Stats Seminars jointly organised by the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh and Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland.
If you have a question about this list, please contact:
- Ruben Amoros Salvador (ramoros)
- Stephen Catterall (v1scatte)
- Tim Cannings (tcannin2)
- Serveh Sharifi Far (ssharifi)
Each talk has an organiser. Please contact them in the first instance if you have a query about a particular talk. Only contact one of the people below if you have a question about the list, such as whether your talk or series could be added.
| High-performance importance sampling schemes for Bayesian inference |
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| Dr Victor Elvira (University of Edinburgh) |
| Fri 28 Feb 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 |
| Doubly Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes |
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| Dr Vincent Adam (Prowler.io) |
| Fri 07 Feb 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 |
| Estimating the Effect of Insurance on Doctor Visits by Copula-Based Regression Additive Models |
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| Dr Giampiero Marra (UCL) |
| Fri 17 Jan 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Latent (Hidden) Markov models and the LMest package in R |
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| Dr Fulvia Pennoni (University of Milano-Bicocca) |
| Fri 06 Dec 2019, 11:10 - 12:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Bayesian regression for group testing data |
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| Prof. Joshua M. Tebbs (University of South Carolina) |
| Thu 28 Nov 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 |
| An introduction to quantum state estimation |
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| Dr Madalin Guta (University of Nottingham) |
| Fri 22 Nov 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Is EM really necessary here? Some examples where EM seems over-elaborate |
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| Dr Iain L. MacDonald (University of Cape Town) |
| Fri 15 Nov 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5328 |
| Strategies for Multilevel Monte Carlo |
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| Prof Kody Law (University of Manchester) |
| Fri 08 Nov 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Crossing dependence in Gaussian processes in time, space, and space-time - some applications of a generalized Rice's formula |
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| Prof. Georg Lindgren (Lund University) |
| Fri 01 Nov 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) |
| A NONCONVEX VARIATIONAL APPROACH FOR ROBUST GRAPHICAL LASSO |
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| Dr Emilie Chouzenoux (INRIA Saclay, Paris) |
| Fri 25 Oct 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| CANCELLED: A semi-Markov approach to modelling age-dependent survival |
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| Dr Hannah Worthington (St. Andrews) |
| Fri 25 Oct 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Dynamic Programming in Change Point Detection in High-Dimensional Autoregression Problems |
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| Yi Yu (University of Warwick) |
| Fri 18 Oct 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Unbiased Estimation of the Gradient of the log-likelihood for Partially Observed Diffusions |
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| Prof Ajay Jasra (KAUST) |
| Thu 03 Oct 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Extremal dependence in a Hüsler–Reiss Markov tree |
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| Johan Segers (UCLouvain) |
| Fri 27 Sep 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Additive smooth models for big data |
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| Simon Wood (University of Bristol) |
| Mon 23 Sep 2019, 10:30 - 11:30 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 |
| A Loss-Based Prior for Variable Selection in Linear Regression Methods |
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| Dr Cristiano Villa (University of Kent) |
| Fri 20 Sep 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Using forest eco-system monitoring data to model tree health and mortality for investigating climate change effects |
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| Nicole Augustin (University of Bath) |
| Tue 17 Sep 2019, 11:00 - 11:55 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Convergence rates for optimised adaptive importance samplers |
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| Ömer Deniz Akyıldız (Alan Turing Institute) |
| Mon 16 Sep 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 |
| A D-Vine Copula-Based Model for Repeated Measurements |
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| Prof Claudia Czado (Technical University of Munich) |
| Fri 06 Sep 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Comparing Bayesian spatial models in the presence of spatial smoothing |
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| Dr Earl Duncan (Queensland University of Technology - ACEMS) |
| Mon 02 Sep 2019, 14:05 - 15:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 |
| On Choosing Mixture Components via Non-Local Priors |
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| Prof Mark Steel -- University of Warwick |
| Tue 28 May 2019, 14:05 - 15:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 |
| Optimisation methods for Bayesian inference: Application to Astro-Imaging |
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| Dr Audrey Repetti (Heriot-Watt University) |
| Fri 10 May 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Large numbers of explanatory variables |
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| Dr Heather Battey (Imperial College London) |
