Past events & seminars
Fellows Research Meetings
The NIASRA Fellows Meetings aim to provide an ongoing opportunity for researchers actively working in areas of interest to the Centre to present both work in progress and recent research results to an audience of fellow researchers and senior professionals who are also working in these areas.
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Past events
The 2023 Data Science and Statistics Lecture
"Data Science for Public Health" presented by Antonietta Mira, Professor of Statistics at Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland; and Insubria University, Como, Italy
SCC workshop
"Introduction to Mixed Modelling" presented by Dr Brad Wakefield - 10.00 am - 4.00 pm, Thursday, 23 February, 2023.
Data & Decision Science Network meeting
"Causal Diagrams: A tool to better understand results from epidemiological and machine learning analyses" presented by Associate Professor Ian Shrier, McGill University - 10.30 am - 11.30 pm, Tuesday, 21 February, 2023.
SCC workshop
"Introduction to Mixed Modelling with R Workshop" presented by Dr Brad Wakefield - 10.00 am - 4.00 pm, Wednesday, 7 December, 2022.
The 2022 Statistical Science Lecture
"On Learning-Aware Mechanism Design" presented by Michael I. Jordan Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in Dept of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Professor of Statistics - 11.00 am, Thursday, 17 November, 2022.
SCC/CHSA workshop
"Introduction to Data Science & Machine Learning for Health and Social Sciences workshop ONLINE" presented by Professor Marijka Batterham, Professor Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Dr Brad Wakefield - 9.30 am - 1.30 pm, Monday 14 - Wednesday 16 November, 2022.
Data & Decision Science Network meeting
"Teaching Programming & Modelling to First-Year Undergraduates: Tips and Lessons Learned" presented by Associate Professor Jenny Fisher, University of Wollongong - 11.30 am - 12.30 pm, Thursday, 27 October, 2022.
A Joint NIASRA-SEALS Seminar
Dr Michael Bertolacci, from the Centre for Environmental Informatics, NIASRA, gave a presentation “A shifting carbon cycle: Hunting for changes in ecosystems' emission and absorption of CO2” during Global Climate Change Week (GCCW) 2022 - 1.30 pm - 2.30 pm, Friday 14 October, 2022.
Welcome to 2022 Global Climate Change Week: Planet-Positive Partnerships
Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie gave a presentation on the 2022 Global Climate Change Week opening “Welcome to 2022 Global Climate Change Week: Planet-Positive Partnerships” - 4.00 pm - 5.00 pm, Tuesday 11 October, 2022.
SCC short course
"Introduction to R and RStudio workshop Online" presented by Dr Brad Wakefield and Professor Marijka Batterham, NIASRA, UOW - 12.30 pm - 3.30 pm, Monday 10 & Tuesday 11 October, 2022.
SCC/CHSA short course
"Introduction To Data Science & Machine Learning" presented by Professor Marijka Batterham, Professor Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, Dr Brad Wakefield - 10.00 am - 4.00 pm, Tuesday 19 & Wednesday 20 July, 2022.
A joint presentation of the Data & Decision Science Network & the Illawarra Shoalhaven Epidemiology & Biostatistics Network
"Linked Sensitive Data - a Beginners Guide" presented by Dr Felicity Flack, Population Health Research Network - 11.00 am - 12.30 pm, Tuesday, 31 May, 2022.
SCC short courses workshop
"Introduction to R and RStudio workshop" presented by Professor Marijka Batterham and Brad Wakefield, NIASRA, UOW - 10.00 am - 3.30 pm, Tuesday, 3 May, 2022.
"Introduction to Jamovi Workshop" presented by Professor Marijka Batterham and Brad Wakefield, NIASRA, UOW - 10.00 am - 3.30 pm, Tuesday, 10 May, 2022.
"Introduction to IBM® SPSS® statistics workshop" presented by Professor Marijka Batterham and Brad Wakefield, NIASRA, UOW - 10.00 am - 3.30 pm, Monday, 23 May, 2022.
The fifth themed meeting of the Data and Decision Science Network
"Transparency and reproducibility for quantitative research: Like the Layers of an Onion" presented by Professor Ben Marwick, University of Washington - 10.00 am - 11.30 am, Friday, 29 April, 2022.
The fourth themed meeting of the Data and Decision Science Network
"Which stats package should I use?" presented by Professor Marijka Batterham, Brad Wakefield and Professor Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, NIASRA, UOW - 11.30 am - 1.00 pm, Tuesday, 22 March, 2022.
ANZSC2021
NIASRA members gave a series of presentations, invited talks, and a mini tutorial at the 2021 Australian and New Zealand Statistical Conference (ANZSC) and OZCOTS from 3-7 July 2021, with the highlight of the Conference’s Moran Lecture given by Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie:
1. Invited Session - Spatial models for complex environmental problems
"WOMBAT: a fully Bayesian global flux-inversion framework" presented by Dr Michael Bertolacci - 1.30 pm, Monday, 5 July, 2021.
2. Mini Tutorial
"Defensive programming: how to help shield your code from error" presented by Dr Michael Bertolacci - 11.00 am, Tuesday, 6 July, 2021.
3. Presentations in various sessions
- Session - Time Series Analysis
- "AdaptSPEC-X: a spectral method for handling spatially-dependent nonstationarity" presented by Dr Michael Bertolacci - 1.30 pm, Tuesday, 6 July, 2021.
- Session - Environmental Statistics
- "Modelling nonstationary and asymmetric multivariate spatial covariances via deformations" presented by Mr Quan Vu - 11.00 am, Tuesday, 6 July, 2021.
- "Statistical inference with non-Gaussian spatial and spatio-temporal data using the software package FRK" presented by Mr Matthew Sainsbury-Dale - 11.30 am, Tuesday, 6 July, 2021.
- "Spatial prediction of column-averaged carbon dioxide over the globe" presented by Mr Josh Jacobson - 12.00 pm, Tuesday, 6 July, 2021.
- "Pseudo-Bayesian optimal and adaptive sampling designs for stream networks with the R package SSNdesign" presented by Mr Alan Pearse - 1.45 pm, Tuesday, 6 July, 2021.
- "Emulation of Lagrangian particle dispersion model sensitivities using a convolutional variational autoencoder" presented by Ms Laura Cartwright - 2.00 pm, Tuesday, 6 July, 2021.
- Session - Statistical Theory and Methods
- "Optimal spatial prediction for positive spatial processes using power-divergence loss functions" presented by Mr Alan Pearse - 11.45 am, Tuesday, 6 July, 2021.
- Session - Modelling
- "Non-homogeneous Poisson process intensity modeling and estimation using measure transport" presented by Dr Andrew Zammit-Mangion - 1.30 pm, Wednesday, 7 July, 2021.
4. Moran Lecture
"SUPE-ANOVA: Intercomparison of global geophysical models" presented by Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie - 9.45 am, Wednesday, 7 July, 2021. (twitter)
5. The 10th Australian Conference on Teaching Statistics (OZCOTS)
- "Relationship between statistics anxiety and final marks in introductory biostatistics in undergraduate health sciences students" presented by Professor Marijka Batterham - 11.45 am, Thursday, 8 July, 2021.
- "Assessment randomisation in statistics and related disciplines" presented by Dr Andrew Zammit-Mangion - 1.45 pm, Friday, 9 July, 2021.
The first themed meeting of the Data and Decision Science Network
"Elegant graphics for data analysis with R" presented by Dr Emi Tanaka - 11.30 am - 1.00 pm, Thursday, 2 September, 2021.
The second themed meeting of the Data and Decision Science Network
"Machine Learning Taster" presented by Professor Alberto Nettel-Aguirre - 12.00 pm - 1.30 pm, Thursday, 7 October, 2021.
The 2021 Statistical Science Lecture
"Saving Medical Dollars, Trillions at a Time: A Statistical Perspective" presented by Scott L. Zeger, John C. Malone Professor of Biostatistics and Medicine - 10.45 am, Wednesday, 3 November, 2021.
The third themed meeting of the Data and Decision Science Network
12.00 pm - 1.30 pm, Wednesday, 10 November, 2021.
