Mathématiques de la prise de décision et statistiques

Cours avancés

Cours avancés 2024-2025 (salle de séminaire 1, RDJ)


Cours avancés 2023-2024

Ingrid Van Keilegom professeure invitée à TSE en 2024, donnera un cours sur le thème "Duration analysis with a review of the basics and some more specialized topics" aux dates suivantes:

  • Cours 1: Lundi 13 mai de 10h à 12h en T225
  • Cours 2: Mardi 14 mai de 13h30 à 15h30 en T225
  • Cours 3: Mercredi 15 mai de 10h à 12h30 en T225

Titre: Duration analysis: review of the basics and some more specialized topics

In this course we will start by reviewing the basics of duration analysis (censoring, Kaplan-Meier estimator, Cox model, log-rank test,…) (class 1). Then, more specialized topics will be treated, namely the topic of cure models (class 2) and of dependent censoring (class 3). Cure models are used when the event of interest (e.g. finding a new job) never happens for a proportion of the population, leading to a survival function with a mass at infinity. It is then often of interest to model and estimate separately that mass at infinity and the survival function of those with finite event times, depending on a set of covariates. Dependent censoring means that the duration time and the censoring time are not stochastically independent, whereas usually in duration analysis it is assumed that they are independent. The survival function can in that case not be identified without additional assumptions. Several models will be discussed that lead to (partially) identified survival functions. It will also be seen how the presence of covariates can help to identify the survival function.


Rik Lopuhaä a donné un cours sur l'estimation robuste de paramètres de position et d'échelle multivariés en février 2024.

Titre: Robust estimation of multivariate location and scatter

Résumé: in this course, we will discuss several popular methods for robust estimation of multivariate location and scatter including S-estimators and the minimum covariance determinant estimator.

We will introduce these methods, explain their relationship with M-estimators, and discuss their robustness and asymptotic properties. We will also discuss the mathematical techniques that can be used to rigorously derive the properties and features of these methods, and illustrate their implementation in R and how to use them in practice.


Cours avancés 2022-2023

Peter Takac (University of Rostock, Germany) a donné des cours à TSE en février 2023
"Semi-linear and quasi-linear Black-Scholes-type equations in Mathematical Finance: Analytical and numerical methods with some monotonicity"

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Pierre Alquier (Riken AIP) a donné des cours à TSE en novembre 2022
"PAC-Bayes et Information bounds, with Applications to Variational Inference"

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