Richard Everitt

This year the European Meeting of Statisticians will be in Lugano, Switzerland, 24 - 28 August 2026. The deadline for abstract submission is 31 March 2026. https://www.ems26.org/

Tomorrow's OWABI seminar by Louis Sharrock (UCL), who will talk about "Sequential Neural Score Estimation: Likelihood-free inference with conditional score base diffusion models" (29th Jan, 11am UK time). Join: teams.microsoft.com/...
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Annealing Strategies for Variance Reduction in Balance Heuristic Estimators Statistics and Computing - The computation of normalisation constants, or marginal likelihoods, is essential in Bayesian inference since they provide information about model adequacy and facilitate...

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Early version on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/1908.0...
Xi'an's Og: xianblog.wordpress.c...

"Annealing Strategies for Variance Reduction in Balance Heuristic Estimators" by Felipe Medina Aguayo and I is accepted in Stats and Computing. Multiple importance sampling uses multiple proposals to reduce variance. We use annealing to significantly further reduce variance. https://rdcu.be/eqe8j

Today is the deadline for contributed talks and posters for our event on Environmental Modelling meets Infectious Diseases. Early-career researchers successful in their application to give a talk will be funded up to £200 for their travel costs.
go.warwick.ac.uk/env...

Shreya Sinha Roy's first paper (joint with me, Christian Robert and Rito Dutta) is on "Generalized Bayesian deep reinforcement learning". We use a neural network as a model in Bayesian reinforcement learning, trained using a generalized prequential scoring rule with SMC arxiv.org/abs/2412.1...

Speakers:
Prof. Marta Blangiardo, Imperial
Dr Hannah Christensen, Oxford
Prof. Sophie Dabo-Niang, Lille
Dr Jill Johnson, Sheffield
Dr TJ McKinley, Exeter
Dr Ben Swallow, St Andrews
Dr William Thurston, Met Office

We also welcome submissions to the contributed talk and poster sessions up to the 15th of January. The submission form is at http://go.warwick.ac...
Early-career researchers successful in their application to give a talk will be funded up to £200 for their travel costs.

Featured topics will include numerical modelling over a range of temporal and spatial scales, and statistical inference, calibration and uncertainty quantification of model parameters. Dates are 16-17 April 2026. Register for free at http://go.warwick.ac...

*Environmental Modelling meets Infectious Diseases: from Mathematics to Applications* Upcoming workshop in Warwick Stats, supported CRiSM, LMS and RSS. We aim to promote the transfer of ideas between the environmental modelling and infectious disease modelling communities.
http://go.warwick.ac...

Bayesian inference of reproduction number from epidemiological and genetic data using particle MCMC Abstract. Inference of the reproduction number through time is of vital importance during an epidemic outbreak. Typically, epidemiologists tackle this usin

JRSSC link now available: academic.oup.com/jrsssc/advan...

(Realised that I am very behind with posting papers to social media. More to follow in the New Year. Not sure yet how far back in time I will go...)

We infer prevalence and reproduction number of a disease over time, along with the reporting probability. The paper considers applications to HIV-1 in North Carolina and tuberculosis in Buenos
Aires, and compares with alternative approaches that use only epidemiological or only genetic data.

New paper accepted in JRSSC with Alicia Gill, Jere Koskela and Xavier Didelot on "Bayesian Inference of Reproduction Number from Epidemiological and Genetic Data Using Particle MCMC". We supplement case data with a dated phylogeny inferred from sequence data arxiv.org/pdf/2311.0...

New paper from Shreya Sinha Roy, me, Christian Robert and Rito Dutta on "Prequential posteriors". We use a a predictive-sequential loss function to fit deep generative forecasting models for the purpose of data assimilation, with waste-free SMC for fitting the neural network arxiv.org/abs/2511.1...

Warwick Statistics is recruiting two Assistant Professors!
We are looking for a researcher with a strong track record and outstanding promise in one or more areas of Statistical Methodology and Theory, Computational Statistics and Machine Learning. Closing date: 25th Jan 26

warwick-careers.tal....

Multilevel neural simulation-based inference Neural simulation-based inference (SBI) is a popular set of methods for Bayesian inference when models are only available in the form of a simulator. These methods are widely used in the sciences...

The 1st OWABI talk of the Season will be given by François-Xavier Briol (University College London). who will talk about "Multilevel neural simulation-based inference".

Warwick Statistics is hiring an Assistant Professor in Mathematical Finance! The deadline is 23rd November.

I'm very much looking forward to speaking at the upcoming workshop on MCMC at Newcastle. Details here: sites.google.com/vie... I will speak about MCMC with active subspaces arxiv.org/abs/2501.0...

New work on inference for partially observed (hypoelliptic) SDEs in frequentist/Bayesian regimes.

Splitting schemes & controlled SMC (+ bridges) to recover the (pseudo)likelihood of interest
arxiv.org/abs/2507.14535

Work led by Shu, with @adamjohansen.bsky.social and @bayesianstats.bsky.social

Starting now!

The final OWABI seminar www.warwick.ac.uk/owabi of the season will feature two selected talks and will take place live from BayesComp bayescomp2025.sg/! The talks will take place on Thursday the 19th June at 1pm UK time (note the different date and time!), and will be given by

Recently-completed Warwick PhD student Ian Roberts, with Xavier Didelot, Richard Everitt and Jere Koskela, have had the paper "Bayesian Inference of Pathogen Phylogeography using the Structured Coalescent Model" accepted in PLOS Computational Biology
journals.plos.org/pl...

Cricket fans! This is the best Fantasy Cricket site:
bsky.app/profile/cric...

So excited for the County Championship tomorrow.

I will be a supervisor for an upcoming PhD! (with Kirsty Hassall and Jacqueline Stroud) The opportunity is an EPSRC DLA Interdisciplinary Scholarship: "Unravelling the sound underground: Detecting and estimating earthworm abundance using low-frequency vibrations".
warwick.ac.uk/fac/sc...

Sign up to the mailing list at ivory-cuscus.lnx.war... to receive the link to the talk.

The next OWABI seminar www.warwick.ac.uk/owabi is quickly approaching, being scheduled on Thursday the 27th March at 11am UK time. Our next speaker is Meïli Baragatti (Université de Montpellier), who will talk about "Approximate Bayesian Computation with Deep Learning and Conformal Prediction".

PhD position at Surrey: Reconstructing EVolutionary histories for organisms on EArth and stars in gaLaxies (REVEAL).
www.surrey.ac.uk/fee...

I will be one of the supervisors on this. Please pass on to any UK students who may be interested.