- "Developing your own COVID-19 Dashboard" presented by Brad Wakefield, Statistical Consultant with the Statistical Consulting Centre.
- "Using R for Interactive visualisation of medical rehabilitation data" presented by Patrick Steele, the IT Director for AHSRI and Andrew Fuller, Data Analyst for AROC.
2021 SSA Canberra Knibbs Lecture
"Perspectives on sample surveys" presented by Professor David Steel, Director of the Centre for Sample Survey Methodology, NIASRA, UOW - 5.45 pm - 7 pm, Tuesday, 30 November 2021.
The 22nd J.B. Douglas Awards and Annual Lecture 2021
"Modelling Antarctica elevation change using nonstationary spatio-temporal covariances" presented by Quan Vu, NIASRA, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, UOW - 2.00 pm - 5.30 pm, Thursday, 9 December 2021.
Statistical Science Lecture, presented by Professor Sally Cripps. Wollongong, 18 November 2020.
The G38 Research Fellows Meeting will be held at the Goulburn Soldiers Club on 1 April 2020. (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
Please email Angela Fiakos on angelan@uow.edu.au to register your interest and to receive further information about future Research Fellows Meetings.
Stats Week 2020, Tuesday 4 to Thursday 6 February 2020.
- Flexible Informative Rank-based Inference Half-Day Workshop, by Olivier Thas (Hasselt University, Belgium, Ghent University, Belgium and University of Wollongong, Australia)
- Advances in Statistical Disclosure Limitation Workshop, with Keynote presenter Dr Anna Oganyan, booklet, presentation slides archive.
- Advances in Statistical Methodology Symposium, organised to celebrate the career of Professor Ray Chambers, with various international and Australian presenters. Programme.
Research Fellows Meeting, Goulburn, 20 November 2019.
Statistical Design and Analysis for Data Science Workshop, presented with our ASEARC partners. Sydney, 7 November 2019.
- Statistics: a Data Science for the Twenty-first Century, by Distinguished Professor Peter Diggle
- False Discovery Rates to Detect Signals from Incomplete, Spatially Aggregated Data, by Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie
- Improving Census occupancy determination: the potential of administrative data for Census, by Sezim Dzhumasheva
- Advanced Analytics in Telco, by Jonny Keane
- Some structural properties of the Transmuted Weibull distribution for modelling survival data, by Muhammad Shuaib Khan
- Efficient Leverage Score Sampling for the Analysis of Big Time Series Data, by Dr Ali Eshragh
- Using Predicted Response Propensities with the Random Forests Method to Direct a Responsive Intensive Follow‐up Strategy, by Summer Wang
- Probabilistic spatio-temporal forecasting using deep learning models, by Dr Andrew Zammit-Mangion
- How does Data Science play out in industry and what skills are we looking for?, by Dr Virginia Wheway
Statistical Science Lecture, presented by Distinguished Professor Peter Diggle. Wollongong, 6 November 2019.
Climate-change research in UOW's Centre for Environmental Informatics, presented by Dr Michael Bertolacci, Dr Andrew Zammit Mangion, Professor Noel Cressie (and Bohai Zhang). Climate-Change Week, 17 October, 2019.
Randomization, Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology Workshop, presented by Professor Bryan Manly. Wollongong, 3 October 2019.
Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R Short Course, presented by Noel Cressie and Andrew Zammit Mangion. Sydney, 29-30 April 2019.
Research Fellows Meeting, Goulburn, 3 April 2019.
Stats Week 2019, Monday 4 to Thursday 7 February 2019.
- Microbiome Data Analysis presented over two days by Olivier Thas (Hasselt University, Belgium, Ghent University, Belgium and University of Wollongong, Australia) and Stijn Hawinkel (Ghent University Belgium)
- Assessing Measurement, Reliability and Validity by Professor Angie Wade (University College London)
- Sample Survey Methods presented by Professor David Steel (Director NIASRA University of Wollongong, Australia)
Multilevel Modelling in R Short Course, presented by Mark Tranmer (University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK). Wollongong, 23 November 2018
Prof Ray Chambers: Nudging a Pseudo-Science Towards a Science, NSW Branch of the Statistical Society of Australia Annual Lecture 6.00pm Wednesday 28 November, UTS Function Centre, Sydney.
Statistical Science Lecture, presented by Dr Renate Meyer. Wollongong, 31 October 2018.
SAGI Symposium, Wollongong, 8-9 August 2018.
Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biometrics for Plant Breeding Programs. Wollongong, 25-26 July 2018.
High-Dimensional Data Analysis Short Course, presented by Olivier Thas. Wollongong, 5-6 February 2018.
International Conference on Robust Statistics, Wollongong, 3-7 July 2017.
Past seminars
| Thursday, 17 November, 10:45 for 11:00 start, Building 43, Room G01 and Zoom. | Michael I. Jordan, UC Berkeley |
On Learning-Aware Mechanism Design |
| Friday, 11 November, 14:00, Building 8 Room G24 | Professor Stephen Haslett, Massey University, New Zealand |
Equality of BLUEs for Full, Small, and Intermediate Linear Models under Covariance Change, with links to Data Confidentiality and Encryption |
| Friday, 28 October, 14:00, Building 3 Room 122 and Zoom | Professor Maurizio Filippone, Chair of Computational Statistics at EURECOM, France |
Functional Priors for Bayesian Deep Learning |
| Thursday, 27 October, 11:30, Zoom (A Joint NIASRA and DDSN seminar) | Associate Professor Jenny Fisher, University of Wollongong |
Teaching Programming & Modelling to First-Year Undergraduates: Tips and Lessons Learned |
| Friday, 21 October, 14:00, Zoom | Dr Mohamad Khaled, University of Queensland |
Rank-based conditional measures of inequality under complex sampling designs (joint with Paul Makdissi and Myra Yazbeck, University of Ottawa) |
| Friday, 14 October, 13:30, Building 20 Room 5 and Zoom | Dr Michael Bertolacci, Centre for Environmental Informatics, NIASRA, University of Wollongong |
A shifting carbon cycle: Hunting for changes in ecosystems' emission and absorption of CO2 |
| Friday, 16 September, 14:00 | Dr Pavel Krupskiy, University of Melbourne |
Modeling Spatial Tail Dependence with Cauchy Convolution Processes |
| Friday, 2 September, 14:00 | Dr Pauline O’Shaughnessy, University of Wollongong |
SSP Report and a talk on the applications of Multivariate Moment-Based Density Estimation |
| Friday, 26 August, 14:00 | Professor Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, School of Economics, Finance, and Marketing, RMIT University, Australia |
Local Area Crime and Energy Poverty |
| Friday, 12 August, 14:00 (reschedule) | Dr Lauren Kennedy, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia |
Combining multiple survey frames with multilevel regression and poststratification (MRP) |
| Friday, 6 May, 14:00 | Mo Namazi, TPG Telecom | AI/ML-driven automation systems and Data Products in Telecommunications Industry |
| Friday, 29 April, 10:00 | Professor Ben Marwick, University of Washington | Transparency and reproducibility for quantitative research: Like the Layers of an Onion |
| Friday, 1 April, 14:00 | Professor Eric Beh, Honorary Professor of Statistics with the School of Information and Physical Science, Honorary Professorial Fellow with NIASRA and Extraordinary Professor of Statistics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa | On the biplot for contingency tables with ordinal variables: features of the configuration obtained using orthogonal polynomials generated from Emerson’s recurrence formulae |
| Friday, 4 March, 14:00 | Dr Matt Moore, University of Wollongong | The Annealed Leap-Point MCMC Sampler (ALPS) for multi-modal posterior distributions |
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| Friday, 3 December, 14:00, Zoom |
Quan Vu, University of Wollongong |
Modelling Antarctica Elevation Change Using Nonstationary Spatio-Temporal Covariances |
| Friday, 22 October, 14:00, Zoom |
Dr Bryson Bates, CSIRO Honorary Fellow and currently holds Adjunct Professorships at the University of Western Australia and the University of Adelaide |
Discerning the influence of climate variability modes, regional weather features and time series persistence on streamflow using Bayesian networks |
| Friday, 27 August, 14:00, Zoom |
Dr Beverley Gogel, University of Wollongong |
Comparison of tensor product penalised-splines and autoregressive processes for modelling the smooth trend effects in plant breeding field trials |
| Friday, 13 August, 16:30, Zoom |
Dr James Ng, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland |
Mixture of normalizing flows for spherical density estimation |
| Friday, 30 July, 11:30, Zoom |
Professor Robert Deardon, University of Calgary |
Fast parameterization of spatial epidemic models: let’s emulate |
| Friday, 2 July, 11:00, Zoom |
Senior Professor David Steel, University of Wollongong |
Sample design for analysis using high influence probability sampling |
| Friday, 4 June, 14:00, Zoom |
Dr Luca Maestrini, University of Technology Sydney |
Variational approximations for random effect and latent variable models |
| Friday, 21 May, 14:00, Zoom |
