Collaboration with Novartis in the field of Bayesian modelling

With support from HIIT, Topi Paananen from the Probabilistic Machine Learning (PML) group at Aalto University, recently did a 3-month research visit to the pharmaceutical company Novartis in Switzerland. During the visit, Topi and his collaborators worked on methods for constructing prior distributions in Bayesian analyses on longitudinal data sets. The methods were used with real medical data from a longitudinal study and were implemented with the statistical computation tool Stan. Collaboration with Novartis continues after the research visit with the goal of publishing a joint research article.