The topic of the School is on "Nonparametric Methods for Practitioners: Theory with Applications in R". Jeffrey Racine, Chair Professor in the Dept of Economics, McMaster University, Canada, will be the Distinguished Guest Professor. Up to 30 students will be accepted to the program. Jeffrey Racine is currently a Professor in the Department of Economics and a Professor in the Graduate Program in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. He occupies the Senator William McMaster Chair in Econometrics and is a Fellow of Journal of Econometrics. His research interests include nonparametric estimation and inference, cross-validatory model selection, frequentist model averaging, nonparametric instrumental methods, and entropy-based measures of dependence and their statistical underpinnings. He is also interested in parallel distributed computing paradigms and their application to computationally intensive nonparametric estimators.

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