Dr Leah South, Queensland University of Technology |
Monte Carlo variance reduction using Stein operators |
| Friday, 14 May, 16:00, Zoom |
Consulting statistician Jonathan Rougier |
Estimating volume from point-referenced thickness measurements |
| Friday, 30 April, 14:00, Zoom |
Honorary professorial fellow, Siu-Ming, University of Wollongong |
On removing the linkage bias from integrated data sets for analytic inference |
| Friday, 16 April, 14:00, Zoom |
Professor Han Lin Shang, Macquarie University |
Bootstrap rediction bands for functional time series |
| Friday, 9 April, 14:00, Zoom |
Dr David Gunawan, University of Wollongong |
Posterior probabilities for Lorenz and stochastic dominance of Australian income distributions |
| Friday, 19 March, 14:00, Zoom |
Chris Lisle, University of Wollongong |
A new diagnostic to assess information available for variance parameter estimation in Multi-Environment Trial (MET) analyses |
| Friday, 12 March, 14:00, Zoom |
Dr Stephanie Clark, University of Technology Sydney |
Multiple time series analysis with unsupervised and supervised machine learning: Groundwater level patterns in the Namoi region of NSW |
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| Friday, 27 November, 14:00, Zoom | Dr Thomas Suesse, University of Wollongong | Controlling the coverage of inner and uuter exceedance sets by controlling the k-FWER |
| Friday, 30 October, 14:00, Zoom | Professor Chris Drovandi, Queensland University of Technology | To summarise or not to summarise: A comparison of likelihood-free methods with and without summary statistics |
| Friday, 16 October, 14:00, Zoom | Dr Michael Bertolacci, University of Wollongong | WOMBAT: a hierarchical Bayesian framework for flux inversion with remote sensing data |
| Friday, 18 September, 14:00, Zoom | Yue Ma, University of Wollongong | Protecting extreme values in business data under multiplicative noise masking scheme |
| Dr Pauline O'Shaughnessy, University of Wollongong | On masking and releasing smart meter data at micro-level: the multiplicative noise approach | |
| Friday, 4 September, 14:00, Zoom | Quan Vu, University of Wollongong | Modelling nonstationary and asymmetric multivariate spatial covariances via deformations |
| Friday, 28 August, 14:00, Zoom | Dr Reza Hajargasht, Swinburne University of Technology | Fifty years on: can spatial chaining improve international comparisons of living standards? |
| Friday, 14 August, 14:00, Zoom | Dr Khue-Dung Dang, University of Technology Sydney | Subsampling sequential Monte Carlo for static Bayesian models |
| Monday, 24 February,13:30, room 6.210.208 | Professor James Brown, University of Technology Sydney | Utilising alternative data sources as auxiliary information in survey estimation; re-thinking established tools in the big data environment |
| Tuesday, 18 February,10:00, room 39A.208 | Kieren Brodnik and Aidan McGarty, CBB summer scholars | Re-analysis of an oat NVT trial to understand linear mixed models and examine generalised inverses |
| Thursday,13 February, 10:30, room 6.210 | Dr Mark Brewer,Biomathematics & Statistics Scotland,The James Hutton Institute | Model selection and the cult of AIC |
| Monday, 20 January, 13:30, room 6.210 | Associate Professor Alberto Nettel-Aguirre, University of Calgary | A biostatistician’s navigation through a world of health and social sciences research |
| Tuesday, 14 January, 14:00, room 6.210 | Associate Professor Robin Turner, University of Otago | Designing randomised trials to estimate the benefits and harms of patient choice of treatment |
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| Friday, 29 November, 14:00, room 39A 208 | A/Prof Lassi Roininen, Lappeenranta University of Technology | Posterior inference for sparse hierarchical non-stationary models |
| Tuesday, 22 October, 14:30, room 39A.208 | Roman Marchant, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Translational Data Science, University of Sydney | Bayesian optimisation for decision making in spatial-temporal processes |
| Thursday, 17 October, 13:30, room 67.101 | Michael Bertolacci, Andrew Zammit Mangion, Noel Cressie (and Bohai Zhang), NIASRA, SMAS, UOW | Climate-change research in UOW's Centre for Environmental Informatics |
| Thursday, 10 October, 13:30, room 1.G05 | Rune Christiansen, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen | Using space as an anchor: causality meets spatial data |
| Friday, 4 October, 11:00, room 4.G31 | Bryan Manly, Manly Biostatistics Ltd, Dunedin, New Zealand | Statistical Consulting in the USA: Marine Mammals, Birds and Fish in and Around Water and a Little Bit of Medical Research |
| Thursday, 12 September, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Bradley Wakefield, NIASRA, SMAS, UOW | A general framework for measuring disclosure of protected micro-level data |
| Wednesday 4 September, 1:30pm, room 39C.174 | Senior Research Scientist Dan Pagendam, CSIRO Data61 | Statistical Modelling to Support Mosquito Biocontrol Programs |
| Monday, 22 July, 2.30pm, room 6.210 | Associate Professor Daniel Simpson, University of Toronto |
Sometimes having a continuous interpretation is useful. Sometimes it isn't. A story about Gaussian random fields |
| Wednesday, 10 July, 10:30am, room 39A.208 | Valeria Paccapelo, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries QLD |
A whole genome QTL analysis for NAM populations |
| Friday, 5 July, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 |
Dr Brenda Vo, University of New England |
Statistical inference for agent based models in cell biology |
| Friday, 14 June, 10:00am, room 39A.208 | Professor Murray Aitkin, University of Melbourne |
Statistical modelling education for Data Science |
| Thursday, 13 June, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Dr Michael Betancourt, Symplectomorphic, LLC |
Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo |
| Thursday, 13 June, 2.30pm, room 39A.208 | Professor Murray Aitkin, University of Melbourne |
An alternative measure of income inequality over successive surveys |
| Thursday 28 March, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Dr Matt Moore, University of Wollongong | R package ‘bayesImageS’: a case study in Bayesian computation using Rcpp and OpenMP |
| Tuesday 19 March, 2:30pm, room 6.210 | Dr Michael David, University of Newcastle | A preventative approach for minimising the impact of attrition in longitudinal studies |
| Wednesday 20 February, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr Michael Betancourt, Symplectomorphic, LLC | Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo |
| Wednesday 13 February, 9:30am, room 39A.208 | William Gross, University of Wollongong | Using Population Groups for Replicate Variance Estimation |
| Tuesday 12 February, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Professor Irene Hudson, Swinburne University of Technology | Multidisciplinary research with impact: the integration of statistics and data science in research |
| Monday 11 February, 2:30pm, room 39A.208 | Professor Andrew Wood, University of Nottingham | Regression modelling using the scaled von Mises-Fisher distribution: an example of manifold-valued response data |
| Wednesday 6 February, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 | Olivier Thas, I-Biostat, Hasselt University, Belgium Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling, Ghent University, Belgium NIASRA, University of Wollongong, Australia Leyla Kodalci, Hasselt University |
A semiparametric model for compositional data with applications to RNASeq and microbiome studies |
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
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| Monday 10 December, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr Tom Stindl, UNSW Sydney | Direct Likelihood Evaluation for the Renewal Hawkes Process |
| Wednesday 5 December, 11:00am, room 39A.208 | Associate Professor Mirko Draca, University of Warwick Carlo Schwarz, University of Warwick |
How Polarised are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground Up |
| Thursday 15 November, 11:30am, room 6.210 | Victoria Leaver, Assistant Director, Advanced Modelling & Optimisation, Methodology Division, Australian Bureau of Statistics | Comparison of likelihood-based methods for size-biased sampling |
| Thursday 9 November, 11:30am, room 4.G31 | Dr Tao Zou, ANU | Covariance Regression Model for Non-Normal Data |
| Thursday 27 September, 11:30am, room 3.122 | Dr Petra Kuhnert, Data61, CSRIO | The Provision and Utility of Science to Decision-Makers in the Face of Uncertainty |
| Monday 17 September, 1:30pm, room 1.G04 | Dr Gordana Popovic, Research Associate in Statistics, University of New South Wales | Covariance modelling and inference for multivariate discrete data in ecology |
| Thursday 6 September, 1:30pm, room 3.122 | Dr Hsin-Cheng Huang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica | Spatial Analysis of Fine Particulate Matter in Taiwan |
| Friday 24 August, 11:30am, room 6.210 | AProf Michael Schweinberger, Department of Statistics, Rice University, U.S.A. | High-dimensional multivariate time series with spatial structure |
