PubH 8442 Bayes Decision Theory and Data Analysis- Spring 2025
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Syllabus and Course Information (2025)
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Instructor: |
Eric Lock |
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Teaching Assistant: |
Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar |
Class time: Mon/Wed, 9:45am-11am in Health Sciences Ed Ctr 2-101AB.
Office hours for Eric Lock: Mondays 1pm-2pm (UOP 238 and Zoom link in Canvas under "Pages")
Office hours for Souradipto Ghosh Dastidar: Fridays 2-3pm (UOP 2-274 and Zoom link on Canvas under "Pages")
Class feed:
| 1/22. | Slides: Course introduction; Bayes' rule and Bayesian probability (2021 markup) ; |
| Optional Reading: Carlin & Louis, Chap 1; NY Times Bayesian article ; Nature: tutorial on Bayesian modeling |
| 1/27. | Slides: Prior and posterior (2021 markup) ; Pancake problem |
| Optional Reading: Carlin & Louis, Sec 2.1 & 2.2;Monty Hall problem |
| 1/29. | Slides: More on priors (2021 markup) |
| Optional Reading: Carlin & Louis, Sec 2.2 , 2.3.1, discussion on Jeffrey's priors |
| 2/3. | Slides: Estimation and decision theory (markup) |
| Optional Reading: Carlin & Louis, Sec B.2 |
| 2/5. | Slides: The Bias-Variance Tradeoff (2021 markup) |
| Optional Reading: Carlin & Louis, 2.3.2 Sec 4.3.2 of Berger: Statistical Decion Theory and Bayesian Analysis |
| 2/10. | Slides: Interval Estimation (2021 markup 1) (2021 markup 2) |
| Optional Reading: Carlin & Louis, 2.3.2 Sec 4.3.2 of Berger: Statistical Decion Theory and Bayesian Analysis Sec 5.5.3 of Robert: The Bayesian Choice |
| 2/12. | Slides: Decisions and hypothesis testing (2021 markup) |
| Optional Reading: Carlin & Louis, Sec B.3 and 2.3.3 |
| 2/17. | Slides: More on decisions and hypotheses (2021 markup) |
| Optional Reading: Non-local prior densities in Bayesian hypothesis tests, by Johnson and Rossell, 2010 |
| 2/19. | Slides: Model Comparison |
| Optional Reading: Bayes Factors, by Kass and Raftery, 1995 |
| 3/19. | *Midterm* |