MSCI 676 - Bayesian Modeling

Summer, odd years. (1) Chiu. Graded P/F; Prerequisite(s): MSCI 669

This short course introduces the principles of Bayesian modeling through lectures, reading assignments, and labs. Hands-on computational exercises (mostly toy examples) will provide practice of the principles. The workshop also showcases the flexibility of Bayesian modeling (as opposed to traditional likelihood-based methods), but it is not designed to provide the type of advanced training that is required to conduct analyses that are more complex than the simplest generalized linear mixed models.