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SUMMARY:[Archimedeans] Bayesian Inference and the Bernstein-von-Mises Theo
 rem - Dr. Richard Nickl (STATSLAB)
DTSTART:20160129T190000Z
DTEND:20160129T200000Z
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CONTACT:Jason Kwong
DESCRIPTION:In this talk I will discuss the history of a beautiful theorem
  from mathematical statistics that reconciles these two paradigms from a f
 requentist point of view: The Bernstein-von Mises phenomenon\, which was f
 irst discovered by Laplace in a simple case and worked out as a general th
 eorem by mathematicians in the 20th century\, states that Bayesian inferen
 ce based on the posterior distribution is actually `in most cases frequent
 ist optimal’\, in a sense I will explain. \n
LOCATION:A1.06 Wolfson Lecture  Room \, CMS\, Wilberforce Road\, Cambridge
 \, CB3 0WB
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