Our classical statistical arsenal often fails to extract truth from data or often fails to produce correct predictions. Uncertainty, blurry evidence and multiple possible solutions may trip up on even the best interrogator. Info-metrics – the science of modeling, reasoning, and drawing inferences under conditions of noisy and insufficient information – provides a consistent way for constructing models and theories with minimal assumptions. It gets the data to confess with minimal torture under careful supervision from the judge and jury.

This talk offers a non-mathematical introduction of the field of Info-metrics through several interdisciplinary, real world examples, while providing a brief overview of a new book Foundations of Info-Metrics: Modeling, Inference, and Imperfect Information (Amos Golan, Oxford University Press).

This event will take place at 3.40pm - 5pm on 20th February 2018 in the Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College, Oxford. 

3.40pm - Tea & Coffee

4pm - Talk 

4.45pm - Q&A 

Professor Amos Golan is a renowned scholar in economics, and an international leader on information-theoretic modelling and inference.

He is the director of Info-Metrics Institute and a full professor of Economics in American University, DC, USA. He is also an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a senior associate at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.