Conveners
Award Session: Best Manager Award and Young Statistician Award, + Pandemic recipients of these categories
- Biagio Palumbo (Università di Napoli Federico II)
Advancing the spread and practice of statistics enhances an organization’s ability to successfully achieve their mission. While there are well-known examples of corporate leadership mandates to employ statistical concepts, more often the spread of statistical concepts flourishes more effectively through the practice of statistical influence. At first glance, the term influence may seem to...
In recent years, active subspace methods (ASMs) have become a popular means of performing subspace sensitivity analysis on black-box functions. Naively applied, however, ASMs require gradient evaluations of the target function. In the event of noisy, expensive, or stochastic simulators, evaluating gradients via finite differencing may be infeasible. In such cases, often a surrogate model is...