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I'm a PhD student in Statistics at UCL, supervised by Mark Girolami and Alex Beskos. I'm working on improving Monte Carlo methods using ideas from Differential Geometry.

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23 Kullback-Leibler divergence: negative values? Oct 27 '12
15 How do Bayesians compare distributions? Jun 10 '13
10 Preparing Bayesian conditional distributions for Gibbs sampling Nov 9 '12
10 Relations between distributions Oct 11 '12
10 Textbook deriving Metropolis-Hastings and Gibbs Sampling Sep 3 '12
6 Confusion related to MCMC technique Oct 11 '12
5 Overall prediction using correlated variables Sep 10 '12
4 Good summaries (reviews, books) on various applications of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)? Sep 6 '12
3 Modeling a spatial trend by regression with the $(x,y)$ coordinates as predictors Sep 7 '12
3 Hypothesis testing using the likelihood ratio test Sep 8 '12
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