Date/Time
Date(s) - 27/02/2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Location: KTH B105

Speaker: Ben Bolker

Title: Improving Statistical Computation in R

Abstract: Most statistical computation, including most new methods developed as
part of Master’s and PhD theses, uses the R programming language. Most
computational methods are slower than we want them to be; there are many
ways to speed up your code that intermediate R user may not know about.

I will give a broad, practical overview of these methods, including benchmarking and profiling; parallelization; automatic differentiation; memorization; and integration with lower-level languages such as C++.

(Refreshments served at KTH B105)