November 29^th, 2019

Some recent research using info-metrics

Pedro Macedo – Universidade de Aveiro

ABSTRACT

“Info-metrics is a research area at the intersection of statistics, computer science and decision theory, where the maximum entropy principle established by Edwin Jaynes plays an important role. Maximum entropy provides a tool for solving ill-posed problems that occur in diverse areas of science and it can be seen as an extension of the Bernoulli’s principle of insufficient reason. Some recent research in regularization, variable selection, large-scale data and stochastic frontier analysis will be discussed, along with some applications.”

 1-2p.m. | Room 305