Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Stats Seminars jointly organised by the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh and Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland. *** PAST TALKS *** Friday 14 September 2018 A re-appraisal of fixed-effect(s) meta-analysis Prof. Ken Rice - University of Washington, Dept of Biostatistics Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 14 September 2018, 14:35 - 15:30 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1469/show Wednesday 29 August 2018 Implicit Copulas from Bayesian Regularized Regression Smoothers Dr. Nadja Klein - University of Cologne Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Wednesday 29 August 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 6201 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1472/show Friday 11 January 2019 A Hierarchical Framework for Correcting Under-Reporting in Count Data Dr Theo Economou - University of Exeter Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 11 January 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1499/show Friday 07 December 2018 Maximising the potential of removal data Dr Rachel McCrea - University of Kent Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 07 December 2018, 14:05 - 15:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.46 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1500/show Friday 14 December 2018 CANCELLED 14/12/18 Prof. Gareth Peters - Heriot-Watt University Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 14 December 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1501/show Friday 08 February 2019 Modelling covariance matrices by the trigonometric separation strategy with applications to time series analysis Dr. Luigi Spezia - BioMathematics and Statistics Scotland Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 08 February 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1502/show Friday 23 November 2018 Location-adjusted Wald statistics Dr Ioannis Kosmidis - University of Warwick Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 23 November 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1503/show Friday 30 November 2018 Scaled von Mises-Fisher distributions Prof Andrew Wood - University of Nottingham Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 30 November 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1545/show Friday 02 November 2018 The Rothamsted School meets Lord’s Paradox Prof. Stephen Senn Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 02 November 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1570/show Friday 16 November 2018 Bayesian prediction for physical models with application to the optimization of the synthesis of pharmaceutical products using chemical kinetics Dr Antony Overstall - University of Southampton Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 16 November 2018, 11:05 - 12:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1586/show Friday 28 September 2018 Classification with imperfect training labels Dr Tim Cannings - University of Edinburgh Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 28 September 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1591/show Friday 19 October 2018 Point processes – abstraction and practical relevance Janine Illian - University of St Andrews Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 19 October 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1597/show Friday 01 March 2019 Group invariance for objective prior elicitation in testing problems Anabel Forte - Universitat de València Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 01 March 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1599/show Friday 09 November 2018 Efficient, high-dimensional sampling using stochastic differential equations Prof Benedict Leimkuhler - University of Edinburgh Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 09 November 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1607/show Friday 26 October 2018 Probabilistic and statistical analysis of the linear fractional stable motion Prof. Mark Podolskij - Aarhus University Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 26 October 2018, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Room 5.10, Bayes Centre http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1613/show Friday 22 March 2019 Real Time Decision Making for Infectious Disease Outbreaks Dr Mike Tildesley - University of Warwick Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 22 March 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1634/show Friday 05 April 2019 Evaluating Performance of Mean Estimators of Sensitive Variables under Measurement Errors with Respect to Efficiency and Respondent Privacy Prof. Sat Gupta - University of North Carolina Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 05 April 2019, 12:05 - 13:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1663/show Friday 25 January 2019 Efficient multivariate entropy estimation and independence testing Dr Thomas Berrett (University of Cambridge) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 25 January 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1665/show Friday 29 March 2019 Probabilistic symmetry and invariant neural networks Dr Benjamin Bloem-Reddy (University of Oxford) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 29 March 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1678/show Friday 03 May 2019 Large numbers of explanatory variables Dr Heather Battey (Imperial College London) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 03 May 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1679/show Friday 10 May 2019 Optimisation methods for Bayesian inference: Application to Astro-Imaging Dr Audrey Repetti (Heriot-Watt University) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 10 May 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1680/show Friday 15 March 2019 Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces Dr Henry Reeve (University of Birmingham) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 15 March 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1704/show Friday 01 February 2019 Bayesian Cluster Analysis: Point Estimation and Credible Balls Dr Sara Wade - University of Edinburgh Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 01 February 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1708/show Friday 26 April 2019 High resolution mapping of childhood vaccination coverage in low and middle income countries using point-referenced and areal data Dr Chigozie Utazi - University of Southampton Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 26 April 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1719/show