Events List

Pseudo-observations for interval censored survival data using parametric estimates of the marginal survival function


Speaker: Speaker: Martin Berg Johansen, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Distribution-Free Testing; the Khmaladze Transform


Speaker: Speaker: Priscilla (Cindy) Greenwood, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Math, UBC; Associate Member, Dept. of Statistics, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Structured factor copula models for multivariate data


Speaker: Speaker: Pavel Krupskii, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Statistical methods for genetic association studies with rare variants


Speaker: Speaker: Professor Lei Sun, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Phylogenetic analysis of species radiations using SNPs and AFLPs. [Bio/Bioinformatics/Genetics]


Speaker: Speaker: David Bryant, University of Otago, New Zealand
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

The Lasso: a brief review and a new significance test


Speaker: Speaker: Prof. Rob Tibshirani
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 1013, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Hypothesis testing under density ratio models in the presence of Type I censored multiple samples


Speaker: Speaker: Song Cai, PhD Candidate, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Model and Inference Issues Related to Exposure-Disease Relationships


Speaker: Speaker: Li Xing, PhD Student, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Nonparametric Estimation of the Drift Coefficient of a Stochastic Diffusion Process in the Presence of Measurement Error


Speaker: Speaker: Wooyong Lee, MSc Student, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

The Estimation of Spatially Varying Coefficients via a Spatial GLMM with Application to Multiple Sclerosis MRI Data


Speaker: Speaker: Professor Timothy D. Johnson, University of Michigan
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Empirical Likelihood Methods for Pretest-Posttest Studies


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

Inferring population size for epidemiological purposes with the multiplier method


Speaker: Speaker: Vivien Meng, MSc Candidate, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Combination based permutation tests: theory and applications


Speaker: Speaker: Professor Luigi Salmaso, University of Padova, Italy
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Understanding Food Webs: Twitter, Critters, Bugs, Python, and More


Speaker: Speaker: Grace Chiu Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship (formerly Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics), Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Canberra, Australia
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

2 UBC Statistics MSc Student Talks


Speaker: Speaker: UBC Statistics MSc Students Mahsin MD (11:00am) and Peijun Sang (11:30am)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Building Statistical Models for the Prediction of Oral Cancer Recurrence


Speaker: Speaker: Yumian Hu, UBC Statistics MSc Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

EM-test and the related issues


Speaker: Speaker: Professor Jiahua Chen
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Bayesian Regression Trees, Nonparametric Heteroscedastic Regression Modeling and MCMC Sampling


Speaker: Speaker: Matthew Pratola (Ohio State University)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Multi-resolution spatial methods for large data sets (joint EOS,SCAIM,PIMS,STAT)


Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Doug Nychka, Director of the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Michael Smith Labs, Room 102