Events List

D-vine copulas for repeated measurements

Thu, 06/06/2019 - 16:00 - Thu, 06/06/2019 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Claudia Czado, Professor, Technical University of Munich
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Looking for Anomalies in Correlated Time Series

Tue, 05/14/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 05/14/2019 - 11:30
Speaker: Speaker: Abdullah Farouk, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Monitoring test under the density ratio model for unequal sized clustered data

Tue, 04/30/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/30/2019 - 11:30
Speaker: Speaker: Yanchao Luo, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Two UBC Statistics M.Sc. Student Presentations

Thu, 04/18/2019 - 16:00 - Thu, 04/18/2019 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Xinzhe Dong and Xinmiao Wang, UBC Statistics M.Sc. Students
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Uncovering the Hidden Universe of Rental Units in Surrey

Tue, 04/16/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/16/2019 - 11:30
Speaker: Speaker: Tom Park, UBC Statistics Co-op M.Sc. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op Student Presentations

Thu, 04/04/2019 - 16:00 - Thu, 04/04/2019 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Kathy Zhao and Yidie Feng, UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op students
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Two UBC Statistics Co-op M.Sc. Student Presentations

Thu, 03/28/2019 - 16:00 - Thu, 03/28/2019 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jonathan Steif and Qiaoyue Tang (UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op Students)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Poster Session for STAT 450 & STAT 550

Tue, 03/26/2019 - 09:30 - Tue, 03/26/2019 - 11:00
Speaker: Speaker: STAT 450 & 550 Students
Event type: Poster Session
Location: ESB Atrium - East Corridor (PME Gallery)

2018-19 Constance van Eeden Lecture: The Blessings of Multiple Causes

Thu, 03/21/2019 - 17:30 - Thu, 03/21/2019 - 18:30
Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker David Blei, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 2012, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall, UBC)

Infectious disease transmission and genomic data: who infected whom?

Tue, 03/19/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 03/19/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Caroline Colijn, Professor & Canada 150 Research Chair, SFU
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Prediction based on conditional distributions of vine copulas

Tue, 03/12/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 03/12/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Bo Chang, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

CANCELLED: Geo-dependent spatial models of infectious disease transmission

Tue, 03/05/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Rob Deardon, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Clustering and modelling of phase variation for functional data

Tue, 02/26/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 02/26/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Eric Fu, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Neyman-Pearson Classification Algorithms and NP Receiver Operating Characteristics

Thu, 02/21/2019 - 16:00 - Thu, 02/21/2019 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jessica Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Profiling Hospital Performance Based on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Readmissions

Thu, 02/14/2019 - 11:00 - Thu, 02/14/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Guohai Zhou, Senior Statistician at Yale School of Medicine
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

The Use of Probabilistic Graphical Models in Evaluating the Current Opioid Overdose Crisis

Thu, 02/07/2019 - 11:00 - Thu, 02/07/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Michael Irvine, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BC Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions, BC Centre for Disease Control, University of British Columbia
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Statistical Inference for Cataloging the Visible Universe

Tue, 01/22/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 01/22/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jeffrey Regier, Postdocoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Accurate inference of DNA methylation data: statistical challenges lead to biological insights

Thu, 01/17/2019 - 11:00 - Thu, 01/17/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Keegan Korthauer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Preferential attachment and neutral random graphs: statistically useful generative models of network data

Tue, 01/15/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 01/15/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Benjamin Bloem-Reddy
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

From single-cells to patient diagnosis: statistical machine learning approaches to biomedical discovery

Thu, 01/10/2019 - 11:00 - Thu, 01/10/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Kieran Campbell, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Statistics at UBC, Department of Molecular Oncology at BC Cancer, and at the UBC Data Science Institute
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)