Swiss Statistics Seminar — Fall 2008

Friday, October 24, 2008

University of Bern
Institut für Exakte Wissenschaften
Sidlerstrasse 5
3012 Bern

Lecture halls B5 and B7

This workshop was co-organized by the Sections Business and Industry and Education and Research of the Swiss Statistical Society.

Morning Program (Lecture hall B5)

09:15-10:00	Section BI	General assembly
Time	Speaker	Title
10:15-11:15	Marcel Baumgartner (Vevey)	Use of Exponential Smoothing within a Business Software in the Food Industry
11:15-12:15	Marloes Maathuis (ETH Zürich)	Variable Importance based on Intervention Calculus

Afternoon Program (Lecture hall B7)

Time	Speaker	Title
14:15-15:15	Fabrizio Ruggeri (Milano)	Some Results in Bayesian Reliability
15:15-15:45		Coffee break
15:45-16:45	Fred Hamprecht (Heidelberg)	Active Learning in Industrial Quality Control
16:45-17:00		Break
17:00-18:00	Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Barcelona)	Representations and Posterior Simulation for Dirichlet Hierarchical Models with Applications to Inference for Non-Parametric Hidden Markov Models

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