Michael Mumford

The Australasian Applied Statistics Conference 2026 website is now live! aasc2026.netlify.app
#AASC2026 #rstats #statsky

Last week I had the honour of presenting my PhD research on the development of a statistical model for the multi-enviornment trial analysis of agricultural count data at the Australasian Region Biometrics conference in Canberra. #BIBC2025 #Statistics #biometrics

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Orthogonal Projection Formulas (Least Squares) - Projection, Part 2 YouTube video by Sam Levey

Hey, I have a new video out! It’s about where the formulas for Least Squares come from, in terms of orthogonal projection. It’s the second in a series about projection (but you don’t need to have watched the first :)
youtu.be/73xKLFsXvvM

Postdoctoral/Research Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia Classification: Academic Level A/BSalary package: $85,010 - $131,227 per annum plus 17% superannuationTerm: 3x Full-time, Fixed Term (Up to December 2027) The Position Three academic positions are ava...

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Understanding scipy.minimize part 1: The BFGS algorithm YouTube video by Folker Hoffmann

The Quasi-Newton BFGS algorithm seen in the #rstats optim function explained visually. Another instructive video that I found recently.

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Perhaps I will continue to document my key learnings during my PhD journey here.

An intuitive visual explanation of what SVD actually is. A must watch for anyone using dimension reduction techniques for data analysis.

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