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Activity Number: 197
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Monday, August 3, 2009 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #303179
Title: Back to the Future: Do Recent Developments Tell Us Anything About the Future of Statistics?
Author(s): Jon A. Wellner*+
Companies: University of Washington
Address: Statistics, Box 354322, Seattle, WA, 98195-4322,
Keywords: future ; statistical theory ; statistical methods ; history
Abstract:

Recent developments in statistics---theory, methodology, applications, computing, and publishing---suggest several possible directions for the "future of statistics." I will discuss (and speculate upon!) some of what seem (to me) to be the more probable of these.


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