PIMS Lunchbox Lecture: Rob Deardon

  • Date: 05/03/2016
Speaker(s):
Rob Deardon, Department of Mathematics and Statistics and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Calgary
Location: 

University of Calgary

Topic: 

Bayesian study design for nonlinear systems: an animal disease transmission experiment case study [video]

Description: 

A video of this event is available on mathtube.org

 

Experimental design is a branch of statistics focused upon designing experimental studies in a way that maximizes the amount of salient information produced by the experiment. It is a topic which has been well studied in the context of linear systems. However, many physical, biological, economic, financial and engineering systems of interest are inherently non-linear in nature.     Experimental design for non-linear models is complicated by the fact that the optimal design depends upon the parameters that we are using the experiment to estimate. A Bayesian, often simulation-based, framework is a natural setting for such design problems. We will illustrate the use of such a framework by considering the design of an animal disease transmission experiment where the underlying goal is to identify some characteristics of the disease dynamics (e.g. a vaccine effect, or the infectious period).

 

 

Other Information: 

Location:

Downtown Campus, University of Calgary

Room 626, 907-8 Avenue SW

 

Lecture Time: 12:00pm 

Sponsor: 

 

 

PIMS is grateful for the support of Alberta Innovation and Advanced Education, and the University of Calgary for their support of this series of lectures.