[Statlist] Next talk: Thursday, May 26, 2011

[Cecilia Rey]

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ETH and University of Zurich

Proff. P. Buehlmann -  R. Furrer - L. Held - H.R. Kuensch -
M. Maathuis -  S. van de Geer - M. Wolf


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We are glad to announce the following talk
Thursday, May 26, 2011, 16.15 HG G 19.1

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  by Robert G. Staudte, La Trobe University, Melbourne

  Titel:
The relationship between variance stabilized statistics and the  
Kullback-Leibler symmetrized divergence.

Abstract:
In the beginning was R.A. Fisher, who created variance stabilization  
and saw that it was good. Many statistical descendants have found it  
to be a powerful tool in applications. A recent book Kulinskaya,  
Morgenthaler and Staudte (Wiley, 2008) formalized this powerful tool  
to define statistical evidence as the transformed statistic, because  
it allowed for simple calibration and interpretation, as well as  
combination of evidence from different studies in a metaanalysis. It  
turns out that the Key function of their book that arises in variance  
stabilization has a remarkably strong link to the Kullback-Leibler  
symmetrized divergence. This result leads to some surprising global  
approximations and new variance stabilized statistics.


The abstract is also to be found here:  http://stat.ethz.ch/events/research_seminar

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ETH Zürich
Seminar für Statistik
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