BIU learning club – Amichai Painsky – Inferring the Unseen

Location:Engineering building (1103), room 329Title:Inferring the UnseenAbstract:Consider a finite sample from an unknown distribution over a countable alphabet. Unobserved events are alphabet symbols which do not appear in the sample. Estimating the probabilities of unobserved events is a basic problem in statistics and related fields, which was extensively studied in the context of point estimation. ... Read more