2019 ABS Summer School on Bayesian Demography (Como, Italy)
We are glad to announce that the 2019 Applied Bayesian Statistics Summer
School (16th edition) will be held in the magnificent Villa del Grumello,
Como (Italy) along the Lake Como shore.
BAYESIAN DEMOGRAPHY
24-28 June, 2019
Lecturers: Adrian Raftery and Hana Sevcikova
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Further details are provided below.
Guido Consonni and Fabrizio Ruggeri
ABS19 Directors
Raffaele Argiento
ABS19 Executive Director
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Applied Bayesian Statistics School
BAYESIAN DEMOGRAPHY
Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy
24-28 June, 2019
Lecturers:
- Adrian Raftery,
The Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology
- Hana Sevcikova,
Senior Research Scientist
Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, Center for Studies
in Demography and Ecology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
The school webpage is
http://web.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/abs19/index.html
Registration is now open. Please note that the conference room allows
only for a very limited number of participants.
COURSE OUTLINE
Population projections have until recently usually been done deterministically.
Recently, the United Nation Population Division adopted a probabilistic
approach to project fertility, mortality and population for all countries.
In this approach, the total fertility rate and female and male life expectancy
at birth are projected using Bayesian hierarchical models estimated via Markov
Chain Monte Carlo. They are then combined with a cohort component model, which
yields probabilistic projection for any quantity of interest. The methodology
is implemented in a suite of R packages, which has been used by the UN analysts
to produce the most recent revision of the World Population Prospects.
This course will teach the theory and practice of Bayesian probabilistic
projections. Ideas of the Bayesian hierarchical modeling for the three main
components of population change, fertility, mortality and migration, will be
explained. In hands-on exercises, students will become familiar with the
functionality of the R packages.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
The school will replicate the successful format of the previous years, and
will feature lectures and practical sessions, as well as participants' talks.
It will start on Monday after lunch and end on Friday before lunch; Wednesday
afternoon is free.
Accommodation is available either at the Villa guesthouse or in downtown
hotels (info will appear soon on the website). Como can be easily reached by
train from Milan and its airports. More details are available on the website.
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CNR IMATI tel +39 0223699532
Via Bassini 15 fax +39 0223699538
I-20133 Milano (Italy) web.mi.imati.cnr.it/fabrizio
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