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Monday 6 December 1999 - 4pm, Room 122, Pearson Building Department of Statistical Science - University College London Speaker : Prof. Tom Fearn (UCL) Title : A Bayesian approach to variable selection in regression and discriminant analysis Abstract: The talk will describe a Bayesian decision theory approach to the selection of variables in regression and discrimination problems with very many explanatory variables. The approach trades off expected prediction or classification loss against a cost for the variables. The methods are applied to problems in near infrared spectroscopy. Useful Web sites: The programme of our statistical seminars is available at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Stats/research/journals.html Map with instructions on how to get to our department: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Stats/map.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- K. Skouras, Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom. Tel: 0171-4193652 Fax: 0171-7383 4703 e-mail: [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%