[gov3009-l] Wermuth Talk

Hi Everyone! Sorry for the late notice. Nanny Wermuth of the University of Mainz will be talking at our applied statistics seminar tomorrow. The topic of her talk will be: "On visualization and recursive relations in mathematics and statistics" Visual impressions can help to remember essential ideas as is recognized in mathematics with an increasing number of so-called proofs without words. Recursive relations can help to describe complex structures by utilisizing previous knowledge and results. For instance, Pascal's triangle combines both features. It is claimed and explored how building on both ideas can be fruitfully extended both in mathematics and statistics. Copies of related papers can be found on the course webpage. See you tomorrow! Shigeo __________________________________________________________________ Shigeo Hirano Political Economy and Government shirano(a)fas.harvard.edu Harvard University