Presenter: Alexa Fredston, Assistant Professor, Ocean Sciences, UC Santa Cruz Description: Why are species found where they are and not elsewhere? What makes them move? Research in the Fredston Lab focuses on the fundamental drivers of species’ geographic ranges, and the causes and consequences of climate-related shifts. This talk will cover evidence for temperature driving […]
Join the UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering for a virtual information session on our Stastitical Science M.S. program. Discover our curriculum, research opportunities, application requirements, and career paths for graduates. A live Q&A session will follow the presentation. Regisgration is required.
Presenter: Edric Tam, Warren Alpert Fellow in AI and Computational Biology, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Description: A longstanding question in Bayesian analysis concerns the role of randomization. We introduce randomization posteriors, a class of generalized Bayesian updates obtained by averaging over an auxiliary randomization law. A particularly relevant instance assigns random weights […]
Presenter: Rafael Cabral, Member of Technical Staff, Axiom Math Description: Latent Gaussian models (LGMs) are among the most widely used classes of statistical models, with applications ranging from biostatistics to spatial modeling. Their central assumption, that the latent variables are Gaussian, is nevertheless rarely checked. Many datasets contain sudden jumps or local spikes that a […]