Category: 2018-19

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Title: Extensions of Lasso   Abstract: When Lasso is used as a kind of method for variable selection, there are some limitations or drawbacks engaged with it … Read more

Title: An introduction to network analysis and applications to real data sets   Abstract: Network analysis is getting more important with the increasing complexity of data. In … Read more

Title: Bayesian model choice in semi-parametric regression approaches   Abstract: Semiparametric regression methods can be utilized in regression analysis where covariates cannot anymore be assumed to … Read more

Title: Cost-sensitive Boosting, Margin Maximization & Information Theory   Abstract: Boosting refers to a family of learning algorithms that additively combine multiple weak predictive models to construct … Read more

Title: An introduction to magnetic monopoles for novices   Abstract:  A magnetic monopole is a hypothetical isolated magnetic charge, or “static magnetism”. Static electricity and electrically … Read more

Title: The fundamental theorem of algebra, a topological proof.   Abstract: The fundamental theorem of algebra says that every polynomial of degree n>0, with real … Read more

Title:  Hopkins-Kuhn-Ravenel Theorem (HKR), a link between representation theory and homotopy theory.   Abstract: Let G denote an arbitrary group and L be the smallest … Read more

Title: Bayesian Computation and Inference using Stan with application in Football   Abstract: In this talk, we show how Bayesian Statistics can be applied to football modelling. In this … Read more

Title: Model based clustering for young stars clusters   Abstract: Model based clustering is a method of fitting finite mixtures models to data in order to … Read more