Ciclo de Palestras – Segundo Semestre de 2015

As palestras ocorrerem no Auditório do Laboratório de Sistemas Estocásticos (LSE), sala I-044b, as 15:30 h, a menos de algumas exceções devidamente indicadas.

Lista completa (palestras previstas para datas futuras podem sofrer alterações)

indefensible policy choices. In this talk we first discuss a formal statistical methodology to underpin this integration consisting of sufficient conditions that ensure inference is both coherent and distributed. Under these conditions, the ranking of the available policies will then depend only on a suite of selected outputs of the component modules. Because of this property, we can characterize the inferential routines of an integrated system in a symbolic way and implement these in a computer algebra system. The second part of the talk will explore the possibilities that these symbolic methods offer to enhance the integration of the components. This talk summarizes joint work with J.Q. Smith, M.J. Barons, C. Gorgen and E. Riccomagno.

Paulo Murilo C. de Castro (UFF)
A ser divulgado.

Henrique Lins de Barros (CBPF)
A ser divulgado.

Paulo Murilo C. de Castro (UFF)
A ser divulgado.

Henrique Lins de Barros (CBPF)
A ser divulgado.

Gabriel Fonseca Sarmanho.
Título: Inferência Bayesiana em Modelos Multivariados de Efeitos Aleatórios para Comparações Interlaboratoriais

Jesus Eduardo Gamboa Unsihuay.
Título: Modelos Dinâmicos Gaussianos para dados heteroscedásticos

Iago Carvalho Cunha.
Título: Particle Filters and Adaptive Metropolis-Hastings Sampling Applied to Bayesian Estimation.

Statistical shape analysis relates to the study of random objects, where the concept of shape corresponds to the geometrical information that is invariant under translation, rotation and scale effects (Dryden and Mardia, 1998). This talk deals with the statistical analysis of a temporal sequence of landmark data and discusses the use of the offset-normal distribution for the description of time-varying shapes. For two time points, Mardia and Walder (1994) have shown that the density function of the offset-normal distribution has a rather complicated form and discuss the difficulty of extending their results to t > 2. We show that their work can be extended to a general number of time points and that the model parameters of the offset-normal shape distribution can be estimated through the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. There are, however, several issues to consider here and there are also computational difficulties to overcome. As it will be shown, these are mainly related to the computation of the expectation of a product of quadratic forms. This is a joint work with Lara Fontanella, Department of Economics, University G. d’Annunzio (Italy) and Alfred Kume, Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent (UK).

References:
Dryden, I.L., Mardia, K.V. (1998): Statistical shape analysis. Wiley,
Chichester.
Mardia, K. V. and Walder, A. N. (1994), Shape analysis of paired landmark
data. Biometrika,
81, 185-196.

Multivariate geostatistics is based on modelling all covariances between all possible combinations of two or more variables and their locations in a continuously indexed domain. Multivariate spatial covariance models need to be built with care, since any covariance matrix that is derived from such a model has to be [UTF-8?]nonnegative-definite. In this talk, a conditional approach for multivariate spatial-statistical model construction is given. Starting with bivariate spatial models, its connection to multivariate models [UTF-8?]defined by spatial networks is given. A bivariate model is fitted to a minimum-maximum temperature dataset in the state of Colorado, USA. This is joint research with Andrew Zammit Mangion, NIASRA, University of Wollongong.
Particle Filtering has captured the attention of many researchers in various communities including those of signal processing, statistics, and econometrics, and this interest stems from its potential for coping with inference problems in state-space models. Based on the concept of sequential importance sampling and the use of Bayesian theory, particle filtering is particularly useful in dealing with nonlinear and non-Gaussian problems. The underlying principle of the methodology is the approximation of relevant distributions with random measures composed of particles (samples from the space of the unknowns) and their associated weights. While many works have been devoted to develop new and sophisticate particle filters, the problem of how selecting the number of particles still remain open. In this work we propose a method for assessing in real time the convergence of the filter, allowing the filter to automatically increase or decrease the number of particles according to specific performance requirements.
The conditional mean residual life (MRL) function is the expected remaining lifetime of a system given survival past a particular time point and the values of a set of predictor variables. This function is a valuable tool in reliability and actuarial studies when the right tail of the distribution is of interest, and can be more informative than the survivor function. In this paper, we identify theoretical limitations of some semi-parametric conditional MRL models, and propose two nonparametric methods of estimating the conditional MRL function. Asymptotic properties such as consistency and normality of our proposed estimators are established. We investigate via simulation study the empirical properties of the proposed estimators, including bootstrap pointwise confidence intervals. Using Monte Carlo simulations we compare the proposed nonparametric estimators to two popular semi-parametric methods of analysis, for varying types of data. The proposed estimators are demonstrated on the Veteran’s Administration lung cancer trial.