Zapraszamy na seminarium wydziałowe

Dziekan Wydziału serdecznie zaprasza pracowników oraz studentów na kolejne seminarium wydziałowe, które odbędzie się  w czwartek 27 września o godz. 12:15 (wyjątkowo w sali WS w Instytucie Matematycznym). Prelegentem będzie prof. Roger Cooke (TU Delft), wybitny specjalista w zakresie matematycznego modelowania ryzyka i niepewności, który wygłosi skierowany do szerokiej publiczności wykład pt.

The Confidence Trap: dysfunctional dialogues about climate

Przed wykładem, o godz. 11:45, Dziekan tradycyjnie zaprasza na kawę i ciastka.

O godzinie 13:15 odbędzie się kolejny odczyt prof. Rogera Cooke'a pt.

Abstract Vine Regression applied to the effects of breastfeeding duration on IQ.

Streszczenia obu wykładów:

The Confidence Trap: dysfunctional dialogues about climate.
Mutilation of facts, scriptural snake oil, gerrymandering the proof burden, bloated overconfidence and outright lies – these are among the miasmas fouling the public debate about climate change. The surprise is not that people try these stratagems, but that they are successful. A snarly cognitive illusion is preventing us from dealing rationally with climate uncertainties (a cognitive illusion is like an optical illusion involving the brain instead of the eyes). After a ‘syllabus of errors’, this talk focuses on better ways to capture and incorporate expert’s judgments on climate change. Developed in quantitative risk analysis, structured expert judgment has been used in a wide range of applications from nuclear safety, public health, investment banking to policy analysis and natural hazards. It is now poised to enter the climate debate in earnest. Can it help? Its time to find out.

Abstract Vine Regression applied to the effects of breastfeeding duration on IQ.
If explanatory variables and a response variable of interest are simultaneously observed, then fitting a joint multivariate density to all variables would enable prediction via conditional distributions. Regular vines or vine copulas with arbitrary univariate margins provide a rich and flexible class of multivariate densities for Gaussian or non-Gaussian dependence structures. The density enables calculation of all regression functions for any subset of variables conditional on any disjoint set of variables, thereby avoiding issues of including/excluding covariates, interactions, higher order terms, multicollinearity, transformations, heteroscedasticity, bias, convergence and efficiency. Only the question of finding an adequate vine copula remains. Additionally, samples drawn from a vine distribution for which the regression functions are known enables studying the performance of various regression heuristics. This article illustrates vine regression with a data set from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth relating breastfeeding to IQ. The expected effects per week of additional breastfeeding on IQ depend strongly on IQ, the baseline level of breastfeeding, the duration of additional breastfeeding and on the values of other covariates. A child breastfed for 2 weeks can expect to increase his/her IQ by 1.4 to 2 points by adding 10 weeks of breastfeeding, depending on values of other covariates.