When: Thursday 20th July 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This fortnight (20th July) Earl and Aswi will be presenting at our BRAG meeting. The topics are: Earl’s talk: “Reversing Label switching” in the context of Bayesian mixture models. This is designed to be an interactive talk where participants are required to think about…
Re: non-ongoing opportunities available for graduates, post-graduates or professional statisticians/methodologists in Methodology Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics Methodology Division is currently seeking to fill a number of vacancies on a non-ongoing basis, for an initial period of up to six months. As a valued member of the Methodology Advisory Committee, I would be very grateful…
When: Thursday 6th July 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Today (6th July) we have Paul presenting at our meeting. Paul will be presenting on “Title: Belief Propagation – Inference in Probabilistic Networks” We look forward to seeing you there! Best regards, Matt and Shovanur
When: Thursday 22nd June 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This fortnight (8th June) we have Ben presenting at our meeting. Ben will be presenting on “Title: Visualising the roles of covariates in random forests” We will also check in on the ideas implemented since the last BRAG meeting. We look forward to seeing you there! Best regards,…
When: Thursday 8th June 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This fortnight (8th June) we have Alan presenting at our meeting. A detail on his presentation is included below. “Title: Using R as a GIS: how to deal with spatial data types Description: Spatial statistics represents a significant focus for new research and applications…
When: Thursday 25th May 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This week we will have two presentations by Matt and Jagath Matt’s talk: “Stan: A probabilistic programming language for Bayesian inference. Stan is a free open-source C++ program used for arbitrary user specified Bayesian models and can be called from Matlab, Python, R or Julia. I will give a brief introduction…
Bayes on the Beach 2017 13th – 15th November, 2017 Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast Abstract submission is now OPEN: Visit Bayes on the Beach 2017 for further information. Please submit your abstract to bob.admin@qut.edu.au by 18 August 2017. Bayesian Research and Applications Group (BRAG) warmly invite you to a meeting of people involved or interested in…
When: Thursday 11th May 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This week we will have two presentations by Leah and Marcela. Leah’s talk: “I will give an introduction to RcppArmadillo. Rcpp is a popular package in R which allows you to combine your R code with C++ code, which can be a lot faster. The more…
When: Thursday 27th April 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: We have two special visitors for the Brag meeting tomorrow, Scott Sisson’s (UNSW) PhD students: Jaslene Lin and Tom Whitaker. They are visiting us to work with Kerrie and Sam Clifford on some symbolic data analysis work, looking specifically at histograms of air quality data.…
The development of a clinical decision-making framework for image guided radiation therapy Student: Cathy Hargrave When: Wednesday, 26th April 2017 2:00 PM-4:00 PM Where: GP-S Block, Level 3, Room 301 Supervisors: Kerrie Mengersen (Principal) Fiona Harden Michael Poulsen Panel Members: Kerrie Mengersen (Chair) Fiona Harden Michael Poulsen Tomasz Bednarz Nicole White Abstract: Radiation therapy is fundamental to…
When: Thursday 13th April 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: At this meeting, Max Glonek and Peter Mathews will be joining us. They are currently visiting from University of Adelaide as part of the ACEMS student collaboration program. They will be giving presentations about their research. Their research topics are the following: Peter: I study…
Statistical Modelling and Analysis of Structured Data Student: Nick Tierney When: Wednesday, 12th April 2017 2:00 PM- 3:00 PM Where: GP-C Block, Level 4, Room 405 Supervisors: D/Prof Kerrie Mengersen (Principal) Prof Antonietta Mira Prof Angelo Aurichhio Panel Members: D/Prof Kerrie Mengersen (Chair) Dr Paul Wu Prof Adrian Barnett Abstract: The overall aim of this thesis is…
