Events List
Nonparametrics without tuning parameters: shape-constraints and mixture models
-Speaker: Speaker: Ivan Mizera, University of Alberta
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
2017-18 Constance van Eeden Lecture: Reproducibility of science: p-values, multiple testing and optional stopping
-Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker Jim Berger, Duke University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 120, Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL), 2202 Main Mall
Probabilistic models of splicing (dys)regulation in human disease
-Speaker: Speaker: David Knowles, Post-doctoral Researcher, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Design and analysis of computer experiments: assessing and advancing the stat of the art
-Speaker: Speaker: Nelson Chen, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Covariate balancing for treatment effects and mediation
-Speaker: Speaker: Gary Chan, Associate Professor, Biostatistics; Associate Professor, Health Services (University of Washington)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Recent advances in computer experiments: prediction accuracy of kriging and a new framework of calibration
-Speaker: Speaker: Rui Tuo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Exposure Prediction Error and Spatial Confounding in Air Pollution Epidemiology
-Speaker: Speaker: Joshua Keller, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
The Nested G-formula: A Causal Approach for Analyzing Medical Cost Outcomes
-Speaker: Speaker: Andrew Spieker, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Statistical Methods for The Analysis of Censored Family Data under Biased Sampling Schemes
-Speaker: Speaker: Yujie Zhong, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall) - Video Conference
Normal approximation for recovery of structured unknowns in high dimension: Steining the Steiner formula
-Speaker: Speaker: Larry Goldstein, University of Southern California
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Simplified Power Calculations for Genetic Association Studies with Rare variants
-Speaker: Speaker: Andriy Derkach, Post-Doctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, Rockwell
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Modern Classification with Big Data
-Speaker: Speaker: Boxiang Wang, PhD student at University of Minnesota
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Combinatorial Inference
-Speaker: Speaker: Junwei Lu, Graduate Student in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Automated, Scalable Bayesian Inference with Theoretical Guarantees
-Speaker: Speaker: Trevor Campbell, Post-doctoral Associate at MIT
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Network Vector Autoregression
-Speaker: Speaker: Xuening Zhu, Research Associate at Penn State University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Approach to incorporate Measurement Error Bias into the Modelling of Multivariate Data
-Speaker: Speaker: Elizabeth Stojanovski, Lecturer, Newcastle University, Australia
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
IAM-PIMS Public Lecture on Monday, January 22, 2018: An ODE to Statistics: Inference about Nonlinear Dynamics
-Speaker: Speaker: Giles Hooker, Cornell Statistical Science and Biological Statistics & Computational Biology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 2012, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Data Science and Machine Learning at Ecoation
-Speaker: Speaker: Andy Leung (UBC Statistics PhD Alumnus) and David Kepplinger (UBC Statistics PhD Student)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
UBC Statistics Seminar on Tue, Nov 14: Network Meta-Analysis of Disconnected Networks
-Speaker: Speaker: Audrey Béliveau, UBC Statistics Post-doctoral Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
UBC Statistics Seminar on Tue, Dec 5: Multivariate One-sided Tests For Multivariate Normal and Mixed Effects Regression Models With Missing Data, Semi-continuous Data, and Censored Data
-Speaker: Speaker: Guohai Zhou, UBC Statistics PhD Candidate
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)