Date:30 January 2023, Monday
Location:S16-05-102, Computer Lab 2
Time:9 am, Singapore
Bayesian computation and learning of substructures in Gaussian graphical modelsAbstract Gaussian graphical models are a powerful tool to learn the conditional independence structure in multivariate data with inference often…
Date:25 January 2023, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar room
Time:2.30 pm, Singapore
Variational Bayes for fast and accurate empirical likelihood inferenceAbstract Empirical likelihood-based inference incorporates the advantages of both parametric and nonparametric modeling by allowing inference on parameters of the…
Date:18 January 2023, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, Seminar room
Time:2.30 pm, Singapore
Filtrated Common Functional Principal Component Analysis of Multi-group Functional dataAbstract Local field potentials (LFPs) are signals that measure electrical activity in localized cortical regions from implanted tetrodes in the…
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…