Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013
Location: Nesbitt Room (4:00 PM to 5:00 PM)
Title: The Beauty of Statistical Tests
Abstract: I will discuss the rather beautiful and striking properties of the normal (Gaussian) distribution, and why it plays such a prominent role in statistics. I will relate the multivariable Gaussian distribution to finding the principal axes of an ellipse. Then I discuss the mathematics behind two famous statistical tests: the chi-squared test and the Student t test. (The talk is informal, no knowledge of probability theory is assumed.)
Speaker: Igor Kriz
Institution: Univ. of Michigan
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