Due to inclement weather on Sunday, the second half of the workshop has been moved forward one day. Sunday and Monday’s talks will now take place on Monday and Tuesday. On January 18-21, 2019 the Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a workshop on the Geometric Analysis Approach to AI. This workshop will focus on […]
Speaker: Richard B. Freeman (Harvard University and NBER) Title: Innovation in Cell Phones in the US and China: Who Improves Technology Faster? Abstract: Cell phones are the archetypical modern consumer innovation, spreading around the world at an incredible pace, extensively used for connecting people with the Internet and diverse apps. Consumers report spending from 2-5 hours a day […]
Speaker: Ulrich Mueller (Princeton) Title: Inference for the Mean Abstract: Consider inference about the mean of a population with finite variance, based on an i.i.d. sample. The usual t-statistic yields correct inference in large samples, but heavy tails induce poor small sample behavior. This paper combines extreme value theory for the smallest and largest observations with a normal approximation for […]