Workshop on Small-Sample Inference

Chair of Statistics Swiss Federal Institute of Technology CH-1015 Lausanne 2 July 1998

This will be an informal one-day workshop on small-sample inference.

The main area of discussion will be bootstrap and other forms of simulation inference, but there will be excursions from this. There should be plenty of time for discussion, questions, and contributions by participants.

It will start at 10.00 and end at 17.30, and will take place in the Department of Mathematics (DMA), room MA11.

The programme including speakers, with their topics, is

10:00 David Hinkley (University of California, Santa Barbara) The bootstrap substitution principle and shrinkage

10:30 Angelo Canty (EPF, Lausanne) Resampling methods for sample surveys

11:00 Elvezio Ronchetti (University of Geneva) Bias-calibrated estimation from sample surveys containing outliers

11:30 Discussion

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Alastair Young (University of Cambridge) Thoughts on bootstrap calibration

14:00 Peter Buehlmann (ETH, Zurich) Bootstrapping time series

14:40 Armin Röhrl (EPF, Lausanne) Notes on bootstrapping time series

15:00 Discussion

15:30 Coffee

16:00 Valerie Ventura (Carnegie-Mellon University) Bootstrap recycling

16:30 Alessandra Brazzale (EPF, Lausanne) Conditional simulation by MCMC: application to small-sample inference

17:00 Discussion

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