This year, the French Statistical Society (SFDS) Prix Laplace has been granted to Luc Devroye, author of the Non-Uniform Random Generation bible. among many achievements!, prize that he will receive during the 2019 meeting in Nancy, this very week.
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Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Bible code, Canada, France, McGill University, Montréal, Nancy, Non-Uniform Random Variate Generation, prize, Québec, SFDS on June 5, 2019 by xi'anSeminar in Nancy
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags Annals of Statistics, Bayesian model choice, Dickey-Savage ratio, Elie Cartan, Nancy on January 13, 2010 by xi'anOn Thursday, January 14, I am giving a seminar in Nancy, Institut Elie Cartan, at 10:45. The slides are those of the talk I could not give in Warwick.
Given that it seems to be primarily a probability seminar, I will insist on the Savage-Dickey paradox to see if the audience gets the point, contrary to the Annals’ screeners [post available on January 16!]
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