Spatially-varying stochastic differential equations,
with application to the biological sciences
Tuesday, July 7 2015
Radu Herbei
- Introduction to Stochastic Differential Equations;
- Statistical Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations;
Wednesday, July 8 2015
Peter Craigmile
- Time Series Modeling with applications to SDEs and the biological sciences;
- Some interesting topics in time series;
- R code, Mumps data set, Heart rate data set
Veronica Berrocal
- Geostatistical and hierarchical modeling of spatial data;
- Assessing exceedance of ozone standards: space-time modeling of fourth highest ozone concentrations;
- Classical geostatistical analysis in R, Fitting an Bayesian hierarchical model to univariate spatial data using the spBayes R package.
Thursday, July 9 2015
Chris Wikle
- An Introduction to Dynamical Spatio-Temporal Models (DSTMs);
- Modern perspectives on statistics for spatio-temporal data. ;
Finn Lindgren
- Stochastic PDEs and Markov random fields with ecological applications;
- R code;
Friday, July 10 2015
Laura Kubatko
- Diffusion Models in Population Genetics;
Catherine Calder
- Nonstationary Spatial Modeling;
Murali Haran
- An Introduction to Computer Model Emulation and Calibration;
Student presentations
- SDE for Phylogenetics;
- Spatial Clustering of Aedes Aegypti in Coastal Ecuador;
- Covariate Selection and a Hierarchical Bayesian Model Detecting Outbreaks for Biosurveilance System;
The projects
Group 1 (Bernstein, Hefley, Manlove, Safikhani, Wang, Yang) Kubatko and Herbei: Modeling Biological Trait Evolution Across Species, Anolis size, Anolis tree, Butler and King, Appendix to Butler and King
Group 2 (Ganguly, Keshavarz, Pereira, Shand, Woroszylo, Zhou) Berrocal: Spatial clustering of Aedes aegypti in coastal Ecuador
Group 3 (Lila, Ma, Russell, Yamazaki, Yoon, Zimmerman) Craigmile: Biosurveillance: modeling and prediction of disease outbreaks using time series, Craigmile et al., 2007, Google flu R file, Google flu data.
Results from the questionnaire
18 responses -- the scale is from 1 (disagree) to 5 (agree).
| Question | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| "This workshop was useful for my research" | 5 | 13 | |||
| "There was a suitable range of topics" | 3 | 15 | |||
| "The level of material was appropriate" | 1 | 11 | 6 | ||
| "I interacted with other workshop attendees" | 1 | 4 | 13 | ||
| "The project was a useful part of the workshop" | 3 | 8 | 3 | 4 | |
| "I would recommend this workshop to my colleagues" | 4 | 14 |
