Antoine Suleyman (Dahr Safra-Syrie 17 janvier 1943 - Stavropol-Russie 24 avril 2012)

Joshua Wallman 1943–2012

Josh Wallman was many things – a neuroscientist, an ornithologist, a teacher, a mentor, a gourmet, a joker. He pioneered the use of the avian model for understanding eye growth, and made invaluable contributions to vision research and the field of myopia. He will be remembered for his promotion of young researchers, his scientific acumen, and also his wit, which never faltered. Josh succumbed t...

Thèse soutenue publiquement le 24 Janvier 2012 devant le jury composé de:

Remembering Dave Waltz (1943-2012)

Glottometrics 24, 2012

In this paper the 1-displaced geometric distribution has been fitted to the ranked distribution of classes of the strong verbs in German. The classes are defined by the different vocalic alternations of the verbs. This way the paper brings a further corroboration of the hypothesis that diversification processes abide by laws. Vadim S. Baevskij Non-traditional approach to the study of the rhythm...

Lecture 17 : March 24 Lecturer

In the previous lecture we defined Sufficient Statistics, which capture all information in the data relevant to estimating a desired parameter (hopefully, in a concise way). Motivated by the fact that useful sufficient statistics (i.e., those with dimension independent of sample size) only exist for certain (i.e., exponential family) distributions, we defined two more general notions, the Rate ...