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Martin Hazelton

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martin.hazelton AT otago.ac.nz

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Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Otago
Dunedin
New Zealand


Martin Hazelton's Seminars and Talks

From time to time I give seminars on my work. Below you can download the overheads from some of my most recent presentations (in PDF - portable document format).

"Statistical methods in transportation research", presented to the Statistical Society of Australia Inc, WA Branch; Perth, November 2005.

"Density deconvolution by weighted kernel estimators"; invited presentation at the Australia / New Zealand Statistics Conference, Auckland, July 2006.

"Adaptive Smoothing for kernel estimates of density functionals", presented at the New Zealand Statistical Association Conference, July 2007.

"From estimation of traffic flows to deconvolution of densities: Some statistical linear inverse problems", seminar in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Otago, Dunedin, 11 October 2007. I gave a revised version of this talk at the Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics in Wellington NZ, 3 Nov 2009. 

"Advances in Spatial Modelling of Disease", presented at the New Zealand Statistical Association Conference, September 2008.

"Calibration of dynamic traffic assignment models"; invited presentation at DADDY - an international workshop on day-to-day dynamics for transportation network analysis: assignment, control, design. Salerno, Italy, 2-4 December 2009.

"Shape constrained semiparametric regression", presented at the New Zealand Statistical Association Conference, July 2010, Palmerston North.

"Inference for Day-to-Day Dynamic Traffic Models", presented at the Joint Statistics Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, 31 July - 5 August 2010.

"Sampling from a very large set defined by a complex system of linear constraints", invited presentation at the Second Wellington Workshop on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 30 November – 1 December 2010.

"Testing for log-concavity of densities", presented at the New Zealand Statistical Association Conference, Auckland, 28-31 August 2011.

"Statistical inference for transport networks", presented jointly to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering HKUST and the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 27 October 2011.

"Statistical linear inverse problems in transportation science", a plenary invited presentation at Statistical Concepts and Methods in the Modern World, and international conference organized by the Applied Statistics Assocation of Sri Lanka, Colombo, 28-30 December 2011.

"Statistical inference for origin-destination matrices" presented jointly to the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Polytechnic University of Hong Kong, and the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 22 February 2012.

"Improved estimation of spatial relative risk by local smoothing", presented at the 2012 Australian Statistical Conference, Adelaide, 9-12 July 2012.

"Statistical modelling and inference for spatio-temporal disease processes", presented at the inaugural IDReC Science Symposium, Palmerston North, 23-24 October 2012.

"Improved estimation of spatial relative risk by local smoothing", presented at the 2012 New Zealand Statistical Association conference in Dunedin, 29-30 November 2012.

"Statistics in the 21st Century (or Why Statisticians are the New Vampires, Only Pastier)", invited presentation to the Manwatu Branch of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 19 March 2013.

"An overview of statistical inference for day-to-day dynamic traffic models", invited presentation at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Workshop on Day-to-Day Dynamical System Approach for Modeling Transportation Systems, 4-5 November 2013.

"Some recent advances in network tomography", invited plenary presentation at the 2013 New Zealand Statistical Association conference in Hamilton, 24-27 November 2013.

"Network tomograpy for integer-valued traffic", invited presentation at the Fourth Wellington Workshop on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 2-3 December 2013.

"Network tomography for integer-valued fraffic", invited presentation at ASC/IMS 2014 (joint Australian Statistical Conference / Institute of Mathematical Statistics meeting), Sydney, 7-10 July 2014.

"Space, the final frontier", keynote presentation at the 2014 Palmy Statistics Forum, Palmerston North, 24 October 2014.

"Calibration and data issues for day-to-day dynamic models", invited presentation at Croucher Foundation Advanced Studies Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 18-20 November 2014.

"Efficient sampling algorithms for network tomography", presented at the 2014 New Zealand Statistical Association conference in Wellington, 23-26 November 2014.

"Statistics and the search for scientific truth", public lecture hosted by the University of the Third Age (U3A), Palmerston North, 11 November 2015.

"Log-density estimation with application to approximate likelihood inference", invited presentation at the Fifth Wellington Workshop on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, 19-20 November 2015.

"Smoothing methods for Approximate Likelihood Inference", presented at the 2015 New Zealand Statistical Association conference in Christchurch, 24-26 November 2015.

"Efficient MCMC samplers for network tomography", invited presentation at the 2015 Auckland University of Technology Mathematical Sciences Symposium, 7-8 December 2015.

"Multivariate log-density estimation with applications to approximate likelihood inference", invited presentation at the 4th IMS-APRM, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 27-30 June 2016.

"Network Tomography for Integer Valued Traffic", seminar at the University of Leeds, 7 July 2016.

"Network tomography for integer valued traffic", seminar at the Australian National University, Canberra, 27 October 2016.

"Testing for changing patterns of spatial relative risk", presented at the 2016 New Zealand Statistical Association conference in Auckland, 28-30 November 2016.

"Lattice polytope samplers", presented at the 2017 IASC/NZSA conference in Auckland, 11-14 December 2017.

"Approximate samplers for linear inverse problems", presented at the 2018 NZSA/ORSNZ conference in Palmerston North, 27-30 November 2018.

"Dynamic polytope samplers for linear inverse problems", invited plenary at 2019 New Zealand Statistical Association Conference in Dunedin, 26-28 November 2019.

"The future of statistics at New Zealand universities: an Untalk", 2020 NZSA Unconference, University of Auckland, 24-25 November.

"Dynamic fibre samplers for linear inverse problems", Asia-Pacific Seminar in Probability and Statistics (by zoom), 19 January 2022.

"When bias hurts - a tale of nonparametric testing", 2022 NZSA Conference, University of Auckland 22-23 November 2022.

"Statistical linear inverse problems for count data", Inverse Kiwi workshop, University of Canterbury, 6-7 June 2023.

"Shrinkage estimators of the spatial relative risk function", 2023 NZSA Conference, University of Canterbury 4-6 December 2023.

"Shrinkage estimators of the spatial relative risk function", 2024 IMS-APRM, University of Melbourne 4-7 January 2024.




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