Stochastic Modeling and Computational Statistics, fall 2012
This working group will meet Thursdays 9:30am-10:30am in Thomas 327

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 30 Debashis Ghosh Multivariate Multiple Testing Methods, with applications to finding gene fusion in TCGA data
Sep 6 Pavel Krivitsky Fitting Dynamic Network Models to Static Network Data
Sep 13 Won Chang Models for High-Dimensional Spatial Data using Spatial Basis Functions
Sep 20 Dave Hunter Scalable statistical estimation methods for large, time-varying networks (Joint work with Duy Vu, Arthur Asuncion, Marcel Salathé, Padhraic Smyth, and Shashank Khandelwal)
Sep 27 Prabhani Kuruppumullage Bi-clustering with EM algorithm
Oct 4 No meeting
Oct 11 Guido Montufar Scaling of Model Approximation Errors and Expected Entropy Distances
Oct 18 Xiaoyue (Maggie) Nue Fast Inference for Latent Space Network Models using Case-control Likelihood Approximation
Oct 25 Marco Ferreira EMCMC methods for optimal Bayesian adaptive design for random function estimation
Nov 1 Josh Goldstein Modeling and Computation for a Spatial Point Process
Nov 8 No meeting
Nov 15 Le Bao Incremental Mixture Importance Sampling
Nov 22 No meeting (Thanskgiving)
Nov 29 Seonjin Kim Efficient estimation for time-varying coefficient longitudinal models
Dec 6 Murali Haran Inference for Spatial Random Effects Models