Prof. Brad Efron visits Harvard

Bradley Efron, Stanford University
11:00 AM, Friday, April 4, 2008
Sever Hall Rm. 103
Title: SIMULTANEOUS INFERENCE: WHEN SHOULD HYPOTHESIS TESTING PROBLEMS BE COMBINED
Its abstract and other informations at http://www.stat.harvard.edu/Colloquia_Content/Efron08.pdf

Recently awarded Recent National Medal of Science, Statistics Professor Efron of Standford University has played a major role in many ground breaking interdisciplinary collaborations including astronomy. A quote from his website

I like working on applied and theoretical problems at the same time and one thing nice about statistics is that you can be useful in a wide variety of areas. So my current applications include biostatistics and also astrophysical applications. The surprising thing is that the methods used are similar in both areas. I recently gave a talk called Astrophysics and Biostatistics–the odd couple at Penn State that made this point.

This seminar will help grasping his brilliant insights of applying statistics to other disciplines as well as his ingenious mind on statistics. In particular, multiple testing is an growing interest among high energy physicists.

Click the Harvard Statistics Colloquium Series for more information.

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