Mattias Villani
@matvil.bsky.social
Professor of Statistics at Stockholm University.
25+ years of Bayes and still excited.
Big fan of Julialang, Observable and Linux.
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25+ years of Bayes and still excited.
Big fan of Julialang, Observable and Linux.
🇮🇹+🇸🇪
Well, at least before I got these crayons, apparently made out of angel tears.
November 1, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Well, at least before I got these crayons, apparently made out of angel tears.
Photo of me after an intensive Bayes lecture at the blackboard.
November 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Photo of me after an intensive Bayes lecture at the blackboard.
Took me many years before I learned the \phantom command in LaTeX, and its precision still brings me joy.
'The \phantom command creates a box with the same height, depth, and width as subformula, but empty.'
latexref.xyz/_005cphantom...
'The \phantom command creates a box with the same height, depth, and width as subformula, but empty.'
latexref.xyz/_005cphantom...
April 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Took me many years before I learned the \phantom command in LaTeX, and its precision still brings me joy.
'The \phantom command creates a box with the same height, depth, and width as subformula, but empty.'
latexref.xyz/_005cphantom...
'The \phantom command creates a box with the same height, depth, and width as subformula, but empty.'
latexref.xyz/_005cphantom...
April 15, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Immensely sad that Herman has passed away.
He took me into the Bayesian community at the Valencia meeting in 1998. Very encouraging discussant of my thesis. Always helping the younger and willing to share his time and knowledge.
He will be missed by many.
Obituary:
esobe.org/Herman_van_D...
He took me into the Bayesian community at the Valencia meeting in 1998. Very encouraging discussant of my thesis. Always helping the younger and willing to share his time and knowledge.
He will be missed by many.
Obituary:
esobe.org/Herman_van_D...
January 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Immensely sad that Herman has passed away.
He took me into the Bayesian community at the Valencia meeting in 1998. Very encouraging discussant of my thesis. Always helping the younger and willing to share his time and knowledge.
He will be missed by many.
Obituary:
esobe.org/Herman_van_D...
He took me into the Bayesian community at the Valencia meeting in 1998. Very encouraging discussant of my thesis. Always helping the younger and willing to share his time and knowledge.
He will be missed by many.
Obituary:
esobe.org/Herman_van_D...
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January 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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December 8, 2024 at 11:43 AM
Wrote a basic tutorial about state-space models and Kalman filtering, sprinkled with interactivity, for an intermediate stats course.
statisticssu.github.io/STM/tutorial...
statisticssu.github.io/STM/tutorial...
January 1, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Wrote a basic tutorial about state-space models and Kalman filtering, sprinkled with interactivity, for an intermediate stats course.
statisticssu.github.io/STM/tutorial...
statisticssu.github.io/STM/tutorial...
October 21, 2023 at 9:34 PM
Bayesian analysis of Multinomial data using a Dirichlet prior with javascript in observablehq.com
observablehq.com/@mattiasvill...
observablehq.com/@mattiasvill...
October 7, 2023 at 1:23 PM
Bayesian analysis of Multinomial data using a Dirichlet prior with javascript in observablehq.com
observablehq.com/@mattiasvill...
observablehq.com/@mattiasvill...
Trying to guide my students in a first course in stats (SDA1) on how to choose a distribution depending on properties of the data (among the ones covered by our triplet of basic courses SDA1-3).
October 3, 2023 at 10:40 AM
Trying to guide my students in a first course in stats (SDA1) on how to choose a distribution depending on properties of the data (among the ones covered by our triplet of basic courses SDA1-3).
Very happy to have Antonietta Mira visiting our department on October 20! All welcome!
September 29, 2023 at 1:08 PM
Very happy to have Antonietta Mira visiting our department on October 20! All welcome!
Wrote a tutorial for a basic course on how to compute maximum likelihood estimators with approximate standard errors in R. Sprinkled with some #observablehq interactivity.
statisticssu.github.io/STM/tutorial...
statisticssu.github.io/STM/tutorial...
September 20, 2023 at 10:59 AM
Wrote a tutorial for a basic course on how to compute maximum likelihood estimators with approximate standard errors in R. Sprinkled with some #observablehq interactivity.
statisticssu.github.io/STM/tutorial...
statisticssu.github.io/STM/tutorial...