The paper "From Denoising Diffusions to Denoising Markov Models" authored by Joe Benton, Yuyang Shi, Valentin De Bortoli, George Deligiannidis and Arnaud Doucet has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B as a prestigious read paper. It will be read before The Royal Statistical Society at the Society's 2023 annual conference held in Harrogate on Wednesday, September 6th, 2023.
Finding a needle in the genomic haystack: Targeting rare genes using statistical outliers
In statistical modelling, extreme outliers are often written off as 'noise'. But a new study by researchers from Oxford's Department of Statistics and Big Data Institute published this week in The American Journal of Human Genetics reverses that principle, using these outliers as the basis of a targeting system for locating rare, high-impact genetic mutations.
Professor Ben Lambert wins MPLS Research Supervision Award
Professor Ben Lambert has won a 2025/26 Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences (MPLS) Award for Outstanding Research Supervision, recognised for his exceptional dedication to supporting researchers at every stage of their development.
Brian Ripley recognised in $1 million Rousseeuw Prize for contributions to the R Project
Professor Brian Ripley, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics and former Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford, has been named as one of five laureates of the 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics.