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Bradley Efron, Stanford University
11:00 AM, Friday, April 4, 2008
Sever Hall Rm. 103
Title: SIMULTANEOUS INFERENCE: WHEN SHOULD HYPOTHESIS TESTING PROBLEMS BE COMBINED
Its abstract and other informations at http://www.stat.harvard.edu/Colloquia_Content/Efron08.pdf
Continue reading ‘Prof. Brad Efron visits Harvard’ »
I was reading [1]. I must say that I do not know Bayesian methods to cope with model misspecification, tests with an unknown true model, or tests for non-nested hypotheses except Bayes factor (concerns a lot how to choose priors). Nonetheless, the zeal among economists to test non-nested models might assist astronomers to move forward beyond testing nested hypotheses with F statistic. Continue reading ‘Non-nested hypothesis tests’ »
Seven preprints were chosen this week and two mentioned model selection. Continue reading ‘[ArXiv] 3rd week, Jan. 2008’ »