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- Revisiting the Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data: Scaling Up to Meet the Challenge10:00 am
- Biophysics/Condensed Matter Seminar 12:00 pm
- CISE Seminar: Yong-Jun Shin, University of Connecticut3:00 pm
- MSE Colloquium: Sankaran Thayumanavan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst3:00 pm
- ECE Seminar with Byron Boots4:00 pm
Revisiting the Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data: Scaling Up to Meet the Challenge
10 a.m.–noon Computational Challenges in Genomic Medicine Jill Mesirov, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Broad Institute Selection, Significance, and Signification: Issues in High Energy Physics Kent Staley, Philosophy, Saint Louis University 1:30–5:30 p.m. Multi-Resolution Inference: An Engineering (Engineered?) Foundation of Statistical Inference Xiao-Li Meng, Statistics, Harvard University Is the Philosophy of Probabilism an Obstacle to Statistical Fraud Busting? Deborah Mayo, Philosophy, Virginia Tech Targeted Learning from Big Data Mark van der Laan, Biostatistics and Statistics, UC Berkeley Panel Discussion **Cosponsored by the BU Department of Mathematics and Statistics.
When | 10:00 am to 5:30 pm on Friday, February 21, 2014 |
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Building | Photonics Center |
Room | 9th Floor Colloquium Room (906) |
Contact Name | Erin Seeba |
Phone | 3-2406 |
Contact Email | cphs@bu.edu |
Contact Organization | Center for Philosophy and History of Science |
Fees | Free |
Speakers | Jill Mesirov, Kent Staley, Xiao-Li Meng, Deborah Mayo, Mark van der Laan |