JSM Activity #431

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431 Theme Session Thu, 8/7/03, 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM N-Nikko Ballroom I
Boosting - Invited - Papers
IMS, Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Organizer(s): Bin Yu, University of California
Chair(s): Peter J. Bickel, University of California, Berkeley
     8:35 AM   Boosting and Support Vector Machines — Trevor J. Hastie, Stanford University
     9:00 AM   Convergence and Consistency of Greedy Boosting Procedures — Tong Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
     9:25 AM   Boosting in General: Consistency and Minimaxity — Yaacov Ritov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Peter J. Bickel, University of California, Berkeley
     9:50 AM   Disc: Bin Yu, University of California
     10:10 AM   Floor Discussion
 

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