BAYESIAN STATISTICS

Catalog description

The objective of this course is to introduce the Bayesian approach to statistical inference. Topics covered include: Review of probability, Bayes theorem, and Likelihood; The Bayesian methodology, prior and posterior distributions; Choices of prior distribution, conjugate and Jeffreys priors; Credible intervals and inference; Bayesian computation - Markov Chain Monte Carlo and the Gibbs Sampler; Hierarchical models; Regression models.