Publications by xi'an
ABC lectures [finale]
The latest version of my ABC slides is on slideshare. To conclude with a pun, I took advantage of the newspaper clipping generator once pointed out by Andrew. (Note that nothing written in the above should be taken seriously.) On the serious side, I managed to cover most of the 300 slides (!) over the four courses and, thanks to the active attend...
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Le Monde puzzle [43]
Here is the puzzle in Le Monde I missed last week: Given a country with 6 airports and a local company with three destinations from each of the six airports, is it possible to find a circular trip with three intermediate stops from one of the airports? From all of the airports? One more airport is opened with the same rules about the three desti...
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Computational position in Texas
José Bernardo forwaded this announcement that sounds quite attractive (conditional upon living in a remote part of Texas!) Senior Faculty Position in Computational Statistics At Texas A&M University As part of a recognition of the increasing importance in the modeling and computational sciences, the Department of Statistics at Texas A&M Univers...
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Particle learning [rejoinder]
Following the posting on arXiv of the Statistical Science paper of Carvalho et al., and the publication by the same authors in Bayesian Analysis of Particle Learning for general mixtures I noticed on Hedibert Lopes’ website his rejoinder to the discussion of his Valencia 9 paper has been posted. Since the discussion involved several points made...
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Bayesian Inference for Latent Gaussian Models
An exciting conference in Zurich next February, 02-05. (I think I will attend! And not for skiing reasons!) Latent Gaussian models have numerous applications, for example in spatial and spatio-temporal epidemiology and climate modelling. This workshop brings together researchers who develop and apply Bayesian inference in this broad model class....
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Introducing Monte Carlo in PaRis
As already announced on Statisfaction, I will start a short [14 hour] course in English based on Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R at ENSAE next Tuesday. The slides were written by George Casella for a course he gave in Italy last spring and he kindly agreed on making them available on slideshare: Filed under: Books, R, Statistics, Universi...
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Postdoc in Wharton
Just received this email from José Bernardo about an exciting postdoc position in Wharton: POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW – DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS, THE WHARTON SCHOOL The Department of Statistics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania is seeking candidates for a Post-Doctoral Fellowship. This research fellowship provides full funding...
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Introducing Monte Carlo in PaRis [more slides]
The class started yesterday with a small but focussed and responsive audience! Given the background of the students, and in particular their clear proficiency in R!, I switched between the original slides of Introducing Monte Carlo Methods with R and those of my Monte Carlo Statistical Methods: course, updated by Olivier Cappé who is teaching th...
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Graphical comparison of MCMC performance [arXiv:1011.445]
A new posting on arXiv by Madeleine Thompson on a graphical tool for assessing performance. She has developed a software called SamplerCompare, implemented in R and C. The graphical evaluation plots “log density evaluations per iteration times autocorrelation time against a tuning parameter in a grid of plots where rows represent distributions ...
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R.I.P. StatProb?
As posted in early August from JSM 2010 in Vancouver, StatProb was launched as a way to promote an on-line encyclopedia/wiki with the scientific backup of expert reviewers. This was completely novel and I was quite excited to take part in the venture as a representative of the Royal Statistical Society. Most unfortunately, the separation of the o...
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