Archive for Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
congrats, Håvard!!!
Posted in Statistics with tags approximate Bayesian inference, computational statistics, Gaussian Markov fields, Guy Medal, honours, INLA, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, JRSSB, Laplace approximation, R-INLA, Royal Statistical Society, software on March 4, 2021 by xi'an
right place, wrong version
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, Approximate Bayesian computation, copyediting, HAL, Helvetica, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Royal Statistical Society, Series B, typos, Wasserstein distance on August 12, 2020 by xi'an
misspecified [but published!]
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, Approximate Bayesian computation, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, JRSSB, misspecified model, Series B on April 1, 2020 by xi'an
unbiased MCMC discussed at the RSS tomorrow night
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags AABI, coupling, discussion paper, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, MCMC, Read paper, Royal Statistical Society, Series B, unbiasedness, Université Paris Dauphine, Vancouver on December 10, 2019 by xi'an
The paper ‘Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo methods with couplings’ by Pierre Jacob et al. will be discussed (or Read) tomorrow at the Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street, London, tomorrow night, Wed 11 December, at 5pm London time. With a pre-discussion session at 3pm, involving Chris Sherlock and Pierre Jacob, and chaired by Ioanna Manolopoulou. While I will alas miss this opportunity, due to my trip to Vancouver over the weekend, it is great that that the young tradition of pre-discussion sessions has been rekindled as it helps put the paper into perspective for a wider audience and thus makes the more formal Read Paper session more profitable. As we discussed the paper in Paris Dauphine with our graduate students a few weeks ago, we will for certain send one or several written discussions to Series B!
the paper where you are a node
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags Annals of Statistics, Bayesian inference, Biometrika, car crash, causality, citation map, Cross Validation, gamebook, JASA, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, JRSSB, resampling, Series B, social networks, Valencia conferences, Where is Wally? on February 5, 2019 by xi'an
Sophie Donnet pointed out to me this arXived paper by Tianxi Li, Elizaveta Levina, and Ji Zhu, on a network resampling strategy for X validation, where I appear as a datapoint rather than as a [direct] citation! Which reminded me of the “where you are the hero” gamebooks with which my kids briefly played, before computer games took over. The model selection method is illustrated on a dataset made of X citations [reduced to 706 authors] in all papers published between 2003 and 2012 in the Annals of Statistics, Biometrika, JASA, and JRSS Series B. With the outcome being the determination of a number of communities, 20, which the authors labelled as they wanted, based on 10 authors with the largest number of citations in the category. As it happens, I appear in the list, within the “mixed (causality + theory + Bayesian)” category (!), along with Jamie Robbins, Paul Fearnhead, Gilles Blanchard, Zhiqiang Tan, Stijn Vansteelandt, Nancy Reid, Jae Kwang Kim, Tyler VanderWeele, and Scott Sisson, which is somewhat mind-boggling in that I am pretty sure I never quoted six of these authors [although I find it hilarious that Jamie appears in the category, given that we almost got into a car crash together, at one of the Valencià meetings!].