| Wednesday 22 August, 11:30am, room 3.123 | Prof Alan T. Murray, Department of Geography, University of California at Santa Barbara | Observed Spatial Clustering |
| Thursday 16 August, 1:30pm, room 3.123 | Dr Liuhua Peng, Lecturer in Statistics, University of Melbourne | Distributed Statistical Inference for Massive Data |
| Thursday 9 August, 1pm, room 1.G03 | Ms Helani Kottage | Multiple imputation (MI) for handling the problem of missingness in categorical variables |
| Tuesday 17 July, 11:30am, room 6.210 | Dr Linda Tan, Assistant professor, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, National University of Singapore | Topic-Adjusted Visibility Metric for Scientific Articles |
| Wednesday 27 June, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 (IHMRI) | Prof Noel Cressie, University of Wollongong | Atmospheric carbon and the statistical science of measuring, mapping, and uncertainty quantification |
| Wednesday 13 June, 1:30pm, room 6.210 | Ray Chambers, University of Wollongong | Domain Estimation Under Informative Linkage |
| Wednesday 6 June, 9:30am, room 39A.208 | Mossamet Nesa, University of Wollongong | Fay-Herriot estimators |
| Wednesday 7 February, 11:30am, room 4.G31 | Conjoint Professor John Rayner, University of Newcastle | Smooth Tests of Goodness of Fit for Extended GLMs |
| Friday 2 February, 11:30am, room 4.G31 |
Roberto Benedetti, Department of Economic Studies, University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara, Italy Federica Piersimoni, Istat, Directorate for Methodology and Statistical Process Design, Italy |
Identifying spatial regimes in environmental and ecological models |
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
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| Tuesday 12 December, 1:30pm, room 8.G25 | Assoc. Prof. David Nott, Associate Professor of Statistics, National University of Singapore, Singapore | Gaussian variational approximation with structured covariance matrices |
| Tuesday 5 December, 1:30pm, room 8.G25 | Dr. Bohai Zhang, Research fellow, Centre for Environmental Informatics, NIASRA, University of Wollongong | Smoothed Full-Scale Approximation of Gaussian Process Models for Computation of Large Spatial Datasets |
| Wednesday 8 November, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 | Prof. Paul Clarke, Professor of Social Statistics, Institute for Social & Economic Research, University of Essex, UK | Panel-data modelling using structural mean models |
| Friday 6 October, 12:30pm, room 6.210 | Mr. Patrick McDermott, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA | Dynamical Machine Learning Models for Forecasting Spatio-Temporal Processes |
| Wednesday 27 September, 1:30pm, room 15.206 | Dr. Hassan Doosti, Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Macquarie University | Nonparametric tilted density function estimation |
| Wednesday 20 September, 1:30pm, room 19.1056 | Dr. Thomas Fung, Lecturer in Statistics, Department of Statistics, Macquarie University | Semiparametric generalized linear models for time-series data |
| Wednesday 13 September, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr. Thomas Suesse, Senior lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Assessing the Fit of Finite Mixture Distributions |
| Wednesday 30 August, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr. Pauline O'Shaughnessy, Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Bootstrapping longitudinal data with multiple levels of variation |
| Thursday 8 June, 1:30pm, room 8.G25 | Dr. Yanan Fan, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Australia | Quantile pyramids for simultaneous quantile regression |
| Thursday 1 June, 1:30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Andrew Zammit Mangion, Senior Lecturer, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), University of Wollongong | Sparse approximate inference for spatio-temporal point process models with application to armed conflict |
| Thursday 18 May, 1:30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Jakub Stoklosa, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales, Australia | A Generalized Estimating Equation approach to Multivariate Adaptive Regression Spline |
| Thursday 11 May, 1:30pm, room 6.210 | Dr. Francis Hui, Mathematical Sciences Institute, Australian National University | Teaching an old dog new tricks: Joint selection in mixed models using regularized PQL |
| Thursday 4 May, 1:30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Walt Davis, NIASRA, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Causal Analysis in Social Research |
| Thursday 13 April, 1:30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. John Ormerod, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia | Bayesian hypothesis tests with diffuse priors: Can we have our cake and eat it too? |
| Thursday 23 March, 1:30pm, room 4.G31 | A/Prof. Olivier Thas, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Belgium NIASRA, University of Wollongong, Australia |
Estimation in the Probabilistic Index Model |
| Tuesday 21 March, 1:30pm, room 19.G026 | Prof. John Rayner, NIASRA, University of Wollongong School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Newcastle, Australia |
New Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel Results |
| Friday 24 February, 11:00am, room 6.210 | Prof. Alfred Stein, Institute of Statistical Science, Professor in Spatial Statistics and Image Analysis University of Twente, the Netherlands | Objects as subjects: modeling the uncertainty in spatial big data |
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
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| Tuesday 29 November, 1.30pm, room 1.G04 | Dr. Hsin-Cheng Huang, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica | Multi-Resolution Spatial Random-Effects Models for Automatic Fixed-Rank Kriging |
| Thursday 10 November, 1.30pm, room 8.G25 | Dr. Robert G. Aykroyd, Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds Visiting Fellow, University of Technology Sydney |
A statistician’s perspective on inverse problems in medicine, archaeology, and industrial process engineering |
| Wednesday 26 October, 1.30pm, room 25.G05 | Mr. Luke Mazur, Centre for Bioinformatics and Biometrics (CBB), National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Equivalence of Cholesky Factorization and Absorption |
| Wednesday 19 October, 1.30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Martin Tingley, Senior Research Analyst, Insurance Australia Group | Insurance applications of the 0-1-inflated beta distributions |
| Wednesday 5 October, 1.30pm, room 1.G05 | A/Prof. Robert Clark, Director, Centre for Sample Survey Methodology, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Generalised Linear Models Under Response Dependent Sampling |
| Wednesday 14 September, 1.30pm, room 3.122 | Dr. Emi Tanaka, Research Fellow, Centre of Bioinformatics and Biometrics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | How statistics feeds us – applied statistics in agriculture |
| Thursday 25 August, 3.00pm, room 6.210 | A/Prof. Olivier Thas, Associate Professor in Statistics, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics, and Process Control, Ghent University Associate Professor in Statistics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong |
The Statistical Analysis of Microbiome Data |
| Monday 4 July, 2.30pm, room 6.210 | Dr. Wesley Brooks, Research Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New South Wales | Fast variational estimation of a Cox process model for spatial point patterns using spatial random effects |
| Wednesday 1 June, 2.30pm, room 1.G03 | Dr. David Clifford, Director of Science, Climate Corporation | From the ground up: Data science to agronomic insights |
| Wednesday 25 May, 2.30pm, room 1.G01 | Dr. Ben Marwick, Senior Research Scientist, School of Earth and Environment Sciences, University of Wollongong Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle |
Computational reproducibility in research and teaching: A case study from archaeology |
| Wednesday 4 May, 2.30pm, room 1.G01 | Prof. Noel Cressie, Distinguished Professor, Director of Centre for Environmental Informatics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Predictive Inference for Big, Spatial, Non-Gaussian Data: MODIS Cloud Data and its Change-of-Support |
| Wednesday 20 April, 2.30pm, room 6.102 | Dr. Shuvo Bakar, Lecturer, Centre for Social Research and Methods, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University | A Bayesian Spatial Model for Small Area Estimation |
| Wednesday 13 April, 2.30pm, room 1.G01 | Mr. James Dawber, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Method of moments approach to nuisance scale estimation for Huber M-quantiles |
| Wednesday 6 April, 2.30pm, room 1.G05 | Dr. Cécile Hardouin, Maître de Conférences, Team MODAL’X, Université Paris Ouest | Misparametrisation Subsets for Penalised Least Squares Model Selection |
