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Montreal R Workshop: Likelihood Methods and Model Selection

March 16, 2012 | Corey Chivers

Monday, March 19, 2012  14h-16h, Stewart Biology N4/17 Corey Chivers, McGill University Department of Biology This workshop will introduce participants to the likelihood principal and its utility in statistical inference.  By learning how to formalize models through their likelihood function, participants will learn how to confront these models with data in ... [Read more...]

bounded normal mean

November 24, 2011 | xi'an

A few days ago, one of my students, Jacopo Primavera (from La Sapienza, Roma) presented his “reading the classic” paper, namely the terrific bounded normal mean paper by my friends George Casella and Bill Strawderman (1981, Annals of Statistics). Even though I knew this paper quite well, having read (and studied) ... [Read more...]

How many tanks? MC testing the GTP

May 25, 2010 | Matt Asher

It’s 1943 and you work for the good guys. A handful of German tanks have been captured, and each one has a serial number. This is back when serial numbers were still presumed to come in serial, one right after the other. Given your collection of numbered tanks, and assuming ... [Read more...]

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