On Friday, November 10th, 2023, Dr. Kevin Burke, Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Limerick, presented about automating variable selection in distributional regression. Details for the talk are below. Title Automating variable selection in distributional regression Abstract Variable selection is an important scientific endeavour as it identifies important associations. Of course, this is more … Read more

On Friday, October 20th, 2023, Hannah Comiskey, a postdoctoral researcher at Trinity College Dublin, presented about estimating public and private contraceptive method supply shares using Bayesian hierarchical models. Details for the talk are below. Title Estimating public and private contraceptive method supply shares at national and subnational administration levels, using Bayesian hierarchical models Abstract Contraceptive … Read more

On Friday, October 27th, 2023, the seminar series hosted Dr. Jin Zhao, an assistant professor in Electronic and Electrical Engineering (Systems) at Trinity College Dublin, to discuss about AI, extreme weather, green electricity, and large-scale outage events. Details for the talk are below. Title About AI, extreme weather, green electricity, and large-scale outage events Abstract … Read more

On Friday, October 13th, 2023, the seminar series hosted a talk from Mackenzie Neal, a PhD researcher from McMaster University in Canada, discussing Hidden Markov Models for multivariate data. Details for the talk are below. Title Hidden Markov Models for Multivariate Longitudinal Data Abstract While advances continue to be made in model-based clustering, challenges persist … Read more

On Thursday, May 11th, the seminar series hosted a talk from Joshua Tobin, a postdoctoral researcher in Trinity College Dublin, discussing theoretical properties of the density peaks clustering algorithm and extensions to the peak-finding framework for clustering. Details for the talk are below. Title Consistent Mode-Finding for Parametric and Non-Parametric Clustering Abstract Density peaks clustering … Read more

On Thursday, April 13th, the seminar series hosted a talk from Ultán Doherty, PhD Candidate in Trinity College Dublin, introducing a novel model-based clustering approach for detecting populations in cytometry data. Details for the talk are below. Title Model-Based Clustering of Flow and Mass Cytometry Data Abstract Flow and Mass Cytometry are techniques use in … Read more

On March 30th, the seminar series will welcome two lightning talks from PhD students in our department, introducing their research. Litty Mathew will speak about and James O’Malley will speak about . The details for their talks are below. James O’Malley Abstract The LegacyNet project is a network of 32 international sites, established to investigate … Read more

On April 19th, the seminar series will welcome Prof Refik Soyer, chair of decision sciences and statistics at the George Washington University (GWU) in Washington D.C. Prof Soyer will present work completed jointly with Di Zhang (GWU) and Hedibert Lopes (Arizona State University) introducing a new class of multivariate integer-valued autoregressive models. Title Latent Factor … Read more

On March 23rd, Hieu Cao, a PhD student at Trinity College Dublin, will present a Bayesian approach to regression in the presence of covariate shift. Details for Hieu’s talk are below. Title A Bayesian approach for regression in the presence of covariate shift: an application to galaxies redshift estimation. Abstract In the regression setting, it … Read more

On March 16th, the seminar series welcomed Dr Silvia D’Angelo, Assistant Professor in Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. Dr D’Angelo presented work, published in the Annals of Applied Statistics, developing latent variables models to infer food intake from metabolomic biomarkers. Title A latent variable model to infer food intake using multiple metabolomic biomarkers Abstract Metabolomic-based … Read more