Rankings, Inversions and Statistics
Neyman Seminar
Sep 17, 2014, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Marina Meila, University of Washington (Speaker)
How do we do "statistics as usual" when data comes in the form of
permutations, partial rankings, or other objects with rich
combinatorial structure? I will start with the Mallows model, an
exponential family model based on counting inversions, and I will
describe how this flexible model can be adapted to data of various
kinds (partial rankings, infinite rankings, signed...