Events List

Advances in fitting statistical models to huge datasets


Speaker: Speaker: Mark Schmidt Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Computer Science
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Modelling tuberculosis and HIV in South Africa


Speaker: Speaker: Leonid Chindelevitch- Assistant Professor, Computing Science, SFU
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Phylogenetic clustering with a Markov-modulated Poisson process


Speaker: Speaker: Rosemary McCloskey- MSc. Student in Bioinformatics program, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Supervised principal components regression using a Cox-LASSO model


Speaker: Speaker: Derek Chiu, Statistics Master's Student (Co-op) - UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Generalized Dynamic Principal Components


Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Daniel Penia, University of Carlos III, Madrid
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Assessing Prediction Error in Survival Times: Application to Ovarian Cancer


Speaker: Speaker: Rachel Altman- Associate Professor, Statistics & Actuarial Science, SFU
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

The long road to 0.075 ppm and beyond: The statistician’s perspective on the process for setting ozone standards


Speaker: Speaker: Jim Zidek, Professor Emeritus, Dept of Statistics, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Probabilistic models for identification and interpretation of somatic single nucleotide variants in cancer genomes


Speaker: Speaker: Andrew Roth, Ph.D. Candidate, Bioinformatics Graduate Program, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Identification of Worsening Subjects and Treatment Responders in Comparative Longitudinal Studies


Speaker: Speaker: Yumi Kondo, PhD Candidate- UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Ex-post Risk Premia Tests using Individual Stocks: The IV-GMM solution to the EIV problemTitle


Speaker: Speaker: Georgios Skoulakis, Assistant Professor, Sauder School of Business
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Coast Mountain Bus Company Ridership Data. Sampling Plan and Analysis.


Speaker: Speaker: Rick White, Managing Director of SCARL
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Identifying Collusion in English Auctions


Speaker: Speaker: Vadim Marmer- Vancouver School of Economics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Bi-cross-validation for factor analysis


Speaker: Speaker: Van Eeden Invited Speaker, Professor Art Owen, Standford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Lecture Theatre 102, Michael Smith Laboratories (2185 East Mall)

Statistics in Drug Development: A Personal Perspective


Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Jochen Brumm, Senior Statistical Scientist, Genentech, Inc, Member of the Roche Group, South San Francisco, California
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Analysis of Aggregated Functional Data from Mixed Populations with Application to Energy Consumption


Speaker: Speaker: Nancy Heckman, Statistics Department Head
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Ordering-Free Inference from Locally Dependent Data


Speaker: Speaker: Kevin Song, Associate Professor, Vancouver School of Economics (UBC)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

An Attempt at Robust and Consistent Estimation of Fixed Parameters in General State-Space Models


Speaker: Speaker: William Aeberhard, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Learning Analytics in Higher Education; Successes, Opportunities, and Challenges

Location: Not Available

Some prediction problems in intensive care units (ICUs)

Location: Not Available

Multiomic Association Analysis with Kernal Machines


Speaker: Speaker: Bernard Ng- Postdoctoral researcher, Institut de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall
MORE EVENTS