Talks
- On densities, modes, and antimodes. Department of Mathematical Sciences Research Day, 22.09.2023, Durham, UK.
- Case study "Dosimetry". Impact Day 2023 - Mathematical Sciences, 27.06.2023, Durham, UK.
- An introduction to eefAnalytics. EEF/Durham Analysis Workshop, 25.05.2023 [online].
- A graphical tool for assessing inflation of a count regression model, RSS West Midlands local group meeting, 09.05.23, Wolverhampton, UK.
- Revisiting the mixture approach to mixed models: Thoughts on clustering and dimension reduction, CMStatistics, 18.12.22, London, UK.
- Goodness-of-fit tests based on cumulant characterizations, Lecture Event Statistics, 03.05.22, Durham, UK.
- Disentangling zero-inflation from overdispersion in statistical biodosimetry, 20.12.2021, CMStatistics, London, UK. [online]
- A graphical tool for assessing the suitability of count regression models, with applications in biological dosimetry, 08.12.2021, Seminar talk, Birkbeck University of London, UK. [online]
- A graphical tool for assessing the suitability of count regression models, with applications in biological dosimetry , 24.11.2021, Seminar talk, Maynooth University, Ireland. [online]
- A primer to statistical dosimetry. STFC Data Intensive Science Summer School 2021. 14.09.2021, Durham, UK. [online]
- A graphical tool for assessing the suitability of count regression models, with applications in biological dosimetry, 15.04.2021, Seminario, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain. [online]
- The effect of data aggregation on dispersion estimates in count data models, 16.12.2019, CMStatistics, London, UK.
- Modelling radiation biomarkers: Overdispersion and the role of data aggregation, 07.11.2019, Seminar talk, Schoof of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK.
- γ-H2AX based dosimetry: Practical and conceptual considerations, 18.07.2019, Public Health England, Chilton, Didcot, UK
- Some thoughts on the estimation of antimodes, 14.04.2019 , CRoNoS & MDA 2019, Limassol, Cyprus.
- Ansätze zur Dosimetrie durch den γ-H2AX Biomarker, 09.04.2019, Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, Munich, Germany.
- Quasi-Poisson regression models for radiation dose estimation from biomarkers, 15.12.2018, CMStatistics, Pisa, Italy.
- The Christmas tree plot: a diagnostic device for assessing model fit in count data models. `Professor N. Balakrishnan Lecture Day', 27.11.2018, Durham, UK [Slides on request].
- On the estimation of the dispersion parameter for grouped data. `Brainstorming session Statistical Modelling', 23.08.2018, Durham, UK [Slides on request,
R Code]
- Radiation dose estimation through the
gamma-H2AX protein, BSI research showcase, Biophysical Sciences Institute, 13/07/2018, Durham, UK.
- Assessing uncertainty in posterior intercepts from random effect models, 17.12.2017, CMStatistics, London, UK.
- Confidence intervals for posterior intercepts, with application to the PIAAC literacy survey, 05.07.2017,
32nd International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Groningen, NL.
- The H2AX-histone as a radiation biomarker - modelling and dose estimation, 20.06.2017, Protein Structure Prediction and Modelling, Durham, UK
- Assessing deflation or inflation of counts in count data regression, 09.12.2016, CMStatistics (ERCIM), Seville, Spain.
- Radiation dosimetry through statistical analysis
of biomarkers, 09.11.2016, Undergraduate Colloqium, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Durham University.
- A diagnostic tool for assessing model fit in count data models, with application to radiation biodosimetry, 14.10.2016, Seminar talk at University of York, UK.
- A diagnostic plot for assessing model fit in count data models, 05.07.2016,
31st International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Rennes, France.
- Statistical models for radiation biodosimetry – Poisson or not Poisson?, 26.10.15, LD-RadStats, Barcelona, Spain.
- A score-test for testing zero-inflation in Poisson regression models under the identity-link, 18.03.15, Biometric Colloquium, Dortmund, Germany.
- Statistical models for radiation biodosimetry — Poisson or not Poisson? 23.02.2015, Seminar talk, Durham University, UK.
