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April 21, 2017
LSBA Job Info Day 2017
Applied statistics workshops | LSBA Job Info Day
Programme
14h30 : Auditoire Gauss-C045
Key Note Speaker: Xavier Rouby : Data Scientist, le métier le plus sexy du 21ème siècle (abstract ci-dessous)
15h30 : Pause-café
15h50 : Auditoire Bernoulli-C115
Statisticien/Biostatisticien/Data Scientist, des métiers pour agir dans des secteurs...
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March 31, 2017
14:30 / Applied statistics workshops
Laure BINDELS, LDRI / UCL
Harnessing the therapeutic potential of the gut microbiota to target metabolic alterations:
beyond the usual suspects.
Abstract:
Gut microbiota collectively represents around 40 trillion microorganisms living in the gut and is nowadays considered a crucial regulator of host immunity and...
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March 24, 2017
16:00 / Statistics Seminars
Lexuri FERNANDEZ, ISBA, UCL
Dependence Structures of Marshall--Olkin Kind.
Abstract:
The probability distribution of the mean of default times, which are dependent under the Marshall--Olkin law, is computed. The Marshall--Olkin distribution is a core probability law in reliability and life-testing applications. Exact...
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March 24, 2017
14:30 / Statistics Seminars
Thomas GUEUNING, KUL
Variable selection for high-dimensional data: a Focused Information Criterion.
Abstract:
The last few decades have seen a large increase of dataset characterized by a number of covariates $p$ exceeding the sample size $n$, requiring the development of new estimation and inference tools. In...
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March 17, 2017
14:30 / Applied statistics workshops
Istvan HAJNAL
Applied statistics workshops
Practical concerns in Survey research: Weighting
Abstract:
In many practical settings, taking a (simple random) sample and then applying a statistical model on that data is often not sufficient. For instance, because of non-response some groups can...
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