Will you please circulate on the WinBUGS list the following notice of a
Bayesian Statistics Workshop using WinBUGS that I will present, August
8-9, 2006 for The Wildlife Society Western Section at Humboldt State
University?
If you prefer a shorter announcement, please let me know.
Thank you.
Howard Stauffer
Announcement of a 2 Day Biometrics Workshop
Introduction to Bayesian Statistical Inference
for Natural Resource Scientists and Managers
including Bayesian Mixed-Effects Modeling & Capture Recapture
Analysis
using WinBUGS Software
Presented by The Wildlife Society – Western
Section
August 8-9, 2006, 8:30 am – 5 pm
Humboldt State University
Arcata, California
Registration at:
http://www.tws-west.org/
Presenter: Professor Howard Stauffer, Humboldt State University
Description: an introduction to Bayesian statistical inference for
natural resource scientists and managers, with an emphasis on its
practical application to real-world problems
Topics:
· Introduction to the basic
ideas of Bayesian statistical inference
· Priors, likelihoods, and
posteriors of parameters, and the interpretation of Bayesian
statistics
· Bayes Theorem
· conjugate closed-form
solutions to Bayesian analysis for binary data (binomial model), count
data (Poisson model), and continuous normally distributed data
· Markov Chain Monte Carlo
(MCMC) simulation methods: Gibbs Sampling and the Metropolis-Hastings
Algorithm
· Bayesian hypothesis testing
and decision theory
· A priori parsimonious model
selection and inference strategy with Bayesian statistical analysis using
the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC), DIC weights, and model
averaging
· hands-on examples of Bayesian
statistical analysis applied to sample datasets, using the Bayesian
statistical software WinBUGS: multiple linear regression, logistic
regression, mixed-effects, and mark-recapture analysis
· use of both simulated and
real-world datasets such as Oregon Siskiyou Mountains Salamander,
Northern Spotted Owl, Beach Layia, and European Dipper datasets
· Participants will have
hands-on experience with WinBUGS
Dr. Howard B. Stauffer
Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics Department
Humboldt State University
Arcata, California 95521, USA
Phone: 707-826-4341
FAX: 707-826-3140
Email: [log in to unmask]
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