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Lectures on Algebraic Statistics

Lectures on Algebraic Statistics

Sturmfels, Bernd
Drton, Mathias
Sullivant, Seth

Paperback

Series: Oberwolfach Seminars, Book 39

GeometryProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 3764389044
ISBN13: 9783764389048
Publisher: Birkhauser
Published: Dec 10 2008
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.71 Depth: 9.45
Language: English

How does an algebraic geometer studying secant varieties further the understanding of hypothesis tests in statistics? Why would a statistician working on factor analysis raise open problems about determinantal varieties? Connections of this type are at the heart of the new field of algebraic statistics. In this field, mathematicians and statisticians come together to solve statistical inference problems using concepts from algebraic geometry as well as related computational and combinatorial techniques. The goal of these lectures is to introduce newcomers from the different camps to algebraic statistics. The introduction will be centered around the following three observations: many important statistical models correspond to algebraic or semi-algebraic sets of parameters; the geometry of these parameter spaces determines the behaviour of widely used statistical inference procedures; computational algebraic geometry can be used to study parameter spaces and other features of statistical models.

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