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Activity Number: 587
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Abstract #318340
Title: A Nonparametric Rao-Blackwell Theorem with Application to Selective Inference
Author(s): Dennis Sun*
Companies: Cal Poly/Google
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The Rao-Blackwell theorem says that an estimator can be improved by conditioning on a sufficient statistic. In this talk, I examine a nonparametric version of the Rao-Blackwell theorem. I show how it can be used to improve estimators derived from data splitting, which are selectively valid but suboptimal (since they do not make use of all of the data).


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