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Support points – a new way to reduce big and high-dimensional data

Tuesday, December 11, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Simon Mak, Postdoctoral Fellow, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Mendelian randomization: A comprehensive statistical approach and applications to preventing heart disease

Thursday, December 6, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Qingyuan Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistics Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Sparse Generalized Eigenvalue Problem and Its Application to Multivariate Statistics

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Kean Ming Tan, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Statistics
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Connections between optimization and sampling

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Daniel Paulin, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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SAEM methods and PDE parameters statistical estimation - illustrations in biology

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Paul Vigneaux, Associate Professor (HDR) of Mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon; Part-time at the Dept of Mathematics of UBC (2018-2019)
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Bayesian adjustments for disease misclassification in epidemiological studies of health administrative data

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Tanja Högg, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Special Seminar: Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Friday, November 2, 2018 - 16:00 to 17:00
Michael Betancourt, Principle Research Scientist with Symplectomorphic, LLC
Statistics Seminar
Beaty Museum Auditorium
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Bayesian analysis of continuous time Markov chains with applications to phylogenetics

Tuesday, October 30, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Tingting Zhao, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Adjusting for Bias Induced by Informative Dose Selection Procedures

Tuesday, October 9, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Nancy Flournoy, University of Missouri (Columbia, MO); Assaf Oron, Institute for Disease Modeling (Bellevue, WA)
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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Measuring the Impact of Nonignorability in Intensive Longitudinal EMA Data with Non-Monotone Nonresponse

Tuesday, October 2, 2018 - 11:00 to 12:00
Hui Xie, Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU; Maureen and Milan Ilich/Merck Chair in Statistics for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases
Statistics Seminar
Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
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