[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 seminars
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tomorrow:
Friday, April 16, 2004, 15.15, LEO C15

     Jean-François Cardoso, ENST, Dept. TSI, Paris

     The three easy routes to independent component analysis. 
     An information geometric point of view
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Tuesday, April 20, 2004, 15.15, ML E 13

     James Ramsay, McGill University, Canada 
     From Data to Differential Equations

Abstract:
Differential equations are the natural way to model systems with
functional inputs and functional outputs. They allow us to study the
system's dynamics in the sense of explicitly modelling how to output
changes in response to sudden changes in input. For example, engineers
developing control systems for industrial processes routinely use DIFE's
as modelling tools.

A new method is described for going directly from noisy discrete data, not
necessarily sampled at equally spaced times, to a system of differential
equations of arbitrary orders, linear or nonlinear, that describes the
data. The method involves a generalization of nonparametric curve
estimation in which the penalty functional rather than the smoothing
functions is estimated.

Examples are drawn from chemical engineering and medicine.
     
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Friday, April 23, 2004, 15.15, LEO C 15
   
     Roy E. Welsch, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
     Algorithms for Robust Model Selection in Linear Regression 

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Further information: Christina Kuenzli, Statistics Seminar of ETH Zurich 
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Everybody is kindly invited
 
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      
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