Date:27 March 2025, Thursday
Location:S16-03-06
Time:2pm, Singapore
Model Averaging for Time–Varying Vector AutoregressionsThis paper proposes a novel time-varying model averaging (TVMA) approach to enhancing forecast accuracy for multivariate time series subject to…
Date:26 March 2025, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Inference for Changing Periodicity, Smooth Trend and Covariate Effects in Time SeriesTraditional analysis of a periodic time series assumes its pattern remains the same. However, some recent empirical studies in climatology…
Date:19 March 2025, Wednesday
Location:S16-05-21
Time:3pm, Singapore
Current Status and Challenges of Statistical Literacy in Japanese Primary, Secondary, and High SchoolsSubtitle: From the Perspective of Statistical Education Required at Universities In recent years, the importance of data science education at…
Date:10 February 2025, Monday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Distributional learning: from methodology to applicationsEstimating the full (conditional) distribution is crucial to many applications. However, existing methods such as quantile regression typically struggle with…
Date:21 January 2025, Tuesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Modern Algorithmic Statistics: Reliability with Minimal ResourcesModern data science pipelines are often severely constrained in resources, both statistical (e.g., poor-quality input data due to outliers) as…
Date:16 January 2025, Thursday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Genome-wide genetic models for association, heritability analyses and predictionGenome-wide genetic models for outcomes of interest such as a disease state have been widely used, and have led to…
Date:15 January 2025, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Data Science: Where Statistics Meets OptimizationModern data science spans various parts of computer science, mathematics, and applications. This talk will bring a sharp focus on…
Date:14 January 2025, Tuesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Recent advances in Bayesian optimization for the physical sciencesWith advances in scientific computing, computer simulations are increasingly used for investigating complex physical phenomena. For many such applications, scientific…
Date:9 January 2025, Thursday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:3pm, Singapore
Root Cause DiscoveryAlthough the statistical literature on causality is more focused on forward causal questions about the effects of causes, reverse causal…
Date:19 December 2024, Thursday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar Room
Time:10am, Singapore
Flat minima generalize for low-rank matrix recoveryEmpirical evidence suggests that for a variety of overparameterized nonlinear models, most notably in neural network training, the growth of…