Graphical Models Reading Group

We meet regularly to present and discuss recent developments in the research area of graphical models. If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please email Sofia Massa at massa@stats.ox.ac.uk.

Trinity Term 2012- Department of Statistics, 1 South Parks Road, Lecture Room.

Friday 4 May, 2pm:

Vogel, D., Fried, R. (2011). Elliptical Graphical Modelling. Biometrika, 98(4), 935-951.

Speaker: Peter Forbes
 
 

Friday 18 May, 2pm:

Marloes, H., Maathuis, Kalisch, M., Buhlmann P. (2009). Estimating high-dimensional intervention effects from observational data. Annals of Statistics, 37(6A), 3133-3164.

 
Speaker: Mattias Rantalainen
 

Friday 1 June, 2pm:

Green, P.J., Thomas, A. (2011). Sampling decomposable graphs using a Markov chain on junction trees. Arxiv.

Speaker: Therese Graversen
 
 

Friday 15 June, 2pm:

Bien, J., Tibshirani, R. (2011). Sparse Estimation of a Covariance Matrix. Biometrika. 98(4). 807-820

Speaker: Sofia Massa

Hilary Term 2012- Department of Statistics, 1 South Parks Road, Seminar Room.

Friday 3 February, 3pm (note change of time):

Carvalho, C.M., Scott, J.G. (2009). Objective Bayesian model selection in Gaussian graphical models.

Biometrika, 96(3), 497-512.

Speaker: Peter Forbes

Friday 10 February, 2pm:

Sadeghi, K. (2012). Stable mixed graphs.

Speaker: Kayvan Sadeghi

Friday 24 February, 2pm:

Ben-David, E., Rajaratnam, B. (2012). Generalised hyper Markov laws for directed acyclic graphs.

Stanford University Technical Report.

Speaker: Joe Hermann

Friday 9 March, 2pm:

Yin, J., Li, H. (2011). A sparse conditional Gaussian graphical model for analysis of genetical genomics data.

Annals of Applied Statistics, 5(4), 2630-2650.

Speaker: Valentina Iotchkova

Michaelmas Term 2011- Department of Statistics, 2 South Parks Road, Common Room.

Friday 28 October, 2pm:

Drton, M.(2009). Discrete chain graph models. Bernoulli, 15(3), 736-753.

Speaker: Kayvan Sadeghi
 

Friday 4 November, 2pm:

Guo, J., Levina, E., Michailidis, G., Zhu, J. (2011). Joint Estimation of Multiple Graphical Models.

Biometrika, 98, 1-15.

Speaker: Sofia Massa

Friday 18 November, 2pm:

Khare, K., Rajaratnam, B. (2011). Wishart Distributions for decomposable covariance graph models.

The Annals of Statistics, Volume 39 (1), 514-555.

Speaker: Joe Herman

Friday 9 December, 2pm:

Cowell, R. G. (2009). Efficient maximum likelihood pedigree reconstruction. Theoretical Population biology, 76, 285-291.
 
Speaker: Therese Graversen

Trinity Term 2011- Department of Statistics, 1 South Parks Road, Seminar Room.

Friday 13 May, 2pm:

Gehrmann, H. Lauritzen, S.L. (2011). Estimation of means in graphical Gaussian models with symmetries. 

Speaker: Helene Gehrmann

Friday 27 May, 2pm:

Sadeghi, K. (2011). Markov properties for loopless mixed graphs.

Speaker: Kayvan Sadeghi

Friday 10 June, 2pm:

Agakov, F.V., Krohn, J., McKeigue, P., Storkey, A. (2010). Sparse instrumental variables (SPIV) for Genome-Wide studies. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 23, 28-36.
 

Agakov, F.V., Colombo, M., Krohn, J., Flint, J., McKeigue, P (2010). Integrative system for biomarker screening and QTL fine mapping. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics.

Speaker: Valentina Iotchkova and Jonathan Marchini

Friday 24 June, 2pm:

Buhlmann, P., Kalisch, M., Maathuis, M.H. (2010). Variable selection in high-dimensional linear models: partially faithful distributions and the PC-simple algorithm. Biometrika 97(2), 261-278. 

Speaker: Inma Tur

Hilary Term 2011- Lecture Room 1SPR, 2pm

Friday 4 February, 2pm:

Wermuth, N. and Cox. R.D. (2008). Distortion of effects caused by indirect confounding, Biometrika, 95(1), 17-33
 
Speaker: Kayvan Sadeghi
 
 

Friday 11 February, 2pm:

 
Green, P.J. and Mortera, G. (2009). Sensitivity of inferences in forensic genetics to assumptions about founding genes. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 3(2), 731-763
 
Speaker: Therese Graversen

Friday 25 February, 2pm:

Chaibub Neto, E. Keller, M.P., Attie, Alan D., Yandell, B. S. Causal graphical models in systems genetics: a unified framework for joint inference of causal network and genetic architecture for correlated phenotypes. The Annals of Applied Statistics, 4(1), 320-339

Speaker: Mattias Rantalainen

Friday 11 March, 2pm:

Shojaie, A., Michailidis, G. (2010). Penalized likelihood methods for estimation of sparse high-dimensional directed acyclic graphs. Biometrika, 97(3), 519-538

Speaker: Sofia Massa

Michaelmas Term 2010

Friday 29 October, 2pm:

Wang, H. and West, M. (2009). Bayesian analysis of matrix normal graphical models. Biometrika, 96(4), 821-834.

Speaker: Sofia Massa

Friday 12 November, 2pm:

Drton, M., Massam, H., Olkin, I. (2008). Moments of minors of Wishart matrices. The Annals of Statistics, 36(5), 2261-2283.
Speaker: Helene Gehrmann
 
 

Friday 3 December, 2pm:

 
Tvedebrink, T., Eriksen, P.S., Mogensen, H.S., Morling, N. (2010). Evaluating the weight of evidence by using quantitative short tandem repeat data in DNA mixtures. Applied Statistics, part 5 vol 59, 855-874.
Speaker: Therese Graversen
 

Friday 10 December, 2pm:

 
Edwards D., de Abreu G.C.G., Labouriau R. (2010). Selecting high-dimensional mixed graphical models using minimal AIC or BIC forests. BMC Bioinformatics, 11:18
Speaker: Joe Herman

If you would like to be added to the mailing list, please get in touch with Sofia Massa, massa@stats.ox.ac.uk