Statistics 625 Applied Bayesian Analysis   ANNOUNCEMENTS SYLLABUS SCHEDULE HOMEWORK COMPUTING Date Topic Lecture Notes Code/Data Reading/ Homework Week 1: Th 1/3 Bayesian Statistics: Overview slides (4) student.R student.txt     --- Week 2: T 1/8 Summarizing Inferences by Simulation; Single-Parameter Models slides (2) slides (4) placenta.R 1.1-1.10 Th 1/10 Single-Parameter Models; Conjugate Distributions slides (2) slides (4)     --- 2.1-2.7 Week 3: T 1/15 Noninformative/Improper Prior Distributions; Shrinkage slides (2) slides (4) temperature.R temperature.txt 2.8-2.9; HW1 Due Th 1/17 Multiparameter Models; Averaging over Nuissance Parameters slides (2) slides (4) election-polling.R 3.1-3.4 Week 4: T 1/22 Multiparameters Models; Hierarchical Modeling slides (2) slides (4) ticket_price.R ticket_price.txt 3.5-3.7 Th 1/24 Hierarchical Modeling; Markov Chain Monte Carlo slides (2) slides (4) schools.R schools.txt 5.1-5.3; HW2 Due Week 5: T 1/29 Hierarchical Modeling; Markov Chain Monte Carlo slides (2) slides (4)     --- 10.1-10.3; 11.1-11.3 Th 1/31 Hierarchical Modeling; Markov Chain Monte Carlo slides (2) slides (4) mh-demo.R mh-demo-plots.R allergy.R 11.4-11.7 Week 6: T 2/5 Midterm Review slides (2) slides (4)     --- HW3 Due Th 2/7 Midterm     ---     ---     --- Week 7: T 2/12 Project Introduction; Hierarchical Linear Models slides (2) slides (4) air.R air.txt 14.1-14.8 Th 2/14 Hierarchical Linear Models; Introduction to WinBUGS slides (2) slides (4) BUGS-Dye-Yields.zip 15.1-15.4 Week 8: T 2/19 Hierarchical Linear Models slides (2) slides (4) BUGS-Schools.zip 16.1-16.4; Project Proposal Due Th 2/21 Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models slides (2) slides (4) BUGS-Seeds.zip BUGS-Salm.zip 16.5-16.6 Week 9: T 2/26 Model Checking/Comparison; Model Selection slides (2) slides (4) seeds_dic.R 21.1-21.2; HW4 Due Th 2/28 MCMC Convergence Diagnostics slides MCMCdiagnostics.zip 6.1-6.8 Week 10: T 3/4 Missing Data slides (2) slides (4)     --- 18.1-18.4 Th 3/6 Missing Data; Special Topics slides (2) slides (4)     ---     --- Finals Week: T 3/11 Project Report Due (no later than 5pm) Department of Statistics WINTER QUARTER 2008