IASS - Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics
| Datum | 23 Mar 2026 |
| Tijd | 13:00 CET - 14:30 CET |
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| Instructor |
Rod Little
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| Registration fee | |
The talk is will be about some of the key ideas in Rod Little's recent book “Seminal Ideas and Controversies in Statistics.” including likelihood methods versus estimating equations, the Bayes versus frequentist controversy and a resolution, random effects modeling, the dual role of randomisation in surveys and clinical trials, causal inference and alternative paradigms of survey inference.
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About the instructor
Rod Little is Richard D. Remington Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where he also holds emeritus appointments in the Department of Statistics and the Institute for Social Research. From 2010-2012 he was the inaugural Associate Director for Research and Methodology and Chief Scientist at the U.S. Census Bureau. He has over 250 publications, notably on methods for the analysis of data with missing values and model-based survey inference, and the application of statistics to diverse scientific areas, including medicine, demography, economics, psychiatry, aging and the environment. Little is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine. In 2005, Little was awarded the American Statistical Association’s Wilks Medal for research contributions, and he gave the President’s Invited Address at the Joint Statistical Meetings. He was the COPSS Fisher Lecturer at the 2012 Joint Statistics Meetings.