Dear phil,
I am interested but can not attend , any chance to keep me
involved
Fatmah
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 15:34:56 -0000 you said:
>
>On October 7 I raised the possibility of organising a BUGS workshop. To
>date I have received about 25 favourable replies, some individuals, some
>representing groups of statisticians and others from the US whom I
>assume will not attend a meeting in the UK. I believe there is enough
>interest to proceed with organising such a meeting, especially as there
>is likely to be others outside the BUGS mailing list who would be also
>interested.
>
>I have provisionally booked Errol St. (RSS HQ in London) for Thursday
>June 24.
>Both David Spiegelhalter and Nicky Best have agreed to take part.
>
>My suggested working title for this meeting is "Practical Bayes using
>BUGS".
>Personally I would wish this workshop to be predominantly about
>practical application issues. Examples might include:
>
> How to use DOODLEBUGS (advantages?)
>
> Assessing convergence
>
> Model validation
>
> Specifying "weak" priors in "non-standard" but reasonably common
> situations
>
> Understanding error messages, common mistakes, FAQ's, "tricks &
>tips"
>
> Practical issues with non log-concave distributions (?)
>
> Effect & implications of different parameterisations - good & bad
> practice
>
> Some specific issues that were raised: multinomial probit models,
>BMA
>
>Some of these issues could be discussed via poster presentations.
>
>My current thoughts on the format of the meeting are to base the day
>around 4,say, breakout small discussion groups - each on a specific
>topic. Each group then presents back to the whole in the afternoon;
>these "presentations" could take many forms: problems posed and
>tentative solutions offered for discussion, good/bad egs shared, "cries
>for help", ... Concurrent with this could be the poster presentations.
>It would be nice to finish the day with a brief talk on future BUGS
>developments.
>
>We could also use the day to obtain feedback on the additional BUGS
>features that users would like, and current features not liked.
>Alternatively this could be the main focus of the day.
>
>The meeting will be advertised in RSS News and allstat March/April next
>year.
>
>If you have any comments on my proposals, or suggestions for wider
>advertising I would very much welcome them. It would be particularly
>useful to receive "votes", from likely attendees, on which topics are of
>interest and whether the proposed format is appropriate (alternative
>suggestions are encouraged). Also, if you wish to offer a poster
>presentation please forward me a synopsis, preferably by end of February
>'99.
>
>To avoid general annoyance, please reply direct to me and not the
>mailing list. I will update the list on progress early in the new year.
>
>Regards
>
>Phil
>
>
>
>
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