Dear all,
This is to invite you to participate in "Scalable Bayesian Inference in Applied fields" Workshop and Stan Course.
The workshop is bringing together, on the one hand, statisticians, computer scientists, and mathematicians and on the other hand applied researchers (especially focusing on epidemiology and public health) with a focus on three interrelated questions:
1. What is the current practice? How do applied researchers use Bayesian methods, what are the inferential questions they ask and what are the types of scientific and statistical conclusions they want to draw?
2. What is the methodological state-of-the-art? Which computational methods, e.g. for MCMC or approximate Bayesian inference, do the statisticians (and mathematicians and computer scientists) recommend in practice and why? Should theory guide the answer to these questions? Methodological insights? Under what framework? Is there a role for frequentist analysis of Bayesian methods? Proper scoring rules?
3. What challenges are there for the future? What problems can applied researchers not currently solve, and are they fundamentally statistical, computational, or philosophical? What problems are methodological and theory researchers working on, for which real, applied problems and datasets could be useful to motivate further development?
The workshop includes a two day Stan course with Dr Benjamin Lambert<https://ben-lambert.com/about/> and three days of presentations from invited speakers. Each presentation will be followed by a practical ‘hands-on tutorial’ session.
Invited speakers include:
Theresa Smith, University of Bath
Nikolas Kantas, Imperial College London
Francois-Xavier Briol, Imperial College London
Michael Betancourt, Betanalpha
Paul Büerkner, University of Münster
The workshop will be held 22nd-26th July at Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus and it is sponsored by the MRC-PHE<http://www.environment-health.ac.uk/> and Quantitative Sciences Research Institute<http://www.imperial.ac.uk/quantitative-sciences-institute/>.
To sign up please use this link to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-in-scalable-bayesian-inference-in-applied-fields-and-stan-course-tickets-60214998682?utm_term=eventurl_text
Registration deadline: 30 June 2019
We look forward to seeing you at the workshop!
Best Wishes,
Anna Freni Sterrantino, Jeffrey Eaton and Seth Flaxman
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