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Uncertainty Quantification: Optimality and Adaptivity

报告人:Tony Cai
报告地点:数学与统计学院415室
报告时间:2018年07月20日星期五10:00-11:00
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报告摘要:

Uncertainty quantification plays a central role in statistics and many other fields including physics, astronomy, epidemiology, and genomics. Indeed, any statistical procedure without quantifying its accuracy has only limited practical applicability, since one does not know how well the method works. >> In this talk, we consider construction of confidence sets in a range of settings, from the binomial proportion in classical statistics, to nonparametric regression with or without shape constraint, to high-dimensional linear regression. The results show significant differences between uncertainty quantification and optimal point estimation — the former is typically much harder than the latter, especially with respect to adaptivity to smoothness or sparsity


主讲人简介:
Vice Dean, The Wharton School Dorothy Silberberg Professor and Professor of Statistics


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