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Date:05 April 2019, Friday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm

Intrinsic Riemannian Functional Data Analysis

  In this work we develop a new foundational framework for analyzing Riemannian functional data, including intrinsic Riemannian functional principal…

Professor Yao Fang Peking University

Date:03 April 2019, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm

Multiplier Processes in Statistics: A New Multiplier Inequality and Implications

  Multiplier empirical processes have proved to be one of the key unifying themes in modern empirical process theory, with…

Professor Jon Wellner University of Washington & National University of Singapore

Date:27 March 2019, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm

Use of Model Reparametrization to Improve Variational Bayes

We propose using model reparametrization to improve variational Bayes inference for a class of models whose variables can be classified…

Dr Tan Siew Li Linda Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

Date:21 March 2019, Thursday

Location:S16-05-96, Computer Lab4

Time:04:00pm - 05:00pm

Statistical Challenges in Cyber Security

  With the realisation that Cyber attack presents a significant risk to an organisation’s reputation, efficiency, and profitability, there has…

Dr Mark Briers Alan Turing Institute, UK

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 Inversion

  This talk is concerned with the theoretical understanding of alpha-stable sheets X. Our motivation for this is in the…

Dr Neil Kumar Chada Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

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 Regression

  PhD Oral Presentation   In this thesis, we propose a model averaging estimation for the correlation structure of GEE…

Ms Wang Jingli Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

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 MCMC

  Both the Bouncy Particle Sampler (BPS) and the Discrete Bouncy Particle Sampler (DBPS) are non-reversible Markov chain Monte Carlo…

Dr Matthew Ludkin University of Lancaster

Date:13 March 2019, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm

Spatially Smooth Local Ensemble Transform Particle Filtering

  State inference in spatially-extended dynamical systems is a challenging problem with significant practical applications such as numerical weather prediction. Particle…

Dr Graham, Matthew Mckenzie Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS

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…

Professor Tze Leung Lai Stanford University

Date:27 February 2019, Wednesday

Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room

Time:03:30pm - 04:30pm

Constructing Stabilized Dynamic Treatment Regimes for Censored Data

  Stabilized dynamic treatment regimes are sequential decision rules for individual patients that not only adapt over the course of…

Professor Yingqi Zhao Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
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