Postdoc: Use Parallel Computers to Help Solve Computationally Intensive Problems in Statistical Design and Analysis

9504041哈德威克这项建议涉及使用并行计算机来帮助解决统计设计和分析中计算密集的问题。所考虑的设计是连续的，这意味着设计参数可以在实验期间根据已经收集的观察结果而改变。这种设计可以提供显著的成本效益，但由于它们需要进行复杂的分析，而且进行起来也很复杂，因此没有得到充分的利用。这项研究通过考虑明显更容易实施但几乎同样最佳的程序来解决这些困难。计算仍然是一个主要的障碍，特别是因为一个人需要解决的问题需要结合顺序设计和计算密集型自举。

9504041 Hardwick This proposal concerns the use of parallel computers to help solve computationally intensive problems in statistical design and analysis. The designs considered are sequential, meaning that a design parameters can be altered during the experiment in response to the observations already gathered. Such designs can offer significant cost benefits, but are insufficiently utilized due to the complex analyses they require and the fact they are complicated to conduct. This research attacks these difficulties by considering procedures that are significantly easier to conduct, yet nearly as optimal. The computations are still a major hurdle, especially because the problem one needs to solve require combining sequential designs and computationally intensive bootstrapping.