[Forum SIS] Seminar BRUCE LINDSAY (Penn State University) - Padova, April 30th - 14:30

[Patrizia Piacentini]

The Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova,
invite you to the seminar:

TITLE
Identifiability, mixtures, and the labeling problem.
A gold standard solution?

SPEAKER
Bruce Lindsay
The Penn State University, PA-USA

WHERE
Aula Cucconi
Complesso S. Caterina
Via C. Battisti, 241
Padova

WHEN
April 30th, 2013
14.30


ABSTRACT
In a conventional treatment of finite mixture models, there is a famous
issue called the labeling problem. It shows up prominently in any
sampling based assessment of uncertainty in the parameters, like MCMC or
bootstrap. We will argue that for either a Bayesian or likelihoodist,
there is really only one gold standard solution to this problem, and it
is based on the topology of the inference function being used.
The reasoning is asymptotic, a way of statistical thinking that has an
indelible footprint. Other labeling methods could possibly be judged by
their ability to replicate this solution.

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CONTACTS
Patrizia Piacentini <segrorg a stat.unipd.it>

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