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Choose your own adventure – Defending a target with Stackelberg Security Games

April 28, 2020 Hamish Thorburn

In today’s CYOA, you are in charge of security for a supermarket. As is the times, dried pasta and toilet…

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Filed under: CYOA, game theory, operations research

60 second stats – Monte Carlo Simulation

April 19, 2020 Hamish Thorburn

So, the plan for this post was to look at a paper which details a method to make unbiased estimation…

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Filed under: 60 second stats, Statistics

Tutorial – Building packages in R

March 29, 2020 Hamish Thorburn

Slight change of pace in this post – today, we’re going to look at how to build a package in…

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Choose your own adventure – Simulation input uncertainty

March 5, 2020 Hamish Thorburn

Today’s post will be a choose your own adventure. Follow the prompts and see where you end up! In today’s…

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Filed under: CYOA, Input uncertainty, operations research, Simulation

60 second stats – Agent-Based Simulation

February 25, 2020 Hamish Thorburn

I thought I’d try something different today, and instead of the regular post, I thought I’d try and do a…

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Filed under: 60 second stats, Agent-Based Simulation, Simulation, Statistics

Model-based clustering

February 23, 2020 Hamish Thorburn 1 Comment

Today’s post is based on a Masterclass given to the STOR-i cohort by Brendan Murphy from University College Dublin. Clustering…

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Filed under: clustering, Gaussian Mixture Models, Statistics

Heuristics in Optimisation

February 7, 2020 Hamish Thorburn 1 Comment

Another fortnight, and another 10 presentations on research in STOR-i. The current phases of the MRes program is starting to…

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Filed under: genetic algorithm, heuristics, operations research, optmisation

Factor analysis and Interpretability

January 24, 2020 Hamish Thorburn 1 Comment

So, we had the STOR-i conference last week. 2 days of interesting talks, free wine, and somewhat awkward photos. Of…

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Filed under: Communication, Data Science, Factor Analysis, Statistics

What is this?

January 12, 2020 Hamish Thorburn

As part of our MRes (Masters of Research) year within STOR-i, we’ve been encouraged to start writing a blog. And…

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  • Choose your own adventure – Defending a target with Stackelberg Security Games
  • 60 second stats – Monte Carlo Simulation
  • Tutorial – Building packages in R
  • Choose your own adventure – Simulation input uncertainty
  • 60 second stats – Agent-Based Simulation

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