In the ever-evolving toolkit of statistical analysis techniques, Bayesian statistics has emerged as a popular and powerful methodology for making decisions from data in the applied sciences. Bayesian ...
We develop a Bayesian method for nonparametric model—based quantile regression. The approach involves flexible Dirichlet process mixture models for the joint distribution of the response and the ...
The parametric bootstrap can be used for the efficient computation of Bayes posterior distributions. Importance sampling formulas take on an easy form relating to the deviance in exponential families ...
Nate Silver, baseball statistician turned political analyst, gained a lot of attention during the 2012 United States elections when he successfully predicted the outcome of the presidential vote in ...
This course is available on the MSc in Comparative Politics, MSc in Development Management, MSc in Development Studies, MSc in Global Politics, MSc in Health and International Development, MSc in ...
To meet the Basel II regulatory requirements for the advanced measurement approaches, the bank’s internal model must include the use of internal data, relevant external data, scenario analysis and ...
Operational risk is an important quantitative topic as a result of the Basel II regulatory requirements. Operational risk models need to incorporate internal and external loss data observations in ...