Date:17 January 2023, Tuesday
Location:ZOOM Link: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/87927775071?pwd=QisxZU14NXFQQU8zNC9jM0s5Y0NxUT09
Time:9 am, Singapore
Statistical analysis for complex microbiome dataAbstract The quantification of microbiome using next-generation sequencing technologies has sparked intense interest in the study of the human microbiome…
Date:16 January 2023, Monday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar room
Time:2.30 pm, Singapore
Stereographic Markov chain Monte CarloAbstract High dimensional distributions, especially those with heavy tails, are notoriously difficult for off-the-shelf MCMC samplers: the combination of unbounded…
Date:12 January 2023, Thursday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar room
Time:4-5 pm, Singapore
Shape of Functional DataAbstract Qualitative descriptions of the shape of a function (e.g., convex, monotone, bimodal) and their use in assessing methodological tools…
Date:11 January 2023, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar room
Time:3-4 pm, Singapore
Data Science Pedagogy at UC Berkeley: Teaching with interactive notebooks at scale, and extensions to EconomicsAbstract UC Berkeley is pioneering a broad-based and inclusive undergraduate approach to teaching Data Science. In a few short years…
Date:9 January 2023, Monday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar room
Time:2.30-3.30 pm, Singapore
On Universally Consistent and Fully Distribution-Free Rank Tests of Vector IndependenceAbstract Rank correlations have found many innovative applications in the last decade. In particular, suitable rank correlations have been used…
Date:24 November 2022, Thursday
Location:ZOOM: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/81008167804?pwd=T2ZoRFhrejl2ZUNZVEdqcjVEUXI4Zz09
Time:9-10 am, Singapore
Latent Structures in Large-scale Networks with Censored DataAbstract Recovering latent structures is a key unsupervised learning task in network data, with applications spanning a multitude of disciplines….
Date:17 November 2022, Thursday
Location:ZOOM: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/88037797765?pwd=ekpibHFOdHBnUXhlN0c2TzdxaDZyQT09
Time:10-11 am, Singapore
Local inference in longitudinal drift-diffusion mixed models for tone learning in adults (and related problems)Abstract Learning to make categorization decisions is important in almost all aspects of our lives. Understanding how we learn novel…
Date:16 November 2022, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar room
Time:3-4 pm, Singapore
Regression modeling using I-priorsAbstract Regression analysis is undoubtedly an important tool to understand the relationship between one or more explanatory and independent variables…
Date:15 November 2022, Tuesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar room
Time:3-4 pm, Singapore
Variational Inference for Singular Models via Resolution of SingularitiesAbstract Singular statistical models, ubiquitous in modern deep learning, lack identifiability and a positive definite Fisher information matrix. Motivated by…
Date:27 October 2022, Thursday
Location:ZOOM: https://nus-sg.zoom.us/j/84902640909?pwd=UnRicStxZHEvd1l0Y1V0TW1UNm5Rdz09
Time:10-11 am, Singapore
Approximate Inference For Complex ModelsBayesian methods are attractive for large datasets and complex models. However, in complicated settings, Bayesian computation is challenging with conventional…