UNIVERSITY OF KENT
Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Statistics Seminar Programme: Autumn Term 2008/2009
The seminars will be held on Thursdays at 2 pm in the Mathematics Lecture
Theatre, located on the ground floor of the Institute of Mathematics,
Statistics and Actuarial Science unless otherwise stated. Tea will be available
afterwards. All are welcome.
October 9 : Professor Chris Jones (Open University)
Title: The t Family and Some of Their Close and Distant Relations
October 23: Dr Natesh Pillai (University of Warwick)
Title: Levy Random Measures: Posterior Consistency and
Applications
November 6: Professor Richard Boys (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Title: Bayesian Emulation and Calibration of a Stochastic Computer
Model of Mitochondrial DNA Deletions in Substantial Nigra Neurons
November 13: Professor Rosemary Bailey (Queen Mary, University of London)
Title: Efficient Design for Two-colour Microarray Experiments
November 20: Dr Ajay Jasra (Imperial College London)
Title: Stochastic Boosting.
December 4: Professor Andy Wood (University of Nottingham)
Title: The Use of Bootstrap Methods in Shape Analysis
RSS East Kent Local Group meeting
December 11: Professor Byron Jones (Pfizer)
Title: Examples of Bayesian Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials
Further information is available from:
http://www.kent.ac.uk/ims/seminars/index.html#statistics
Apologies for cross posting.
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Dr. Xue Wang
Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Cornwallis Building
University of Kent, Canterbury,
CT2 7NF
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