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Tenure-track at UBC Stats- apply by November 15, 2023
The excellent Trevor Campbell shares the following job advertisement, deadline November 15, 2023: https://www.stat.ubc.ca/assistant-professor-aim-si-tenure-track-position-statistics-0 Vancouver is a great place and the University of British Columbia has some of the greatest and friendliest statisticians interested in computational questions.
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EUTOPIA postdoc position – apply by December 14, 2023
This post is to relay information about postdoc opportunities at ESSEC/Cergy University and its partner institutions. The call closes on December 14, 2023. If you are interested in a postdoc opportunity under my co-supervision, please get in touch! The fourth call for applications of EUTOPIA Science and Innovation Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme (EUTOPIA-SIF), for the recruitment of…
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Assistant professorship in Data Analytics at ESSEC Business School
https://jobs.imstat.org/jobseeker/job/70601158/ The Department of Information systems, Decision sciences and Statistics (IDS) at ESSEC Business School invites applications for a permanent full-time tenure track faculty position in Econometrics/Statistics at its Cergy-Pontoise (greater Paris) campus starting September 2024. This position is funded, in its first 4 years, by a Chair of excellence in Data Analytics for Research in Management Sciences, supported by…
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hello Google Bard, can you write a summary on unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo methods?
Here’s the answer, unedited: Sure. Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo (UMCMC) methods are a class of MCMC methods that remove the bias that is inherent in standard MCMC methods. This bias arises because standard MCMC methods start from a random point in the state space, and this initial point can affect the distribution of the…
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Postdoc positions with Giacomo Zanella
Check this out here: https://sites.google.com/site/gzanellawebpage/postdoc-positions-available fantastic opportunities for young scholars in computational or Bayesian statistics.
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Open-rank faculty position at ESSEC Business School
Hi everyone, We have an exciting open-rank faculty position in Econometrics/Statistics, as advertised here: https://jobs.imstat.org/job//66348680/ Deadline December 15. Spread the word!
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Computational stats workshop at CIRM
Last week I participated in a workshop on “Computational methods for unifying multiple statistical analyses” at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM), a stunning place in a nature reserve, next to Marseille in the South of France. Lovely set of participants, and fascinating talks at the interface of statistics and computation, truly an unforgettable…
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Assistant professor position at UBC Stats
An exciting tenure-track position at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada. UBC Stats is a particularly strong department, see their research areas here, and I imagine, a great place to start a career. I am told that they encourage applications by those doing computational work in statistics, machine learning / AI, or both…
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[erratum] On bias cancellation of MCMC estimators
This is about an error on page 596, in the rejoinder of Jacob, O’Leary, Atchadé, Unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo methods with couplings, 2020. The error was pointed out by Anthony Lee. In short, the rejoinder contains a formula: , which is wrong, i.e. it does not do what it’s meant to do. It should read…