Date/Time
Date(s) - 07/02/2024
10:30 am - 11:30 am

Location: HH 312

Speaker: Ben Bolker (McMaster University)

Title: Overview of/introduction to parameter estimation for dynamical systems

Abstract: Estimating the underlying parameters of deterministic linear systems that are observed without uncertainty is easy. Estimating the parameters
of continuous-time, stochastic, high-dimensional, nonlinear systems with discrete state spaces and observation uncertainty is extremely challenging. I will give an unpolished introduction to some of the basic methods and principles of this specialized and deep field of statistics.
Please let Ben Bolker (bolker@mcmaster.ca) know if you are planning to come and are *not* connected to the existing math bio groups (Wolkowicz, Earn, Dushoff, Bolker), as some notes may be forwarded in advance.