February 4, 2014 Dr. Edward Jones Executive Professor Statistics Texas A&M University Title: Text Analytics Abstract Text Analytics is a new, interdisciplinary area that blends methodology from statistics, computer science, and natural language processing. Computer scientists and linguistic experts are continuing to improve sophisticated algorithms for extracting and compiling complex summaries of text data. Statisticians […]
March 4, 2014 Dr. Faming Liang Professor Statistics Texas A&M University Title: A Bootstrap Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm for Bayesian Analysis of Big Data Abstract: Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods have proven to be a very powerful tool for analyzing data of complex structures. However, their compute-intensive nature, which typically require a large number of iterations and a […]
January 23, 2014 Matthias Katzfuss Assistant Professor Department of Statistics Texas A&M University Title: Statistical inference for massive distributed spatial data using low-rank models Abstract Due to rapid data growth, it is becoming increasingly infeasible to move massive datasets, and statistical analyses have to be carried out where the data reside. If several datasets stored in separate […]
January 21, 2014 Dr. Edward R. Dougherty Robert M. Kennedy ’26 Chair Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Genomic Systems Engineering Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Texas A&M University Title: The Impoverishment of Scientific Education Abstract There are two basic questions concerning scientific education: What is the aim of education? And how does the […]
