Short Course on Bayesian Hierarchical Statistics

The Fawcett Center, OSU
2400 Olentangy River Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 614-292-3238 or 1-800-637-2316

Sunday AM, May 14, 2000, Columbus, OH

This 3 1/2 hour Short Course on Bayesian Hierarchical Statistics preceded the workshop. It was organized by The Ohio State University's Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Sciences (SSES), and was jointly sponsored by SSES and ASA's Section for Statistics and the Environment (ENVR). Separate registration was required for the Short Course and the Workshop.

When

Sunday May 14, 2000
8:30-12:30pm (with 30min coffee break).

Where

Fawcett Hotel and Conference Center

2400 Olentangy River Road,
Columbus, Ohio 43210

Phone: 614-292-3238 or 1-800-637-2316

Short Course Instructors

Professor Mark Berliner, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University.
Professor Christopher Wikle, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Short Course Main Topics

Short Course participants were requested to have at least a Masters (or equivalent) degree in Statistics; no prior knowledge of Bayesian or hierarchical statistics was assumed. The Short Course topics included the motivation for hierarchical models, simple tutorial examples, implementation details, and multi-level hierarchical models for processes distributed in time, space, and space-time. Examples were taken from the environmental sciences. Course participants received handouts supplementing the topics covered. An outline containing Main Topics gives more details.

Fee

The fee for the short course was $200, and included course materials and refreshments at break time. A reduced fee of $100 was available for participants certified to be full-time students.

Short Course Registration

Short Course registration was separate from Workshop registration.