Math Professors Conduct University of Malaya Workshop
Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571
Ramesh and Pushpa Gupta, professors in the University of Maine Department of Mathematics and Statistics, were invited to conduct a workshop on mixture models in statistics, organized and funded by the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Malaya, December 28, 2010.
Ramesh presented two one-hour lectures: “Frailty and cure rate models in survival analysis” and “Random effect bivariate survival models and stochastic comparisons.” Pushpa presented “Failure rate of the mixture of two skew normal variables” and “Analysis of count data by mixture model.”
The one-day workshop was attended by 25 participants from the University of Malaya and nearby institutions, including graduate students, post-doctoral candidates and faculty.