Friday September 30 at 13.30 hrs (coffee at 13.00) in
Auditorium at Tinbergen Institute,
Gustav Mahlerplein 117 in Amsterdam (Straigh south of station
Amsterdam South: two big yellow towers, go between
them. Take east tower, south entrance)
The
p-value Debate
A must for anyone interested in
statistics and/or econometrics.
Farewell
symposium of Dr.
A.F. (Aart) de Vos for which he wrote:
"how to use the p-value in making decisions"
(I
seem to have too little paint in my cans. It is significant. What should I do?)
The classical significance test reinterpreted
A bridge between Bayesians and frequentists
With an
all-star set of speakers (key
phrases between brackets)
Prof. J.O. (Jim) Berger (could Fisher, Jeffreys and Neyman have agreed on testing?)
Prof. J.M. (Jose)
Bernardo (Objective Bayesian Hypothesis testing)
Prof. A.
(Tony) O’Hagan (Subjective Bayes, “no more
p-values”)
Prof. P.D.
(Peter) Grünwald (Bayes Factors and Truth
Finding)
Prof M.K.
(Marc) Francke (What have Unit Root tests to do with an important decision for pension
funds)
Coordination
Prof. S.J. (Siem Jan) Koopman
Debate led
by Prof. A.W. (Aad)
van der Vaart
Reception
17.30 hrs.
Sign in by mail hedda.werkman@vu.nl
Optional Morning Program (VU, 10.15-12.00 hrs. 15-A-02): what is this all about?
Limited space!. Sign in by
mail to hedda.werkman@vu.nl with
subject “Morning Course”.