Dear "Allstat-ers",
I hope some of you are interested in an RSS Local Group Seminar to be
held in Leeds next month.
All Welcome!
Regards, Robert.
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Dr Robert G. Aykroyd,
Hon Secretary, RSS Leeds/Bradford Local Group,
Department of Statistics,
University of Leeds,
LEEDS, LS2 9JT, UK.
Homepage: http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/rss/
Directions: http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/statistics/rss/directions.html
Wednesday 10th December 2003
William Browne (University of Nottingham)
An MCMC algorithm for problems involving 'constrained' variance
matrices with applications in multilevel modelling
In this talk we discuss how to fit models that include variance
matrices with additional parameter constraints using a Bayesian MCMC
approach. Examples include heteroscedasticity in both single response
and multivariate response models and mixed response models. After
describing the algorithm and looking at some simulated data we consider
examples from education, animal growth and bird ecology.
The Meeting will be in LT11 Roger Stevens Building, University of
Leeds, starting at 4pm, with refreshments from 3:30pm on Level 9 in the
School of Mathematics, University of Leeds.
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