Persi Diaconis - Chance and Evidence
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In this lecture Persi Diaconis will take a look at some of our most primitive images of chance – flipping a coin, rolling a roulette wheel and shuffling cards – and via a little bit of mathematics (and a smidgen of physics) show that sometimes things are not very random at all. Indeed chance is sometimes confused with frequency and this confusion carries over to a confusion between chance and evidence. All of which explains our wild misuse of probability and statistical models.
Persi Diaconis is the co-author of ‘Ten Great Ideas about Chance (2017) and is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University.
5-6pm
Mathematical Institute
Oxford
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Date:
5 September 2018, 17:00 (Wednesday, 20th week, Trinity 2018)
Venue:
Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG
Venue Details:
Lecture Theatre 1
Speaker:
Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
Organising department:
Mathematical Institute
Organiser:
Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
lumbard@maths.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Dyrol Lumbard (University of Oxford)
Part of:
Oxford Mathematics Public Lectures
Booking required?:
Required
Booking email:
external-relations@maths.ox.ac.uk
Cost:
n/a
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Dyrol Lumbard