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SUMMARY:Honorary Lecture: What is Evidence?
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Stephan Morgenthaler\nWhat is Evidence?\nBy evidence we 
 mean facts that attempt to confirm a belief. This is a central term in the
  realm of law and is now much used in the history\, philosophy and practic
 e of science.\nWe live in a period of strong growth of experimental and ob
 servational (empirical) knowledge and of learning from data. Maybe it is e
 ven true that the age of grand theories is past. Statistical theories of e
 xperimentation and evidence offer a pragmatic approach to the challenge of
  separating anecdotal observations from findings that provide evidentiary 
 support. This is the topic we will explore in this talk.\nMany of us were 
 taught that the scientific method consists in formulating beliefs about a 
 phenomenon in the form of testable hypotheses\, which can be checked by tr
 ying to disprove them with clever experiments. In this manner\, broader th
 eories may over time be constructed (learned and formulated)\, falsified o
 r even confirmed.\nSuch empiricism as a common-sense approach to scientifi
 c inquiry has a long history and has inspired the statistical methods of e
 xploration and confirmation through data analysis\, design of experiments 
 and hypothesis as well as significance testing. The main foundations of st
 atistical evidence are the accounting for and the elimination of errors an
 d the construction of adequate models.\n\nBiography\nProf. Stephan Morgent
 haler received his diploma in mathematics from ETH Zürich in 1979 and his
  PhD in statistics from Princeton University in 1983 under the guidance of
  John Tukey. He then accepted an Instructor position at MIT’s mathematic
 s department before becoming Assistant Professor at Yale University in 198
 4\, where he was promoted to Associate Professor in 1987. He moved to EPFL
  as Associate Professor in 1988 and became Full Professor in 1991. He has 
 held many administrative roles at EPFL\, including Chairman of the Mathema
 tics Department and Director of the Mathematics Section. Among many extern
 al activities he has been President of the Swiss Statistical Society and V
 ice-President of the International Statistical Institute.\n 
LOCATION:Auditoire CO1 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CO%201
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