Date:12 September 2018, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:04:00pm - 05:00pm
Estimating Risk-adjusted Process Performance with a Bias/Variance Trade-offIn the analysis of survey data, common objectives include estimating the population average, tracking time trends, and comparing population…
Date:05 September 2018, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:02:00pm - 05:00pm
Bayesian Computation for High-Dimensional Statistical Models -IMSTalk 1: 2pm to 2.50pm Speaker: Assoc Prof Matti Vihola, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Title: Unbiased Estimators and Multilevel Monte…
Date:30 August 2018, Thursday
Location:S16-05-98, Faculty of Science
Time:04:00pm - 05:00pm
Exploring the Second Order Sparsity in Large Scale OptimizationIn this talk, we shall demonstrate how the second order sparsity (SOS) in important optimization problems such as the…
Date:15 August 2018, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Complex Model Building for Precision Medicine Using Summary-level, Information from Big and Disparate Data SourcesExtraction of information from rich and diverse datasets through summary-level statistics, as opposed to individual level data, can be…
Date:27 July 2018, Friday
Location:S16-05-96, Computer Lab 4, Faculty of Science
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Some Paradoxical Phenomena in Theory of Probability and their ApplicationsThe mathematical models of moving particles, describing a behavior of traffic, communication, queuing and other systems are considered. Motion…
Date:09 July 2018, Monday
Location:S16-05-96, Computer Lab 4
Time:02:00pm - 03:00pm
Sequential Monte Carlo Algorithms for High-Dimensional Filtering and SmoothingPHD ORAL PRESENTATION Hidden Markov models are one of the most successful statistical modelling ideas that have been developed…
Date:20 June 2018, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Statistics Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
The GUIDE Approach to Missing DataGUIDE is a classification and regression tree algorithm that can be used in many missing data settings. For prediction…
Date:23 May 2018, Wednesday
Location:S17 #04-06 Mathematics Seminar Room 1, Faculty of Science
Time:10:30am - 11:30am
Max-linear Models on GraphsGraphical models are a popular tool to analyse and visualise dependence properties between random variables; see e.g. Lauritzen (1996)….
Date:23 April 2018, Monday
Location:S16-05-96, Computer Lab 4
Time:11:00am - 12:00pm
Multilevel Particle Filters For Continuous Time ProcessesPHD ORAL PRESENTATION In recent times, practical problems of interest such as continuous time processes and its applications have…
Date:18 April 2018, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
A Central Limit Theorem for Sequential MCMC MethodsWe present a theoretical analysis of a class of particle filters (PFs), which differ from conventional PFs in the…