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IDEAS Seminar- David Aldous (UC Berkeley)

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Short Biography:David Aldous is Professor Emeritus in the Statistics Dept at U.C. Berkeley. He is the author of "Probability Approximations via the Poisson Clumping Heuristic" and (with Jim Fill) of a notorious unfinished online work "Reversible Markov Chains and Random Walks … Read more

Lecture Series-Greg Terlov

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

   Introduction to Stein’s method Abstract: In this lecture series I will give a gentle introduction to Stein's method for proving distributional convergence. In 1972 Charles Stein combined Gaussian integration by parts with a certain “noise robustness” property of a sequence … Read more

Colloquium: Arka Ghosh (Iowa State University)

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Existence of MLEs for the parameters of an adjusted linear preferential attachment model of random graphs with covariates In this talk, we consider a variation on the preferential attachment model (PAM) of random graphs with covariates. It is similar to … Read more

Lecture Series-Greg Terlov

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

   Introduction to Stein’s method Abstract: In this lecture series I will give a gentle introduction to Stein's method for proving distributional convergence. In 1972 Charles Stein combined Gaussian integration by parts with a certain “noise robustness” property of a sequence … Read more

Colloquium: Marie Davidian, North Carolina State University

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Every Statistical Problem is a Missing Data/Causal Inference Problem Across numerous fields of domain science research, challenges arise routinely where data of interest are missing and/or inferences are required regarding, for example, the causal effects of treatments based on observational … Read more

Colloquium: Tibor

120 Hanes Hall Hanes Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States