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FEH Statistical 2025! 9th July | Online (Zoom) | 12:30 - 13:30 The UKCEH Flood Estimation Team will present a set of updated catchment descriptors and information about their derivation and how they differ from previous versions. Speakers: EA, NRFA, HydroSolutions Register here:  lnkd.in/g6fivYYD

Exciting news! In June we will host a course on GAMs with R taught by Simon Wood, the author of mgcv! This is a great opportunity to learn about flexible statistical modelling! All info at www.unive.it/gamswithr

Looking the get the most out of your stream CO2 data? Check out the coupled O2-CO2 model developed by Jake Diamond and me, out today in JGRB! The model extends the single-station O2 model by coupling DIC mass balance and carbonate buffering. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Another great statistics event at Ca' Foscari! On 28 April, Alan Agresti will talk about the evolution of statistics in textbooks, from pioneering contributions of Fisher and Neyman to the era of data science. The seminar will take place in the magnificent Ca’ Foscari’s 15th-century Gothic palace.

Exciting news! In June we will host a course on GAMs with R taught by Simon Wood, the author of mgcv! This is a great opportunity to learn about flexible statistical modelling! All info at www.unive.it/gamswithr

New paper: climatology and trends in UK flash #drought, led by Ivan Noguera-Corral @ukceh.bsky.social and with @drmalikotanguy.bsky.social. Most flash droughts work has been focused on drier parts of the world, but also important here in a wet country! hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

🚨 New CRAN Task View: Compositional Data Analysis #rstats By Karel Hron, Javier Palarea-Albaladejo, Matthias Templ, Alessandra Menafoglio URL: cran.r-project.org/view=Composi...

The 14th International Conf. on Extreme Value Analysis ( #EVA2025) will be hosted by UNC Chapel Hill from 23 - 27 June, 2025. Registration and abstract submission are open for EVA2025. The deadline for abstracts is March 15. See the website for more info 👇 #statsky eva2025.unc.edu

In two weeks (10th March) John Burn-Murdoch will be holding a Conversation at the San Giobbe campus, Room 6A (2pm). Everyone is very welcome to join (and thanks @crisvarin.bsky.social for making this happen)!

The Second Workshop of the Italian Statistical Society group #SISBayes will be held at the Dept. of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova on the 4th-5th of September 2025. For more information, registration, and abstract submission, see the website here: sisbayes2025.stat.unipd.it

On March 17th, 2PM, our Statistics group at Ca' Foscari DAIS will have an exciting seminar by Leonardo Egidi (Units): come and join us! (more info on group and seminars at www.unive.it/pag/41970/)

In two weeks (10th March) John Burn-Murdoch will be holding a Conversation at the San Giobbe campus, Room 6A (2pm). Everyone is very welcome to join (and thanks @crisvarin.bsky.social for making this happen)!

New fun #rstats 📦 {maths.genealogy} is at genealogy.louisaslett.com Plot maths PhD genealogical ancestry 🎓 and find shortest paths. Uses data from the amazing mathgenealogy.org project via WebSocket server by github.com/davidalber Feedback and bug 🐛 reports (github.com/louisaslett/...) welcome!

All my ecology peeps slinging the GAM(M)s might find this paper interesting. I was surprised to learn there is a frequentist interpretation of GAM(M)s! (jk) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Do you want to learn more about the statistical analysis of proteomics, metabolomics, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics? Do you want to up your game with R and Bioconductor? All of this while enjoying summer in the beautiful Italian Alps? Join us for the 21st edition of CSAMA July 6-11!

Paul Bürkner (TU Dortmund University), will give our next talk. This will be about "Amortized Mixture and Multilevel Models", and is scheduled on Thursday the 30th January at 11am. To receive the link to join, sign up at listserv.csv.warwick...

One more week to apply for this postdoc position to work with me at @unipd.bsky.social Deadline: December 6, 1:00pm (CET)

Exciting upcoming special issue of Extremes on heavy tails 🦕and AI 🤖 link.springer.com/collections/...

Drafts of the first chapters of my brms Book: Applied Bayesian Regression Modelling Using R and Stan are online: paulbuerkner.com/software/brm... Check it out and let me know what you think!

I'm looking for a post-doc and doctoral student to join my group at Aalto to work on Bayesian workflow, cross-validation, model checking, projection predictive model selection, inference diagnostics, priors, and survival analysis (I have plenty of research ideas, pick any combination) #Bayesian