Delaware Chapter, ASA Dinner Meeting: March 2007 Notice: Our meetings are located at the Blue and Gold Club Tavern on the University of Delaware campus. Speaker: Dr. Woollcott Smith Department of Business Statistics Temple University Title: Looking for multidimensional holes, undiscovered species and new Googlewhacks Abstract: I will present three nonstandard problems that can be attacked with classical statistical methods. The first example is the search for holes, or missing data, in a k-dimensional data set. These holes are nearly impossible to detect using standard graphical and data analysis methods. A modification of the mixture of normals model yields both a conceptual model for holes and a way to display k-dimensional data holes in a two-dimensional plot. In the second example, standard distribution results are used to estimate the number of as yet undiscovered large marine species. On the lighter side, we show how size-biased sampling ideas and general linear models can be applied to devise efficient search strategies for new Googlewhacks. Date: Thursday, March 15, 2007   Time: Social hour -- 6:00 pm Dinner -- 6:30 pm Speaker -- 7:15 pm   Place: Blue and Gold Club Tavern University of Delaware   Directions/Map   Menu: Entree: Buffet Cost: $25 for members, $15 for students   Reservations:  Bruce Stanley by Wednesday, March 14, 2007. Phone: 302-366-5910 Email: Bruce Stanley.   Please note: Be sure to RSVP by this date.   2006 was a very successful year -- 2006 Program Review. and the program of meetings for Spring 2007 promises to continue that success -- Spring 2007 Meetings. Return to Delaware Chapter ASA home page.