SCHOOL OF STATISTICS

BUEHLER-MARTIN DISTINGUISHED LECTURER SERIES

April 29, 30 and May 1

Established by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Martin

In memory of Robert J. Buehler, Professor of Statistics 1963-1988

Lawrence D. Brown

Statistics Department, Wharton School

University of Pennsylvania

In-Season Prediction of Batting Averages: A Field-test of Basic Empirical Bayes and Bayes Methodologies

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

3:30 – 4:30 pm Physics 210

Refreshments 3:00 pm Ford 300

Non-parametric Empirical Bayes and Compound Bayes Estimation of Independent Normal Means

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

3:30 – 4:30 pm Kolthoff 132

Refreshments 3:00 pm Ford 300

A Root-Unroot Algorithm for Nonparametric Density

Estimation and an Implementation via Adaptive Wavelet

Block Threshholding

Thursday, May 1, 2008

3:30 – 4:30 pm Ford 155

Refreshments 3:00 pm Ford 300

abstracts for each lecture are on separate flyers