{"48997":{"#nid":"48997","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Distinguished Lecture: \u0027Learning from the Experiences of Others\u0027","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Industrial and Systems Engineering welcomes Bradley Efron, Max H. Stein Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, as the featured guest for its 2010 Distinguished Lecture.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003EFamiliar statistical estimates such as batting \naverages, political polls, and medical trial results are obtained by \ndirect observation of cases of interest. Sometimes, though, we can \nlearn from the experience of \u0022others\u0022: for instance there may be \ninformation about Player A\u0027s batting ability in the observed averages \nof Players B, C, and D. In his presentation, Professor Efron will \npresent several examples showing how this works in practice, \nindicating some of the surprising theoretical ideas involved. The \ntalk is mainly descriptive in nature, and is intended for a general \nscientific audience.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbout Dr. Efron:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBradley Efron is the Max H. Stein Professor of Statistics and\nBiostatistics at Stanford University\u0027s School of Humanities and \nSciences and the Department of Health Research and Policy with the \nSchool of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate work in \nmathematics at the California Institute of Technology, and earned his \ndoctorate in statistics from Stanford in 1964, joining the Stanford \nfaculty that same year. He was Associate Dean for the School of \nHumanities and Sciences from 1987 to 1990, served a term as Chair of \nthe Faculty Senate as well as three terms as Chair of the Department \nof Statistics, and continues as Chairman of the Mathematical and \nComputational Sciences Program. He has served as president of the \nAmerican Statistical Association and of\nthe Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is a past editor of the \u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Journal of the American Statistical Association \u003C\/em\u003Eand is presently \nthe founding editor of the \u003Cem\u003E\u0026nbsp;Annals of Applied Statistics.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u003C\/em\u003EAmong the numerous honors that Efron has received are Fellowships of \nthe American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Statistical \nAssociation, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Royal \nStatistical Society, the International Statistical Institute and the \nMacArthur Fellows Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur \nFoundation. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, \na recipient of the Ford Prize of the Mathematical Association of \nAmerica and of both the Wilks Medal and the Noether Prize of the \nAmerican Statistical Association. Efron was awarded the 1998 Parzen  Prize for Statistical Innovation by Texas A\u0026amp;M University, and the first-ever \nRao Prize for outstanding research in statistics by Pennsylvania \nState University in 2003. He received the 2005 National Medal of \nScience \u0022for his contributions to theoretical and applied statistics, \nespecially the bootstrap sampling technique; for his extraordinary \ngeometric insight into nonlinear statistical problems; and for \napplications in medicine, physics and astronomy.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Industrial and Systems Engineering welcomes Bradley Efron, Max H. 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