[Statlist] Reminder: ETH/UZH Research Seminar on Statistics by Frederic Koehler, University of Chicago, 27.11.2024

[Maurer Letizia]

We are glad to announce the following talk in the ETH/UZH Research Seminar on Statistics:

"Pseudolikelihood, Score Matching, and Dynamics"   
by Frederic Koehler, University of Chicago

Time: Wednesday, 27.11.2024 at 15.15 h
Place: ETH Zurich, HG G 19.1

Abstract: In his 1975 paper "Statistical Analysis of Non-Lattice Data", Julian Besag proposed the pseudolikelihood method as an alternative to the standard method of maximum likelihood estimation. This method has been very influential and successful in applications like learning graphical models from data, and also inspired another related and important method called score matching. I will discuss some recent work which connects the statistical efficiency of these estimators to the computational efficiency of related sampling algorithms.

Seminar website, https://math.ethz.ch/sfs/news-and-events/research-seminar.html


Organisers:  A. Bandeira, Y. Chen, R. Furrer, L. Held, T. Hothorn, D. Kozbur, N. Meinshausen, J. Peters,  M. Wolf, J. Ziegel