Third Annual Bahadur Memorial Lectures

The Department of Statistics is proud to present the Third Annual Bahadur Memorial Lectures in honor of Raj Bahadur's fundamental contributions to statistics and to our department.

We are pleased to have Peter J. Bickel, Professor of Statistics from University of California at Berkeley as our honored speaker.

"Suggestive Statistics and Texture Analysis"

Eckhart Hall, Room #133
5734 South University Avenue
Tuesday, May 8th, 4:30 PM

Texture analysis is part of the general development and study of methods by which computers can approximate the performance of humans and other animals in distinguishing visually between different aspects of their surroundings. In this, as in many other fields of science and engineering, statistics plays a different role than in its classical validatory applications such as in surveys, agriculture, clinical trials, and reliability, or in its exploratory "data mining" aspects. A general view of "suggestive" statistics will be given and how it operates in the context of some specific problems in texture classification and synthesis.

Wednesday, May 9th, 4:30 PM

"Testing Semiparametric Hypotheses and Unorthodox Bootstraps"
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