Neyman Seminar

Neyman Seminar

Neyman Seminar
Aug 31, 2011, 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Susan Holmes, Stanford Statistics Department and Bio-X
Inferential summaries of tree estimates are useful in the setting of evolutionary biology, where phylogenetic trees have been built from DNA data since the 1960's. In bioinformatics, psychometrics and data mining, hierarchical clustering techniques output the same mathematical objects, and practitioners have similar questions about the stability and `generalizability' of these summaries. I will...