San Francisco Chapter of the American Statistical Association

Upcoming Seminars and Short Courses for 2013

On Monday 15 April 2013, the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), will host a short course at the UCSC campus on INLA (Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations) for Bayesian Statistical Inference and Prediction

INLA is a relatively new method for making fast and accurate approximate Bayesian calculations in latent Gaussian Markov random field models. This extremely useful class includes time series models, generalized additive models (GAMs), generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) for longitudinal data, geoadditive models, models with nonparametric fitting of interaction terms between continuous predictors, and stochastic volatility models.

The instructors for the course, Havard Rue and Daniel Simpson (of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, in Trondheim)), are world experts in this technology (Professor Rue developed INLA and Dr. Simpson has worked extensively with him on it).

The course will run from 8am to 3.30pm on Monday 15 Apr 2013 (we need to start that early because the room for the meeting has other demands on its time between 1 and 2.30pm and after 3.30pm that day).

Please see http://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~draper/INLA-UCSC-2013.html for additional information. If you plan to participate, please email the local organizer David Draper draper@ams.ucsc.edu to let him know (he needs to hear from you, if you're attending,

for the catering head count).

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