Zhao Ren Robust Estimation under Huber's Contamination Model This talk describes some new challenges and results in high-dimensional and nonparametric statistics under the celebrated Huber’s contamination model. We particularly focus on the influence of contamination on the minimax rates and the corresponding rate-optimal procedures. Thu, 04/04/2019 - 3:30pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Zhao Ren
Lingling An Mediation Analysis of High-Dimensional Microbiome and Host Genome Data Thu, 03/07/2019 - 3:30pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Lingling An
Amy Willis Estimating diversity and relative abundance in microbial communities Tue, 03/05/2019 - 3:30pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Amy Willis
Bodhi Sen Nonparametric Estimation of a Two-component Mixture Model with application to Multiple Testing We consider estimation and inference in a two-component mixture model where the distribution of one component is completely unknown. We develop methods for estimating the mixing proportion and Thu, 02/28/2019 - 3:30pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Bodhi Sen
Michael Lavine Assessing Procedures vs Assessing Evidence Many statistical analyses are characterized by how often a procedure works: how often an interval covers a true value, a null hypothesis is rejected, an item is correctly classified, etc. But assessing how often a procedure works differs from assessing the evidence in a data set. Understanding the difference is prerequisite to understanding what matters in a given analysis: the procedure, the evidence, or both. Tue, 02/26/2019 - 3:30pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Michael Lavine
Jungjin Lee Developing an Web-based Dynamic Graphical Software for Statistics Education, eStat Recent advance in IT and network technology has enabled to develop the statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS and R for mass data processing. However, these well-known packages have not paid their attention to develop a module for statistics education. Many individual developers have developed software for statistics education, but the most of them Tue, 01/29/2019 - 3:30pm Type of Event: Colloquium Series Read more about Jungjin Lee