Department of Statistics Seminar
North Carolina State University

presents

Ben Kedem

FROM Department of Mathematics
 & Institute for Systems Research 

FROM University of Maryland

College Park, Maryland

Out of Sample Fusion

Abstract TBA

A great deal of the statistical literature deals with a single sample coming from a
distribution, univariate or multivariate. As such this practice overlooks potentially
useful information from other sources including information from artificial sources.
An out of sample fusion method will be presented where an original real sample
is fused or combined with independent computer generated samples in the
estimation of very small tail probabilities under certain assumptions.  More generally,
out of sample fusion opens the door to a bootstrap counterpart where inference is
based on external rather than within sample data

Friday, April 5
3:00pm - 4:00pm
2203 SAS Hall

Refreshments will be served in the 5th floor commons at 2:30pm.
NOTE: No food or drink is allowed in any of the classrooms in SAS Hall.