| Pieter Allaart | Department of Mathematics, University of North Texas | Prophet inequalities for i.i.d. random variables with random arrival times | Prophet Inequalities | |
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Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
An index of riskiness |
Game Theory |
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| Maya Bar Hillel | Department of Psychology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | How to detect lies with statistics |
Applied Statistics |
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Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania |
A contemporary view of Empirical Bayes procedures |
Empirical Bayes Procedures | ||
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Department of Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
A continuous time version of Robbins' Problem (fourth classical secretary problem) |
Secretary problems |
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| Herman Chernoff | Department of Statistics, Harvard University | The effect of fasting during Ramadan on automobile accidents in Turkey | Applied Statistics | |
| Israel David | Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, Ben Gurion University of the Negev | On the multi-item full-information secretary problem | Secretary problems | |
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Department of Mathematics, UCLA |
The House-Hunting Problem Without Second Moments |
Optimal Stopping |
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Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut | Variable window spatial scan statistics | Applied Statistics | |
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Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California |
A curious connection between branching processes and optimal stopping. |
Optimal Stopping |
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| Eitan Greenshtein | Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, Research Triangle Park, NC | Estimation of a high dimensional vector of means; A Non-Bayesian Empirical Bayes approach | Empirical Bayes Procedures | |
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Department of Mathematics, Uppsala University |
WLLN, the St Petersburg game, CLT and Gnedenko-Raikov's theorem |
Probability |
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Center for Rationality, Department of Mathematics and Department of Economics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Evolutionarily stable strategies of random games and random points in the plane |
Game theory |
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Department of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Optimal stopping and prophet problems: convexity and applications |
Prophet Inequalities |
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| Abram Kagan | Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland | Behavior of the Fisher information under additive perturbations and properties of the Pitman estimators in small samples | Theory of Statistics | |
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Department of Mathematics, Columbia University |
Some new approaches to the problem of optimal stopping |
Optimal Stopping |
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| Yuri Kifer | Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Optimal stopping and strong approximation theorems | Probability | |
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Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania |
Pranks (Seriesly): Sequential selection based on ranks |
Secretary problems |
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| Vladimir V. Mazalov | Institute of Applied Mathematical Research, Karelia Research Center | Selection by committee in the best choice problem with rank criterion | Secretary problems | |
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Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University |
The height achieved by random walk prior to a given drawdown |
Probability |
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Department of Statistics, Stanford University |
Semiparametric families for lifetime data |
Distribution theory |
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Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University |
United Statistics: parameter confidence quantiles, duality Bayesian frequentist inference |
Bayesian Statistics |
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| Jerome K. Percus | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Physics, New York University | Inverse Simpson Paradox (how to win without overtly cheating) | Theory of Statistics | |
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University |
Can two wrongs make a right? Coin tossing games and Parrondo's Paradox |
Game Theory |
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| Danny Pfefferman | Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute | small area prophecy of literacy under a two part random effects model | Bayesian Statistics | |
| Moshe Pollak | Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Nonparametric detection of a change | Theory of Statistics | |
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Department of Mathematics, Keele University |
Some multiple stopping time problems |
Optimal Stopping |
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Central Economics and Mathematics Institute, Academy of Sciences of Russia |
Randomly evolving graphs and Gittins Type Index Theorem |
Dynamic Programming and Gambling |
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Department of Statistics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Smoothing and empirical Bayes methods in disclosure risk estimation |
Empirical Bayes Procedures |
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Department of Economics, University of Applied Sciences, Nordhausen |
Mathematical concepts: new ideas in a classical topic in the Philosophy of Mathematics |
Theory of Statistics |
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LUISS, Rome and HEC, Paris |
Simpson's paradox for the Cox model |
Theory of Statistics |
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| Moshe Shaked | Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona |
Conditional ordering and positive dependence |
Distribution theory | |
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Department of Statistics, Rutgers University |
How to gamble if you must, revisited |
Dynamic Programming and Gambling |
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Department of Statistics, Stanford University |
The variance of the conditional probability of the state of a hidden Markov model |
Theory of Statistics |
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Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
The elimination algorithm for the optimal stopping of Markov chain and its applications |
Optimal Stopping |
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Department of Mathematics, Osnabrueck University |
A Bayesian Sequential Selection Problem |
Bayesian Statistics |
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| Krzysztof Szajowski | Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wroclaw University of Technology | Bilateral approaches to optimal stopping of random sequences. | Secretary problems | |
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Department of Business Administration, Aichi University |
An optimal multiple selection problem with partial recall based on relative ranks |
Secretary problems |
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| Benjamin Weiss |
Department of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
On universal prediction for stationary stochastic processes |
Probability | |
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Department of Mathematical Sciences, Binghamton University |
Distributions of stopping times for compound Poisson processes and non-linear boundaries |
Distribution theory |
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Department of Statistics, Rutgers University |
Empirical Bayes and FDR |
Empirical Bayes Procedures |