Luc Demortier (The Rockefeller University) 
   Bayesian Statistics from Subjective Quantum Probabilities 
                 to Objective Data Analysis
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In physics, the influence of Bayesian ideas is currently manifesting 
itself in two areas: the interpretation of quantum probabilities and 
the analysis of experimental data.  After briefly commenting on recent 
research in quantum information science, this seminar will discuss 
the application of objective Bayesian techniques to data analysis. 
In particular we will concentrate on reference analysis, a unified 
approach to the calculation of objective priors, point and interval 
estimates, and hypothesis tests.  Reference analysis enjoys several 
features that should make it attractive to physicists: its procedures 
are very general and always yield proper posterior distributions,
they are invariant under parameter transformations, they avoid the 
so-called marginalization paradoxes, and they yield good frequentist 
coverage under repeated sampling.