ABC in Lapland²

On the second day of our workshop, Aki Vehtari gave a short talk about his recent works on speed up post processing by importance sampling a simulation of an imprecise version of the likelihood until the desired precision is attained, importance corrected by Pareto smoothing¹⁵. A very interesting foray into the meaning of practical models […]

ABC in Lapland

Greetings from Levi, Lapland! Sonia Petrone beautifully started the ABC workshop with a (the!) plenary Sunday night talk on quasi-Bayes in the spirit of both Fortini & Petrone (2020) and the more recent Fong, Holmes, and Walker (2023). The talk got me puzzled by wondering the nature of convergence, in that it happens no matter […]

ABC in Warwick [Arena, Blended, Committed]

ABC in Svalbard [the day after]

The following and very kind email was sent to me the day after the workshop thanks once again to make the conference possible. It was full of interesting studies within a friendly environment, I really enjoyed it. I think it is not easy to make a comfortable and inspiring conference in a remote version and […]

ABC in Svalbard [#2]

The second day of the ABC wwworkshop got a better start than yesterday [for me] as I managed to bike to Dauphine early enough to watch the end of Gael’s talk and Matias Quiroz’ in full on the Australian side (of zoom). With an interesting take on using frequency-domain (pseudo-)likelihoods in complex models. Followed by […]