CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY



STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM




CONDITIONAL PROBABILITY

BRUCE M. HILL

University of Michigan


Friday, April 11,1997

3:30 pm - retreshments

4:00 pm - talk


Room 327, Yost Hall





Abstract


Some basic issues regarding conditional probability, both in the Bayesian framework, the Borel-von Neumann-Wald approach to decision-making, and the Kolmogorov theory, are formulated and discussed. The issues are illustrated by examples from survival analysis and tail-index estimation.