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A Working Group in the Astrostatistics Program

Group Leaders: Louis Lyons (leader) and Hyunsook Lee (web)

Meeting Date and Time: Mar. 6th-9th, 9:00am-5:00pm
Location: NISS building, Rm. 203 or 104

 

Remote access for the meetings is available:
Via teleconference at 919-685-9338 (not earlier than 9:40 am)
Via webcam — See instructions (pdf)

 

Note: Until we can get the needed bandwidth, equipment, etc. for broadcasting meetings via a webcam, SAMSI will be employing the following process for remote participation in working groups. A webcam picture will be available for viewing during the meetings. However, for audio, participants will have to call into the conference line.

Schedule

Date Presentations (some have links to ppt, pdf files) References

Mon., 6 Mar.

Nancy Reid (U of Toronto) "Modifications to ProfileLlikelihood"
-9:00 - 10:00am at SAMSI, Room 203

Nancy Reid (U of Toronto) "P-value Functions"
-11:30-12:30 pm at SAMSI, Room 203

Luc Demortier (Rockefeller University) "P-values From A to Z"
-2:30 - 4:00 pm at SAMSI, Room 104

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Tue., 7 Mar.

Jim Linnemann (Michigan State Univ.) "False Discovery Rate"
-9:00 - 11:00 am at SAMSI, Room 104

Jim Linnemann (Michigan State Univ.) "Statistical Software Repository for Particle Room"
-11:00 am - 12:30 pm at SAMSI, Room 104

Kyle Cranmer (Brookhaven National Lab) "Discovery in Presence of Nuisance Parameters"
-2:00 - 4:00 pm at SAMSI, Room 104

Michael Woodroofe (U of Michigan) "Nuisance Parameters"
-4:00 - 5:00 pm at SAMSI, Room 104

 "Setting Confidence Intervals on Bounded Parameters" by M. Mandelkern, Statistical Science (2002), 17, 149-172

Wed., 8 Mar.

Pushpa Bhat (Fermi National Accelerator Lab) "Multivariate Methods"
-9:00 am at SAMSI, Room 104

Harrison Prosper (Florida State Univ) "Signal/Background Discrimination in Particle Physics"
-11:00 am at SAMSI, Room 104

Giovanni Punzi (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN, Pisa, Italy) Ordering Rules for the Neyman Construction with Nuisance Parameters" [1], [2], and [3] (Note that [2] and [3] are supplementary materials)
-2:00 pm at SAMSI, Room 104

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Thur., 9 Mar

Joel Heinrich (U of Pennsylvania) "Limits and Nuisance Parameters"
-11:30 am - 12:30 pm at SAMSI, Room 104

Jim Berger (SAMSI) "Bayesian Testing" and John Hartigan (Yale Univ. ) "Conditioning"
-2:00 pm-5:00 pm at SAMSI, Room 203

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Fri., 10 Mar

John hartigan (Yale Univ.) "Stein's Paradox
-10:30am at SAMSI, Room 203

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Fri., 17 Mar

Loius Lyons (Oxford Univ.) "P-values in Particle Physics"
-10:30am at SAMSI, Room 201

Check "CDF Statistics Committee" website 		-Kyle Cranmer, "LHC searches," PHYSTAT05

-Jim Linnermann, "Measures of Significance in HEP and Astrophysics," PHYSTAT2003

Group Members

Name Email Address Affiliation
Jogesh Babu [email protected] Penn State Univ., Dept. of Statistics
Giovanni Punzi[email protected] Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN
Michael Woodroofe[email protected] U of Michigan
Pushpa Bhat[email protected] Fermi Lab
Jim Linnemann[email protected] Michigan State Univ.
Nancy Reid[email protected] U of Toronto
Luc Demortier[email protected] Rochefeller Univ.
Joel Heinrich[email protected] U of Pennsylvania
Harrison Prosper[email protected] Florida State Univ.
Kyle Cranmer[email protected] Brookhaven Lab
Bodhi Sen[email protected] U of Michigan
Louis Lyons[email protected] Oxford Univ.
Hyunsook Lee[email protected] Penn State Univ., Dept. of Statistics

 

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