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2/16/2021 Computer Science for Mathematicians
Speaker: Michael P. Kim (UC Berkeley) Title: Outcome Indistinguishability Abstract: Prediction algorithms assign numbers to individuals that are popularly understood as individual “probabilities” — e.g., what is the probability of 5-year survival […]
Rank-Based Independence Testing in Near Linear Time
Speaker: Chaim Even-Zohar (Alan Turing Institute, London) Title: Rank-Based Independence Testing in Near Linear Time Abstract: In 1948 Hoeffding proposed a nonparametric test that detects dependence between two continuous random variables (X,Y), […]