Introduction to Bayesian inference

Relatore:  Prof. Alessandra Guglielmi - Dipartimento di Matematica F. Brioschi, Politecnico di Milano
  giovedì 5 maggio 2011 alle ore 14.00 (14.00-18.00) Aula Seminari T.21, Palazzina 32
- Introduction to Bayesian Statistics: a simple example.
- Basic problems of inference in classical statistics.
- Foundations of the Bayesian approach: likelihood and prior are combined
 via Bayes' theorem to produce the posterior; Bayesian knowledge and belief,
 prior and posterior distributions.
- Bayes' theorem for events, medical tests; Bayes' theorem for dominated and iid models.
- Summaries of the posterior distributions.
- Basic univariate models with conjugate priors: examples.
- Prior elicitation, informative and noninformative priors.

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19 maggio 2011

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