My friends from the Department of Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, who beautifully organised BayesComp 2020, are running their annual Statistics Winter Workshop next year on Bayesian computational methods. On 17 and 18 January 2025. (Registration fees are $75 and $200 for students and non-students.) With a diverse range of speaker. I wish I could attend!
Archive for bats
2025 Computational Methods in Bayesian Statistics [plus ‘gators]
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags alligators, bats, BayesComp 2020, Bayesian computational methods, Florida, Gainesville, Lake Alice, University of Florida, USA, Winter is coming, workshop on October 30, 2024 by xi'anless bats, higher mortality
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, Travel with tags bats, biodiversity, biodiversity loss, biological pest control, causality, Ecology, insecticides, invasive species, mortality, white nose syndrom on September 18, 2024 by xi'an
“…farmers compensated for bat decline by increasing their insecticide use by 31.1%. The compensatory increase in insecticide use by farmers adversely affected health—human infant mortality increased by 7.9% in the counties that experienced bat die-offs.” Eyal G. Frank
A Science article by Eyal Frank got a lot of press last week for linking US bat population plummeting (up to 70%) due to the “white nose syndrom” (an invasive fungus) impacting bats since 2006 (through premature awakening from hibernation) and therefore agriculture, to a huge (8%) rise in infant mortality in the impacted regions, resulting from a jump in the use of insecticides… (The statistical model behind the predicted mortality is a linear model for all dependent outcomes, insecticide use, crop yield, and infant mortality. With plenty of precautions to separate infected counties from non-infected ones and to eliminate exogenous causes.)
bats [and viruses]
Posted in Statistics with tags bats, beautiful science, best science images of the year, Chinese horseshoe bat, coronavirus epidemics, DNA, evolution, mammalians, Molecular Biology and Evolution, rodents, The New York Times, viruses on February 9, 2020 by xi'an
Batman at Warwick
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags bats, Bayesian inference, missing species problem, University of Warwick, youtube on June 11, 2016 by xi'anHere is a short video featuring Mark Girolami (Warwick) explaining how to use signal processing and Bayesian statistics to estimate how many bats there are in a dark cave:
