When: Thursday 14th September 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This week we have special presenters Richard Boys and Stephen Johnson of Newcastle University presenting. They will be in the office for the remainder of the week and fly back to the UK on the 18th September. Details on their presentations are included below. Stephen…
When: Thursday 31st August 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This week we have Brodie and Pubudu presenting at our meeting. Details on their presentations are included below. Pubudu’s talk: “The title is: Importance Sampling using Laplace Approximation Abstract: Most of the estimation techniques are based on direct sampling from the distribution of interest. However, there…
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 8 September 2017. Bayesian Research and Applications Group (BRAG) warmly invite you to a meeting of people involved or interested in…
When: Thursday 17th August 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This week we have Brigitte and Ziwen presenting at our meeting. Details on their presentations are included below. Brigitte’s talk: “The title is: Using Boosted Regression Trees and remotely sensed data to drive decision-making Abstract: Analysing Big Data is challenging due to the way they…
Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Small Areas: Dengue Fever in Makassar Indonesia Student: ASWI When: Wednesday, 9th August 2017 10:00 AM-11:00 AM Where: GP-M Block, Level 3, Room 312 Supervisors: Prof Kerrie Mengersen (Principal) A/Prof Wenbiao Hu Dr Gentry White Dr Susanna Cramb Panel Members: Kerrie Mengersen (Chair) A/Prof Wenbiao Hu Dr Gentry White Dr Susanna Cramb Prof…
When: Thursday 3rd August 2017, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: This fortnight (3rd August) at 1pm room Y-801 Ace and Bulu will be presenting at our BRAG meeting. The topics are: Ace’s talk: Report from Europe and Using ABCpy to estimate parameters in a queueing system I’ll start by annoying everyone with photos from Europe.…
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…
