Fordham symposium on ridge regression:introduction

Abstract

The symposium was held on July 26 and 27, 1983 at the scenic top floor Faculty Lounge of the Leon Lowenstein Center, a part of the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University in New York. It was attended by about forty people from all over, as represented by the affiliations of the authors. This issue of Communications in Statisticsis devoted to the Fordham symposium. This introduction is limited to an overview with highlights, since abstracts accompany the papers.

The “call for papers” issued in November 1982 indicated that ridge methods and multicollinearity problems would be the main theme, and that both methodological and applied papers will be included.