Statistics Seminar Speaker Jon Wellner, 10/22/14

The Statistics Seminar speaker for October 22nd, 2014 will be Jon Wellner from University of Washington.  

Talk Title: Nonparametric Estimation of Log-Concave Densities 

Abstract: I will review recent progress concerning nonparametric estimation of log-concave densities and related families in R¹ and R^d.  In the case of R¹, I will present limit theory for the estimators at fixed points at which the population density has a non-zero second derivative and for the resulting natural mode estimator under a corresponding hypothesis. In the case of R^d with d ≥ 2 will briefly discuss some recent progress and sketch a variety of open problems.

Refreshments will be served after the seminar in 1181 Comstock Hall.