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Leveraging genetic ancestry for new insights into complex traits

June 19, 2019

Speakers:

Timothy Thornton (University of Washington)

Genetic studies in multi-ethnic cohorts offer great potential to elucidate the genetic factors influencing complex traits.

Towards the finite-sample variance bounds for unbiased estimators

June 5, 2019

Speakers:

Ioannis Kosmidis (University of Warwick)

The inverse of the Fisher information matrix in a likelihood problem is i) the variance-covariance matrix of the asymptotic distributio

Free Lunches for Subsampling MCMC

April 26, 2019

Speakers:

Aaron Smith, University of Ottawa

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a popular generic algorithm

“Data Nuggets” and “Enrichment” Tools for Analyzing Big Data

March 28, 2019

Speakers:

Javier Cabrera (Rutgers University)

Big data has created new challenges for data analysis due to the large size of the datasets, with millions of observations and/or thousands of vari

Personalized Prediction and Recommender Systems

April 11, 2019

Speakers:

Xiaotong Shen (University of Minnesota)

Personalized prediction predicts a user's preference for a large number of items through user-specific as well as content-specific information, bas

Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes for Markov Chain Monte Carlo

February 28, 2019

Speakers:

Gareth Roberts (University of Warwick)

This talk will describe non-reversible MCMC methods based on Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes focussing mostly on the Zig-Zag algorit

Mechanistic and Agnostic Estimation for Infectious Disease Epidemology

December 6, 2018

Speakers:

Forrest Crawford, Yale University

Two competing paradigms dominate statistical approaches to estimating the effects of infectious disease inter

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