| Wednesday 30 March, 2.30pm, room 1.G03 | Dr. Thomas Suesse, Senior Lecturer, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Spatial Econometric Models under the Presence of Missing Data |
| Thursday 3 March, 2.30pm, room 4.G31 | Associate Professor Eun-Hye Enki Yoo, Department of Geology, State University of New York at Buffalo | A geospatial approach to air pollution exposure assessment |
| Thursday 11 February, 2.30pm, room 8.G25 | Prof. David Balding, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne | Statistical evaluation of DNA evidence in criminal casework |
| Monday 8 February, 1.30pm, room 15.206 | Prof. Martina Morris, Professor of Sociology and Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle | Identifying Network Effects in Infectious Disease Dynamics |
| Thursday 28 January, 1.30pm, room 6.102 | Dr. Mark Tanmer, Social Sciences, University of Manchester (UK), Social & Political Sciences, University of Glasgow (UK) | What Is The Relational Event Model (REM)? |
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday 17 November, 2.30pm, room 8.G25 | Mr. Sumonkanti Das, PhD Research Student of Statistics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Robust Poverty Mapping Inference |
| Tuesday 10 November, 2.30pm, room 8.G25 | A/Prof. Samuel Mueller, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Sydney | A multi-step classifier identifies cohort heterogeneity in cancers leading to improved accuracy of prognostic biomarkers |
| Tuesday 27 October, 2.30pm, room 8.G25 | A/Prof. Robert Clark, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, University of Wollongong | An Evaluation of Alternative Weightings for Analysis of a Complex Cross-Sectional Health Survey / Sampling Minorities in New Zealand Using a Combination of Imperfect Strategies |
| Tuesday 20 October, 2.30pm, room 8.G25 | Dr. Pamela Campanelli, Survey Methods Consultant, UK Chartered Statistician and Chartered Scientist | Mixed Modes of Survey Data Collection and Measurement Error |
| Tuesday 13 October, 2.30pm, room 8.G25 | Dr. Craig Anderson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney | Identifying Boundaries in Spatial Modelling |
| Tuesday 6 October, 2.30pm, room 8.G25 | Prof. Raymond Chambers, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), University of Wollongong | Inference about small area distributions using area level tabulations |
| Tuesday 15 September, 2.30pm, room 1.G04 | Dr. Janice Scealy, Lecturer, Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies & Applied Statistics, College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Robust principal component analysis for power transformed compositional data |
| Tuesday 8 September, 2.30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr. Bohai Zhang, Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Informatics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Full scale multi-output Gaussian process emulator with nonseparable auto-covariance functions |
| Thursday 3 September, 1.30pm, room 6.102 | Dr. Zhiqiang Feng, Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St. Andrews | Back-Casting Small Area Deprivation Indicators for Linking to Cohort Studies |
| Wednesday 18 June, 1.30pm, room 6.210 | Associate Professor Olivier Thas, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics, and Process Control, Ghent University | Tests for interaction in two-way layouts |
| Thursday 28 May, 1.30pm, room 4.G31 | Professor Raymond Chambers, Director, Centre for Sample Survey Methodology, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong | Efficient Sampling in Higher Dimensions |
| Thursday 21 May, 11.30am, room 1.G04 | Assistant Professor Ivor Cribben, Department of Finance and Statistical Analysis, Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta | Estimating dynamic graphical models with applications to brain imaging data |
| Thursday 14 May, 1.30pm, room 4.G31 | Associate Professor Yan-Xia Lin, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Generating Synthetic Data based on Noise Multiplied Data |
| Thursday 30 April, 1.30pm, room 6.210 | Professor Raymond Chambers, Director, Centre for Sample Survey Methodology, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong | Efficient Sampling in Higher Dimensions |
| Dr. Thomas Suesse, Senior Lecturer, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong | New Network Modelling Strategies and Applications to Surveys and Health | |
| Thursday 23 April, 1.30pm, room 3.122 | Professor David Steel, Director, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia, School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong | Maximising the value of survey data through cost-efficient sample designs for analysis |
| Tuesday 14 April, 1.30pm, room 4.G31 | Dr. Sandy Burden, Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Informatics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Simultaneous Inference from Simulation Experiments: Figures of Merit |
| Thursday 9 April, 1.30pm, room 6.210 | Professor Louise Ryan, Distinguished Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences and Advanced Analytics Institute UTS, Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics Harvard School of Public Health | Spatio-temporal modelling of health data: Challenges and opportunities |
| Tuesday 24 March, 1.30pm, room 1.G05 | Professor Alan Welsh, Mathematical Sciences Institute, ANU College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University | “Magnitude based-inference”: A statistical review |
| Thursday 29 January, 1.30pm, room 6.210 | Professor Dani Gamerman, Professor of Statistics, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | Point pattern analysis with spatially varying covariate effects, applied to the study of cerebrovascular deaths |
| Friday 23 January, 11.30am, room 4.G31 | Associate Professor Olivier Thas, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control Ghent University and University of Wollongong | Increasing the power of the Mann-Whitney test in randomised experiments through flexible covariate adjustment |
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Monday 24 November, 12.30pm, room 41.202 | Dr. Ahmad Rabiee, Cow Signals Australia | Application of meta-analysis and systematic reviews in veterinary science |
| Friday 14 November, 1.30pm, room 8.G25 | Associate Professor Robert Clark, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics, University of Wollongong | Sampling the Maori Population In New Zealand Using Imprecise Design Data |
| Thursday 6 November, 2.30pm, room 15.206 | Assistant Professor Edward Cripps, School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Western Australia | Flexible Clustering of Longitudinal Trajectories with Applications in Psychology |
| Wednesday 5 November, 2.30pm, room 15.206 | Professor Bimal Sinha, Board of Regents Professor of the University System of Maryland Research Mathematical Statistician, US Census Bureau | Some Aspects of Data Analysis under Confidentiality Protection |
| Thursday 23 October, 1.30pm, room 3.123 | Nicholas I. Fisher, University of Sydney and ValuMetrics Australia | Measuring Research Quality: Approaches and Issues |
| Monday 13 October, 2.30pm, room 4.G31 | Professor Pierre Del Moral, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of New South Wales | Stochastic particle methods in Bayesian statistical learning |
| Thursday 9 October, 1.30pm, room 3.123 | Dr. Andrew Zammit Mangion, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Informatics, National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA), University of Wollongong | Sparse linear algebraic methods and MPI with spatio-temporal models |
| Friday 3 October, 1.30pm, room 6.210 (SMART) | Dr. Grace Chiu Senior Research Scientist Digital Productivity Flagship CSIRO | Assessment and prediction of ecosystem health as model parameters at multiple spatial scales across Australia's Murray-Darling Basin |
| Thursday 18 September, 1.30pm, room 3.123 | Prof. Raymond Chambers, University of Wollongong | Survey sampling in official statistics — some thoughts on directions |
| Thursday 28 August, 1.30pm, room 1.G02 | Dr. Justin Rory Wishart, University of New South Wales | Data-driven optimal thresholds and resolution selection methods in multichannel wavelet deconvolution with long memory |
| Thursday 19 June, 1.30pm, room 6.210 (SMART) | Dr. Ian Renner, University of Newcastle | Advances in Presence-only Methods in Ecology |
| Thursday 12 June, 1.30pm, room 6.210 (SMART) | Associate Professor Anne Porter, Associate Professor Annette Worthy, Doctor Carole Birrell, Miss Bothaina Bukhatwa, University of Wollongong | Opportunities for research, teaching and learning in Indonesia |
| Tuesday 3 June, 1.30pm, room 8.G25 | Prof. Chris Wikle, University of Missouri | Feature Space Reduction via Dimension Expansion of High-Dimensional Functional Covariates for Prediction |
| Thursday 29 May, 1.30pm, room 32.G01 (IHMRI) | Prof. William T.M. Dunsmuir, University of New South Wales | Random Effects Regression in Multiple Independent Discrete Valued Time Series |
