simple Detection Method of Variance Changepoint and Its Application to Stock Returns, by Kyungduk Ko of Boise State University
- Teaching Foundational Statistical Concepts Using R-Graphical Functions, by Ken Aho of Idaho
State University - Predicting Antibiotic Resistance in Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia, by Richard Remington of Quantified Inc.
Andrzej Wojtowicz won first place and $200 in the student presentation competition with “Estimating the Number of One Step Beneficial Mutations.”
Wojtowicz is studying for a master’s in statistics and PhD in bioinformatics and computational biology at the University of Idaho.
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