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PRESENTATIONS ON STATISTICAL COMPUTATION:


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  1. Computation Challenges Posed by Highly-Structured Models and Computer Models in Astrophysics (2012). (Download pdf.) (View BIRS video.)

  2. Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in High Energy Astrophysics via the Partially Collapsed Gibbs Samplers with MH updates (2011). (Download pdf.)

  3. Metropolis Hastings within Partially Collapsed Gibbs Samplers (2011). (Download pdf.)

  4. Metropolis Hastings within Partially Collapsed Gibbs with Applications in High-Energy Astrophysics (Poster, 2010) (Download pdf.)

  5. Partially Collapsed Gibbs Samplers with Applications in High-Energy Astrophysics (2009) (Download pdf.)

  6. Spectral Analysis of Faint Astronomical Objects: Bayesian Modeling, Computation, and Inference. (2007). (Download pdf.)

  7. Implementing Gibbs-Type Samplers Using Incompatible Draws With Applications in High-Energy Astrophysics (2007). (Download pdf.)

  8. Distant Kin in the EM Family. (50th Anniversary Celebration & Symposium [of the Department of Statistics, Harvard University], 2007). (Download Powerpoint.)

  9. Fitting Narrow Spectral Lines in High Energy Astrophysics Using Incompatible Gibbs Samplers. (Poster, 2006). (Download pdf.)

  10. Going Beyond Compatibility: The Future of the Gibbs Sampler? (2005). (Download pdf.)