\documentclass[11pt]{article} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\evensidemargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\textwidth}{6.5truein} \setlength{\topmargin}{0.0truein} \setlength{\textheight}{9.0truein} \setlength{\headsep}{0.0truein} \setlength{\headheight}{0.0truein} \setlength{\topskip}{10.0pt} \setlength{\parskip}{5mm} \usepackage{url} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amssymb} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{center} \textbf{\Large{\textsc{STANFORD UNIVERSITY}}}\\[5pt] \textbf{\Large{\textsc{DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS}}}\\[5pt] \Large{\textsc{DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR}} \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Time of talk", % "Weekday", and "Date of talk". An example is provided. % If you are not sure about this, just skip this part. \begin{center} 4:15, Tuesday, October 2, 2007\\ %% Example: 4:15 p.m., Tuesday, February 13, 2007\\ Sequoia Hall Room 200\\ (Cookies at 3:45 in 1st Floor Lounge) \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Name of the speaker" with your % name, "Department Affiliation" with your department affiliation, and %"University Affiliation" with your university affiliation. \begin{center} \textsl{Persi Diaconis} \\ Statistics Department\\ Stanford University \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Title of the talk" % with your title of the talk. \begin{center} \subsection*{Conditional Inference: Fisher, Neyman, and Bayes} \end{center} % In the following statements, replace "Abstract of the talk" % with your abstract. \noindent Conditional inference is one of the thorny problems of classical statistics. It can also lead to hard math problems, things like generating from logistic regression models given the sufficient statistics lead to "algebraic statistics." In this talk, I will briefly sketch how these ideas can be extended to continuous variants (test if the data is from some gamma, scale and shape unknown). I will also revisit the Bayesian approach and show how the likelihood principle is usually misused. There is still lots to think about. All of this is joint work with Susan Holmes. \end{document}