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moneyball
When I received Significance today—this is the december 2011 issue, I glimpsed it contained a coverage of the movie Moneyball my son watched a few days ago. Being completely blank about baseball (as...
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back to Banff
After a mostly cloudy flight over Greenland, I landed in Calgary this afternoon and am now in Banff for this exciting MCMC workshop! Also looking forward a hike with Devin tomorrow, hoping the weather...
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Banff sunrise
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Banff worshop [BIRS 12w5105 meeting]
The workshop 12w5105 at BIRS, Banff, has now started for good! To wit, we had the customary group photo outside the TransCanada Pipeline Pavilion where BIRS is now hosted. (With Mount Rundle as a guest...
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Banff workshop [BIRS 12w5105 meeting [#2]]
Today the program of 12w5105 was more on the theoretical side with adaptive MCMC in the morning and ABC in the afternoon. Éric Moulines and Gersende Fort shared a talk on two papers, one on adaptive...
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Banff sunrise (2)
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Louise Falls [WI 5]
Today I went climbing Louise Falls, right next to Lake Louise, with Gery Unterasinger leading. (Gery is a local guide originally from Austria, who happens to know very well another Austrian guide,...
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Banff workshop [BIRS 12w5105 meeting [#3]]
As I left Banff in the early afternoon of Thursday, I only attended the morning session of the BIRS 12w5105 workshop (just like yesterday since there was a free afternoon!). Yesterday morning, Gareth...
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Model selection for genetic and epidemiological data
On Thursday, March 29th, I will travel to London, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), to participate to an afternoon on Model selection for genetic and epidemiological data....
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Banff sunset
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BIRS building snapshot
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snapshot from Banff
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ISBA 2016 in Banff???
Scott Schmidler, Steve Scott and myself just submitted a proposal for holding the next World ISBA Conference in 2016 in Banff, Canada! After enjoying the superb environment of the Advanced in Scalable...
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penalising model component complexity
“Prior selection is the fundamental issue in Bayesian statistics. Priors are the Bayesian’s greatest tool, but they are also the greatest point for criticism: the arbitrariness of prior selection...
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[more] parallel MCMC
Scott Schmidler and his Ph.D. student Douglas VanDerwerken have arXived a paper on parallel MCMC the very day I left for Chamonix, prior to MCMSki IV, so it is no wonder I missed it at the time. This...
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thumbleweed [local] news
It has been exactly a year since my climbing accident and the loss of my right thumb. Time for a quick recap (for anyone still interested!): Looking back over that thumbless year, I cannot see a...
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Dan Simpson’s seminar at CREST
Daniel Simpson gave a seminar at CREST yesterday on his recently arXived paper, “Penalising model component complexity: A principled, practical approach to constructing priors” written with Thiago...
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Luke and Pierre at big’MC
Yesterday, Luke Bornn and Pierre Jacob gave a talk at our big’MC ‘minar. While I had seen most of the slides earlier, either at MCMski IV, Banff, Leuven or yet again in Oxford, I really enjoyed those...
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the Poisson transform
In obvious connection with an earlier post on the “estimation” of normalising constants, Simon Barthelmé and Nicolas Chopin just arXived a paper on The Poisson transform for unormalised statistical...
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no ISBA 2016 in Banff…
Alas, thrice alas, the bid we made right after the Banff workshop with Scott Schmidler, and Steve Scott for holding the next World ISBA Conference in 2016 in Banff, Canada was unsuccessful. This is a...
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