Archives for ISBA
February 22, 2019
14:30 / Statistics Seminars
Eugen Pircalabelu, ISBA - UCLouvain
Statistics Seminars
Eugen Pircalabelu, ISBA - UCLouvain
"Using vine copulas to estimate the structure of directed acyclical graphs"
Abstract:
We present a new method of estimating and selecting a Bayesian network for continuous data with the goal of stepping outside the class...
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February 15, 2019
YRD : Young Researchers Day | February 15, 2019
Programme YRD 15/02/2019
09h00 : Sophie Mathieu
"Uncertainty Quantification in Sunspot Counts"
09h30 : Nathalie Lucas
"Experience rating in health insurance using a Hidden Markov Model"
10h00 : Oswaldo Gressani
"Bayesian P-splines and Laplace's method for inference in...
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February 08, 2019
14:30 / Applied statistics workshops
Fabien Francis, Micropole Consulting Belgium
Atelier de statistique appliquée
Fabien Francis, Micropole Consulting Belgium
"Les avantages du cloud : Créer et déployer rapidement des modèles de Machine Learning avec Amazon SageMaker"
Abstract:
Après un bref tour d’horizon des offres de cloud computing, nous explorerons une partie...
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February 04, 2019
Short courses
Eugen Pircalabelu, ISBA - UCLouvain
Introduction to high-dimensional statistics
Content:
More and more applications and problems nowadays require the estimation of many parameters. The field of high-dimensional statistics uses data whose effective dimension (read the number of parameters to be estimated) is much larger than...
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16:00 / Applied statistics workshops
Martin Ingram, University of Melbourne, Australia
Applied statistics workshop
Martin Ingram, University of Melbourne, Australia
"Gaussian Processes for Paired Comparison Modelling"
Abstract:
Paired comparison models such as Elo and Glicko are popular for predicting the outcome of sporting events. Their closed-form...
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