Working Group Meetings

As of Spring 2023, working group meetings are held approximately weekly:

Bayesian: Friday 12pm (noon) in 2113 Snedecor Hall
Causal Inference: Wednesday 3:30-4:30 in 2113 Snedecor Hall
Consulting: Monday 1pm in 2113 Snedecor Hall
Forensics:
Graphics: Thursday 3:40-4:30 in 195 Durham
LunchinatoRs: Friday 1:10-2:00pm in Bessey 248
Survey: Friday 2pm in 2113 Snedecor Hall

2023

Mar

24

Bayesian Working Group: Ben Jacobs, Maximum Entropy Sampling with Two-Point Priors

Mar 24, 2023 - 12:00 PM

to Mar 24, 2023 - 1:00 PM

Location
2102 Snedecor

Speaker: Ben Jacobs, Graduate Student, Iowa State University

Title: Maximum Entropy Sampling with Two-Point Priors
Mar

24

LunchinatoRs: David Delaney, On the analysis of life-history tradeoffs when covariates or random effects exist

Mar 24, 2023 - 1:10 PM

to Mar 24, 2023 - 2:00 PM

Location
248 Bessey

Speaker: David Delaney, Graduate Student, Iowa State University

Title: On the analysis of life-history tradeoffs when covariates or random effects exist:

Description: I'll discuss statistical issues of traditional univariate-response methods of analyzing life-history trait associations and one option for moving forward (multivariate-response models implemented in the Bayesian r package MCMCglmm). I'd love feedback on my proposed multivariate-response framework and if other packages exist with similar capabilities, particularly with frequentist stats.
Mar

24

Survey Working Group: Yingchao Zhou, Contextual multi-armed bandit problems with harm effects using varying-coefficient models

Mar 24, 2023 - 2:00 PM

to Mar 24, 2023 - 3:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor

Speaker: Yingchao Zhou, Graduate Student, Iowa State University

Title: Contextual multi-armed bandit problems with harm effects using varying-coefficient models
Mar

31

LunchinatoRs: Philip Dixon, Using sf for spatial data

Mar 31, 2023 - 1:00 PM

to Mar 31, 2023 - 2:00 PM

Location
248 Bessey
Apr

03

Consulting Working Group: TBD

Apr 3, 2023 - 1:00 PM

to Apr 3, 2023 - 2:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor
Apr

07

LunchinatoRs: Adam Janke

Apr 7, 2023 - 1:00 PM

to Apr 7, 2023 - 2:00 PM

Location
248 Bessey

Past Working Group Events

2023

Mar

10

Survey Working Group: Ensemble Fractional Imputation for Incomplete Categorical Data with a Graphical Model

Mar 10, 2023 - 2:00 PM

to Mar 10, 2023 - 3:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor

Speaker: Yonghyun Kwon, Graduate Student, Iowa State University

Title: Ensemble Fractional Imputation for Incomplete Categorical Data with a Graphical Model
Mar

10

Bayesian Working Group: Marie Hardt, A Hierarchical Approach to Modeling Golf Hole Scores with Hardy Distributions

Mar 10, 2023 - 12:00 PM

to Mar 10, 2023 - 1:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor

Speaker: Marie Hardt, Graduate Student, Iowa State University

Title: A Hierarchical Approach to Modeling Golf Hole Scores with Hardy Distributions

Abstract: The Hardy distribution, derived by van der Ven (2012) and named after an idea by G. H. Hardy (1945), is a discrete probability distribution for modeling golf hole scores. We present four different hierarchical modeling strategies to jointly model the scores of multiple golfers on multiple holes during one golf tournament round using Hardy distributions. We then apply our new modeling strategies to golf hole scores from two very different kinds of golfers: male professional golfers on the PGA Tour and female high school golfers in Iowa.
Mar

03

Survey Working Group: Kosuke Morikawa, Semiparametric adaptive estimation under informative sampling

Mar 3, 2023 - 2:00 PM

to Mar 3, 2023 - 3:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor

Speaker: Dr. Kosuke Morikawa,

Title: Semiparametric adaptive estimation under informative sampling
Mar

03

Bayesian Working Group: Tony Pourmohamad, Gaussian Process Modeling for Dissolution Curve Comparison

Mar 3, 2023 - 12:00 PM

to Mar 3, 2023 - 1:00 PM

Location
virtual

Speaker: Tony Pourmohamad, Biostatistician Genentech

Title: Gaussian Process Modeling for Dissolution Curve Comparison
Feb

24

Survey Working Group: Xintao Xia, Adaptive False Discovery Rate Control with Privacy Guarantee

Feb 24, 2023 - 2:00 PM

to Feb 24, 2023 - 3:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor

Speaker: Xintao Xia, Graduate Student, Iowa State University

Title: Adaptive False Discovery Rate Control with Privacy Guarantee
Feb

24

Bayesian Working Group: Nick Syring, A Bayesian Take on Option Pricing with Gaussian Processes

Feb 24, 2023 - 12:00 PM

to Feb 24, 2023 - 1:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor

Speaker: Nick Syring, Assistant Professor, Iowa State University

Title: A Bayesian Take on Option Pricing with Gaussian Processes
Feb

17

Survey Working Group: Caleb Leedy, Semi-Supervised Linear Regression

Feb 17, 2023 - 2:00 PM

to Feb 17, 2023 - 3:00 PM

Location
213 Snedecor

Speaker: Caleb Leedy, Graduate Student, Iowa State University

Title: Semi-Supervised Linear Regression

Abstract: In this talk, I will review the work of Azriel et al. (2022), a paper published in JASA entitled "Semi-Supervised Linear Regression". They claim, and can actually get, a more efficient estimator of the regression coefficient between two variables X and Y in their framework compared to standard OLS. I will explain their idea and demonstrate how it fits into the survey statistics literature, which is a useful framework for understanding their work.
Feb

17

Bayesian Working Group: Luis Damiano, Fourier Form Dynamic Relevance Determination

Feb 17, 2023 - 12:00 PM

to Feb 17, 2023 - 1:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor

Speaker: Luis Damiano

Title: Fourier Form Automatic Dynamic Relevance Determination
Feb

10

Survey Working Group: Yumou Qiu, Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Using Observational Data with High-Dimensional Covariates

Feb 10, 2023 - 2:00 PM

to Feb 10, 2023 - 3:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor

Speaker: Yumou Qiu, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

Title: Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Using Observational Data with High-Dimensional Covariates
Feb

10

Bayesian Working Group: Spencer Wadsworth, Is Bayes Posterior just Quick and Dirty Confidence?

Feb 10, 2023 - 12:00 PM

to Feb 10, 2023 - 1:00 PM

Location
2113 Snedecor

Discussant: Spencer Wadsworth, PhD Candidate, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

Paper: Is Bayes Posterior just Quick and Dirty Confidence?