John Kinney Memorial Lectureship Program

Dr. Jon D. Wellner is a mathematical statistician known for his research on efficiency bounds for semi-parametric models and limit theorems for stochastic processes of all types.

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• Technical talk and Reception

  • Nonparametric estimation of s- concave and log-concave densities: Alternatives to maximum likelihood.
  • Sept. 11, 2024, 4:00 - 7:30 p.m. | Wells Hall, Room B122

• • Introduction of monotone densities on R+, including a sketch of the limiting distribution of these MLE’s at a point, and a brief history leading up to what is now known as “Chernoff’s distribution."
  • Sept. 12, 2024, 10:20 AM | Wells Hall, Room C405
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