Friday 26 April 2019 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 Joe Watson -- University of British Columbia Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 26 April 2019, 14:00 - 14:45 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1738/show Tuesday 28 May 2019 On Choosing Mixture Components via Non-Local Priors Prof Mark Steel -- University of Warwick Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Tuesday 28 May 2019, 14:05 - 15:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1748/show Thursday 11 April 2019 Emulation and Calibration of Complex Environmental System Simulators Michael Goldstein (University of Durham), Daniel Williamson (University of Exeter), Peter Young (University of Lancaster) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Thursday 11 April 2019, 09:00 - 12:30 Venue: JCMB 5328 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1760/show Monday 02 September 2019 Comparing Bayesian spatial models in the presence of spatial smoothing Dr Earl Duncan (Queensland University of Technology - ACEMS) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Monday 02 September 2019, 14:05 - 15:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1870/show Friday 06 September 2019 A D-Vine Copula-Based Model for Repeated Measurements Prof Claudia Czado (Technical University of Munich) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 06 September 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1871/show Friday 20 September 2019 A Loss-Based Prior for Variable Selection in Linear Regression Methods Dr Cristiano Villa (University of Kent) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 20 September 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1872/show Thursday 03 October 2019 Unbiased Estimation of the Gradient of the log-likelihood for Partially Observed Diffusions Prof Ajay Jasra (KAUST) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Thursday 03 October 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1873/show Friday 22 November 2019 An introduction to quantum state estimation Dr Madalin Guta (University of Nottingham) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 22 November 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1874/show Friday 27 September 2019 Extremal dependence in a Hüsler–Reiss Markov tree Johan Segers (UCLouvain) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 27 September 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1876/show Friday 18 October 2019 Dynamic Programming in Change Point Detection in High-Dimensional Autoregression Problems Yi Yu (University of Warwick) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 18 October 2019, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1878/show Friday 08 November 2019 Strategies for Multilevel Monte Carlo Prof Kody Law (University of Manchester) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 08 November 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1892/show Friday 01 November 2019 Crossing dependence in Gaussian processes in time, space, and space-time - some applications of a generalized Rice's formula Prof. Georg Lindgren (Lund University) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 01 November 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, 5.10 (5th floor) http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1894/show Monday 16 September 2019 Convergence rates for optimised adaptive importance samplers Ömer Deniz Akyıldız (Alan Turing Institute) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Monday 16 September 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1895/show Thursday 28 November 2019 Bayesian regression for group testing data Prof. Joshua M. Tebbs (University of South Carolina) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Thursday 28 November 2019, 12:00 - 13:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.02 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1905/show Tuesday 17 September 2019 Using forest eco-system monitoring data to model tree health and mortality for investigating climate change effects Nicole Augustin (University of Bath) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Tuesday 17 September 2019, 11:00 - 11:55 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1907/show Monday 23 September 2019 Additive smooth models for big data Simon Wood (University of Bristol) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Monday 23 September 2019, 10:30 - 11:30 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1908/show Friday 25 October 2019 CANCELLED: A semi-Markov approach to modelling age-dependent survival Dr Hannah Worthington (St. Andrews) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 25 October 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1912/show Friday 25 October 2019 A NONCONVEX VARIATIONAL APPROACH FOR ROBUST GRAPHICAL LASSO Dr Emilie Chouzenoux (INRIA Saclay, Paris) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 25 October 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1917/show Friday 15 November 2019 Is EM really necessary here? Some examples where EM seems over-elaborate Dr Iain L. MacDonald (University of Cape Town) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 15 November 2019, 15:05 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5328 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1921/show Friday 06 December 2019 Latent (Hidden) Markov models and the LMest package in R Dr Fulvia Pennoni (University of Milano-Bicocca) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 06 December 2019, 11:10 - 12:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1924/show Friday 17 January 2020 Estimating the Effect of Insurance on Doctor Visits by Copula-Based Regression Additive Models Dr Giampiero Marra (UCL) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 17 January 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: JCMB 5323 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1952/show Friday 07 February 2020 Doubly Sparse Variational Gaussian Processes Dr Vincent Adam (Prowler.io) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 07 February 2020, 11:00 - 12:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Lecture Theatre 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1953/show Friday 28 February 2020 High-performance importance sampling schemes for Bayesian inference Dr Victor Elvira (University of Edinburgh) Stats: Edinburgh Statistics Seminars Friday 28 February 2020, 15:00 - 16:00 Venue: Bayes Centre, Room 5.10 http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1974/show Powered by http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk