by samuel.kaski@aalto.fi | Jul 12, 2018 | Jobs
Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
Finland
by mylenebedard | Jul 12, 2018 | News
——— Apologies for cross-postings ——— The Bayesian Computation Section of ISBA is soliciting proposals to host its flagship conference: Bayes Comp 2022 The expectation is that the meeting will be held in January 2022, but the committee will consider proposals for...
by scott.sisson@unsw.edu.au | Jul 12, 2018 | Jobs
University of New South Wales
Sydney, AUS
by Sally Cripps | Jul 12, 2018 | Jobs
University of Sydney
Sydney, AUS
by Kate Calder | Jun 29, 2018 | News, Safe ISBA
The letter below was sent to the ISBA membership today. June 29, 2018 Dear ISBA Members: As you may know, ISBA has received multiple reports of misconduct by members and commissioned three external investigations. Recently, the safeISBA Task Team received the...
by Feng Liang | Jun 28, 2018 | Education, Video
Asymptotic behaviour of credible regions Judith Rousseau The reknown theorem of Bernstein von Mises in regular finite-dimensional models has numerous interesting consequences, in particular, it implies that a large class of credible regions are also asymptotically...
by Feng Liang | Jun 28, 2018 | Education, Video
Bayesian Hospital Mortality Rate Estimation: Calibration and Standardization for Public Reporting Edward I. George Bayesian models are increasingly fit to large administrative data sets and then used to make individualized recommendations. In particular, Medicare’s...
by Feng Liang | Jun 28, 2018 | Education, Video
Spatial Statistics and Environmental Challenges Alan Gelfand The worlds of spatial statistics and of environmental modeling are both enormous. In a brief one hour lecture, it is not possible to cover much of this terrain. So, I will focus on two large problems which...
by Feng Liang | Jun 28, 2018 | Education, Video
In Praise of Subjectivity? Anthony O’Hagan Bayesian analysis requires that probabilities are subjective. Attempts to escape this apparently unwelcome fact are numerous, and they are ultimately misguided because science itself is necessarily subjective. Instead,...
by gregor.kastner@wu.ac.at | Jun 24, 2018 | Video
Bruno de Finetti’s Objectivity Philip Dawid While de Finetti famously rejected all objectivist conceptions of Probability, it is less widely understood that he was a strong advocate of objectivity in the assessment of probabilities. In particular, he allowed that one...
