[bioundgrd] Colloquium (Friday, Feb. 21st, 2014): Revisiting the Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data

[Joyce Roberge]

Revisiting the Foundations of Statistics in the Era of Big Data:
Scaling Up to Meet the Challenge[i]<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#144267a71c43f91c__edn1>
Friday, February 21, 2014
10am - 5:30pm
Photonics Center, 9th Floor Colloquium Room
8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 906

10am -12pm
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

1:30pm – 5:30pm
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

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[i]<https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#144267a71c43f91c__ednref1> Co-sponsored by the Center for Philosophy and History of Science and the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Boston University

All CPHS Events are free and open to the public.


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