{"id":363,"date":"2019-04-02T12:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/?p=363"},"modified":"2019-04-02T12:36:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-02T11:36:04","slug":"05-april-sotiris-prevenas-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2019\/04\/02\/05-april-sotiris-prevenas-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"05 April ~ Sotiris Prevenas (Stats)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Title: MCMC using Langevin Dynamics<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Abstract:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">Modern statistical inference requires sampling from target distributions that are high-dimensional and exhibit strong correlations. In this seminar we review revolutionary MCMC methodology that enables us to handle problems with thousands of parameters, when standard methods fail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: MCMC using Langevin Dynamics \u00a0 Abstract:\u00a0Modern statistical inference requires sampling from target distributions that are high-dimensional and exhibit strong correlations. In this seminar we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/2019\/04\/02\/05-april-sotiris-prevenas-stats\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57430,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[170526],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57430"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/pgrseminars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}