Journée de Contact FNRS
Groupe Analyse Statistique
organised jointly with the
Three Country Corner
Local Group of the RSS
Recent Developments in
Non- and Semiparametric
Statistics
Tuesday, May 8, 2001
The Institute of Statistics of the UCL announces a one-day conference devoted to Non- and Semiparametric Statistics (with the support of the FNRS and of the Three Country Corner).
The participation is totally free. For our convenience, we would appreciate if you could fill out the enclosed registration form and send it back before May 1, 2001.
This meeting will take place in the building « Montesquieu », auditorium 01, located at
Louvain-la-Neuve. For those of you coming by car, the best place to park your car is parking 60 (open air). If coming by train, an on-line time table might be helpful.
A preliminary program is given below :
| 09:30-10:00 | Welcome | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Nils L. Hjort, University of Oslo, Norway | On distributions of means and jumps of Dirichlet processes |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Peter Hall, Australian National University, Australia | Testing for equality of distributions in very high dimensions |
| 12:30-14:15 | Lunch (list of restaurants will be provided) | |
| 14:15-15:15 | Michael Falk, Catholic University of Eichstätt, Germany | Estimation of the dependence function in bivariate EV and GP models |
| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee break | |
| 15:45-16:45 | Piet Groeneboom, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands | Multivariate interval censoring with applications to AIDS research |
For more details, please contact Ingrid Van Keilegom (Phone : +32-10-47.43.30, E-mail : vankeilegom@stat.ucl.ac.be) .