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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170511T160000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro
 tt-distinguished-lecture-professor-peter-diggle
LOCATION:STC - Science Teaching Complex 200 University Ave West Room: STC 0
 050 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:David Sprott Distinguished Lecture by Professor Peter Diggle\,\nLan
 caster University
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:A TALE OF TWO PARASITES: HOW CAN GAUSSIAN PROCESSES CONTRIBUTE 
 TO\nIMPROVED PUBLIC HEALTH IN AFRICA?\n\nIn this talk\, I will rst make so
 me general comments about the role of\nstatistical modelling in scientic r
 esearch\, illustrated by two\nexamples from infectious disease epidemiolog
 y. I will then describe in\ndetail how statistical modelling based on Gaus
 sian spatial stochastic\nprocesses has been used to construct region-wide 
 risk maps to inform\nthe operation of a multi-national control programme f
 or onchocerciasis\n(river blindness) in equatorial Africa. Finally\, I wil
 l describe\nwork-in progress aimed at exploiting recent developments in mo
 bile\nmicroscopy to enable more precise local predictions of community-lev
 el\nrisk.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161020T160000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro
 tt-distinguished-lecture-professor-david-donoho
LOCATION:Mathematics 3 M3 1006 Canada
SUMMARY:David Sprott Distinguished Lecture by Professor David Donoho\, Stan
 ford\nUniversity
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:FACTOR MODELS AND PCA IN LIGHT OF THE SPIKED COVARIANCE MODEL
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160512T160000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro
 tt-distinguished-lecture-martin-wainwright
SUMMARY:David Sprott Distinguished Lecture by Martin Wainwright\, Universit
 y of\nCalifornia\, Berkeley
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:SOME NEW PHENOMENA IN HIGH-DIMENSIONAL STATISTICS AND OPTIMIZAT
 ION
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro
 tt-distinguished-lecture-raymond-j-carroll-texas
LOCATION:MC - Mathematics & Computer Building 200 University Avenue West 40
 21 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:David Sprott distinguished lecture by Raymond J. Carroll\, Texas A&
 M\nUniversity
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:CONSTRAINED MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION FOR MODEL CALIBRATION
  USING\nSUMMARY-LEVEL INFORMATION FROM EXTERNAL BIG DATA SOURCES.\n\nInfor
 mation from various public and private data sources of extremely\nlarge sa
 mple
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro
 tt-distinguished-lecture-jerome-friedman
LOCATION:M3 - Mathematics 3 200 University Avenue West 1006 Waterloo ON N2L
  3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:David Sprott Distinguished Lecture by Jerome Friedman
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:SPARSITY\, BOOSTING AND ENSEMBLE METHODS\n\nStatistical or mach
 ine learning involves predicting future outcomes\nfrom past observations.
  Many present day applications involve large\nnumbers of predictor variab
 les\, sometimes much larger than the number\nof cases or observations ava
 ilable to train the learning algorithm.\nIn such situations traditional s
 tatistical methods fail.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20130110T160000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/first-annu
 al-distinguished-lecture-david-spiegelhalter
LOCATION:MC - Mathematics & Computer Building 200 University Avenue West 10
 85 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:First annual distinguished lecture by David Spiegelhalter
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:DON'T KNOW\, CAN'T KNOW: COMMUNICATING RISK AND DEEPER UNCERTAI
 NTY\n\nDavid Spiegelhalter\, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding 
 of\nRisk\, University of Cambridge
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro
 tt-distinguished-lecture-eduardo-s-schwartz
LOCATION:MC - Mathematics & Computer Building 200 University Avenue West 40
 61 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:David Sprott Distinguished Lecture by Eduardo S. Schwartz
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:THE REAL OPTIONS APPROACH TO VALUATION: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUN
 ITIES\n\nThis lecture provides an overview of the real options approach to
 \nvaluation mainly from the point of view of the author who has worked\nin
  this area for over 30 years. After a general introduction to the\nsubject
 \, numerical procedures to value real options are discussed.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro
 tt-distinguished-lecture-art-b-owen
LOCATION:MC - Mathematics & Computer Building 200 University Avenue West 10
 85 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:David Sprott Distinguished Lecture by Art B. Owen
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:EMPIRICAL LIKELIHOOD\n\nLikelihood methods provide one of the m
 ost versatile and effective\nways to handle data. They give us tests and c
 onfidence intervals with\nvery strong optimality measures. But the cost fo
 r using them is\nusually that we have to know a family of distributions ge
 nerating our\ndata.
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/statistics-and-actuarial-science/events/david-spro
 tt-distinguished-lecture-bill-woodall
LOCATION:DC - William G. Davis Computer Research Centre 200 University Aven
 ue West 1302 Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:David Sprott distinguished lecture by William Woodall\, Virginia Te
 ch
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:MONITORING AND IMPROVING SURGICAL QUALITY\n\nSome statistical i
 ssues related to the monitoring of surgical quality\nwill be reviewed in t
 his presentation. The important role of\nrisk-adjustment in healthcare\, u
 sed to account for variations in the\ncondition of patients\, will be desc
 ribed. Some of the methods for\nmonitoring quality over time\, including a
  new one\, will be outlined\nand illustrated with examples.
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