Date |
Topic |
Lecture Notes |
Lecture Code/Data |
Reading/Homework |
| T 1/3 | Bayesian Statistics: Overview | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
None | None |
| Th 1/5 | Summarizing Inferences by Simulation; Exchangeability; Single-Parameter Models (Binomial) |
notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
placenta.r | 1.1-1.10 |
| T 1/10 | Single-Parameter Models (Normal, Poisson, Exponential, Negative Binomial); Conjugate Distributions |
notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
None | 2.1-2.7 |
| Th 1/12 | Noninformative/Improper Prior Distributions; Shrinkage |
notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
temperature.r, temperature.dat |
2.8-2.9 HW1 Due |
| T 1/17 | Multiparameter Models (Normal); Averaging over Nuissance Parameters |
notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
None | 3.1-3.4 |
| Th 1/19 | Multiparameters Models (Multinomial, Multivariate Normal) | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
election-polling.r | 3.5-3.7 |
| T 1/24 | Hierarchical Modeling | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
None | 5.1-5.2 HW2 Due |
| Th 1/26 | Markov Chain Monte Carlo | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
schools-revised.r, schools.dat |
10.1-10.3, 11.1-11.6 |
| T 1/31 | Hierarchical Modeling: More Examples | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
None | 11.7-11.10 |
| Th 2/2 | M-H Algorithm; Project Introduction | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
mh-demo.r mh-demo-plots.r, allergy.r |
None |
| T 2/7 | Midterm Review | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
None | HW3 Due |
| Th 2/9 | Midterm | None | None | None |
| T 2/14 | Introduction to WinBUGS | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
bugs-demo.r dye-yields.dat, model.txt |
14.1-14.8 |
| Th 2/16 | Bayesian Regression | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
regress-air.r air.dat |
15.1-15.4 |
| T 2/21 | Hierarchical Linear Models I | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
BUGS-London-Schools.zip | Project Proposals Due |
| Th 2/23 | Hierarchical Linear Models II; Missing Data | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
BUGS-London-Schools2.zip | 16.1-16.6 |
| T 2/28 | Missing Data; Generalized Linear Models | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
BUGS-seeds.zip | 16.5-16.6, 21.1-21.2 |
| Th 3/2 | Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
BUGS-Salm.zip | 6.1-6.8 |
| T 3/7 | Model Checking/Comparison; Model Selection | notes (2 slides) notes (6 slides) |
None | None |
| Th 3/9 | Special Topics | distributed in class | None | None |
| T 3/14 | ||||