Events List
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
Reconstructing carbon dioxide for the last 2000 years: a hierarchical success story
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
Detecting Rate Changes in Point Processes
Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Michael Messer, PhD in Mathematics (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Early Alert Orientation for Faculty, TAs, and Staff
Speaker: Speaker: Patty Hambler, MEd
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Development of the Bayesian approach in Canadian fisheries stock assessment
Speaker: Speaker: Murdoch McAllister
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Degree distribution of shortest path trees and bias in network sampling algorithms
Speaker: Speaker: Julia Komjathy
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building
Estimation under nearly-correct models
Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Thomas Lumley, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Approximate models and robust decisions
-Speaker: Speaker: James Watson, Statistics Research Student, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Causal Inference Approaches for Dealing with Time-dependent Confounding in Longitudinal Studies, with Applications to Multiple Sclerosis Research
-Speaker: Speaker: Ehsan Karim, PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4133* (PIMS Library Area on 4th Floor)
Likelihood Ratio Test for Multisample Mixture Model and Its Application to Genetic Imprinting
Speaker: Speaker: Shaoting Li - Northeast Normal University, China
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall
Bayesian False Discovery Rate Controlling Methodology
Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Yekutieli, Associate Professor and Head of the Statistical Consulting Laboratory in the Statistics and OR Department, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall
Database of Religious History: A Statistically Analyzable Database of History
Speaker: Speaker: Michael Muthukrishna, Department of Psychology, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall
The generalized lasso with non-linear measurements
Speaker: Speaker: Yaniv Plan, Department of Math, UBC, CRC 2, Data Science
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall