When: Thursday 19th July 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held 19/07/18 at 1pm in room Y801. This week we are joined by Nick Tierney who is visiting from Monash University. We will have presentations by Ethan and Nick. Ethan’s Talk: A BRAG Guide to HPC Abstract…
When: Thursday 5th July 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held 05/07/18 at 1pm in room Y801. This week we will have presentations by Dan and Mahasen. Dan’s Talk: Efficient Bayesian Estimation for Bad Environment – Good Environment (BEGE) Model via SMC Abstract : Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC)…
When: Thursday 21st June 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held tomorrow, 21/06/18 at 1pm in room Y801. This week we will have presentations by Laura and Victor. Laura’s Talk: Developing a Bayesian Spatio-Temporal Model for Cyclist Exposure to Air Pollution: using detailed mobile sensor data to…
When: Thursday 7th June 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held tomorrow, 7/6/2018, Thursday at 1.00 pm in Y801. This week we will have talks from Daniel and Jagath. Daniel’s Talk: QUT ACEMS book club: A summary and highlights from reading R for Data Science by Wickham…
When: Thursday 24th May 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held tomorrow, 24/5/2018, Thursday at 1.00 pm in Y801. This week we will have talks from Farzana and Jacinta. Farzana’s Talk: Title: Modelling Cancer Incidence using Bayesian Semi parametric Hierarchical Empirical Likelihood Spatial Models Abstract : I…
When: Thursday 10th May 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held tomorrow, 10/5/2018, Thursday at 1.00 pm in Y801. This week we will have talks from Dilini and Miles. Dilini’s Talk: Title: Anomaly Detection in Nonstationary Streaming Temporal Data Abstract : This work develops a…
When: Thursday 26th April 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held tomorrow 26/04/18 at 1pm in room Y801. This week we will have presentations by Leah and Insha. Leah’s Talk: Title: A Brief Introduction to (Zero-Variance) Control Variates Abstract: A common objective in Bayesian inference…
When: Thursday 12th April2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held tomorrow 12/04/18 at 1pm in room Y801. This week we will have presentations by Trish and Sam. Trish’s Talk: Title: Missing data mechanisms, imputation and sensitivity analysis Abstract: This talk will give a brief overview of…
Short Course: Bayesian Statistical Modelling and Analysis in Sport Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy 4th-8th June 2018 Dr Paul Wu and Distinguished Professor Kerrie Mengersen from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are running a short course in Como, Italy in June 2018 There are some places available and if a BRAG member, please contact Kerrie directly…
When: Thursday 29th March 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held tomorrow 29/03/18 at 1pm in room Y801. This week we will have presentations by Earl and Jessie. Earl’s Talk: Title: Making Cartograms in R Abstract: This talk will cover the purpose of cartograms, types…
When: Thursday 15th March 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Dear All, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held tomorrow 15/03/18 at 1pm in room Y801. This week we will have presentations by Brigitte and Jessie. Brigitte’s Talk: Title: Effect of spatial aggregation on prediction accuracy of green biomass using Boosted Regression Trees Abstract: Raster processing is computationally expensive. We are investigating in the…
When: Thursday 1st March 2018, 13:00-14:00. Location: GP-Y801. Included in meeting: Hello Everyone, The fortnightly BRAG meeting will be held 01/03/18 at 1pm in room Y801. This week we will have presentations by Paul and Aswi. Paul’s Talk: Title: An introduction to hidden markov models and their application in sports Abstract: Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) have…
