Neyman Seminar - From Fisher to "Big Data": Continuities and discontinuities

Neyman Seminar - From Fisher to "Big Data": Continuities and discontinuities

Neyman Seminar
Oct 9, 2013, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Peter Bickel, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley. (Speaker)
In two major papers in 1922 and 1925 Fisher introduced many of the ideas ,parameters , sufficiency, efficiency, maximum likelihood, which when coupled with Wald’s decision theoretic point of view of 1950 have underlain the structure of statistics until the 1980’s.That period coincided ,not accidentally,with the beginnings of the widespread introduction of computers and our ability to use them...