| Fri 03 May 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| High resolution mapping of childhood vaccination coverage in low and middle income countries using point-referenced and areal data |
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| Dr Chigozie Utazi - University of Southampton |
| Fri 26 Apr 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Combining citizen science and survey data in a log-Gaussian Cox process framework to estimate the monthly space-use of Southern Resident Killer Whales using R-INLA and inlabru |
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| Joe Watson -- University of British Columbia |
| Fri 26 Apr 2019, 14:00 - 14:45 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Emulation and Calibration of Complex Environmental System Simulators |
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| Michael Goldstein (University of Durham), Daniel Williamson (University of Exeter), Peter Young (University of Lancaster) |
| Thu 11 Apr 2019, 09:00 - 12:30 |
| JCMB 5328 |
| Evaluating Performance of Mean Estimators of Sensitive Variables under Measurement Errors with Respect to Efficiency and Respondent Privacy |
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| Prof. Sat Gupta - University of North Carolina |
| Fri 05 Apr 2019, 12:05 - 13:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Probabilistic symmetry and invariant neural networks |
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| Dr Benjamin Bloem-Reddy (University of Oxford) |
| Fri 29 Mar 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) |
| Real Time Decision Making for Infectious Disease Outbreaks |
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| Dr Mike Tildesley - University of Warwick |
| Fri 22 Mar 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces |
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| Dr Henry Reeve (University of Birmingham) |
| Fri 15 Mar 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Group invariance for objective prior elicitation in testing problems |
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| Anabel Forte - Universitat de València |
| Fri 01 Mar 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Modelling covariance matrices by the trigonometric separation strategy with applications to time series analysis |
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| Dr. Luigi Spezia - BioMathematics and Statistics Scotland |
| Fri 08 Feb 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Bayesian Cluster Analysis: Point Estimation and Credible Balls |
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| Dr Sara Wade - University of Edinburgh |
| Fri 01 Feb 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Efficient multivariate entropy estimation and independence testing |
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| Dr Thomas Berrett (University of Cambridge) |
| Fri 25 Jan 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| A Hierarchical Framework for Correcting Under-Reporting in Count Data |
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| Dr Theo Economou - University of Exeter |
| Fri 11 Jan 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 |
| CANCELLED 14/12/18 |
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| Prof. Gareth Peters - Heriot-Watt University |
| Fri 14 Dec 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| VENUE TO BE CONFIRMED |
| Maximising the potential of removal data |
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| Dr Rachel McCrea - University of Kent |
| Fri 07 Dec 2018, 14:05 - 15:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.46 |
| Scaled von Mises-Fisher distributions |
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| Prof Andrew Wood - University of Nottingham |
| Fri 30 Nov 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Location-adjusted Wald statistics |
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| Dr Ioannis Kosmidis - University of Warwick |
| Fri 23 Nov 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Bayesian prediction for physical models with application to the optimization of the synthesis of pharmaceutical products using chemical kinetics |
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| Dr Antony Overstall - University of Southampton |
| Fri 16 Nov 2018, 11:05 - 12:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 |
| Efficient, high-dimensional sampling using stochastic differential equations |
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| Prof Benedict Leimkuhler - University of Edinburgh |
| Fri 09 Nov 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 |
| The Rothamsted School meets Lord’s Paradox |
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| Prof. Stephen Senn |
| Fri 02 Nov 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Probabilistic and statistical analysis of the linear fractional stable motion |
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| Prof. Mark Podolskij - Aarhus University |
| Fri 26 Oct 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Room 5.10, Bayes Centre |
| Point processes – abstraction and practical relevance |
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| Janine Illian - University of St Andrews |
| Fri 19 Oct 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Classification with imperfect training labels |
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| Dr Tim Cannings - University of Edinburgh |
| Fri 28 Sep 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) |
| A re-appraisal of fixed-effect(s) meta-analysis |
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| Prof. Ken Rice - University of Washington, Dept of Biostatistics |
| Fri 14 Sep 2018, 14:35 - 15:30 |
| JCMB 5323 |
| Implicit Copulas from Bayesian Regularized Regression Smoothers |
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| Dr. Nadja Klein - University of Cologne |
| Wed 29 Aug 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 |
| JCMB 6201 |
