Adrian Raftery
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Statistician developing statistical methods for demography, atmospheric science & cluster analysis at the University of Washington. RT=interesting≠endorsement.
Seattle, WA
Joined May 2014
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order that appoints politicians — not scientists — to evaluate research. Add your name to the open letter:
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Our paper, "A privacy-preserved and high-utility synthesis strategy for risk-based stratified subgroups of the Canadian scleroderma patient registry data" w Bei Jiang, Russell Steele & Naisyin Wang, just published in Ann Appl Stat:
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A call for scientific researchers to stand up for freedoms as well as funding:
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Our short course on Subnational Probabilistic Population Projections at @PopAssocAmerica 2025 will now be hybrid. To ask to join remotely, email raftery@uw.edu from your professional email by April 7 with subject “Join PAA workshop” & say why you want to.
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Journal webinar on Model-Based Clustering for Social Networks, w @mark_s_handcock, and discussion by @icgormley & @NialFriel, from the RSS @RoyalStatSoc:
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RT @COPSSNews: 🎉 📷 Excited to announce our 2025 COPSS Emerging Leader Award (ELA) winners. The COPSS ELA recognizes early career statistica….
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RT @probnstat: A man is known to speak the truth 3 out of 4 times. He throws a die and reports that it is a six. Find the probability that….
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RT @kareem_carr: In honor of international women's day, let's take a moment to remember the most famous statistician in history. You've d….
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RT @CardColm: Indeed, he not only taught me honours maths and physics in Dublin half a century ago, he introduced me to Martin Gardner's Sc….
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My mathematics teacher at @Stconleths, Michael Manning, died last night. He is second from right in this photo from the 2013 Hamilton Walk in Dublin, commemorating the discovery of quaternions. A great teacher who also taught @duncantl and Maurice O’Reilly. RIP
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Obituary of John H. Wolfe (193302024), inventor of model-based clustering:
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RT @theNASciences: We are thrilled to announce Mary-Claire King of @UW as this year's recipient of the prestigious NAS Public Welfare Medal….
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RT @BPC_UCBerkeley: We are now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley o….
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The RSS Climate Change Task Force has released a guide to (UK) official statistics on climate. An excellent resource.
Our Climate Change and Net Zero Task Force has released a guide to help you navigate the most reliable UK official statistics on climate, from everything from weather events to renewable energy usage 🌍. 📖
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RT @RoyalStatSoc: Our first set of explainers from our Climate Change Task Force, chaired by @AndrewDGarrett & David Stephenson . On the 1.….
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RT @karlrohe: in lecture on tuesday, I turned on voice memo in my iphone. had it transcribe lecture to text. I also took photos of the blac….
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