Accelerating Computation for Bayesian Spatial Modeling

• Activity Number: 66
• Type: Topic Contributed
• Date/Time: Sunday, July 31, 2016 : 4:00 PM to 5:50 PM
• Sponsor: Biometrics Section
• Author(s): Mary Kathryn Cowles*
• Companies: University of Iowa
• Keywords: biostatistics ; computational statistics ; spatial statistics ; parallel computing

Abstract

Kathryn Chaloner was my instructor, mentor, colleague, and friend. This talk will describe some of her influences on my life and career. In addition, I will present software for GPU-based acceleration of the fitting of Bayesian conditional autoregressive models to environmental data.