Statistics 692: Introduction to Bayesian Analysis, Fall 2006.

• Main text

  Peter Hoff. Bayesian statistics for the social sciences, 2006. pdf

• Computing info

  Venables, Smith, et al. An introduction to R, 2003. pdf

• Other material (not required)

  Gelman and Rubin, Bayesian data analysis , 2nd edition, Chapman and Hall, 2004.

Homework

• Homework 1, due Thursday 9/14
• Homework 2, due Thursday 10/5
• R code for homework 1
• Homework 3, due Thursday 10/26
• Homework 4, due Thursday 11/16

Quizes: Tentative dates

• Q1. Tuesday 9/19
• Q2. Tuesday 10/10
• Q3. Thursday 11/2
• Q4. Thursday 11/21
• Q5. Project to be deposited by 12/20. Information about Q5

Evaluation: homework 30% and 5 quizes at 14% each

Other class material:

• Wiki on Bayes
• 9/5/06. Trisomy example
• 12/06. Lawrence/Liu transcription factor binding