Why R? Webinars - "Analysis of Historic Volcano Data with R" with Jonty Rougier
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- date: every Thursday 7:00 pm (Irish Time)
- format: one 45 minutes long stream + 10 minutes for Q&A
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Analysing Volcanic Eruptions with R: Estimating volume from point-referenced thickness measurements
Abstract:
Accurate sizing of historical volcanic eruptions is challenging, because the deposition process is complicated, and because the remnants of the deposition process are sparse and heavily degraded. The substantial uncertainty means that point estimates are much less informative than confidence intervals. I will describe a computationally intensive algorithm for producing a 95% confidence interval for tephra fall volume, using a variety of modern statistical tools. I will also describe the various R packages and tools that I use.
Speaker:
Jonty Rougier is a consulting statistician, formerly Professor of Statistical Science and Head of Statistics in the School of Mathematics, University of Bristol (up to June 2019). He is a 'full service' statistician, but has worked extensively in Earth and Environmental Science. He is the 2021 recipient of the Royal Statistical Society Barnett Award for Environmental Statistics.