- A study of online and batch-wise updating of the
EM algorithm for Gaussian mixtures, ERCIM, 08.12.2014, Pisa, Italy.
- Data visualization (and beyond) with local principal curves and manifolds, 22.08.2014, Workshop: Model reduction across disciplines, Leicester, UK.
- Localized principal components and curves. Seminar talk at LSE, 21.03.14, London, UK.
- Data visualization (and beyond) with local principal curves and manifolds. 15.12.13, ERCIM, London, UK.
- Principal curves and surfaces: Data visualization, compression, and beyond . 03.10.13,
Seminar talk at University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
- Some asymptotics for localized principal components and curves, 20.07.2013, European Meeting of Statisticians (2013), Budapest, Hungary.
- Identification of models for linear and non-linear causal data structures (with U. Kruger and Z. Kalantan) Part I, Part II
, 07.05.2013, Workshop Geometrical Structures in Statistics , Durham, UK.
- Principal curves and surfaces: Data visualization, compression, and beyond. 18.04.2013, Seminar talk at University of Sheffield, UK.
- Principal curves and surfaces: The step beyond data visualization, 18.12.2012, Seminar talk at USP, São Carlos, Brazil.
- Penalized regression on principal manifolds with application to combustion modelling, 18.07.2012,
27th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Prague, Czech Republic.
- Combustion modelling through principal manifolds, 25.05.2012, ECS-Mathematical Sciences Energy Seminars, Durham, UK.
- Principal manifolds: a versatile tool for data visualization and beyond, 20.04.2012, 9th International Conference
on Computational Management Science, London, UK.
- Principal curves and surfaces: The step beyond data visualization,
16.01.2012, Seminar talk at Durham University , Durham, UK.
- Modelling and inference with principal curves and surfaces, 11.10.2011, Seminar talk at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Service d'Aéro-Thermo-Mécanique, Brussels, Belgium.
- Density Estimation with an anticipated number of modes, 19.05.2011, CASI: Conference of Applied
Statistics in Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
- Goodness-of-fit tests in semi-linear models, 10.12.2010, 3rd International Conference of the ERCIM WG on
COMPUTING & STATISTICS (ERCIM'10), London, UK.
- Principal curves: A versatile tool for data compression and beyond, 22.10.10, Seminar talk at University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
- Measuring goodness-of-fit in nonparametric unsupervised learning problems, 18.08.10, European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS), Piraeus, Greece.
- Localized regression on principal manifolds, 08.07.10,
25th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling, Glasgow, Scotland.
- Data compression and regression based on local principal curves and manifolds, 14.04.10, Seminar talk within "Bala day" at Durham University, UK.
- Data compression and regression based on local principal curves and surfaces, 05.12.09, Seminar talk at National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
- Data compression and visualization with local principal curves and manifolds, 13.11.09, Seminar talk at University of Leeds, UK.
- Are there 15 different ways of thinking of imprecise regression?, 14.09.2009, 2nd Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability, Munich, Germany.
- Dimension reduction through local principal curves and manifolds, 01.09.2009, Coping with Complexity: Model Reduction and Data Analysis, Ambleside, UK.
- Smoothing, Sampling, and Basu's elephants, 24.04.2009, Seminar talk at The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
- Data compression and regression based on local principal curves, 32nd Annual Conference of the GfKl, 18.07.2008, Hamburg, Germany.
- Dimension reduction for high-dimensional regression problems based on local principal curves, First Workshop of the ERCIM Working Group on
Computing & Statistics, 21.06.2008, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. (Attention: File does not work properly with acroread. Use Xpdf, evince, or gv, instead.)
- Regression, Robustness, Imprecision, and 'Trust', 13.05.2008, Workshop on Principles and Methods of Statistical Inference with Interval Probability , Durham, UK. R Source Code etc.
- Smoothing, Sampling, and Basu's elephants , 02.11.2007, Seminar talk at University of Lancaster, UK.
- Smoothing, Sampling, and Basu's elephants, 23.10.2007, Seminar talk at Durham University, UK.
