Dr David Hughes, Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool Title: "Using Variational Bayes for fast inference in large longitudinal datasets" Abstract: Collecting information on multiple longitudinal outcomes is increasingly common in many clinical settings. In many cases it is desirable to model these outcomes jointly. However, in large datasets, with many outcomes, computational burden often prevents the simultaneous modelling of multiple outcomes within a single model. We develop a mean field variational Bayes algorithm, to jointly model multiple Gaussian,…