Tuesday April 10, 2018 3:00 p.m. Yost 306
Speaker: Manfred Danker, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Improving Statistical Decision Procedures
Abstract: I shall discuss a smoothing method for distributions without changing expectations while forcing convergence to some distribution when applied to i.i.d. samples with finite 1 +δ moments for some δ > 0. Among...
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Wednesday April 18, 2018 4:00pm Yost 306
Speaker: Peter Veerman, Portland State University
Abstract: We investigate a class of models related to the Bak-Sneppen (BS) model, initially proposed to study evolution. The BS model is extremely simple and yet captures some forms of “complex behavior” such as punctuated equilibrium that is often...