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Dept. Seminar - William Q. Meeker

Feb 5, 2018 - 4:10 PM
to Feb 5, 2018 - 5:00 PM

William G. Meeker
Department of Statistics
Iowa State University

 

Statistical Intervals Vive La Differénce!

In 1991, Wiley published Statistical Intervals: A Guide for Practitioner, by Gerry Hahn and William Meeker. The main purposes of this book were to explain and illustrate the differences among different kinds of statistical intervals (confidence, tolerance, and prediction) and to show how such intervals can be computed under different assumed distributions (e.g., normal, binomial, Poisson, and distribution-free). Due to the success of this book, encouragement from the publisher, and mainly the many technical advances that have been made in the past 25 years, Gerry and Bill, now joined by Luis Escobar, have finished a second edition of this book. In this talk I will briefly review the different kinds of statistical intervals and their uses. The major focus of this talk, however, is to describe some of the many advances made in the past 25 years such as the development of three versatile, general approaches (likelihood-based, bootstrap/simulation-based, and Bayesian-based) to construct statistical intervals for a wide variety of different models, distributions, and types of data. New intervals methods for discrete distributions (binomial and Poisson) and distribution-free intervals will also be reviewed.


Refreshments at 3:45pm in Snedecor 2101.