Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series: "From A Cauchy Surprise to The Half-Cauchy Miracle"

Name: Statistics and Data Science Seminar Series: "From A Cauchy Surprise to The Half-Cauchy Miracle"
Start: 2026-10-23T11:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-10-23T12:00:00-05:00
Location: Chambers Hall, Ruan Conference Room – lower level

Friday, October 23, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT

Chambers Hall, Ruan Conference Room – lower level, 600 Foster St, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

From A Cauchy Surprise to The Half-Cauchy Miracle

Xiao-Li Meng, Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics, Harvard University

Abstract: This talk follows the path from Pillai and Meng (2016, Annals of Statistics), “ An unexpected encounter with Cauchy and Levy” to Liu, Meng, and Pillai (2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01065) “A Heavily Right Strategy for Integrating Dependent Studies in Any Dimension”, inviting the audiences to join a journey to explore an emerging and mystic force in principled statistical inference in arbitrarily high dimensions: heavy-tail approximations.

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