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UCD Statistics Seminars 2014/2015

Statistics Seminars will be help in E0.01 on Thursdays from 4pm - 5pm

Semester 2

• May 28. Dr. George Streftaris,School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,  Heriot-Watt University

         Title: Model diagnostics for infectious epidemics using data augmentation

• Apr 16. Dr. Luca Scrucca, Department of Economics, Università degli  Studi di Perugia

        Title: Identifying connected components in Gaussian finite mixture models for clustering

• Jan 22. Dr. Conall O’ Sullivan. Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, UCD.

  Title: Information Aggregation in the Libor Interest Rate-Setting Process and the Effects of False Reporting.

• Jan 29. Dr. John Ferguson. Graduate Entry Medical School, University of Limerick.

  Title: Bayesian methods to rank effect sizes in Genomics

• Feb 5. Dr. Derek Greene. UCD School of Computer Science & Informatics

  Title: Stability Analysis in Unsupervised Learning.

• Feb 12. Prof. Dave Woods Southampton University

  Title: Bayesian design of experiments via Gaussian process emulation

• Feb 26. Dr. James McDermott . Lochlann Quinn School of Business and Complex and Adaptive Systems Lab.

  Title: Endless forms (of regression models): Darwinian approaches to free-form numerical modelling 

• Mar. 5. Dr. Erica Donnelly-Swift . UCD School of Mathematical Sciences.

  Title: Detection of Defects on Pharmaceutical Tablets

• April 16. Luca Scrucca

• May 28. Dr. George Streftaris. Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University.

 
Semester 1

• A Mathematical Proof that Fund Managers are Overcharging (25th September 2014)

• TBA  (23rd October 2014)

• Survival analysis with longitudinal covariates measured with correlated errors  (30th October 2014)

• Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Spatial and Spatiotemporal Processes (6th November 2014)

• Further Statistical Methodology for Extending the Scope of Angiogenic Factor Analysis  (20th November 2014)