BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Drupal iCal API//EN X-WR-CALNAME:Events items teaser X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68291c306410d DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150924T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150924T160000 URL:/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro tt-distinguished-lecture-raymond-j-carroll-texas SUMMARY:David Sprott distinguished lecture by Raymond J. Carroll\, Texas A& M\nUniversity CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nCONSTRAINED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION FOR MODEL CALIBRATION USING\nSUMMARY-LEVEL INFORMATION FROM EXTERNAL BIG DATA SOURC ES.\n\n[Carroll Poster]\n[/statistics-and-actuarial-sc ience/sites/ca.statistics-and-actuarial-science/files/uploads/files/pdf.po ster-carroll_1.pdf]Information\nfrom various public and private data sourc es of extremely large sample\n DTSTAMP:20250517T233056Z END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:68291c3064b7e DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20150514T160000 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:TRANSPARENT DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20150514T160000 URL:/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro tt-distinguished-lecture-bill-woodall SUMMARY:David Sprott distinguished lecture by William Woodall\, Virginia Te ch CLASS:PUBLIC DESCRIPTION:Summary \n\nMONITORING AND IMPROVING SURGICAL QUALITY\n\nSome s tatistical issues related to the monitoring of surgical quality\nwill be r eviewed in this presentation. The important role of\nrisk-adjustment in he althcare\, used to account for variations in the\ncondition of patients\, will be described. Some of the methods for\nmonitoring quality over time\, including a new one\, will be outlined\nand illustrated with examples.\n DTSTAMP:20250517T233056Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR