Events List

Interactive Engagement in the Classroom: Our Experiences with Teaching Upper-Level Statistics


Speaker: Speaker: Paul Gustafson and Will Welch (Professors, Dept of Statistics, UBC)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications in Statistics


Speaker: Speaker: Dennis K.J. Lin, Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain, Penn State University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Change-point Estimation and Inference in Nonparametric Regression Using Different Regularization Concepts


Speaker: Speaker: Matus Maciak, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

S-estimators for functional principal component analysis


Speaker: Speaker: Matias Salibian-Barrera, Associate Professor, Dept of Statistics, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Interpretable Functional Principal Component Analysis


Speaker: Speaker: Jiguo Cao, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SFU
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Marine mammal research in the 21st century: big data, big animals, and big issues


Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Andrew Trites, UBC Fisheries Centre, Department of Zoology, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall

Data and Decision Making at Yammer


Speaker: Speaker: Matthew Folz
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: AERL 120 (2202 Main Mall)

The Assessment of Mediation in Epidemiology: What is the contribution of Bayesian Thinking?


Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Lawrence McCandless, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Computational methods for mixed effects models in large-scale genetic and genomic studies


Speaker: Speaker: Xiang Zhou
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Integrating multiple types of genomics data to disentangle meaningful associations


Speaker: Speaker: Sara Mostafavi, Post Doc in the DAGS Group, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Optimal adaptive design of experiments for stochastic dynamic systems


Speaker: Speaker: Giles Hooker, Department of Statistical Sciences, Cornell University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Building (2207 Main Mall)

Semiparametric Longitudinal Model with Irregular Time Autoregressive Error Process


Speaker: Speaker: Jinhong You
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Deciphering autism spectrum disorder: Clues from visual profiles


Speaker: Speaker: Ipek Oruc, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthamology & Visial Sciences, University of British Columbia
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Semi-automated categorization of open-ended questions


Speaker: Speaker: Matthias Schonlau, Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Statistics MSc Students' Seminars on Co-op Experience


Speaker: Speaker: Shannon Ederlyi and Jonathan Baik, UBC Statistics MSc Students
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Student’s t as a new epistemological framework for teaching measurement and uncertainty


Speaker: Speaker: Natasha Holmes, PhD student, Dept of Physics, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Graphical models based on vines: from partial correlation representations of Gaussian models to high-dimensional copulas


Speaker: Speaker: Harry Joe, Professor, Department of Statistics, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

A Natural Robustification of the Ordinary Instrumental Variables Estimator


Speaker: Speaker: Ruben Zamar, Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Multivariate investigations in ecology: The search for significance


Speaker: Speaker: Tse-Lynn Loh, Marine Biologist, Ph.D. (2012), University of North Carolina Wilmington
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Improved nonparametric estimation of the number of zeros and illustrations


Speaker: Speaker: Professor Celestin Kokonendji, Universite de Franche-Comte
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)