Events List

Accounting for Preferential Sampling in the Statistical Analysis of Spatio-temporal Data

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Speaker: Speaker: Joe Watson, PhD student, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*

CANSSI National Seminar Series: October speaker, Christopher Jackson

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Speaker: Speaker: Christopher Jackson, Senior Investigator Statistician, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: via Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)

How to Improve Prediction Accuracy in the Analysis of Computer Experiments: Exploitation of Low-Order Effects and Dimensional Analysis

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Speaker: Speaker: Alexi Rodríguez-Arelis, PhD student, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*

Penalized empirical likelihood inference for abundance from capture-recapture data

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Speaker: Speaker: Pengfei Li, Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*

Point process models for sequence detection in neural spike trains

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Speaker: Speaker: Scott Linderman, assistant professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Stanford University.
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*

New challenges in phylogenetic inference

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Speaker: Speaker: Claudia Solis-Lemus, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*

Bayesian adjustment for preferential testing in estimating infection fatality rates: Theory and methods as motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic

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Speaker: Speaker: Harlan Campbell, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Statistics at UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*

CANSSI National Seminar Series: September speaker, Ruth King

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Speaker: Speaker: Ruth King, Thomas Bayes’ Chair of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: via Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)

Statistical Inference via Data Science: A ModernDive into R and the Tidyverse

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Speaker: Speaker: Albert Kim, Assistant Professor of Statistical & Data Sciences, Smith College
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

van Eeden seminar: Calcium imaging, clustering, and corncob

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Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker Daniela Witten, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at University of Washington, and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair in Mathematical Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Lecture Room 4, Woodward IRC Building, 2194 Health Sciences Mall

Adapting black-box machine learning methods for causal inference

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Speaker: Speaker: Victor Veitch, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Valid post-selection inference: Why and How

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Speaker: Speaker: Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Trend filtering in exponential families

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Speaker: Speaker: Daniel McDonald, Indiana University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Fréchet Change Point Detection

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Speaker: Speaker: Paromita Dubey, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Global and local estimation of low-rank random graphs

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Speaker: Speaker: Fangzheng Xie, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

The Blessings of Multiple Causes

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Speaker: Speaker: Yixin Wang, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Uncover Hidden Fine-Grained Scientific Information: Structured Latent Attribute Models

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Speaker: Speaker: Yuqi Gu, University of Michigan
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Diagnostics for Regression Models with Discrete Outcomes

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Speaker: Speaker: Lu Yang, University of Amsterdam
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Talk by PIMS-UBC Mathematical Sciences Young Faculty Award Winner (2018), Alex Bouchard-Côté

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Speaker: Speaker: Alex Bouchard-Côté, UBC Statistics Associate Professor, PIMS-UBC Mathematical Sciences Young Faculty Award Winner
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 1012

Identifiability of nonparametric mixture models, clustering, and semi-supervised learning

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Speaker: Speaker: Bryon Aragam, Assistant Professor, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)