2016 - 2017

Click here to watch the 2016 Pickard Award Lecture, featuring Professor Nicholas Horton. We are pleased to announce that Professor Nicholas Horton of Amherst College has been chosen as the 2016 Pickard Lecturer. Congratulations! For those who may not know...

Instructor: Christopher Wikle, University of Missouri http://bcasa2017Wikle.eventbrite.com

New Projects

AstroStat Talks 2016 - 2017 "A Mixture of Gaussian and Student's t Errors for a Robust and Accurate Inference," by Hyunsuk Tak "Spacings estimates and good regions," by Xufei Wang

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Please note that this STAT 300 Town Hall is reserved for PhD students and Neil Shephard. Thanks!

Adventures in Music Analytics Dominique Haughton, Bentley University, Université Paris 1 and Université Toulouse 1, with the Music Analytics Group at Bentley University This talk will give an overview of projects at the frontier between data analysis and...

Log-concavity and importance sampling in high dimensions Importance sampling is one of the elementary Monte Carlo methods for approximating expectations with respect to a 'target' distribution whose normalizing constant is unknown. The idea is simply to...