Events List
Mendelian randomization: A comprehensive statistical approach and applications to preventing heart disease
-Speaker: Speaker: Qingyuan Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistics Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Sparse Generalized Eigenvalue Problem and Its Application to Multivariate Statistics
-Speaker: Speaker: Kean Ming Tan, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Connections between optimization and sampling
-Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Paulin, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
SAEM methods and PDE parameters statistical estimation - illustrations in biology
-Speaker: Speaker: Paul Vigneaux, Associate Professor (HDR) of Mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon; Part-time at the Dept of Mathematics of UBC (2018-2019)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Bayesian adjustments for disease misclassification in epidemiological studies of health administrative data
-Speaker: Speaker: Tanja Högg, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Special Seminar: Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
-Speaker: Speaker: Michael Betancourt, Principle Research Scientist with Symplectomorphic, LLC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Beaty Museum Auditorium
Bayesian analysis of continuous time Markov chains with applications to phylogenetics
-Speaker: Speaker: Tingting Zhao, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Adjusting for Bias Induced by Informative Dose Selection Procedures
-Speaker: Speaker: Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri (Columbia, MO); Assaf Oron, Institute for Disease Modeling (Bellevue, WA)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Measuring the Impact of Nonignorability in Intensive Longitudinal EMA Data with Non-Monotone Nonresponse
-Speaker: Speaker: Hui Xie, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU; Maureen and Milan Ilich/Merck Chair in Statistics for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Spatial extremes: a conditional approach
-Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Jenny Wadsworth, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Methods for Preferential Sampling in Geostatistics
-Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Dinsdale, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Approximate Bayesian Forecasting
-Speaker: Speaker: Professor Brendan Mccabe, Management School, University of Liverpool
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
R-vine copula based quantile regression
-Speaker: Speaker: Nicole Barthel, PhD candidate, Technische Universitait Muenchen
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op Student Presentations (2)
-Speaker: Speaker: Boyi Hu and Wayne Wang
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
20 Years of Data Science: Music, Genomics, and Hurricane Maria
Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Rafael Irizarry (Professor, Applied Statistics, Harvard & Dana-Faber Cancer Institute)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Hugh Dempster Pavilion, Room 110
Credit Risk Classification using Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
-Speaker: Speaker: Xixi Hu
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192- 2207 Main Mall
Estimations of long-run covariance and long-memory parameter in stationary functional time series
-Speaker: Speaker: Han Lin Shang, Associate Professor of Statistics at the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics, Australian National University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Modeling Operational Risk with Truncated Samples
-Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Hadley, UBC Statistics M.Sc. Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op Student Presentations (2)
-Speaker: Speaker: Hiwot Tafessu and Lisa Leung
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Modelling Malaria in India: Statistical, Mathematical and Graphical approaches.
-Speaker: Speaker: Somdatta Sinha, PWIAS International Visiting Research Scholar & Visiting Professor, Mathematics Department, UBC; Department of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Mohali, India
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)