[Statlist] Research seminar in statistics, GSEM, University of Geneva

[Eva Cantoni]

Organisers : .
E. Cantoni - E. Ronchetti - S. Sperlich - M-P. Victoria-Feser

Friday October 31st, 2014
at 11h15 - Room M 5220, Uni Mail (40, bd du Pont-d'Arve)

Chris FIELD
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS Canada

Title: Modelling Microbial Multinomial Time or Space Series

Abstract:
This talk is motivated by issues arising from some microbial oceanic  
data that researchers have talked to me about recently. The data 
typically consists of counts of OTU's (operational taxonomic units) from 
ocean samples varying either in space or time. We can think of the data 
as a multinomial series where the number of cells is large (typically 
1000 or more). I want to describe how I approach the problem of finding 
an appropriate model and analysis. As I'm still in  the preliminary 
stages of this research, I'll be posting more questions than answers but 
I feel the scientific questions are important and the statistical issues 
challenging. I look forward to continuing discussions with anyone 
interested in the research. I should note that although the data I have 
is from the ocean, similar issues will arise with microbial data coming 
from many other environments such as the human gut.

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Prof. Eva Cantoni
Research Center for Statistics and
      Geneva School of Economics and Management
University of Geneva, Bd du Pont d'Arve 40, CH-1211 Genève 4
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