Talks

This seminar is repeat of the seminar given by Adrian E. Raftery and myself in October 2007 of our Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A read paper ‘Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks’. Jeremy Tantrum is the third author of the paper. The session was chaired by Christian Hennig with discussions from Nial Friel and Claire Gormley.

This is the Keynote Address at the Australian Social Network Analysis Conference 2023. In it I discuss classes of exponential-family models that extend the range and realism of traditional classes.

In this talk we discuss network modeling with a novel exponential-family class of models when the network in only partially observed.

In this talk we start with the question: Why Computational Social Science? Traditionally, science has followed the mode of theory and …

In this talk we discuss a new class of models for social networks that which circumvents the issue of near-degeneracy while maintaining the desirable features of exponential-family models.

What sorts of organizations will students face when they graduate? How should students prepare themselves? This is the first of a …

In this talk we discuss a new class of models for social networks that which circumvents the issue of near-degeneracy while maintaining the desirable features of exponential-family models.

What will students face when they graduate? The last years have seen work environments change rapidly, especially for data scientists. …

Exploring Your Universe at UCLA is a volunteer-run science fair for all ages that brings in thousands of participants from the greater Los Angeles area. This talk was to a general audience on the question: ‘How can we learn from data?’.

This is an 80-minute invited address to Statistics Canada’s 2022 International Methodology Symposium. Statistics Canada is the Canadian equivalent of the US Federal statistical agencies and Census Bureau. The audience of the Symposium includes all Statistics Canada’s methodology staff as well as external participants.

This is an Invited Paper for the session ‘Statistical Methods for Social Interactions — Invited Papers’, 2022 Joint Statistical Meetings.

This is the Duncan Invited Lecture, Section on Methodology, 117th American Sociological Association Annual Meeting.

In this talk we assess the real-world performance of Latent Order Logistic models (LOLOG).

This is an invited talk on survey sampling given at the 7th Italian Conference on Survey Methodology.

This is the Presidential Invited Address, Survey Methods Section, Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting.

This event provided an opportunity for students to hear from leading data scientists about how their world has been changed by data. …

This event provided an opportunity for alumni of the department to hear about work of department members on COVID-19 pandemic response.

The talk was presented to the World Health Organization Head Quarters HQ Technical Advisory Group on methodology I developed to track all cause of death mortality over time and estimate the excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic."

This was a panel at the UCLA California Center for Population Research (CCPR) on population-Based Modeling and Measurement of COVID-19.