An ISBA World meeting is always an exciting event that verges on the sensory overload! The more when one’s flight is perversely designed to land at my usual bedtime. (I tried waking up very early and running for an hour before catching the plane but this did not make me doze for more than one hour or two in the plane.) To explain why I missed the first two foundation lectures of the day, including the one by my dear friend Sylvia Richardson, as I was still resting (to avoid repeating my fainting upon arrival as happened last year, or later as). Incidentally, these lectures made me realise I had given one in Kyoto (on ABC) in 2012. I however managed to attend David Dunson’s wide recap on Bayesian clustering(s), with slides ChatGPT confused with posters, hence a massive information content had I been able to read them from my seat! More fundamentally, the residual difficulty being the very notion of cluster itself. And a jump back in time with Fumiyasu Komaki going over his corpus of works on the decision theoretic properties of Bayesian predictives when the Kullback-Leibler divergence is the loss function. An interesting feature of his findings is that comparing priors in that sense is equivalent to comparing them for point estimation in Normal and Poisson cases, but not in the Gamma case, for no reason I can fathom. A philosophical point of contention of mine’s was the introduction of two Jeffreys priors when observed data and predicted data are from different distributions (calibrated by the same parameter θ) since it calls for a Lindley’s style criticism that a realisation not (yet) observed modifies the prior distribution on θ. If possibly leading to improved estimation.
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ISBA 2026¹
Posted in Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags admissibility, Bayesian predictive, clustering, conference, deadline, foundation lectures, ISBA, ISBA 2026, Japan, Jeffreys-Lindley paradox, Kyoto, Kyushu, logo, mixtures of distributions, Nagoya, registration fees, Shachihoko, Stein effect, student membership, Tokyo, WINC AICHI on June 30, 2026 by xi'anISBA 2026, 28 June: registration now open!
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags conference, deadline, ISBA, ISBA 2026, Japan, Kyushu, logo, Nagoya, registration fees, Shachihoko, student membership, WINC AICHI on January 26, 2026 by xi'an
open position in mathematical finance at Warwick
Posted in Kids, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Applied Statistics & Risk Unit, assistant professor position, Coventry, CRiSM, data science, deadline, Department of Computer Science, department of statistics, finance, Great-Britain, mathematical finance, Mathematics Institute, Midlands, MORSE, United Kingdom, University of Warwick, Warwick Centre for the Applications of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, Warwickshire on October 24, 2025 by xi'an
journal-to-conference track at AISTATS 2025!
Posted in Statistics with tags AISTATS 2025, Annals of Statistics, beach, Biometrika, deadline, JASA, JMLR, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of the Machine Learning Research, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, journal to conference, JRSS B, proceedings, publication, Thailand on February 18, 2025 by xi'an
An interesting initiative from the organisers of AISTATS 2025, namely, the creation of a journal-to-conference track for papers published in
- Annals of Statistics
- Biometrika
- Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Journal of the Machine Learning Research
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B
after 01 January 2023. They are be considered for a poster presentation at the upcoming AISTATS 2025 conference, held on 03-05 May in Mai Khao, Thailand, as an in-person event.. The submission details are available on the conference webpage. The chairs for this initiative are Pierre Alquier and Kamélia Daudel and the deadline is 15 March.
call for posters at BayesComp²³ satellite [AG:DC]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags AG:DC workshop, approximate Bayesian inference, BayesComp 2023, deadline, early bird rates, Finland, Lapland, Levi, likelihood-free inference, poster session on November 22, 2022 by xi'an
An urgent reminder that the early bird deadline for BayesComp²³ and the different satellites is 30 November (with a difference of $50) and also a call for poster presentations at our AG:DC (aka, Bayesian computing without exact likelihood) satellite workshop. Poster spots will be attributed to presenters on a first come – first served basis, so do not delay in sending me an abstract at my gmail account bayesianstatistics
