Ryan Martin : On sufficiency and conditioning in statistics

Posted by Ryan Martin , part of the Graduate Statistics Seminar.

At

Feb. 11, 2014, 3:30 p.m.

In

SEO 1227

Abstract

This talk will focus on two important principles in statistical inference, namely, sufficiency and conditioning. After a brief introduction to these two concepts, I will discuss the exaggerated importance of sufficiency compared to conditioning, and present some new perspectives based on tools from partial differential equations. I will attempt to explain the general ideas through simple examples.