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2017, February 7th


08:30-09:00 / Registration

09:00-11:00 / Tutorial on:

Bayesian Nonparametrics

Speaker: Alessandra Guglielmi

Material: [Slides]
 

11:00-11:30 / Coffee Break

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11:30-13:00 / Session 01:

Bayesian Causal Inference

Organizers: Alessandra Mattei + Fabio Corradi

Speakers:

  • Fabrizia Mealli (Università di Firenze)
    Causal Inference: A Bayesian Perspective

  • Corwin Zigler (Harvard School of Public Health)
    Bayesian Methods for Principal Stratification and Causal Mediation Analysis with Multiple Intermediates: Evaluating Power Plant Regulatory Interventions

  • Monica Musio (Università di Cagliari)
    Probability of Causation and Bayesian Inference

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13:00-14:30 / Lunch


14:30-16:00 / Session 02:

Computational Statistics and Big Data Challenge

Organizer: Antonietta Mira

Speakers:

  • Nial Friel (University College, Dublin, Ireland)
    Approximate Bayesian inference for large datasets

  • Antonio Canale (Università di Torino)
    Scalable multiscale density estimation

  • Roberto Casarin (Università di Venezia)
    Bayesian analysis of networks

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16:00-17:30 / Poster Presentation

     5 minutes per speaker

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17:30-20:30 / Poster + Aperitif
 

2017, February 8th

 

08:30-10:30 / Tutorial on:

An Introduction to Bayesian Computing with INLA

Speaker: Michela Cameletti

Material: [Web] [Slides] [Examples]

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10:30-11:00: Coffee Break

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11:00-12:30 / Session 03:
Bayesian Nonparametrics

Organizers: Sonia Petrone + Andrea Ongaro

Spearkers:

  • Bernardo Nipoti (Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland)
    On the Pitman-Yor process with spike and slab prior specification

  • Andrea Arfè (Università Bocconi)
    Reinforced urns and the subdistribution beta-Stacy process prior for competing risks analysis

  • Isadora Antoniano Villalobos (Università Bocconi)
    Bayesian Inference for the Extremal Dependence

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12:30-14:00 / Lunch

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14:00-15:30 / Session 04:
Likelihood Free Methods

Organizers: Brunero Liseo + Laura Ventura

Speakers:

  • Federica Giummolè (Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia)
    Reference priors based on scoring rules

  • Erlis Ruli (Università di Padova)
    Approximate Bayesian inference from unbiased estimating functions

  • Clara Grazian (Sapienza Università di Roma)
    Modelling Ranking Data with Wallenius Distribution

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15:30-17:00 / Session 05:
Model Selection & Testing

Organizer: Guido Consonni

Speakers:

  • Luca La Rocca (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
    Objective Bayesian model comparison: A subjective view

  • David Rossell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona)
    Extending the basic paradigm: likelihood and priors

  • Francesco Stingo (Università di Firenze)
    Bayesian model selection for graphical models: review and recent developments

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17:00 / Closure

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