In this contributed interview from the Department of Statistical Science at UCL, we speak with Professor Chris Holmes. Chris is Professor of Biostatistics at the departments of Statistics and the Nuffield Department of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is also the Director for the Health Programme at the Alan Turing Institute. We discussed a recent presentation given at the department on Bayesian predictive inference and his involvement with statistical modelling to support the UK government’s COVID response.
UCL seminar recording: https://youtu.be/Y9S4n42n0cY
Martingale posterior distributions: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.15671
Interoperability of statistical models in pandemic preparedness: principles and reality: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.13730
Chris Holmes’ group website: https://www.chrisholmeslab.com