Program schedule (with links to slides)

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Thursday 17 September 2015:

08:30 - 08:55 Registration

08:55 - 09:00 Welcome

Session 1. Chair: Andrea Riebler

09:00 - 09:45 Marta Blangiardo: Assessing the effect of air pollution on respiratory health using drug prescriptions

09:45 - 10:30 Paulo Ribeiro: Some cases studies and challenges with spatial data

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee

Session 2. Chair: Egil Ferkingstad

11:00 - 11:45 Daniel Simpson: Placating pugilistic pachyderms: proper priors prevent poor performance

11:45 - 12:30 Finn Lindgren: Turning it up to eleven

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Session 3. Chair: Thomas Kneib

14:00 - 14:45 Jon Wakefield: Time series modeling of pathogen-specific disease probabilities with incomplete data

14:45 - 15:30 Mark van de Wiel: Better prediction by use of co-data: Adaptive group-regularized ridge regression

16:00 - 18:00 Poster session

18:30 - Dinner Kjelhuset

Friday 18 September 2015:

Session 4. Chair: Jon Wakefield

09:30 - 10:15 Thomas Kneib: Multivariate Distributional Regression

10:15 - 11:00 Fabian Scheipl: Additive Mixed Models for Generalized Functional Data

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee

Session 5. Chair: Mark van de Wiel

11:30 - 12:15 Leo Held: Adaptive prior weighting in generalized regression

12:15 - 14:00 Lunch

Session 6. Chair: Geir-Arne Fuglstad

14:00 - 14:45 Patrick Brown: Frequentist inference with Gaussian Markov Random Fields

14:45 - 15:30 Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter: Recent Advances in Sparse Bayesian Factor Analysis

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee

Session 7. Chair: Paulo Ribeiro

16:00 - 16:45 Janine Illian: Spatial point processes in the modern world – the need for an interdisciplinary dialogue

16:45 - 17:00 Farewell

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