NPCONF General Information

Home page General information Program information Other Information

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON

CURRENT ADVANCES AND TRENDS IN NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS

July 15-19, 2002 - Crete, Greece

GENERAL INFORMATION

Scope

The conference will highlight the major trends in several areas of nonparametric statistics, to facilitate the exchange of research ideas, promote collaboration among researchers from the US and Europe, and contribute to the further development of the field. The program will include special invited talks, review talks, invited talks and contributed talks on all areas of nonparametric statistics. Round table discussions will consider web based smoothing algorithms and approaches to teaching nonparametric statistics.

Main Conference Themes

The conference will focus on the following themes:

Algorithmic approaches to statistics
Bayesian methods in nonparametric statistics
Data mining
Dependent data: time series and spatial statistics
Functional data analysis
Goodness of Fit
Statistical computing, Graphics and Visualization
High-dimensional data
Nonparametric model building and inference
Nonparametric estimation under constraints
Nonparametrics in bioinformatics
Nonparametrics in finance
Nonparametrics in survival analysis
Resampling and subsampling methods
Wavelet methods

Organizers

Michael G. Akritas (Penn State University), Dimitris N. Politis (University of California, San Diego)

Advisory Committee

Click here for the advisory committee

Organizing Committee

Click here for the organizing committee

Location

The conference will be held in the Knossos Royal Village Conference Center, Limin Hersonissou, 700 14 Crete, Greece.
(This site is better viewed from Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Netscape from Unix will require that you download a Plugin).

Sponsors

National Science Foundation (USA)

National Security Agency (USA)

Ministry of Education and Religion (Greece)

Home page General information Program information Other Information