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Sponsor(s): IMS

Session Time: 4:00- 5:50 Sunday

Estimated Audience Size:

A/V Request: Two Overheads

Session Title: Local Learning: Modern Nonparametric Regression and Classification

Theme Session: No $\quad$ Applied Session: No

Organizer: Tibshirani, Rob  

Session Timing: Opening Remarks by Chair - 5 minutes First Speaker - 25 minutes Second Speaker - 25 minutes Third Speaker - 25 minutes Discussant - 10 minutes Floor Discussion - 10 minutes

Chair: TBN  

1. Theory and practice of boosting $\quad$ Schapire, Robert  

2. Locally Bagged Decision Trees $\quad$ Rao, J.S.  

$\quad$ Potts, W.J.E.  

3. Minimum Description Length and Extended Linear Modeling $\quad$ Hansen, Mark  

List of speakers who are nonmembers: