Dec 11, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog
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MATH 8820 - Introduction to Bayesian Statistics

3 Credits (3 Contact Hours)
Selective course focused on Bayes theorem, conjugate priors, posterior distributions, credible intervals, Monte Carlo approximations, Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods, Gibbs sampling, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, Bayesian hypothesis testing, hierarchical modeling, linear regression, and logistic regression. Students are expected to have completed a course in introductory probability and a course in introductory statistics, and have some experience with the software R before enrolling in this course.



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