International Workshop on
Robust Statistics and
26-28 October 2005, TREVISO (Italy)

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Robust Statistics deals with a very real problem in statistical applications: the effect of violations to the model used to analyze the data. The last 40 years have seen tremendous advancements in the theory of Robust Statistics, but unfortunately many of these procedures are not widely used in practice yet. One reason that contributes to the limited use of Robust Statistics is the heavy computational cost of many of these techniques. The lack of easy to use and well documented computer code does not help either.

In the last few years the consolidation of the R-project as a widely available, powerful and versatile computer program for statistical analysis has resulted in many people simultaneously developing and publishing R code that implements Robust Statistics techniques.

One of the main goals of this workshop is to organize the development of tools in R that would implement Robust Statistics methods for many widely used models. We plan to discuss (and hopefully agree) on a set of guidelines that can unify to some extent the many different software development practices currently used by multiple research groups around the world.

The workshop will take place between 26-28 October 2005. The schedule includes a day of introductory tutorials, followed by two days of short presentations, discussion sessions and working groups.

The workshop is organized by:

Department of Statistics Ca' Foscari University, Venice, Italy www.dst.unive.it

it is sponsored by:

Ca' Foscari University Venice, Italy www.unive.it

and it is supported by:

	R Foundation www.r-project.org/foundation/main.html
	European Science Foundation http://www.esf.org/

This page was written by Claudio Agostinelli
Last modified: Mon Jul 11 14:28:25 CEST 2005