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The Centre of Biostatistics at the University of Limerick invites you to its third seminar in the autumn series. Nial Friel University College Dublin Inference for posterior distributions with intractable normalising constants. 2pm, Friday, October 31st Room A2002 This talk will examine situations in Statistics where the distribution of interest is specified up to a normalising constant, which depends on parameters of the distribution. In this case, inference, from both a likelihood and Bayesian perspective, is difficult. I will explore examples from spatial Statistics, classification and social network analysis where this occurs, and present various different approaches to overcoming this problem.