[Statlist] Swiss Statistics Seminar, October 24, 2008

[Dümbgen Lutz]

Dear statisticians, dear colleagues,

The next Swiss Statistics Seminar will be on

    Friday, October 24, 2008

at the University of Bern. This time the workshop is organized jointly  
by the sections ER (education and research) and BI (business and  
industry) of the Swiss Statistical Society. It consists of a morning  
session with talks by

    Marcel Baumgartner (Vevey):
       Use of Exponential Smooting within a
       Business Software in the Food Industry

    Marloes Maathuis (ETHZ):
       Variable Importance based on Intervention Calculus

and an afternoon session with talks by

    Fabrizio Ruggeri (Milano):
       Some Results in Bayesian Reliability

    Fred Hamprecht (Heidelberg):
       Active Learning in Industrial Quality Control

    Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Barcelona):
       Representations and Posterior Simulation for
       Dirichlet Hierarchical Models with Applications to
       Inference for Non-Parametric Hidden Markov Models

The detailed program can be seen at
http://www.imsv.unibe.ch/content/talks/sstats/fall2008/index_eng.html

We are looking forward to meet you in Bern!

With kind regards,

  Lutz Dümbgen
(on behalf of SSS-Sections ER and BI)