[Statlist] Seminar ueber Statistik

[Christina Kuenzli]

                       ETH and University of Zurich 
      Proff. A.D. Barbour -- P. Buehlmann -- F. Hampel -- H.R. Kuensch 

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           We are pleased to announce the following seminar
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  May 23, 2003,  15.15
  Leonhardstrasse 27, 8006 Zürich, LEO C15

  Hierarchical Testing Design for Pattern Recognition

  Donald Geman, Dept. of Mathematics Sciences, 
  Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore 

It is unlikely that very complex problems in machine perception, such
as full-scale scene interpretation, will yield directly to improved
methods of statistical learning.  Some organizational framework is
needed to confront the small amount of data relative to the large
number of possible explanations, and to make sure that intensive
computation is restricted to genuinely ambiguous regions.  As an
example, we discuss the theoretical foundations of a "twenty
questions" approach to pattern recognition. The object of analysis is
the computational process itself rather than probability distributions
(Bayesian inference) or decision boundaries (statistical learning).
Under mild assumptions, optimal strategies exhibit a steady
progression from broad scope (i.e., high invariance) coupled with low
power to high power coupled with dedication to specific explanations.
Such designs then provide a blueprint for efficient learning and
processing.
  
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  June 6, 2003, 15.15
  Leonhardstrasse 27, 8006 Zürich, LEO C15

  Guilt by association: detecting human disease genes by analyzing DNA
  sequence patterns

  Anja Wille, Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zentrum

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Further information: Christina Kuenzli, Statistics Seminar of ETH Zurich 
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Everybody is kindly invited
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Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich
Swiss Federal Insitute of Technology Zurich
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Christina Kuenzli            <kuenzli at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Seminar fuer Statistik      
Leonhardstr. 27,  LEO D11          phone: +41 1 632 3438         
ETH-Zentrum,                       fax  : +41 1 632 1228 
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland        http://stat.ethz.ch/~