Course Schedule
Course Schedule
| Date | Readings | Topic of Class |
| Aug 25 |
None |
Introduction. |
| 27 |
None |
What is Probability, Confidence, and P-Values. |
| 29 |
Frequentist and Bayesian Stats: A Critique |
What is Probability, Confidence, and P-Values. |
| Sept 1 |
What is Bayesian statistics and why everything else is wrong |
Paper Discussion. The Conditional Frequentist |
| Sept 3 |
The Conditional Frequentist | |
| Sept 5 HW 1 Out |
The Likelihood Principle | |
| Sept 12 |
Normal-Normal Posterior | |
| Sept 15 |
Prior Transformations | |
| Sept 17 |
Conjugate Priors | |
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None |
The Normal Posterior. |
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Lee 1.1-1.6: Preliminaries |
The Normal Posterior. Flat Priors and beyond |
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Lee read through page 44 |
Transformations
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Conjugacy and prior distributions. |
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Predictive distributions: normal case. |
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| Sep. 26 |
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Credible intervals and the MAP estimator. HW 2 Out |
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Poisson posterior under the Gamma prior. |
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Poisson predictive distribution. |
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Sequential Updating. HW 3 Out |
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Multivariate Posteriors. Asymptotic impact of a prior |
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Wishart Distribution |
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HW 4 Out |
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| 16 |
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HW 5 Out Spam Data Info |
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HW 6 Out |