Crikey - it's a Bayesian!

Centre for Statistics (University of Edinburgh)

The Centre for Statistics is honoured to be joined by Professor Kerrie Mengersen for the 2021 David Finney Lecture.

Bayesian statistics is now an established tool of trade for an applied statistician or data scientist. However, there are many open challenges in Bayesian modelling and analysis, which are often inspired by challenging real-world problems. In this presentation, Kerrie Mengersen will discuss a suite of environmental and biological problems that have required us to build better Bayesian tools to address increasingly sophisticated insights. The applied challenges range from the Antarctic to the Amazon, and from water to wellness. The tools include spatio-temporal models, nonparametrics, latent variable constructs and Bayesian network analyses. The work is based on research with a range of collaborators who will be acknowledged in the presentation.Kerrie Mengersen is a Distinguished Professor in Statistics at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. She is the Deputy Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Mathematical Frontiers and the Director of the QUT Centre for Data Science. Kerrie is also an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and a member of the Statistical Society of Australia and the IMS, ASA, RSS, ISBA and ISI. Her research interests are in mathematical statistics and its application to substantive challenges in health, environment and industry, with particular focus on Bayesian methods.Running Order (all times GMT):10.00: Event Opens and Introductions10.10: Lecture Begins10.55: Q&amp;A11.25: Event EndsThis online event will be hosted on Zoom. Ticket holders will receive an email on the day of the event, with instructions on how to join the lecture and subsequent Q&amp;A.* This event will be recorded*Registration will close at 17.00 GMT on 17th March.

(above) Prof. Kerrie Mengersen<a href="https://centreforstatistics.maths.ed.ac.uk/cfs/events/the-david-finney-lecture" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The David Finney Lecture</a> is annual lecture held by the <a href="https://centreforstatistics.maths.ed.ac.uk/cfs" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Centre for Statistics</a> (University of Edinburgh) to commemorate Prof. David Finney (1917-2018) that aims to highlight exceptional research in the field of applied statistics.Prof David Finney was a statistician, based at the University of Edinburgh from 1966 until his retirement in 1984. He pioneered the development of systems for monitoring drug safety, with his reports and papers on the subject greatly infuencing the monitoring systems in place today. His two most widely known books, Probit Analysis (1947) and Statistical Method in Biological Assay (1952), both redefined those subjects. David was President of the Royal Statistical Society(1973-4), President of the Biometric Society (1964-5), a fellow of the Royal Society (from 1955), a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and was awarded a CBE in 1978. He served on Advisory Committees for the FAO and WHO and chaired the Flowers Committee 1970-74, which helped determine the way in which computing should develop in UK universities and research councils.The Centre for Statistics (CfS) is very grateful to the <a href="https://www.biometricsociety.org/home" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">International Biometric Society</a>, <a href="https://rss.org.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Royal Statistical Society</a> and the <a href="https://spestatistica.pt/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Portuguese Statistical Society</a> who are sponsoring this year's lecture, and to the <a href="https://www.icms.org.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ICMS</a> who are hosting.--For information on future CfS events, please sign up for our <a href="https://r1.surveysandforms.com/ed4da4c99bc7ed022mp047cd73957c679ed5-2ea3e02754ac128a4xw195191f179c7d3172" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Events Newsletter</a>.

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