Statistics is still a young discipline with several different and competing paths in its approaches and founda-tions. The question of which methodology is best suited to this challenge is as important today as it has been for almost the entire history of Statistics. Over the last six years, BFF meetings have served as a venue for researchers and practitioners to share ideas, update research progress, highlight important open problems in both theory and implementation, and most importantly discuss future directions of such research.
This workshop aims to bring together experts who are committed to the development of bridges between the three major approaches towards statistical inference, namely, Bayesian, frequentist and fiducial (BFF), with the aim of developing a firm foundation for the challenges of statistical inference in our data centric world. Emphasis is given to methodology, computation and the philosophical issues concerning the BFF foundations.
We dedicate this conference to Don Fraser’s 95th birthday. Don is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto and is widely recognized as a pioneer of Foundational Statistics.
Everyone, including organizers, speakers, funded participants, non-funded participants, postdocs, students, etc., is expected to
register and pay the appropriate fees. To purchase a ticket for the Conference Dinner, click
here.
Present Your Work at the
Poster Sessions in the atrium of the Fields Institute.
The conference program will be updated here once available.
List of Invited Speakers
Sara Algeri (University of Minnesota)
Atocha Aliseda (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
Mylène Bédard (Université de Montréal)
Jeffrey Blume (Vanderbilt University)
Trevor Campbell (University of British Columbia)
Jennifer Carr (University of California, San Diego)
Radu Craiu (University of Toronto)
Haosui Duanmu(University of California, Berkeley)
Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M University)
Berge Englert (National University of Singapore)
Michael Evans (University of Toronto)
Paul Garthwaite (The Open University)
Konstantin Genin (University of Toronto)
Shirin Golchi (Simon Fraser University)
Ruobin Gong (Rutgers University)
Jan Hannig (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
John D Kalbfleisch (University of Michigan)
Todd Kuffner (Washington University in St Louis)
Eric Laber (North Carolina State University)
Yao Li (University of California, Davis)
Xihong Lin (Harvard University)
Kristin Linn (University of Pennsylvania)
Regina Liu (Rutgers University)
Ryan Martin (North Carolina State University)
Conor Mayo-Wilson (University of Washington)
Per Mykland (University of Chicago)
Chaitra Nagaraja (Fordham University)
J.N.K. Rao (Carleton University)
Aaron Smith (University of Ottawa)
Peter Song (University of Michigan)
Leah South Price (Lancaster University)
Philip Stark (University of California, Berkeley)
Sofia Villar (University of Cambridge)
Liberty Vittert (Washington University in St Louis)
Judy Wang (George Washington University)
Peng Wang (University of Cincinnati)
Sandy Zabell (Northwestern University)
