Events List

Mendelian randomization: A comprehensive statistical approach and applications to preventing heart disease

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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.

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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)