Current and Future Trends in Nonparametrics Conference 2007

2007年10月11日至12日将举行关于“非参数统计的当前和未来趋势”的国际会议。这次会议是由国家统计科学研究所联合主办的。它将由国际知名研究人员进行四次全体演讲。还将有八到十二个以话题为导向的会议，每个会议有四个特邀演讲。非参数统计方法是避免在科学研究中对潜在结构做出不切实际的假设的方法。无处不在的强大计算的出现，以及由自动数据收集和遥感产生的海量数据集的出现，将非参数方法带入了统计理论和实践的前沿。拟议会议的目标是介绍非参数统计中一些最重要的最新进展，并讨论未来的研究方向。预计这次会议将促进研究人员在非参数统计重要领域的互动和合作，从而导致非参数建模和推理的新的和更现代的方法的发展。

An international conference on `Current and Future Trends in Nonparametric Statistics' will be held October 11-12, 2007. The conference is co-sponsored by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. It will feature four plenary talks by internationally prominent researchers. There will also be eight to twelve topic-orientic sessions, each session having four invited talks. There will also be contributed session for junior investigators and graduate students.Nonparametric statistical methods are methods which avoid unrealistic assumptions about underlying structures in scientific studies. The advent of universally-accessible, powerful computing, and also of massive data sets arising from automated data collection and remote sensing, has brought nonparametric methods to the forefront of statistical theory and practice. The goal of the proposed conference is to present some of the most important recent advances in nonparametric statistics and to discuss future research directions. The conference is expected to accelerate interactions and collaborations among researchers in the important area of nonparametric statistics, and thereby lead to the development of new and more modern methods of nonparametric modeling and inference.