| Thursday 8 May, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 (IHMRI) | Dr. Payam Mokhtarian, University of Wollongong | On Outlier-Robust Prediction of The Empirical Distribution Function |
| Thursday 17 April, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 (IHMRI) | Dr. Emi Tanaka, University of Wollongong | Improving the Utility of Motif Finders |
| Thursday 10 April, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 (IHMRI) | Dr. Pavel N. Krivitsky, University of Wollongong | Inference for Exponential-Family Random Graph Models based on Egocentrically-Sampled Data |
| Thursday 20 March, 1:30pm, room 32.G01 (IHMRI) | Dr. John Ormerod, University of Sydney | Collapsed Variational Bayes for Model Selection |
| Thursday 6 March, 1:30pm, room 1.G02 | Dr. Mark Berman, CSIRO Sydney | Some Statistical Problems in Spectroscopy and Hyperspectral Imaging |
| Thursday 27 February, 1:30pm, room 6.210 | Professor Neville Weber, University of Sydney | U-statistics, Trimming and a Robust Measure of Spread based on U-quantiles |
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 9 January, 3.30-4.30, room 15.113 | Dr Pavel Krivitsky, Penn State University, USA | Modeling Dynamic Networks in Changing Populations based on Static Egocentrically-Sampled Data |
| Thursday 17 January, 11.30- 12.30, room 15.113 | A/Prof Olivier Thas, Ghent University, Belguim | Semiparametric rank tests: a new perspective on an old class of tests and a gateway to new rank tests |
| Thursday 21 February, 11.30-12.30, room 32.G01 | A/Prof Robert Tanton, NATSEM University of Canberra | Small area estimation using spatial microsimulation: Methods, Validation and Results |
| Thursday 28 February, 11.30-12.30, room 35.G20 | Distinguished Professor Noel Cressie, University of Wollongong | Sixty-year climate-change projections over North America |
| Thursday 7 March, 11.30-12.30, room 1.G03 | Dr Mark Fielding, DHI Water and Environment | Extreme Value Analysis for Worldwide Rainfalls |
| Thursday 14 March, 11.30-12.30, room 4.G31 | Maman Fathurrohman, PhD candidate, University of Wollongong | Meta-development of Resources and Learning Designs: Providing ICT-based Tools for Use by Mathematics Teachers |
| Thursday 19 March, 11.30-12.30, room 35.G45 | Prof. David Balding, Institute of Genetics, University College London | Analysis of Low-Copy Number Forensic DNA Profiles |
| Thursday 4 April, 11.30-12.30, room 35.G45 | Prof. Pascal Perez, University of Wollongong | TransMob: A micro-simulation model for integrated transport and urban planning |
| Thursday 2 May, 2.30-3.30, room 6.210 (TBC) | A/Prof. Stephane Heritier, The George Institute for Global Health | Efficient penalised likelihood estimation for the Cox model |
| Thursday 9 May, 11.30-12.30, room 24.201 | Dr James Chipperfield, Australian Bureau of Statistics and UoW | Disclosure-Protected Inference with Linked Micro-data using a Remote Analysis Server |
| Thursday 16 May, 11.30-12.30, room 24.G02 | Dr Lawrence Murray, CSIRO | Environmental applications of particle Markov chain Monte Carlo methods |
| Thursday 23 May, 11.30-12.30, room 24.G02 | Prof. Ray Chambers, University of Wollongong | Using Social Network Information for Survey Estimation |
| Thursday 6 June, 11.30-12.30, room 24.201 | Dr Zamalia Mahmud, NIASRA Visiting Fellow | Exploring students's learning ability in a statistical coures via entrance-exit survey: a Rasch measurement approach |
| Thursday 13 June, 11.30-12.30, room 32.G01 | Prof. Matthias Schonlau, University of Waterloo, Canada | Semi-automated categorization of open-ended questions |
| Thursday 20 June, 11.30-12.30, room 6.210 | A/Prof. Olivier Thas, Ghent University , Belgium | Principal Bi-correlation Analysis: A new multivariate data analysis method for the integration of three data sources, with applications in early drug development |
| Friday 28 June, 11.30-12.30, room 6.210 | Dr Thomas Suesse, University of Wollongong | Modelling Strategies for Repeated Multiple Response Data |
| Thursday 4 July, 11.30-12.30, room 32.G01 | Dr John Maindonald, Australian National University | The Task of the Applied Statistician--how is it Different in 2013? |
| Thursday 18 July, 11.30-12.30, room 32G01 | Dr Sara Taskinen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland | Robust multivariate methods with an application to allometry |
| Tuesday 23 July, 11.30-12.30, room 32.G01 | Walter Davis, University of Wollongong | Instrumental variable identification of factor analysis models with complex structures |
| Thursday 25 July, 11.30-12.30, room 32.G01 | Dr Gunky Kim, University of Wollongong | Maximum Likelihood Logistic Regression with Auxiliary Information for Probabilistically Linked Data |
| Thursday 8 August, 11.30-12.30, room 6.210 | A/Prof. Shelton Peiris, University of Sydney | Modelling and Forecasting with Logarithmic Autoregressive Conditional Duration Models: A Comparative Study with an Application |
| Thursday 15 August, 11.30-12.30, room 6.210 | A/Prof. David Warton, University of New South Wales | New applications of the probability integral transform in diagnostics and resampling |
| Monday 2 September, 11.30-12.30, room 24.202 | A/Prof. Alison Smith, University of Wollongong | Increasing the profitability of the Australian grains industry through the provision of more accurate wheat grain quality information |
| Friday 11 October, 11.30-12.30, room 32.G01 | Prof. Suojin Wang, Texas A&M University | A new nonparametric stationarity test of time series in time domain |
| Thursday 17 October, 11.30-12.30, room 6.210 | Prof. Peter Lynn, University of Essex | Sequential mixed-mode survey designs: small differences in protocol can make a big difference to panel attrition |
| Thursday 31 October, 11.30-12.30, room 6.210 | Dr Julian D. Taylor, University of Adelaide | The Analysis of Efficiency/Tolerance Trials: The Good, The BAD, and The Ugly |
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| Wednesday 29 February, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Prof. Roberto Benedetti, G. d'Annunzio University, Italy | Cut-Off Sampling |
| Wednesday 28 March, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Associate Professor Zudi Lu, The University of Adelaide | Nonlinear spatial and spatiotemporal modeling: A review |
| Monday 30 April, 2.30-3.30, Rm 19.1056 | Dr Natalie Shlomo, University of Southampton | Calibrated Imputation of Numerical Data Under Linear Edit Restrictions |
| Wednesday 2 May, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Distinguished Professor Matt Wand, University of Technology Sydney | Variational Sparse Signal Regression |
| Friday 18 May, 1.30 - 2.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Jorg Drechsler, Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg Germany | Synthetic Datasets for Statistical Disclosure Control - A Personal Appraisal |
| Friday 25 May, 2.30 - 3.30, Rm 15.113 | Payam Mokhtarian, CSSM, University of Wollongong | Robust Model Fitting Approach for Linear Mixed Models; An application to Small Area Estimation |
| Wednesday 30 May, 2.30 Rm 15.113 | Martin Murphy, Australian Council for Education Research | Managing nonresponse in Australian education surveys |
| Wednesday 6 June, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Prof Ken Russell, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga | Obtaining Efficient Designs for Multinomial Experiments by two Optimality Criteria |
| Wednesday 13 June, 2.30 -3.30, Rm 15.206 | Maman Fathurrohman, CSSM PhD student, University of Wollongong | Maps of Learning Designs for Teachers in Developing Countries to Document Mathematics Teaching and Learning Experiences |
| Wednesday 20 June, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.206 | Prof Muhammad Hanif, Lahore University Pakistan | Use of auxilliary variable in survey sampling and development of two-phase from 1938 to date |
| Monday 16 July, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Sirithip Wasinrat, University of Bangkok | The Importance of Prior Specification in Bayesian Analysis of Power Variance Frailty Model |
| Wednesday 22 August, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | A/Prof. Yan-Xia Lin and Dr Mark Fielding, University of Wollongong | Approximating the density function of unmasked data by using their masked data |
| Wednesday 3 October, 11.30-12.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Philip Kokic, CSIRO | Simulation of climate variables using quantile matching and block bootstrapping |
| Wednesday 17 October, 1.30-2.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Sally Galbraith, University of New South Wales | Design of Accelerated Longitudinal Studies |
| Mondy 12 November, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Prof Sue Wilson, University of New South Wales | Analysis of Very Large Data Sets containing Different Types of Variables |
| Thursday 15 November, 3.30-4.30, Rm 32.G01 | Dr Jay Ver Hoef, University of Alaska Fairbanks | Estimating Abundance from Counts in Large Data Sets of Irregularly-Spaced Plots using Spatial Random Effects with Fixed Rank |
| Thursday 22 November, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Prof. David Steel, University of Wollongong | Design and Analysis Issues for the Health Connect Study |
