Tuesday, 26 October 2004

Statistical Inference in Quantum Mechanics
Jos Uffink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
12:05 pm, 817R Cathedral of Learning

Abstract:  Starting from the likelihood principle and Fisher's notion of intrinsic accuracy in the inference of parameters that label statistical hypotheses, one obtains a natural choice of distance between probability measures.  This so-called "statistical distance" thus emerges in a completely classical context but has nice applications in quantum mechanics, in particular for the formulation of the uncertainty relations.