ABS13 - 2013 Applied Bayesian Statistics School

BAYESIAN METHODS FOR VARIABLE SELECTION WITH APPLICATIONS TO HIGH-DIMENSIONAL DATA

Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy

June, 17-21, 2013

PROGRAMME

 

Monday June 17

·  [13.00- ] Registration

·  [14.00-16.00] Brief review of Bayesian Analysis and Introduction to stochastic search variable selection (SSVS)

·  [16.00-16.30] Break

·  [16.30-17.30] Extensions of SSVS to other linear models

·  [17.30-17.40] Break

·  [17.40-19.00] Participants' Talks (20 minutes each)

1.       Silvia Bozza - The evaluation of handwriting evidence in forensic science in the form of multivariate data

2.       Paola Cerchiello - Bayesian credit ratings

3.       Giorgio Corani - An ensemble of Bayesian networks for multilabel classification

4.       Marzia Cremona - Clustering of ChIP-Seq data through peak shape

·  [19.30-21.30] Welcome buffet at Villa del Grumello

Tuesday June 18

·  [09.00-10.30] Demonstration of a SSVS implementation in Matlab

·  [10.30-11.00] Break

·  [11.00-12.30] Case studies

·         Lunch at Villa del Grumello

·  [14.00-16.00] PRACTICAL SESSION:

·  [16.00-16.15] Break

·  [16.15-17.35] Participants' Talks (20 minutes each)

1.       Georg Kropat - Machine learning based mapping of indoor radon concentrations in Switzerland

2.       Daniela Pauger - Analysing formalisation of management accounting by Bayesian variable selection in a cumulative logit model

3.       Florian Stimberg - MCMC inference for Poisson processes with Chinese restaurant process driven rate -- with an application to neural spike trains

4.       Anja Zernig - Device level maverick screening

Wednesday June 19

·  [09.00-10.30] Integrating a priori biological information into the SSVS models

·  [10.30-11.00] Break

·  [11.00-13.00] PRACTICAL SESSION:

·  [13.00- ] Free afternoon and evening

Thursday June 20

·  [09.00-11.00] Graphical models for genomic data integration

·  [11.00-11.30] Break

·  [11.00-12.30] Variable selection in mixture models for clustering and discriminant analysis

·         Lunch at Villa del Grumello

·  [14.00-15.30] Case study in imaging genetics

·  [15.30-16.00] Break

·  [16.00-18.00] PRACTICAL SESSION:

 

·  [19.30- ] Farewell dinner at Il Solito Posto - Via Lambertenghi 9

Friday June 21

·  [09.00-11.00] Other topics (non-linear models, functional data)

·  [11.00-11.30] Break

·  [11.30-13.00] Other topics