Emanuel Parzen
 Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics  

Texas A&M University

A technical and philosophical survey of Statistical Science as Translational Statistics, connecting practice, theory, education, users of statistical methods (the Statistics of Science), basic research (the Science of Statistics). Topics discussed include: lessons from my mentors (Mosteller, Neyman, Tukey); analogies that enable statisticians to adapt to complex data methods that work for simple data; academic statistics research: technical and fundamental; my life as a statistical time series statistician; SIEVE universal model building strategy; Bayesian and frequentist inference: united statistical analysis; intro stat reform: probability; public image of statisticians; why graduate school in statistics? to have fun!

Time:  6:00 Lite Dinner, 7:00 pm Evening Lecture

Directions: Frontier Science is at the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and St. Paul Street.  There is a Green Line (B) stop at this intersection.  On-street parking is available on St. Paul and Commonwealth.  A Boston University parking lot is across Commonwealth, on Buick Street, which is not ree. Please enter the building on St. Paul and go to the second floor, where someone will let you in.
 

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Huichao Chen, PhD
Department of Biostatistics/CBAR
Harvard University
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Boston, MA 02115