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The Migration Oxford Podcast

Global Migration Data: Making Sense of the Numbers

Why does official data tell us so little about migration? Why do some migration statistics seem to clash? How can we shape this “age of migration data” for better?
Collecting COVID: Oral Histories
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Professor Sheetal Silal

Georgina Ferry interviews Sheetal Silal, Associate Professor (Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town) and Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in Tropical Disease Modelling (Nuffield Department of Medicine), 28 February 2023.
Theoretical Physics - From Outer Space to Plasma
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Extreme value statistics and the theory of rare events

Extreme value statistics and the theory of rare events - Francesco Mori
Maths + Cancer

4. Numbers don't tell the whole story with Professor Hannah Fry

Vicky Neale talks to Hannah Fry about the difficulties of using probabilities in medical statistics, and how their own experiences have shaped their perspectives on the tough choices facing those making decisions on cancer care.
Maths + Cancer

2. Communicating the evidence with Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter

Vicky Neale and David Spiegelhalter explore the role of statisticians in communicating risk to the public, and how patients can be empowered to engage with clinicians when weighing up the benefits and risks of treatment.
Maths + Cancer

1. The relevance of maths to cancer with Professor Philip Maini

Vicky Neale talks to Philip Maini about how mathematical modelling can help researchers and doctors to improve the quality of life for people receiving cancer treatment.
Department of Statistics

Statistics, ethical and unethical: Some historical vignettes

David Steinsaltz gives a lecture on the ethical issues in statistics using historical examples.
Department of Statistics

Ethics from the perspective of an applied statistician

Professor Denise Lievesley discusses ethical issues and codes of conduct relevant to applied statisticians.
Department of Statistics

A Day in the Life of a Statistics Consultant

Maria Christodoulou and Mariagrazia Zottoli share what a standard day is like for a statistics consultant.
How Epidemics End
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Christl Donnelly and the Statistical End of Epidemics

Professor Christl Donnelly (Oxford and Imperial) and Dr Erica Charters discuss how statistical and mathematical epidemiology measure the end of epidemics, including BSE, Ebola, influenza, and Covid-19.
Department of Statistics

Causality and Autoencoders in the Light of Drug Repurposing for COVID-19

Caroline Uhler (MIT), gives a OxCSML Seminar on Friday 2nd July 2021.
Department of Statistics

Recent Applications of Stein's Method in Machine Learning

Qiang Liu (University of Texas at Austin) gives the OxCSML Seminar on Friday 4th June 2021.
Department of Statistics

Do Simpler Models Exist and How Can We Find Them?

Cynthia Rudin (Duke University) gives a OxCSML Seminar on Friday 14th May 2021.
Department of Statistics

Practical pre-asymptotic diagnostic of Monte Carlo estimates in Bayesian inference and machine learning

Aki Vehtari (Aalto University) gives the OxCSML Seminar on Friday 7th May 2021
Department of Statistics

Complexity of local MCMC methods for high-dimensional model selection

Quan Zhou, Texas A and M University, gives an OxCSML Seminar on Friday 25th June 2021.
Department of Statistics

Assessing Personalization in Digital Health

Distinguished Speaker Seminar - Friday 18th June 2021, with Susan Murphy, Professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Department of Statistics

Machine Learning in Drug Discovery

Graduate Lecture - Thursday 3rd June 2021, with Dr Fergus Boyles. Department of Statistics, University of Oxford.
Department of Statistics

Several structured thresholding bandit problems

OxCSML Seminar - Friday 28th May 2021, presented by Alexandra Carpentier (University of Magdeburg).
Department of Statistics

A primer on PAC-Bayesian learning *followed by* News from the PAC-Bayes frontline

Benjamin Guedj, University College London, gives a OxCSML Seminar on 26th March 2021.
Department of Statistics

Approximate Bayesian computation with surrogate posteriors

Julyan Arbel (Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes), gives an OxCSML Seminar on Friday 30th April 2021, for the Department of Statistics.

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