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Some of the most important questions in the area of decision making under uncertainty deal with individual decisions to conform to or violate norms of behavior. The decision to conform to a norm is complicated by uncertainty about the norms others hold (Bohnet and Zeckhauser, 2004) and strong inclinations to behave collectively Milgram (1977). (For the present purpose, we adopt the broad defini...

Announcing the 2015 Viruses Young Investigator Prize and Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Travel Awards

With the goal of recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of virology by early-career investigators, last year Viruses accepted nominations for a 2015 Young Investigator Prize in Virology. The target age was set at 40 and under. Over 50 nominations were received and were evaluated by a panel of judges comprised of Viruses editorial board members. computational approaches to study infl...

Graduate Student Paper Competition

Graduate Student Appreciation Week

Graduate Student Seminar Day

This project concerns the most effective dimension reduction (EDR) space in functional regression settings. Our investigation is motivated by finding a smaller set of derived variables that contains just as much predictive power as the original set. The main idea originated from cumulative slicing for multivariate data in Zhu et al. (2010 JASA), which assesses the EDR space by cumulatively pool...