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A few places remain for the Bayesian Biostatistics short courses at MUSC , Charleston, USA A course sequence of 2 workshops will be presented during the MUSC Summer Institute on Research Methodology. The sequence will consist of an Introductory Bayesian Biostatistics course (IBB), and an Advance Bayesian Biostatistics course (ABB). The IBB course is designed to provide a basic grounding in Bayesian modeling methods and hands-on experience with WinBUGS, INLA and demonstration of SAS capabilities. The ABB course will cover specific application areas in more depth and is designed to be a continuation of the IBB course. Bayesian Biostatistics: an Introduction (May 11th - 12th) Topics covered * What is Bayesian Biostatistics; * Bayesian Basics: likelihood, priors, posterior * Hierarchical models; DAGS; Posterior sampling; MCMC; * Examples comparing conventional and Bayesian analyses will be covered * Demo of basic examples in WinBUGS and SAS * Hands – on with R and WinBUGS * Random effect models: LMM and GLMM * Other software: R2WinBUGS, OpenBUGS, BRugs, JAGS, INLA Bayesian Biostatistics: Advanced (May 14th – 15th) Topics covered * Parametric survival modeling and cox regression * Longitudinal modeling * Measurement error * Handling missing data - Forms of missingness and solutions - Joint models for drop-out * Special topics: - Imaging/disease mapping - Variable selection - INLA examples Presenters: Professor Andrew B. Lawson Professor Mulugeta Gebregziabher -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is one of the workshops in the Summer Institute held at MUSC in May 2015 For more details of the courses available please refer to: Registration: Course fee: The IBB course fee includes the text, Lesaffre, E. and Lawson, A. B. (2012) Bayesian Biostatistics, Wiley , New York from which many examples are taken. The fee is $600. The fee for the ABB course is $600. If both courses are attended then the fee is discounted to $1000. Registration forms and brochure are available at: http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/phs/docs/SummerInstitute_2015.pdf Email enquiries to June Watson: [log in to unmask] ------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is for discussion of modelling issues and the BUGS software. For help with crashes and error messages, first mail [log in to unmask] To mail the BUGS list, mail to [log in to unmask] Before mailing, please check the archive at www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bugs.html Please do not mail attachments to the list. To leave the BUGS list, send LEAVE BUGS to [log in to unmask] If this fails, mail [log in to unmask], NOT the whole list