I have just learned the very sad news that Juan Antonio Cano, from Universidad de Murcia, with whom Diego Salmerón and I wrote two papers on integral priors, has passed away, after a long fight against a kidney disease. Having communicated with him recently, I am quite shocked by him passing away as I was not aware of his poor health. The last time we met was at the O’Bayes 2015 meeting in Valencià, with a long chat in the botanical gardens of the Universitat de Valencià. Juan Antonio was a very kind and unassuming person, open and friendly, with a continued flow of research in Objective Bayes methodology and in particular on integral priors. Hasta luego, Juan Antonio!
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Juan Antonio Cano Sanchez (1956-2018)
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags Bayesians, integral priors, Juan Antonio Cano, Murcia, O'Bayes 2015, Objective Bayesian hypothesis testing, Spain, Universidad de Murcia, Valencia conferences on October 12, 2018 by xi'anoff to Austin!
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Austin, conference, ISBA, O'Bayes17, objective Bayes, Objective Bayesian hypothesis testing, Robert Dedman, Texas, The University of Texas at Austin, USA on December 9, 2017 by xi'an
Today I am flying to Austin, Texas, on the occasion of the O’Bayes 2017 conference, the 12th meeting in the series. In complete objectivity (I am a member of the scientific committee!), the scientific program looks quite exciting, with new themes and new faces. (And Peter Müller concocted a special social program as well!) As indicated above [with an innovative spelling of my first name!] I will give my “traditional” tutorial on O’Bayes testing and model choice tomorrow, flying back to Paris on Wednesday (and alas missing the final talks, including Better together by Pierre!). A nice pun is that the conference centre is located on Robert De[a]dman Drive, which I hope is not premonitory of a fatal ending to my talk there..!
seminar in Harvard
Posted in Statistics, Travel with tags Bayes factors, Bayesian hypothesis testing, Cambridge, Harvard University, Massachusset, Objective Bayesian hypothesis testing, seminar, slides, slideshare, testing as mixture estimation, University of Bristol on March 16, 2016 by xi'an
Next week, I will be in Harvard Monday and Tuesday, visiting friends in the Department of Statistics and giving a seminar. The slides for the talk will be quite similar to those of my talk in Bristol, a few weeks ago. Hopefully, there will not be too much overlap between both audiences! And hopefully I’ll manage to get to my conclusion before all hell breaks loose (which is why I strategically set my conclusion in the early slides!)
Objective Bayesian hypothesis testing
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags academic journals, binomial regression, integral priors, Objective Bayesian hypothesis testing, Statistica Sinica on June 19, 2015 by xi'an
Our paper with Diego Salmerón and Juan Cano using integral priors for binomial regression and objective Bayesian hypothesis testing (one of my topics of interest, see yesterday’s talk!) eventually appeared in Statistica Sinica. This is Volume 25, Number 3, of July 2015 and the table of contents shows an impressively diverse range of topics.
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