<div dir="ltr"><div>Caros,</div><div><br></div><div>Gostaríamos de convidar a todos para o próximo seminário conjunto UFSCar/ICMC-USP, que ocorrerá no dia <b>11/11</b>, <b>às 14h</b>. Seguem informações abaixo.</div><div><br></div><div>Saudações,<br></div><div>Michel</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13.9776px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Scheduled for:</strong><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Oct 21, 2022, at 2:00 pm<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">(GMT-03:00) Brasilia Standard Time - Sao Paulo</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1.8em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13.9776px"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Video call link <a class="external-link" href="https://meet.google.com/cet-uari-pct" target="_blank" title="link" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(32,92,144);border-bottom:none">HERE</a>.</strong><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Speaker:</strong><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Kelly C. M. Gonçalves (UFRJ)<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Title:</strong><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Some recent advances in quantile regression under the Bayesian approach</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"> <br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Abstract:</strong><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Quantile regression models provide richer information on the effects of the predictors than does the traditional mean regression and it is less sensitive to heteroscedasticity and outliers, accommodating non-normal errors often encountered in practical applications. Bayesian inference for quantile regression may proceed by forming the likelihood function based on the asymmetric Laplace distribution or a generalization, and a location-scale mixture representation of it allows finding analytical expressions for the conditional posterior densities of the model. The main aim of this talk is to present quantile regressio</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">n and </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">some recent extensions</span>.<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Bio:</strong><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Kelly is </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). </span></span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"> She has </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">BSc in Mathematics, MSc and PhD in Statistics from</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"> UFRJ</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">. In 2020 she worked</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"> as a visiting </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">researcher</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">at University of Florida. Actually, she is also </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">a</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline"> visiting researcher at </span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA) and m</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;list-style:none;vertical-align:baseline">ember of the Sampling Advisory Committee of the Basic Education Assessment Board (DAEB) in the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research (INEP)</span>.</p></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">===============================</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">/* Michel H. Montoril, </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"> * Assistant Professor,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"> * Department of Statistics,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"> * Federal University of São Carlos,</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"> * São Carlos, SP, 13565-905, Brazil</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"> */</span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>