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Encyclopedias
Having been asked to fill an entry on Monte Carlo for the incoming International Handbook of Statistical Sciences, I obliged by writing a short piece, whose utility is rather limited. Indeed, I am...
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Valencia nine and then…
The next Valencia International Meetings on Bayesian Statistics is unfortunately taking place in Benidorm, State of Valencia, next June 3-8. I write “unfortunately” because the place has no charm at...
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Savage-Dickey re-rejected
This morning I found this email in my mailbox, Dear colleague, I regret to inform you that your abstract has not been chosen for a talk. We had 164 submissions for only 36 talks, so the competition...
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Valencia 9
José Bernardo has just sent around the poster for the latest (and last) Valencia meeting. As discussed in a previous post, the location is the densely urbanised coastal town of Benidorm and the poster...
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Valencia 9 [poster]
Yesterday night, I looked around for a LaTeX package to turn our Savage-Dickey paper into a proper poster for Valencia 9. I found a0poster as the first output on google, so I switched to it with a...
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News from ISBA
The June issue of the ISBA Bulletin has just appeared. One piece of information I was looking for is in it, namely that the 2009 DeGroot Prizewinners are Giovanni Parmigiani and Lurdes Inoue for...
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Death sequence
August is not looking kindly at statisticians as I have now learned (after ten days of disconnection) of both Arnold Zellner and John Nelder passing away, on Aug. 11 and 15, respectively. Following...
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ISBA 2012, Kyoto [#0]
The first day of ISBA 2012, Kyoto, consisted of four lectures by Aad van der Vaart, Mike West, Don Berry, and myself. While I had originally understood them to be tutorials in the Valencia tradition,...
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MCMSki IV (call for proposals)
The next MCMSki IV conference will for the first time host contributed sessions as well as invited sessions. The scientific committee thus welcomes proposals for contributed talks and even more for...
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Cancun, July 14-18, 2014
The next ISBA World meeting will take place in Cancún, Quintana Roo, in México. (To keep up with the Valencia meeting tradition, it is again in a resort town, after the welcome parenthesis of Kyoto...
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ABC…ancun, July 13, 2014
We received the good news from the Program Committee of the next ISBA World meeting in Cancún, Quintana Roo, México, that our proposal of a short course on ABC methods was accepted. So, along with...
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simulating determinantal processes
In the plane to Atlanta, I happened to read a paper called Efficient simulation of the Ginibre point process by Laurent Decreusefond, Ian Flint, and Anaïs Vergne (from Telecom Paristech). “Happened to”...
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reading classics (#4,5,6)
This week, thanks to a lack of clear instructions (from me) to my students in the Reading Classics student seminar, four students showed up with a presentation! Since I had planned for two teaching...
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Jeffreys prior with improper posterior
In a complete coincidence with my visit to Warwick this week, I became aware of the paper “Inference in two-piece location-scale models with Jeffreys priors” recently published in Bayesian Analysis by...
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Cancún, ISBA 2014 [day #0]
Day zero at ISBA 2014! The relentless heat outside (making running an ordeal, even at 5:30am…) made the (air-conditioned) conference centre the more attractive. Jean-Michel Marin and I had a great...
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Cancun, ISBA 2014 [½ day #2]
Half-day #2 indeed at ISBA 2014, as the Wednesday afternoon kept to the Valencia tradition of free time, and potential cultural excursions, so there were only talks in the morning. And still the core...
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O’Bayes 2015: back in València
The next O’Bayes meeting (more precisely the International Workshop on Objective Bayes Methodology, O-Bayes15), will take place in València, Spain, on June 1-4, 2015. This is the second time an O’Bayes...
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O-Bayes15 [day #1]
So here we are back together to talk about objective Bayes methods, and in the City of Valencià as well.! A move back to a city where the 1998 O’Bayes took place. In contrast with my introductory...
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An objective prior that unifies objective Bayes and information-based inference
During the Valencia O’Bayes 2015 meeting, Colin LaMont and Paul Wiggins arxived a paper entitled “An objective prior that unifies objective Bayes and information-based inference”. It would have been...
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dynamic mixtures [at NBBC15]
A funny coincidence: as I was sitting next to Arnoldo Frigessi at the NBBC15 conference, I came upon a new question on Cross Validated about a dynamic mixture model he had developed in 2002 with Olga...
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