2016 - 2017

An Optimal Aggregation Procedure For Nonparametric Regression How can one combine a collection of estimators of a regression function into a good aggregate? In the last 15 years, this age-old question has received increasing attention within the...

Probabilistic Cataloguing

Detecting planets: jointly modeling radial velocity and stellar activity time series Please note North Carolina location. Time TBD.

"A Nonparametric Bayesian Methodology for Regression Discontinuity Designs," by Zach Branson TBD by Maxime Rischard

Transporting established insights from classical experimental design to address causal questions in environmental epidemiology, including the understanding of biological mediating mechanisms There is a fundamental gap in addressing causality in...

AstroStat Talks 2016-2017"Bounding a good region," by Xufei Wang"Separating close sources by their temporal behavior," by Luis Campos

ePCA: Exponential family PCA Many applications, such as photon-limited imaging and genomics, involve large datasets with entries from exponential family distributions. It is of interest to estimate the covariance structure and principal components of the...

Statistical Paradises and Paradoxes in Big Data Statisticians are increasingly posed seemingly paradoxical questions, challenging our qualifications for entering the statistical paradises created by Big Data. Two such questions represent the use of Big...

Accelerating MCMC algorithms for computer models