In case you may be interested... UCL Statistical Science is now active also on Bsky and soon on Mastodon too! bsky.app/profile/statis… mastodon.social/@statistics_UCL Follow us everywhere! 😉

Nuevo en el blog: ¿Cuándo hay relación entre la media muestral y la varianza muestral? (Segunda parte). Sobre la correlación entre la media y la varianza, y su relación con una desigualdad clásica debida a Pearson. verso.mat.uam.es/~joser.berrend…

If you are interested in pursuing a #PhD at UCL Statistical Science (Oct/25) in #Bayesian methodology and computational #statistics, co-supervised by Sam Livingstone and myself, feel free to reach out. A strong academic background and proven experience in these areas are essential.

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

Mil gracias a todos Many thanks to all Merci beaucoup à tous Grazie mille à tutti 谢谢大家 شكرا لكم جميعا תודה לכולכם Obrigado a todos Vielen Dank euch allen Tack alla Хвала свима Gràcies a tots

30 Years of Notebooks bactra.org/weblog/30-year…

Postdoc position based in Newcastle to work with me,Cristiano and Kevin. A prerequisite is to have a PhD. It is desirable a candidate with a good knowledge of Bayesian Statistics from a Statistical/Foundational Perspective (rather than ML) jobs.ac.uk/job/DKG936/res…

🎉 Announcing BAYSM 2025! Join us online April 7-11 for the official j-ISBA conference for early-career Bayesian researchers. Abstract submissions are open until Jan 15, 2025. 🌐 Visit baysm2025.github.io for details! #BAYSM2025 ISBA

On Monday 16/12/2024, I will be presenting a joint work with Adam Iqbal and Emmanuel Ogundimu on Bayesian variable selection for (Heckman) sample selection models at #CMStatistics2024. There will be other talks on model selection, BART, and generalized Heckman models as well.

I look forward to speaking next week (06/11) at the RSSNI Autumn Seminar Series in Belfast. "Near-redundancy and Practical non-identifiability in survival models (and beyond)" rss.org.uk/training-event… Royal Statistical Society Queen's University Belfast 🎓

Tuition fees in England set to rise for first time in eight years, with statement to MPs expected later bbc.in/3YRg0Jt

My short paper with JA Christen  "On harmonic oscillator hazard functions" has been accepted for publication in Statistics & Probability Letters. S&P Letters 🦋 @spletters.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.… R #rstats code and data can be found at:  github.com/FJRubio67/HOH

The ISBA election is now complete! Thanks to our nominating committee who assembled an outstanding group of candidates! Please see below results for the ISBA general election. A full list of newly elected officers, including ISBA Sections is available at bayesian.org/9857-2/

My colleague Sam Livingstone is currently advertising an EPSRC funded PhD project on “Next generation adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms” at UCL. ucl-epsrc-dtp.github.io/2025-26-projec… Suitable candidates can contact Sam directly for more information ([email protected])

JA Christen and F. Javier Rubio (UCL) introduce a parametric hazard model inspired by the damped harmonic oscillator from classical mechanics. It can capture a range of shapes, such as increasing, decreasing, unimodal, bathtub, and oscillatory patterns. 🔗sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo) Adam Wierman Bert Zwart Interesting, thank you for the example and the references 🙏🏻 My favourite example/warning of a way to (often unwillingly) create a heavy-tailed random variable is to take a ratio, e.g. (by F. Javier Rubio et al.): researchgate.net/profile/F-Rubi…

Interesting short paper about the debates on Bayesian inference in the 1950s Bayesian issues in the 1950s: an episode involving Karl Popper and Jimmie Savage - Stephen M Stigler doi.org/10.1093/jrsssa…