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Legend: Washington State Convention Center = CC, Sheraton Seattle = S, Grand Hyatt = GH and The Conference Center = TCC
* = applied session       ! = JSM meeting theme

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54 * ! Sun, 8/9/2015, 4:00 PM - 5:50 PM CC-4C3
Mixed Membership Models and Their Applications: Past, Present, and Future — Invited Papers
Section on Bayesian Statistical Science , Section on Statistical Learning and Data Mining , International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) , Committee on Applied Statisticians
Organizer(s): Edo Airoldi, Harvard University, Elena Erosheva, University of Washington
Chair(s): Edo Airoldi, Harvard University
4:05 PM Mixed Membership Modeling: De Finetti and Nonparametrics — Michael Jordan, UC Berkeley ; Tamara Broderick, MIT ; Ashia Wilson, UC Berkeley
4:30 PM An Overview of Mixed Membership Models: Some History and a General Formulation — Elena Erosheva, University of Washington ; Steven Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
4:55 PM Interpretability and A Priori Constraints in Mixed Membership Models — Burton Singer, University of Florida ; Marcia Castro, Harvard University
5:20 PM Discussant: David Blei, Columbia University
5:45 PM Floor Discussion




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