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Statistics Seminars 2005-06

Current seminars are found here.

Friday 4 November 2005
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 3317
3:15 pm Nial Friel (Univ. of Glasgow)
Marginal likelihood estimation via power posteriors
Friday 11 November 2005
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 3317
3:15 pm Robert Puch-Solis (Forensic Science Service, Birmingham)
Statistical evaluation of partial fingerprints
Thursday, 17 November 05
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM.T01
2:15 pm Alex Cook (Heriot-Watt University)
Return of the Giant Hogweed: modelling the invasion of Britain by a dangerous alien plant
Friday 25 November 2005
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 3317
3:15 pm Adam Butler (BioSS, Edinburgh)
Conditional extremes of a Markov chain
Friday 2 December 2005
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM.T01
2:15 pm Yuanhua Feng (Heriot-Watt University)
A Slowly Changing Vector Random Walk Model
Friday 16 December 2005
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 6206
3:15 pm Brian Francis (Lancaster University)
Classifying criminal activity: A latent variable approach to longitudinal event data
Friday 27 January 2006
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5215
3:15 pm Stijn Bierman (BioSS, Edinburgh)
The uses of Bayesian image restoration techniques in the analysis of species atlas survey data with spatially varying non-detection probabilities
Friday 10 February 2006
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5326
3:15 pm Christl Donnelly (Imperial College, London)
Bovine TB: Science, policy and dogma
Friday 17 February 2006
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5215
3:15 pm Nick Fieller (Sheffield University)
Statistical facial identification
Friday 24 February 2006
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5327
3:15 pm Nuala Sheehan (Leicester University)
Mendelian randomisation: causal inference using instrumental variables
Friday 3 March 2006
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5215
3:15 pm David Elston (BioSS, Aberdeen)
Applications of mixed models in ecology
Friday 17 March 2006
University of Edinburgh
Room JCMB 5326
3:15 pm David Hand (Imperial College, London)
Size matters
Thursday 6 April 2006
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2:15 pm Mark Heiler (University of Konstanz, currently Heriot-Watt)
A nonparametric regression cross spectrum for multivariate time series
Wednesday 3 May 2006
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
4:15 pm Adam Butler (BioSS, Edinburgh)
Analysing trends in the magnitude & frequency of extremes events
Wednesday 31 May 2006
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
4:15 pm Alex Cook ( Heriot-Watt)
Optimal design of experiments in stochastic population processes
Wednesday 14 June 2006
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2:15 pm Aris Perperoglou (Leiden University)
Overdispersion modelling with individual deviance effects and penalized likelihood
Wednesday 21 June 2006
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
2:30 pm Roger Koenker (University of Illinois, UC)
Parametric Links for Binary Response Models
Wednesday 21 June 2006
Heriot-Watt University
Room CM T.01
3:45 pm Siegfried Heiler (University of Konstanz)
Trend and seasonality in time series