After chatting with some BNP13 participants at the Puerto Montt airport, I gave in (!) to their kind request to put my slides on-line and here is the link to the slideshare depository. It was quite the nice coincidence that Sanjib Basu (whom I met in Purdue in 1987!) gave the invited talk in our session since we were building on the under-appreciated Basu-Chib approximation of the evidence. Overall, this was an exhilarating week and I now have to recover from this sensory overload. (Incidentally, and uninterestingly, I got swindled by not one but two taxis on my way back to Santiago!)
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mixtures at BNP [slides]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags BNP13, Chib's approximation, Chile, Dirichlet mixture priors, Lago Llanquihue, Orsono volcano, Puerto Montt, Puerto Varas, Purdue University, slides, slideshare, sunrise, taxi-driver, Uber on October 29, 2022 by xi'aninferring the number of components [remotely]
Posted in Statistics with tags 8 Mile, Bayes factor, Bayesian consistency, Bayesian inference, COVID-19, Dirichlet process mixture, Eminem, evidence, finite mixtures, Italian Alps, Italy, mixture models, numerical integration, RJMCMC, slides, slideshare, University of Padova, unknown number of components on October 14, 2022 by xi'anSubjective Bayes at 48y
Posted in pictures, Statistics, University life with tags 50th anniversary, Jim Smith, mixture of experts, prior elicitation, slides, subjective probability, University of Warwick on September 9, 2022 by xi'anaccronyms [CDT lectures]
Posted in Books, Statistics with tags ABC, Bayesian synthetic likelihood, CDT, Charlie Geyer, consistency, GANs, noise contrasting estimation, normalising flow, reverse logistic, short course, slides, University of Warwick, VAEs, variational autoencoders, Wasserstein distance, WGANs on May 16, 2022 by xi'anThis week, I gave a short and introductory course in Warwick for the CDT (PhD) students on my perceived connections between reverse logistic regression à la Geyer and GANS, among other things. The first attempt was cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, the second one in 2021 was on-line and thus offered little possibilities for interactions. Preparing for this third attempt made me read more papers on some statistical analyses of GANs and WGANs, which was more satisfactory [for me] even though I could not get into the technical details…
practical details on ISBA²⁰²¹
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags gather.town, ISBA 2021, plenary speaker, poster session, slides, virtual conference, webinar, Whova, Zoom on May 31, 2021 by xi'anRemember that the [online] ISBA 2021 conference will be a mixture of live talks, pre-recorded talks, and posters. All live-streaming will be via Zoom, with links integrated into the Whova platform.
- Plenary talks (i.e., Foundational Lectures, Keynote Lectures, and Named Lectures) and all invited talks will be live-streamed during the corresponding sessions.
- Contributed talks are prerecorded (available from June 10, 2021). During the live-streamed Contributed Sessions, each speaker will give a 5-min live recap of their contributed talk, highlighting the main points, followed by live discussion and Q&A from the audience.
- Contributed speakers who had optionally chosen to accompany their talk with a poster will present the poster [live] in their designated Poster Sessions. All Poster Sessions will be held on Gather.town, which will also serve as the virtual space for social times during the whole conference.
- One week before the conference, Gather.town will go live and all posters will also become available then.
- Speakers of all talk types will have the option to upload and post their slides on Whova starting one week before the conference [which I personally recommend as I find it too easy for my attention to drift off during an online and need to recheck earlier slides to reconnect!]