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Activity Number: 508
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 7, 2013 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract - #306992
Title: Bayesian and Frequentist Issues in Large-Scale Inference
Author(s): Bradley Efron*+
Companies: Stanford University
Keywords: large scale inference ; big data ; bagging ; empirical Bayes
Abstract:

Twentieth Century applied statistics was predominantly frequentist, but the current wave of "Big Data" applications has broadened statistical practice for both Bayesians and frequentists. I will discuss examples and describe some useful tools for post- classical statistical inference.


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