Archive for Guy Medal
RSS 2022 Honours
Posted in pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Barnett Award, Biometrika, capture-recapture, causality, computational statistics, David Cox, environmental and ecological statistics, Guy Medal, higher-order approximate inference, large-scale statistical learning, MCMC, Royal Statistical Society, RSS, SMC, statistical ecology on March 21, 2022 by xi'an
congrats, Håvard!!!
Posted in Statistics with tags approximate Bayesian inference, computational statistics, Gaussian Markov fields, Guy Medal, honours, INLA, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, JRSSB, Laplace approximation, R-INLA, Royal Statistical Society, software on March 4, 2021 by xi'an
congrats, Pierre!!!
Posted in Statistics with tags awards, Bayesian statistics, computational statistics, Guy Medal, honours, MCMC, Royal Statistical Society, RSS, SMC², unbiased MCMC on March 3, 2021 by xi'an
RSS honours recipients for 2020
Posted in Statistics with tags Arnaud Doucet, awards, Barnett Award, BUGS, Byron Morgan, capture-recapture, David Spiegelhalter, Guy Medal, Royal Statistical Society, Valencia conferences, WinBUGS on March 16, 2020 by xi'an
Just read the news that my friend [and co-author] Arnaud Doucet (Oxford) is the winner of the 2020 Guy Silver Medal award from the Royal Statistical Society. I was also please to learn about David Spiegelhalter‘s Guy Gold medal (I first met David at the fourth Valencia Bayesian meeting in 1991, where he had a poster on the very early stages of BUGS) and Byron Morgan‘s Barnett Award for his indeed remarkable work on statistical ecology and in particular Bayesian capture recapture models. Congrats to all six recipients!
an elegant result on exponential spacings
Posted in Statistics with tags Book, change of variables, cross validated, exponential distribution, favourite books, Guy Medal, Jacobian, Luc Devroye, Lyon, P.V. Sukhatme, RSS, simulation, spacings, train on April 19, 2017 by xi'anA question on X validated I spotted in the train back from Lyon got me desperately seeking a reference in Devroye’s Generation Bible despite the abyssal wireless and a group of screeching urchins a few seats away from me… The question is about why
when the Y’s are standard exponentials. Since this reminded me immediately of exponential spacings, thanks to our Devroye fan-club reading group in Warwick, I tried to download Devroye’s Chapter V and managed after a few aborts (and a significant increase in decibels from the family corner). The result by Sukhatme (1937) is in plain sight as Theorem 2.3 and is quite elegant as it relies on the fact that
hence sums up as a mere linear change of variables! (Pandurang Vasudeo Sukhatme (1911–1997) was an Indian statistician who worked on human nutrition and got the Guy Medal of the RSS in 1963.)
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