Date:27 March 2019, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Use of Model Reparametrization to Improve Variational BayesWe propose using model reparametrization to improve variational Bayes inference for a class of models whose variables can be classified…
Date:21 March 2019, Thursday
Location:S16-05-96, Computer Lab4
Time:04:00pm - 05:00pm
Statistical Challenges in Cyber SecurityWith the realisation that Cyber attack presents a significant risk to an organisation’s reputation, efficiency, and profitability, there has…
Date:20 March 2019, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Posterior Convergence Analysis of Alpha-Stable Processes: Applications in Bayesian InversionThis talk is concerned with the theoretical understanding of alpha-stable sheets X. Our motivation for this is in the…
Date:20 March 2019, Wednesday
Location:S16-05-96, Lab 4
Time:02:00pm - 03:00pm
Model Averaging For Longitudinal Covariance Estimation and Bayesian Nonparametric RegressionPhD Oral Presentation In this thesis, we propose a model averaging estimation for the correlation structure of GEE…
Date:15 March 2019, Friday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
The Hug and Hop Algorithm: Explicit, Non-Reversible, Contour-Hugging MCMCBoth the Bouncy Particle Sampler (BPS) and the Discrete Bouncy Particle Sampler (DBPS) are non-reversible Markov chain Monte Carlo…
Date:13 March 2019, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Spatially Smooth Local Ensemble Transform Particle FilteringState inference in spatially-extended dynamical systems is a challenging problem with significant practical applications such as numerical weather prediction. Particle…
Date:27 February 2019, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:02:00pm - 03:00pm
Real World Data, Real World Evidence,Real world data (RWD) and real world evidence (RWE) have been increasingly used in health care decision-making since the…
Date:27 February 2019, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:03:30pm - 04:30pm
Constructing Stabilized Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Censored DataStabilized dynamic treatment regimes are sequential decision rules for individual patients that not only adapt over the course of…
Date:20 February 2019, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room, Faculty of Science
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Estimating ell_p and Schatten Norms in Data Stream ModelThis talk aims to discuss the problems of estimating the ell_p norm of a vector and the Schatten norm…
Date:12 February 2019, Tuesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room, Faculty of Science
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Total Variation Regularized Fréchet Regression and its ApplicationNon-Euclidean data that are indexed with a scalar predictor such as time are increasingly encountered in data applications, while…