| Thursday 29 November, 1.30-2.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Sandy Burden, University of Wollongong | Zones Issues for Small Area Health Data |
| Wednesday 12 December, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | A/Prof. Glenn Stone, University of Western Sydney |
Statistical Experiences in Testing for Growth Hormone Abuse in Sport |
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 24 February, 11.00-11.30, Rm 15.113 | Klairung Samart, PhD student | Analysis of Probabilistically Linked Data |
| Wednesday 9 March, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Hukum Chandra, University of Wollongong | A Semiparametric Block Bootstrap Approach for Clustered Data |
| Wednesday 23 March, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Emilio L. Escobar, University of Southampton | Jackknife variance estimation for functions of Horvitz-Thompson estimators under unequal probability sampling without replacement |
| Wednesday 23 March, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Mark Fielding, University of Wollongong | Gaussian processes in hybrid MCMC |
| Wednesday 20 April, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Chandra Gulati, University of Wollongong | Pairs Trading |
| Wednesday 27 April, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Stephen Beare, ANALYTECON | The costs of meeting environmental objectives with increasing reliability, A case study of the Lower Goulburn River Floodplain, Victoria, Australia |
| Wednesday 4 May, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Janette Green, University of Wollongong | Stats-y Snapshots from a Multidisciplinary Research Centre |
| Wednesday 11 May, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Marijka Batterham, University of Wollongong | In search of the perfect diet/treatment for managing body fat - one diet does not fit all |
| Wednesday 18 May, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Hukum Chandra, University of Wollongong | Small Area Prediction Under Transformation |
| Wednesday 25 May, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Phil Hughes, ORC International | Mobile phone sampling for the National Visitor Survey |
| Thursday 2 June, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Nicole Watson, University of Melbourne | Re-engaging with survey non-respondents: the BHPS, SOEP and HILDA Survey experience |
| Wednesday 15 June, 3.30 - 4.30, Rm 15.113 | Prof. Farzad Safaei, University of Wollongong | The challenge of compressive sampling for free viewpoint video |
| Tuesday 26 July, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr James Brown, University of Southampton | Evaluating the UNFPA Reproductive Health Programs in China: eight years of collaborative experience |
| Tuesday 9 August, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Gunky Kim, University of Wollongong | Regression Analysis Using Longitudinally Linked Data |
| Tuesday 23 August, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Thomas Suesse, University of Wollongong | Estimation of Population Total based on Linear Models using Social Network Information |
| Tuesday 13 September, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Simon Diffey, NSW Department of Primary Industries | A faster and computationally more efficient specification of a REML-(PX)EM algorithm for linear mixed models |
| Tuesday 20 August, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Prof. John Rayner, University of Wollongong | Towards a Better Understanding of Correlation |
| Tuesday 11 October, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Janice Scealy, Australian National University | Regression for Compositional Data by Using Distributions Defined on the Hypersphere |
| Monday 17 October, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | A/Prof. Robert Clark, University of Wollongong | The Art and Science of Sample Design |
| Tuesday 25 October, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Olena Kravchuk, University of Adelaide | Repeated measures analysis of small-sample satiety trials |
| Thursday 10 November, 2.30-2.50, Rm 15.113 | Mohammad-Reza Namazi-Rad, SMART | Contextual Effects in Modeling for Small Domain Estimation |
| Tuesday 15 November, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Tom Hunt, University of Wollongong | UoW Transport Surveys - the good, the bad and the "very interesting" |
| Friday 25 November, 2.30-3.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Sujit Sahu, University of Southampton | High Resolution Bayesian Space-Time Modelling for Ozone Concentration Levels |
| Tuesday 20 December, 3.30-4.30, Rm 15.113 | Dr Johan Koskinen, University of Manchester | Missing data in social networks: Problems and prospects for model-based inference |
Public Seminar - Monday 25 October 2010, 12.30pm Location 20.1
Distinuished Professor Noel Cressie
Program in Spatial Statistics and Enironmental Statistics, The Ohio State Universtiy
Title: Statistical Science: A Tale of Two Unknowns (Abstract)
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 10 March, 3.30 - 4.30, Room 15.113 | Assistant Professor Jarek Harezlak, University of Indiana | Joint Modeling of functional SELDI-TOF mass spectrometry proteomic data and disease risk |
| Wednesday 31 March, 3.30-4.30, Room 4.G31 | Dr Yanan Fan, University of New South Wales | Adaptive Optimal Scaling of Metropolis-Hastings Algorithms |
| Wednesday 14 April, 3.30 - 4.30, Room 19.2103 | Professor Alan Welsh, The Australian National University |
Recent Reflections on Extra Zeros in Count Data |
| Wednesday 28 April, 3.30-4.30, Room 19.2103 | Professor Salim Bouzerdoum, University of Wollongong |
Compressive Sensing and its Application in Visual Pattern Recognition |
| Wednesday 5 May, 3.30-4.30, Room 19.2103 | Professor Bruce Brown, University of New South Wales |
Aligning penalty function methods |
| Wednesday 12 May, 3.30-4.30, Room 19.2103 | Professor Barry Quinn, Macquarie University |
Estimating the mode of a unimodal “symmetric” distribution on a circle, with extensions to frequency estimation |
| Wednesday 19 May, 3.30 - 4.30, Room 19.2103 | A/Professor Eric Beh, The University of Newcastle |
Sample graphical and numerical summaries for contingency tables |
| Wednesday 2 June, 3.30-4.30, Room 19.2103 | Jeffrey Goldsmith, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg, School of Public Health, Baltimore |
Penalized Functional Regression |
| Wednesday 28 July, 3.30-4.30, Room 15.113 | Dr Peter Siminski, University of Wollongong | Long-Run Employment Effects of Serving in the Vietnam War: Evidence from 16 Australian Conscription Lotteries |
| Wednesday 4 August, 3.30-4.30, Room 15.113 | Professor David Steel, University of Wollongong | The Excellence in Research for Australian (ERA) process and its implications |
| Wednesday 11 August, 3.30-4.30, Room 15.113 | Dr Thomas Suesse, University of Wollongong | A Marginal Modeling Approach for Curved Exponential Random Graph Models |
| Wednesday 18 August, 3.30-4.30, Room 15.113 | Dr James Brown, University of Southampton | Using M-quantile models as an alternative to random effects to model the contextual value-added of schools in London |
| Wednesday 25 August, 3.30 -4.30, Room 15.113 | Dr Tung Pham, University of Wollongong | Improvement to some linear classifiers for high dimensional low sample size data |
| Wednesday 1 September, 3.30-4.30, Room 1.G04 | Dr David Warton, University of New South Wales | Unifying methods for species distribution modelling using presence-only data in ecology |
| Wednesday 8 September, 3.30-4.30, Room 1.G04 | Professor Rob Hyndman, Monash University | Demographic forecasting using functional data models |
| Wednesday 15 September, 3.30-4.30, Room 1.G04 | Dr Mayukh Samanta, Australian National University | Reconstruction of Wind-Generated Wave Height Fields from Light Transmission Data |
| Wednesday 22 September, 3.30-4.30, Room 1.GO4 | A/Professor Stephane Heritier, The George Institute for Global Health | On robust testing in the Cox model |
| Wednesday 6 October, 3.30 - 4.30, Room 1.G04 | Professor John Geweke, University of Technology Sydney | Improving Asset Price Prediction when All Models are False |
| Wednesday 20 October, 3.30 - 4.30, Room 15.113 | Dr Simon Barry, CSIRO | Describing complex processes |
| Wednesday 27 October, 3.30 - 4.30, Room 15.113 | Dr Emlyn Williams, The Australian National University | Modern Experimental Design - Some developments and applications |
| Wednesday 3 November, 3.30 - 4.30 Room 15.113 | Prof. Andreas Ruckstuhl, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland | Modelling of air quality affected by traffic emission considering meteorological situations |
| Wednesday 24 November, 3.30- 4.30, Room 15.113 | Prof. David Balding, University College London | Fine mapping of causal HLA variants using penalised regression |
Statistics Conference
First National Conference on Teaching and Modelling in Statistics incorporating the Third Annual ASEARC Research Conference, hosted by University of Newcastle , on 7 and 8 December 2009.
