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----------------------------------------------- Date: Friday 12 November 2010 at 3pm Location: 4312 JCMB ----------------------------------------------- Frank Coolen (University of Durham) "Nonparametric predictive inference for lifetime data" Abstract Nonparametric predictive inference (NPI) is based on only few assumptions, enabled by the use of lower and upper probabilities to quantify uncertainty. We give a brief overview of NPI for real-valued observations, including the way that NPI deals with right-censored data (providing a predictive alternative to the well-known Kaplan-Meier estimator). We will consider comparison of groups of lifetime data and also NPI for data resulting from competing risks. (Some information on NPI is available from www.npi-statistics.com) Tea and coffee will be available after the seminar in the Mathematics Common Room (5212). The webpage for the seminar: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~nbochkin/StatisticsSeminar.html -- Dr Natalia Bochkina Lecturer in Statistics School of Mathematics King’s Buildings University of Edinburgh Mayfield Road Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ Tel: 0131 650 8597 Email: [log in to unmask] Webpage: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~nbochkin/ -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. You may leave the list at any time by sending the command SIGNOFF allstat to [log in to unmask], leaving the subject line blank.