Wednesday 25 October 2017 9:00am to Thursday 26 October 2017 5:00pm
About
Dates: 25-26 October 2017
Time: 09:00
Venue: Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Forvie Site, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0SR
Cost: £210.00 - £510.00
This two day course offered by the MRC Biostatistics Unit is open to all. Booking essential.
This course is intended to provide an introduction to Bayesian analysis and MCMC methods, and a fairly detailed tutorial on the use of OpenBUGS/WinBUGS/JAGS.
Day 1 – Introduction to the use of Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian methods, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), regression models, and implementation in OpenBUGS/WinBUGS or JAGS/OpenBUGS/WinBUGS via R.
Day 2 – Generalised linear models, predictions, missing data, model criticism, model comparison and assessing sensitivity to prior distributions, introduction to hierarchical models.
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