[Statlist] Seminar on statistics

[Christina Kuenzli]

              ETH and University of Zurich 

                           Proff. 
         A.D. Barbour - P. Buehlmann - F. Hampel 
              H.R. Kuensch - S. van de Geer

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       We are glad to announce the following talks
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     Friday, Mai 25th, 2007  15.15h  LEO C 6
 
     Empirical portfolio selection
     László Györfi Budapest University

The concept of log-optimum portfolio selection is studied, 
and some of its empirical, universally consistent versions 
(histogram-based, kernel-based, nearest-neighbor-based) 
are introduced. We show experimental results on NYSE data.

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     Friday, June 1st, 2007          
     
     15.15 - 16.00         LEO C 6
     Case series models for censoring eventsx
     Mounia Hocine and Paddy Farrington
     Departement of Statistics, The Open University, UK

     16.15 - 17.00         LEO C 6
     Estimating unbounded densities with L_2-loss
     Lucien Birgé
     Université Paris VI, France



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Christina Kuenzli            <kuenzli at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Seminar fuer Statistik      
Leonhardstr. 27,  LEO D11      phone: +41 (0)44 632 3438         
ETH-Zentrum,                   fax  : +41 (0)44 632 1228 
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland        http://stat.ethz.ch/~