Date: Nov. 12, 3:30 pm in 4610 Engineering Hall Title: Interaction Point Processes Speaker: John A. Gubner, ECE Department Abstract: The sufficient statistic for the likelihood ratio test between pairwise interaction point processes is well-known. However, the evaluation of its performance is a challenging problem. In this talk it is shown that the distribution of the sufficient statistic can be approximated by the distribution of a Poisson-driven shot-noise random variable. This latter distribution can be readily computed using recently developed numerical methods.