QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES SEMINAR - Tuesday 26 January

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

QUANTITATIVE LIFE SCIENCES SEMINAR

Tuesday, 26 January - 14:00
Central Area, 2nd Floor- ICTP, old SISSA Building

Speaker: Isaac Perez Castillo, Department of Complex Systems, Institute 
of Physics UNAM, Mexico

Title: "A Bayesian Model-Selection-Method as a Criterion for Algorithmic 
Randomness "


Abstract:

In this talk I discuss a novel methodology using Bayesian inference to 
assess how random a sequence of symbols is. Our test assigns a 
likelihood to all possible models that may have generated a given 
sequence and then selects the model with the higher likelihood. In this 
way we are able to infer whether the underlying process was either 
unbiased or not. In particular, when theoretically compared with Borel 
normality criterion from algorithmic theory of information and the NIST 
suite, our method shows a statistical more robust and stricter criterion.

Web page: http://indico.ictp.it/event/7772/

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Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
e-mail:qls at ictp.it