The Institute for Statistics and Mathematics is pleased to invite you to the next research seminar, taking place on campus:

Xinwei Shen (Seminar for Statistics, ETH Zürich)
Distributional Learning: From Methodology to Applications
Wednesday, November 13, 2024, 17:30, Building D4, Room D4.0.127

Abstract:
Estimating the full (conditional) distribution is crucial to many applications. However, existing methods such as quantile regression typically struggle with high-dimensional response variables. To this end, distributional learning models the target distribution via a generative model, which enables inference via sampling. In this talk, we introduce a distributional learning method called engression. We then demonstrate the applications of engression to several statistical problems including extrapolation in nonparametric regression, causal effect estimation, and dimension reduction, as well as scientific problems such as climate downscaling.

We aim to stream all on-campus talks via Zoom. A direct link to the stream will be posted on our website.

For further information and the seminar schedule, please see:
www.wu.ac.at/en/statmath/research/resseminar