David Spiegelhalter Foundational Lecture Isba World Meeting 2016 Sardinia

Summary

Trying to be a 'public' (Bayesian) statistician. A subjective tour through foundations and modern trends. Graphical models and Bayesian structural learning. Adventures in Bayesian clustering. Building a priori knowledge into conclusions drawn from simulations Discussants: - Christian Robert - Luke Tierney. Dimension reduction in structured experimental data. Bruno de Finetti's Objectivity. Holes in Bayesian statistics Speaker Andrew Gelman Professor of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University Alternative ... A semi-parametric Bayesian GLM and applications to outcome dependent sampling Discussants: Amy Herring & Steve ... On Gradient-Based Optimization: Accelerated, Stochastic and Nonconvex. Skew-symmetric representations of posterior densities Discussants: Being Bayesian in the 21st Century Speaker Kerrie Mengersen Distinguished Professor, Queensland University of Technology ... Okay so uh hi everybody and thanks for this kind invitation I'm very pleased and honored to be a discussant of the defet Spatial Statistics and Environmental Challenges.