April 24th, 2019

Generalized Image Restoration by the Method of Alternating Orthogonal Projections

Author: Dante C. Youla

Presenter: Yisha Yao

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1084541&tag=1

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April 17th, 2019

Central limit theorems and bootstrap in high dimensions AOS

Authors: Victor Chernozhukov, Denis Chetverikov, and Kengo Kato

Presenter: Hang Deng

Abstract:

This paper derives central limit and bootstrap theorems for probabilities that sums of centered high-dimensional...

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April 10th, 2019

Convergence Rates of Posterior Distributions AOS

Authors: Subhashis Ghosal, Jayanta K. Ghosh, Aad W. Van der Vaart

Presenter: Jason Klusowski

Abstract:

We consider the asymptotic behavior of posterior distributions and Bayes estimators for infinite-dimensional statistical models....

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March 27th, 2019

The Consistency of Posterior Distributions in Nonparametric Problems AOS

Authors: Andrew Barron, Mark J. Schervish, Larry Wasserman

Presenter: Ruobin Gong

Abstract:

We give conditions that guarantee that the posterior probability of every Hellinger neighborhood of the...

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March 11th, 2019

Some intuitive proofs of central limit theorems

We will study some “intuitive” proofs of central limit theorems, based on ideas by Stein (1972). (The “unintuitive” proofs of the central limit theorems are the ones using characteristic functions and Fourrier...

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March 6th, 2019

Estimation and Inference of Heterogenous Treatment Effects Using Random Forest arXiv

by Stefan Wager and Susan Athey

Presenter: Min Xu

Presenter’s Comments: This talk will introduce the problem of heterogeneous treatment effect estimation and touch on both...

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