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Wednesday, September 13th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Sourav Chatterjee Department of Statistics University of California, Berkeley |
Normal approximation: A new insight and a simple method |
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Wednesday, September 20th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Athanasios Kottas Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics University of California, Santa Cruz |
Bayesian nonparametric modeling for stochastically ordered distributions |
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Wednesday, September 27th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Chris Hans Department of Statistics The Ohio State University |
Stochastic search in high-dimensional model spaces |
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Wednesday, October 4th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Eitan Greenshtein Department of Statistics UNC Chapel Hill |
Estimation of a high-dimensional vector of means: a non-Bayesian empirical Bayes approach. |
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Wednesday, October 11th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Marc Hallin Statistics and Operations Research Institute, and Department of Mathematics Free University of Brussels |
The general dynamic factor model: determining the number of factors |
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Wednesday, October 18th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
David Blei Department of Computer Science Princeton University |
Modeling Science: Topic models of scientific journals and other large text databases |
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Wednesday, October 25th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Qiwei Yao Statistics Department London School of Economics |
Modelling multiple time series via common factors |
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Wednesday, November 1st, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Eric Stone Statistics Department North Carolina State University |
Robustness of the phylogenetic comparative method |
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Wednesday, November 8th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Jianqing Fan Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering Princeton University |
Option pricing with aggregation of physical models and statistical learning |
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SPECIAL SEMINAR Tuesday, November 14th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room 270 |
Philip Dawid Department of Statistical Science University College London |
Interpreting DNA profile evidence in complex disputed paternity cases: Bayesian networks to the rescue |
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Wednesday, November 15th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Xuming He Statistics Department University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
Power transformation towards a linear regression quantile |
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Wednesday, November 29th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Richard Berk Criminology Department and Statistics Department University of Pennsylvania |
Counting the homeless in Los Angeles County |
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Wednesday, December 6th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Haipeng Shen Department of Statistics and Operations Research University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
Interday forecasting and intraday updating of call center arrivals |
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Tuesday, December 12th, 3:00pm Jon M. Huntsman Hall, Room F60 |
Nicolai Meinshausen Statistics Department University of California, Berkeley |
Lasso-type recovery of sparse representations for high-dimensional data |
Notes:
The seminar takes place Wednesdays, 3:00 PM, in room F60 of Jon M. Huntsman Hall (JMHH).
Refreshments are served at 4:00 PM in 440 JMHH after the 3:00pm seminars.
Questions? Email seminar coordinator Jon McAuliffe or Tanya Winder.