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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Bill Press of “Numerical Recipes
in C” speaking at PICASso today.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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picasso-bounces@lists.cs.princeton.edu
[mailto:picasso-bounces@lists.cs.princeton.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Cecile
Huttenhower<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 24, 2008 9:12 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> picasso-faculty@lists.cs.princeton.edu;
picasso@lists.cs.princeton.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PICASso] TODAY - What Is a Statistical Model and When Do I
Need One?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>** PICASso:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>** Program in Integrative Information, Computer and
Application Sciences<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>** www.cs.princeton.edu/picasso<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>**<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>** TALK TODAY -- Monday, November 24, 2008<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Interdisciplinary Computational Seminars<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>http://www.cs.princeton.edu/picasso/computational_lunch.php<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>TITLE: What Is a Statistical Model and
When Do I Need One? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>SPEAKER: Bill Press, CS, U. Texas<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>TIME: Monday, November 24, 2008<o:p></o:p></p>
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Seminar begins at 12:30 p.m. (lunch provided ~12:20)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>LOCATION: Room 104, Computer Science, Princeton University<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>ABSTRACT:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Whether by differential equations (ODEs or PDEs) or
algebraic systems of equations, computational science traffics mainly in
deterministic models of physical systems. While we sometimes make the mistake
of thinking that the model "is" the physical system, it is always
only an abstract, and approximate, representation. Statistical models are a
different kind of abstraction, not for the deterministic part of a system, but
for how it interacts with physical stochasticity and/or with Bayesian priors
expressing imperfect knowledge. This talk compares statistical and
deterministic models, using examples drawn from cosmology and bioinformatics.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>SIGN UP FOR THE PICASSO MAILING LIST:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>=====================================<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>WHO MAY BE INTERESTED IN THIS EVENT, OR FUTURE PROGRAMS.
THANKS!<o:p></o:p></p>
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