Events List

Nonparametric Likelihood and Its Applications


Speaker: Speaker: Junjian Zhang - Professor, Guangxi Normal University, China
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Quantum Computation and Statistics


Speaker: Speaker: YaZhen Wang, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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

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

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

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

Causal Inference Approaches for Dealing with Time-dependent Confounding in Longitudinal Studies, with Applications to Multiple Sclerosis Research

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Speaker: Speaker: Ehsan Karim, PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4133* (PIMS Library Area on 4th Floor)

Approximate models and robust decisions

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Speaker: Speaker: James Watson, Statistics Research Student, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

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)

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

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)

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)

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)

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

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

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)

EM-test and the related issues


Speaker: Speaker: Professor Jiahua Chen
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)

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)

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)