Applied Statistics Center

Title: PRIISM “Statistics in Society” Lecture – “Forecasting Large Panel Data with Penalized Least-Squares”Location: New York University, Kaufman Management Center, Room KMC 5-80, 44 West 4th Street, New York CityDescription: We would like to bring to your attention the following talk, a PRIISM Center “Statistics in Society” lecture, co-sponsored by Stern’s IOMS Department, THIS FRIDAY […]

Title: Workshop – Brain “decoding”: Classifying and predicting mental states from brain activity Location: 501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University Link out: Click here Description: This workshop is part of the Department of Statistics special focus series on Statistical Methods in Neuroscience. There is a growing interest in using fMRI data as a tool for classification […]

Title: Columbia-Oxford Risk SummitLocation: Davis Auditorium, 412 Schapiro CenterLink out: Click hereDescription: Hosted by The Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Department at Columbia University and Oxford University The Risk Summit features a group of distinguished speakers from Columbia University, Oxford University, and practitioners from leading financial firms, in an informal setting aimed at fostering communication […]

Title: Stereotype threat as a source of measurement bias in cognitive ability tests Location: New York University Kimball Hall (246 Greene St.) 607W.Description: Speaker: Jelte M. Wicherts – University of Amsterdam Abstract: Perhaps the most important issue in research of stereotype threat is whether it artificially lowers performance of stereotyped groups on real-life cognitive tests. […]