Date:15 November 2017, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Change-point Detection and EstimationI will discuss detection and estimation of local signals, represented by changes in a sequence of observations. Changes can…
Date:08 November 2017, Wednesday
Location:S16-05-96, Computer Lab 4
Time:11:00am - 12:00pm
Maximum Smoothed Likelihood Density Estimation in Two-Sample Mixture Data with Likelihood Ratio OrderingPHD ORAL PRESENTATION In modern scientific research, data with mixture structure have been frequently identified in various research areas,…
Date:08 November 2017, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Inference in Differentiable Generative ModelsStandard approximate inference methods such as Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and variational inference require access to a density…
Date:07 November 2017, Tuesday
Location:S16-05-96, Computer Lab 4
Time:11:00am - 12:00pm
Improvement Screening for Ultra-High Dimensional Data with Censored Survival Outcomes and Varying CoefficientsPHD ORAL PRESENTATION Motivated by risk prediction studies with ultra-high dimensional bio markers, we propose a novel improvement screening methodology….
Date:03 November 2017, Friday
Location:BIZ 1, Mochtar Riady Building, Excellence-3b(Seminar Room 3-2)
Time:10:00am - 11:30pm
Computational Integer Optimisation and ApplicationsContact Associate Professor Ying Chen, Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, NUS The lecture will give an introduction to Mathematical…
Date:Wednesday 01 November 2017
Location:S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Hypothesis Testing in High-Dimensional Linear Regression:In this talk, we consider a general linear hypothesis testing (GLHT) problem in high-dimensional linear regression where the data…
Date:25 October 2017, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Sequential Statistics, Adaptive Design and Clinical TrialsThere are currently over 44,000 clinical trials being conducted worldwide according to the registry clinicaltrial.gov. These are very expensive,…
Date:11 October 2017, Wednesday
Location:S16-06-118, DSAP Seminar Room
Time:03:00pm - 04:00pm
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo In Bayesian Empirical Likelihood ComputationWe consider Bayesian empirical likelihood estimation and develop an efficient Hamiltonian Monte Carlo method for sampling from the posterior…
Date:02 October 2017, Monday
Location:S16-05-96, Computer Lab 4
Time:11:00am - 12:00pm
Hazards Regression for Freemium Products and Services: A Competing Risks ApproachWe proposed a competing risks approach to analyze customer behaviors in freemium products and services. The event of interest…
Date:27 September 2017, Wednesday
Location:Lim Tay Boh Seminar Room (AS2 03-12), Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Time:04:00pm - 05:30pm
Nonparametric Estimation of Private Value Densities in Ascending Auctions and Generalized Competing Risks Model (Joint work with Oliver Linton and Tatiana Komarova)We consider a private values ascending auction model as in Komarova (2013). This is a case of 2-out-of-n competing…