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Announcing a Five-Day Course Sequence:
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Sixth Annual JAGS and WinBUGS workshop
Bayesian Modeling for Cognitive Science
August 15 - August 19, 2016
University of Amsterdam
Weesperplein 4, 1018 XA
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
url: http://bayescourse.socsci.uva.nl
email: [log in to unmask]
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Target audience
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This workshop is meant for researchers who want to learn how to apply
Bayesian inference in practice. Most applications we discuss are taken
from the field of cognitive science. Because the workshop is based on
a set of book chapters and concrete exercises of varying difficulty,
the course material is appropriate for researchers with a wide range
of prior knowledge and interests.
Although some basic knowledge of Bayesian inference is an advantage,
this is not a prerequisite. In the course we use WinBUGS in
combination with R or Matlab (the choice is yours), and therefore some
basic knowledge of either R or Matlab is also an advantage.
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Summary
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In this workshop, plenary lectures provide the theoretical background
of Bayesian statistics, and practical computer exercises teach you how
to use the popular WinBUGS program and apply it to a wide range of
different statistical models. After completing this workshop, you will
have gained not only a new understanding of statistics, but also the
technical skills to implement models that are appropriate for the
substantive hypotheses that you seek to test.
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Course materials
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The workshop is based on the book Bayesian Cognitive Modeling: A practical
course written by Michael Lee and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers. The book has been
recently published by Cambridge University Press and is used to teach
graphical modeling courses at UCI, OSU, UW, and UvA. At the start of the
workshop, you will receive a version of the book, a memory stick with all
the computer code, and a printed copy of the solutions to the exercises.
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Costs
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Early birds (completed registration before March 1st, 2016)
(PhD-)student: 450 euro
Non-student: 550 euro
Normal (completed registration before August 3rd, 2016)
(PhD-)student: 550 euro
Non-student: 650 euro
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More information can be found at the following website:
http://bayescourse.socsci.uva.nl/
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Bayesian Modeling for Cognitive Science
Annual WinBUGS Workshop
University of Amsterdam
Department of Psychological Methods
University of Amsterdam
Weesperplein 4
1018 XA Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Contact: Ravi Selker
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: (+31) 20 525 6748
Web: bayescourse.socsci.uva.nl/
Stats package: jasp-stats.org
Book: www.bayesmodels.com
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