The interest in Bayesian statistic has been increasing for the last two decades both among statisticians and researchers who cannot properly analyze their data using methods based on classical statistics. This course will provide a sound basis in Bayesian statistics for those who

·         Want to understand what Bayesian statistics is about

·         Want to use Bayesian statistics to build and evaluate statistical models

·         Want to get hands on experience with Bayesian statistics in WinBugs/Openbugs

The course is aimed at researchers who not only work with statistical tools, but are also interested in the development and evaluation of statistical tools. Among these are psychometricians, sociometricians, epidemiologists and statisticians. The only requirement is familiarity with the following concepts: the likelihood function, the p-value, analysis of variance, and multiple regression.

Participants can enroll by sending an e-mail to h.hoijtink@uu.nl.

Registration deadline for IOPS PhD’s is March 1^st 2012 and for others April 1^st 2012.

Further information at: http://www.iops.nl/wp-content/uploads/AppliedBayesianStaistics-2012.pdf