
Archive for Travel
bused to Chamonix [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, cross-country skiing, ERC Synergy Grant, French Alps, jatp, Les Houches, Ocean, Pays du Mont-Blanc, sunrise, Travel, winter light, workshop on February 6, 2025 by xi'an
Canmore Xing [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags Alberta, bike path, Bow River, bridge, Canada, Canadian Rockies, Canmore, jatp, Travel on August 18, 2023 by xi'an
COMPSTAT²⁰²²
Posted in Books, Statistics, Travel with tags Bristol, COMPSTAT, Compstat 2022, computational Bayesian methods, Italy, Paris, Travel, Università di Bologna, Utrecht on August 21, 2022 by xi'an
I am taking part in [twice delayed] COMPSTAT 2022 this week, held in Bologna, virtually as my travel agenda is already quite heavy for the coming Fall Term. I sort of lost count but methinks this must be the fourth edition of COMPSTAT I am attending, the first one being Bristol in 1998, then Utrecht in 2000, and Paris in 2010. As it happens, all three plenary speakers are my friends and professional colleagues, namely Holger Detter, Igor Pruenster, and Jean-Michel Zakoian. I am talking in an Applied Computational Bayes session organised by Daniele Durante and Giacomo Zanella, although the talk is only remotely connected with my abstract from years ago:
Evidence approximation is a central object of Bayesian inference and despite numerous advances in the past decades, there still remain challenges to be met, especially when the sample size is large. We review here some robust solutions like the reverse logistic regression and a modified harmonic mean estimator, before proposing a related algorithm for Bayesian model choice.
a year ago, a world away
Posted in Statistics with tags Bristol, COVID-19, demonstration, England, flight, Greta Thunberg, pandemics, plane trip, seminar, Travel, United Kingdom, University of Bristol, Wales on February 24, 2021 by xi'an
