Foundations of Statistics

prof. Christian Hennig

  • Date:

    27 JANUARY
    -
    06 FEBRUARY 2020
     from 11:00 to 13:00
  • Event location: Seminar Room, 1st floor, Department of Statistics, Via Belle Arti 41, Bologna

  • Type: Cycle 35 - Mandatory Courses

Foundations of Statistics

 

Schedule


Mo  27 January  11-13
Tue 28 January  11-13
Mo   3 February 14-16
Tue  4 February 10-13
Wed 5 February 10-13
Thu  6 February 11-13

The topics of this course are:

1) The history of the concept of probability

2) The development and current state of the controversy between frequentist and Bayesian statistics

3) Modern and alternative views on statistics and probability modeling

 

On 27 January I will give an introductory presentation. The 28 January and 6 February sessions will also be facilitated by me. The sessions on 28 January and 3-5 February will cover a number of original (historical and more contemporary) texts. Texts will be sent to the participants by 10 January. Instead of an exam, participants will be required to read all texts (which will be proved by completing small written tasks, as will be explained in detail later), and every participant will have to lead a session of ca. 60 minutes on one of the texts during the sessions 3-5 February, including a small introductory presentation. This will be coordinated with the participants in January.