- Analyzing traffic data with function-free smoothing methods - Approaches and Challenges , 20.08.2007,
ASMA: Advances in Semiparametric Methods and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Exploring Multivariate Data Structures with Principal Curves, 04.04.07, Durham University, Statistics Postgraduate Seminar, Durham, UK.
- The Fitting of Multifunctions: an Approach to Nonparametric Multimodal Regression , 30.08.06, COMPSTAT, Rome, Italy.
- Local principal curves, 25.08.06, Principal manifolds for data cartography and dimension reduction, Leicester, UK. R Source Code
- Random effect modelling for regression models with Gamma-distributed response , 20.05.06, CASI: The 26th Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, Killarney, Ireland.
- On Statistical Modelling with Random Effects using Mixture Models , 29.11.05, Seminar talk at LMU Munich, Germany.
- Local Principal Curves, 22.11.05, Seminar talk at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
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Random Effect Modelling with Mode Trees, 19.07.2005, Perspectives in Modern Statistical Inference III, Mikulov, Czech Republic.
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Making the EM Algorithm for NPML Estimation Less Sensitive to Tuning Parameters , 20.05.2005, CASI: The 25th Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.
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Analyzing Irish Suicide Rates with Mixture Models (joint talk with J. Hinde), 18.03.2005, Workshop: League Tables and Performance Monitoring in Education and Health, Dublin, Ireland.
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The Fitting of Multifunctions: An Approach to Nonparametric Multimodal Regression , 10.03.2005, 29th Annual Meeting of the GFKL, Magdeburg, Germany.
- Approaches to Function-free Local Smoothing , 10.02.2005, Seminar talk at NUI, Galway, Ireland.
- Local Principal Curves, 01.04.2004, Seminar talk at Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil.
- Exploring Multivariate Data Structures With Local Principal Curves , 11.03.2004, 28th Annual Meeting of the GFKL, Dortmund, Germany.
- Strukturerkennung mit lokalen Glättungsmethoden, 17.06.2003, Seminar talk at Universität Dortmund, Germany.
- Multivariate Local Fitting with General Basis Functions, 19.08.2002, European Meeting of Statisticians (EMS) , Prague, Czech Republic.
- Multivariate Local Fitting with General Basis Functions, 31.07.2002, Simposio Nacional de Probabilidade e Estatisticas (SINAPE), Aguas de Lindoia, Brazil.
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Local Fitting with General Basis Functions, 1.11.2001, Euroworkshop on Statistical Modeling, Höhenried, Germany.
Posters
- Box–Cox response transformations for random effect models (first author: A. Almohaimeed); 17.07.2018, IWSM 2018, Bristol, UK.
- Dose estimation with uncertainty quantification from the γ-H2AX
assay (with R. Sales, M. Higueras, L Ainsbury, S Barnard ); 13.06.2018, EPR BioDose, Munich, Germany.
- Zero–inflated models for radiation–induced chromosome aberration data (first author: M. Oliveira); 16.03.2015, Biometric Colloquium, Dortmund, UK.
- Generative Linear Mixture Models (with A. Lawson), 17.07.2012, IWSM 2012, Prague, Czech Republic.
- A catalogue of speed-flow diagrams based on local principal curves (with J. Dwyer), 31.03.2009, Traffic Modelling Conference, Milton Keynes, UK.
- Smoothing, sampling, and Basu's elephants ( .PNG ) (with T. Augustin and J. M. Singer), 03.07.2007, IWSM 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
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A comparative study of nonparametric derivative estimators (with J. Newell), 03.07.2007, IWSM 2007, Barcelona, Spain.
- Approaches to dimension reduction for multidimensional complex patterns based on localized principal components (with L. Evers and G. Tutz), 29.06.2003, SFB Workshop: Statistical Modelling of Discrete Structures in Economics, München, Germany.
- Local Fitting with a Power Basis, 12.10.2001, SFB Workshop: Recent Developments and Applications in the Statistical Analysis of Discrete Structures, München, Germany.