September 28th
Michel Mouchart (Institut de Statistique, Belgium)
Ignorable Missingness

October 12th
Guido Consonni (University of Pavia, Italy)
Prior specification across models with an application to Bayesian variable selection in linear models

October 19th
Luca La Rocca (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)
Bayesian analysis of matched categorical data

November 9th
Milan Studeny (Institute of Theory and Automation, Czech Republic)
A glance at graphical modelling in statistics and artificial intelligence

November 16th
Alfred Kume (University of Kent)
Maximum-likelihood estimation for the offset normal shape distributions using EM

Joint CRiSM and CSC seminar
November 23rd
Francois Le Gland (IRISA/INRIA)
Adapting the number of particles in sequential Monte Carlo methods

November 30th
Allan Seheult (University of Durham)
Prior viability assessment for Bayesian analysis

December 14th
Ben Cowling (University of Hong Kong)
Estimating the incubation distribution of an infectious disease