There will be a week-long introductory course in doing Bayesian data analysis, July 15-29 (2013), at Indiana University. There are many art, music, theater and social events happening that same week, including the International Harp Competition, the IU...
Using the log-normal density can be confusing because it's parameterized in terms of the mean and precision of the log-scale data, not the original-scale data. Thus, if your data, y, are nicely described by a log-normal distribution, the estimated mean...
There will be a four-day introductory course in doing Bayesian data analysis, July 10-13 (2013), at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. The course is offered through the Summer School in Empirical Research Methods. Complete info is at this link:...
A great advantage of Bayesian analysis, in software such as JAGS/BUGS, is that you can create models that are appropriate to the data (instead of shoe-horning your data into inappropriate models). For example, suppose you have a design that would be an...
There will be a week-long introductory course in doing Bayesian data analysis, July 15-29 (2013), at Indiana University. The course is offered through the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Complete info is at this l...
A central goal of providing you with lots of examples of programs, that do Bayesian parameter estimation in JAGS (BUGS) and rjags, is for you to be able to expand and modify the programs for your own needs. The book includes several cases in which prog...
In hierarchical models, the estimated values of intermediate-level parameters exhibit "shrinkage" because the higher-level distribution affects the intermediate-level parameter estimates. In typical applications, the form of the higher-level distributi...
Upcoming workshops in Doing Bayesian Data Analysis:February 28 - March 01, at the FAA Human Factors R&D Lab, Atlantic City NJ.http://www.indiana.edu/~jkkteach/WorkshopFAA2013.htmlMarch 21 - March 22, at North Dakota State University, Fargo ND.http:...
In recent days I received e-mails from different readers of DBDA, inquiring about frequentist properties of Bayesian decision rules. One question asked about the relative false alarm rates of the traditional t test, on the one hand, and Bayesian estima...
In recent days I received e-mails from different readers of DBDA, inquiring about frequentist properties of Bayesian decision rules. One question asked about the relative false alarm rates of the traditional t test, on the one hand, and Bayesian estima...
