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IBM Data Science Experience / Overview of the Watson Data Platform Abstract: This presentation is the first in a sequence in which software providers, commercial or not, will present software environments for data science. Such software environments go beyond single tools or languages but...

An introduction into the asymptotic theory of statistical experiments by Professor Marc Hallin, ULB    Dates   1/12, 8/12 and 11/12 at the ISBA, UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve   Registration There is no need to register, you can simply show up on the first day....

An alternative ranking for national soccer teams based on strength parameters Abstract: The FIFA ranking of national (male) soccer teams suffers from various drawbacks that cause heated debates, all-the-more as this ranking governs the seating in the international tournaments and the...

Accelerating the convergence rate of Monte Carlo integration through ordinary least squares Abstract: In numerical integration, control variates are commonly used to reduce the variance of the naive Monte Carlo method. The control functions can be viewed as explanatory variables in a linear...