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Joint DSS/ORIE Statistics Seminar Speaker Po-Ling Loh, 2/6/14, @ 4:15 pm

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Thursday Feb 06 2014

Joint DSS/ORIE Statistics Seminar Speaker Po-Ling Loh, 2/6/14, @ 4:15 pm

4:15pm @ 253 Rhodes Hall
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This week's Statistics Seminar Speaker will be Po-Ling Loh from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Nonconvex Methods for High-Dimensional Regression with Noisy and Missing Data

Noisy and missing data are prevalent in many real-world statistical estimation problems. Popular techniques for handling nonidealities in data, such as imputation and expectation-maximization, are often difficult to analyze theoretically and/or terminate in local optima of nonconvex functions -- these problems are only exacerbated in high-dimensional settings. We present new methods for obtaining high-dimensional regression estimators in the presence of corrupted data, and provide theoretical guarantees for the statistical consistency of our methods. Although our estimators also arise as minima of nonconvex functions, we show the rather surprising result that all stationary points are clustered around a global minimum.  Motivated by a fundamental connection between linear regression and inverse covariance matrices, we demonstrate an important application of our method for graphical model estimation with noisy and missing data.

Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm in 258 Rhodes Hall.

 

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