Introduction to Bayesian statistics using BUGS
Course date: Wednesday 23rd October - Thursday 24th October 2019
Venue: Seminar rooms, Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Cambridge, CB1 9YL, adjacent to Addenbrooke's Hospital
Course outline
This course is intended to provide an introduction to Bayesian analysis and MCMC methods, and a fairly detailed tutorial on the use of OpenBUGS/WinBUGS/JAGS.
* Day 1 - Introduction to the use of Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian methods, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), regression models, and implementation in OpenBUGS/WinBUGS or JAGS/OpenBUGS/WinBUGS via R<https://www.r-project.org>.
* Day 2 - Generalised linear models, predictions, missing data, model criticism, model comparison and assessing sensitivity to prior distributions, introduction to hierarchical models.
See course details for the full timetable.
The emphasis throughout will be on practical examples: software and code to carry out all the analyses will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring their own laptops for the practicals.
Course fees include a copy of The BUGS Book (Lunn et al., 2013).
Target audience
The target audience of the course is statisticians and applied researchers in any subject area. No experience of Bayesian methods or specialist software will be assumed but do we assume familiarity with key statistical concepts, specifically:
* Basic probability concepts: discrete and continuous random variables; probability density functions; expectation; variance; familiarity with standard probability distributions (e.g. normal, binomial, uniform).
* A good understanding of classical (ie non-Bayesian) statistical modelling: likelihood (as in maximium likelihood estimation) and sampling distributions; linear regression; generalised linear models including logistic regression; assessment of model fit using residuals.
Please see:
https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/training/short-courses/bayescourse/
Registration now open:
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For further information about the BSU Short Courses please contact Sharon Dippenaar (BSU Course Administrator)
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