Vivek Roy, Convergence rate results for some manifold MCMC algorithms

Speaker: Vivek Roy, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

Title: Convergence rate results for some manifold MCMC algorithms

Jason Xu, Likelihood-based inference for stochastic epidemics via data-Augmented MCMC

Speaker: Jason Xu, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University

Title: Likelihood-based inference for stochastic epidemics via data-Augmented MCMC 

Boxiang Wang, CESME: High-Dimensional Clustering via Latent Semiparametric Mixture Models

Speaker: Boxiang Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa

Title: CESME: High-Dimensional Clustering via Latent Semiparametric Mixture Models

Ulrike Genschel, A Modified t-test for Treatment Means in Unreplicated Classroom Comparisons

Speaker: Ulrike Genschel, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

Title: A Modified t-test for Treatment Means in Unreplicated Classroom Comparisons

Abstract: Discipline-based education research (DBER), with a focus on evidence-based teaching, has grown immensely over the last decades.  A common interest in DBER studies is identifying superior pedagogical approaches using rigorous and scientific methodology. Researchers may have few classrooms available when comparing classroom-level treatments or conditions so that one classroom per treatment is not uncommon in many DBER studies. 

Mitchell Krock, Tail Dependence as a Measure of Teleconnected Warm and Cold Extremes of North American Wintertime Temperatures

Speaker: Mitchell Krock, Postdoctoral Researcher, Argonne National Laboratory

Title: Tail Dependence as a Measure of Teleconnected Warm and Cold Extremes of North American Wintertime Temperatures

Matthias Katzfuss, Scalable Gaussian-Process Inference via Sparse Inverse Cholesky Factorization

Speaker: Matthias Katzfuss, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Scalable Gaussian-Process Inference via Sparse Inverse Cholesky Factorization

Piotr Kokoszka, Detection And Localization Of Changes In Panels Of Random Densities

Speaker: Piotr Kokoszka, Professor, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

Title: Detection And Localization Of Changes In Panels Of Random Densities