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| Monday 23 February, 11.30pm - 12.30pm Room 15.113 | Raazesh Sainudiin | An Auto-validating Trans-dimensional von Neumann Rejection Sampler. |
| Tuesday 10 March, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Christel Faes | The Effective Sample Size and an Alternative Small Sample Degrees of Freedom Method |
| Tuesday 21April, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Prof. Douglas Simpson | Semiparametric Generalized Linear Models with Varying Dispersion |
| Tuesday 28 April, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Prof. Nick Fisher | Statistics, Performance Measurement and Corporate Collapses |
| Tuesday 5 May, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Dr Michele Haynes | Analysing Women’s Employment Transitions using a Dynamic Multinomial Logit Random Effects Model |
| Tuesday 26 May, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | A/Prof. Mary Meyer | Constrained Penalized Splines |
| Tuesday 2 June, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Prof Jean Opsomer | Two topics in modeling for survey estimation: model selection and post-stratification |
| Monday 29 June, 11.30am - 12.30pm Room 15.206 | Prof Anoop Chaturvedi | A Bayesian Approach to Unit Root and Level Shifts |
| Tuesday 28 July, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Prof. John Robinson | Asymptotic Approximations in Sampling and Resampling |
| Tuesday 4 August, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Dr James Brown | Coverage Adjustment in 2011 - Learning Lessons from 2001 |
| Tuesday 11 August, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Prof. Richard Roerts and Dr Rex F Galbraith | Evidence-based archaeology: opportunities for statistical inference in archaeological science |
| Thursday 20 August, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Dr Samuel Mueller | Model Selection in Regression Models |
| Tuesday 25 August, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Dr Andrew Robinson | Quarantine inspection: how risky a business? |
| Tuesday 1 September, 3.30pm - 3.55pm Room 15.113 | Prof. David Griffiths | Flavours of Statistics - the doing of Lamia Gurdleneck |
| Tuesday 8 September, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Dr John Ormerod | Variational Approximations for Semiparametric Regression with Missingness |
| Tuesday 15 September, 3.30pm - 4.30pm Room 15.113 | Dr Chandra Gulati | Control Charts for Autocorrelated Data |
| Tuesday 22 September, 3.30pm - 4..30pm Room 15.113 | Prof. William Dunsmuir | Inference and Computational Methods for Regression Modelling in Multiple Time Series of Counts with Random Effects |
| Tuesday 3 November, 3.30 - 4.30 Room 15.113 | Dr George Sofronov | Spatial small area estimation: comparison of different approaches |
| Tuesday 10 November, 4.00 - 5.00 Room 15.113 | Prof. Philip Ogunbona | Face Recognition for a Single Sample |
| Tuesday 17 November, 3.30 - 4.30 Room 15.113 | Dr Thomas Suesse | Mantel - Haenszel Estimators of Odds Ratios for Stratified Multiple Response Data |
COPSS visitors - Distinguished Prof Ray Carroll and Prof Xiao-Li Meng to give presentations in July.
| Date | Presenter | Topic |
| Wednesday 22nd October 3.30pm:Room 15.113 | Dr Li-Chun Zhang | A prediction approach to representative sampling |
| Wednesday 15th October 3.30pm: Room 15.113 | Dr George Sofronov | Statistical Model-based Optimization |
| Wednesday 17th September 3.30pm:Room 15.113 | A/Prof Yan-Xia Lin | A Graphical Method for Identifying Potential Domains for Change Points in Generalized Bernoulli Processes |
| Wednesday 3rd September 3.30pm: Room 15.113 | Dr Nick Longford | Small-area estimation with spatial similarity |
| Friday 8th August 11.30am: Room 15.113 | A/Prof. Jerry Reiter | The multiple adaptations of multiple imputation |
| Wednesday 23rd July 3.30pm: Room 15.113 | Carole Birrell | Efficiency Gains for Seasonal Adjustment by Joint Modelling of Disaggregated Series |
| Tuesday 29th July 1.30pm: Room LT5 Building 20 | Prof Xiao-Li Meng | Statistics Can Lie But Also Correct for Lies: Reducing Response Bias in NLAAS via Bayesian Imputation |
| Tuesday 1st July 3.30pm: Room LT4 Building 20 | Prof Ray Carroll | Testing for Interactions in General Semiparametric Analysis of Repeated Measures Data, With Application to Testing for Main Effects of Genes with Possible Environmental Applications |
| Tuesday 24th June 3.30-4.30; Room 15.113 | Loai Alzoubi and Wilford Molefe | Loai - Adaptive Modeling of Complex Survey Data Wilford - Design of samples for small-area estimation |
| Tuesday 27th May 3.30 - 4.30pm; Room 15.113 | Dr Jennifer Chan, University of Sydney | Geometric Process Models for series of events |
| Tuesday 13th May 3.30 - 4.30pm; Room 15.113 | Dr Richard Gerlach, University of Sydney | Dynamic Nonlinear Quantile estimation with the Asymmetric Laplace Distribution |
| Tuesday 22nd April 3.30 - 4.30pm; Room 15.113 | Dr Scott Sisson, UNSW | Intractable likelihoods? Inference as easy as ABC ...... |
| Tuesday 15th April 3.30 - 4.30pm; Room 15.113 | Gerry Sozio, UoW | Self Directed Learning of Mathematics in a One to One Laptop School. |
| Tuesday 8th April 3.30 - 4.30pm; Room 15.113 | A/Prof Nader Tajvidi, Lund University Sweden | Parametric and Nonparametric Analysis of Temporal Trend in Extreme Values with Applications to Wind Storm Losses and Temperature Data. |
| Tuesday 18th March 3.30 - 4.30pm; Room 15.113 | Dr Milorad Kovacevic, Statistics Canada | Regression analysis of linked survey files. |
| Tuesday 4th March 3.30 - 4.30pm; Room 15.113 | Prof David Steel, UoW | Measuring and Analysing Homogeneity of Geographical Areas for a Categorical Variable. |