As part of Imperial College's Mathematics Colloquium series (see http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mathematics/about/colloquia), we will be hosting Professor Peter McCullagh to give the inaugural John Nelder memorial lecture.
The talk will take place on 8 March 2012, at 4pm, in room 308 (third floor, Huxley building). A map of Imperial College can be found at the following location:
http://workspace.imperial.ac.uk/campusinfo/public/sthkencampus.pdf
The talk will be followed by a small reception, in the Mathematics common room (fifth floor, Huxley Building).
Registration is not required. However, to assist with arranging catering, it would be useful if you could confirm your attendance with Niall Adams (email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by 1 March 2012.
Title and abstract of the talk are as follows:
Title: Some issues connected with likelihood and REML
Residual likelihood and residual maximum likelihood estimation
have been found to be very useful for variance-components estimation
in linear models, particularly for models having more than one
variance component. The talk is concerned with marginal likelihood in general
and with REML for the computation of likelihood-ratio statistics.
Can REML be used for testing the significance of a treatment effect?
Can REML be combined with the Box-Cox technique for testing
the appropriateness of various transformations?
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