Course Schedule
Course Schedule
| Date | Readings | Topic of Class |
| Aug 20 |
Hoff Chapter 1 |
Introduction/History. |
| 20 |
When did Bayesian inference become Bayesian: Fienberg |
What is probability?; Confidence Intervals and their senseless interpretation. |
| 20 |
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HW 0 Out (Due Monday Aug. 27th) LaTeX
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| 21 |
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Introduction to Bayesian Statistics
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| 21 |
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Beta-Binomial Simulation
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| None |
Coverage verses Confidence |
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| None |
The Normal Posterior. |
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The Normal Posterior. Flat Priors and beyond |
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| Sept. 1 |
Chapter 3 Hoff |
Transformations HW 1 Out (Due Sept. 14) HW 1 Supplement .tex
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Predictive distributions: normal case. |
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Credible intervals and the MAP estimator. |
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Poisson posterior under the Gamma prior. |
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Poisson predictive distribution. |
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Announcement: Midterm on Oct. 29 |
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HW 2 Out .texDue Oct 1 |
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Announcement: |
No Class on Wed Oct 10. |
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The Precision Matrix and Conditional Independence |
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Wishart Distributions, Covariance Estimation, Random Effect Models. |
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| 13 |
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Gibbs Sampling |
| 16 |
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HW 3 Out -- Due Oct. 22.tex |
| 18 |
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Jeffreys' Prior |
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P-Values: interval testing and incoherence p-val paper |
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P-Values: interval testing and incoherence p-val paper |
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Bayes Factors, Hypothesis testing, and p-valuesHW 4 Out -- Due Nov. 19 .tex |
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Metropolis HastingsHW 5 Out -- Due: Final Exam Session. truncated normal proposal notes |
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| Dec. 3 |
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HW 6 Out-- Due @ Final Exam (Dec. 13 @ 10AM). |