Talks

To Explain or To Predict? Talk @ Georgetown University

The talk is part of the Math (and Stat) Department's seminar series, and will take place on Friday Nov 30. For details click here.

"To Explain or To Predict?" @ Columbia Univ

I'll be presenting my work on the difference between explanatory and predictive modeling at Columbia University's Stat department PhD colloquim on Thursday Sept 17. This event is open to visitors, so feel free to drop in. A lively conversation is guaranteed. More details are available here

"The Challenge of Prediction in IS Research" -- Talk at Tel Aviv Univ's Recanati School of Management

This week I will be presenting a talk, based on our paper "The Challenge of Prediction in Information Systems Research", at the Recanati School of Management, Tel Aviv University. The talk will take place on Wednesday, Aug 12, at 12:30 in room 403. This talk is of interest to researchers in the social sciences who emply statistical modeling.

Visit to IIMC (Kolkata)

IIMC is the first residential business school that I have seen: all grad students live on campus! My gracious host Dean (cum statistician!) Saibal Chattopadhyay gave me a tour on campus and a "tour" of their different programs.

Talks at the Melbourne Business School and RMIT

"To Explain or To Predict?", presented at MBS and RMIT, was followed by lively discussions with audiences that included researchers from a wide range of academia: political science, behavioral science, medicine, ecology, economics, information systems, and statistics.

"To Explain or To Predict?" presented at Monash U's Econometrics & Business Statistics group

Prof Shmueli presented her work on "Explanatory Modeling vs. Predictive Modeling in Scientific Research" at the seminar series of the Econometrics & Business Economics group at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.

Visiting with Monash University

Prof Shmueli is visiting with the department of econometrics and business statistics at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia in Jan-Feb 2009.

Seminar @ U of Auckland: "Explanatory vs. Predictive Modeling in Scientific Research"

Prof. Shmueli gave a seminar on "Explanatory vs. Predictive Modeling in Scientific Research" at the Statistics department, University of Auckland, New Zealand. This is the largest statistics department in New Zealand.

Presented @ ISI: A Flexible Regression Model for Count Data

On Nov 25 Prof Shmueli presented her work on "A Flexible Regression Model for Count Data" (joint work with Prof Kimberly Sellers, Georgetown University) at the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India. During her visit with the Bayesian Interdisciplinary Research Unit there, she also visited the Mahalanobis museum.

Statistical Inference with Large Datasets

Dr. Shmueli will talk about Statistical Inference with Large (eCommerce) Datasets at the upcoming SCECR in NYU, May 18-19, 2008

 

Contact

Galit Shmuéli
Associate Professor of Statistics
Dept of Decision, Operations & Information Technologies
4361 Van Munching Hall
Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Phone: 301-405-9679
Fax: 301-405-8655
gshmueli@rhsmith.umd.edu

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