An
international conference
sponsored by
THE MINERVA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
CONTEMPORARY METHODS OF DATA ANALYSIS: THEORY AND PRACTICE
Dedicated to the memory of John W. Tukey
March 5 to March 9, 2001
at
Academia de
Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Organizing committee:
Luisa Turrin Fernholz, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
fernholz@temple.edu
Stephan Morgenthaler, EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland)
stephan.morgenthaler@epfl.chDavid E. Tyler, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ (USA)
dtyler@rci.rutgers.eduVictor Yohai, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
vyohai@sinectis.com.arLocal organizing committee:
Graciela Boente, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Marta Garcia Ben, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Objectives:
This conference is dedicated to the memory of John W. Tukey, who passed away on July 26, 2000.
His abundance of seminal contributions to Data Analysis has had a profound influence on most of us, and his ideas will undoubtedly be present throughout our talks and discussions.The conference is intended to bring together theoretical and applied statisticians from different parts of the world who are interested in the development of contemporary and new methods for data analysis. The philosophy underlying this conference is the recognition that the practical concerns of real data give rise to challenging problems both theoretical and computational. Examples of such methods include in a broad sense nonparametric regression, resampling methods, robust statistics, statistical computing, among others. This conference expects to touch upon many different aspects of data analysis in a fashion which integrates theoretical and applied statistics as opposed to treating them separately.
Link to Minerva Foundation.