Schedule
This course will span over 3 consecutive days from 8am to 3pm.
- Lectures : this page contains the recorded lecture videos, the lecture notes and the slides for this class.
- Practicals : this page contains the practicals code exercise corresponding to the topics covered each of the 3 days.
- Prerequisites : this page contains the prerequisites, including some coding exercises, to be completed on your own time before the start of the class.
| Date | Time | Activity | Topic |
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| Before October 29th | On your own time (2h to 4h) | 👨💻 📝 ✅ Pre-requisites | Refresher on • Maximum Likelihood Estimations • |
| October 29th (Boris Hejblum) | 8am-10am | 📽️ 👨🏫 🗣️ Interactive lecture | • Part I: Intro to Bayesian stat concepts • Exercise 1: “Prior elicitation” |
| 10am-10:15am | ☕ ⏸️ Coffee break | ||
| 10:15am-12pm | 📽️ 👨🏫 🗣️ Interactive lecture | • End of Part I • Part II: Bayesian computations (intro) |
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| 12pm-1pm | 🥪 ⏸️ Lunch break | ||
| 1pm-3pm | 💻 👥 🧠 Practicals in break-out groups | • Exercise 2: “Monte Carlo” • Exercise 3: “Inverse transform sampling” |
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| October 30th (Boris Hejblum) | 8am-10am | 📽️ 👨🏫 🗣️ Interactive lecture | • Finish Part II: Bayesian computations |
| 10am-10:15am | ☕ ⏸️ Coffee break | ||
| 10:15am-12pm | 💻 👥 🧠 Practicals in break-out groups | • Exercise 4: “Metropolis-Hastings” | |
| 12pm-1pm | 🥪 ⏸️ Lunch break | ||
| 1pm-3pm | 📰 🧠 👥 Read and discuss in break-out groups | • Exercise 5: “BUGS & JAGS” • Part III intro: Goligher et al. |
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| October 31st (Boris Hejblum) | 8am-10am | 💻 👥 🧠 Practicals in break-out groups | Part III: Bayesian applications in biomedical science • Exercise 6: “Post-mortem Bayes” |
| 10am-10:15am | ☕ ⏸️ Coffee break | ||
| 10:15am-12pm | 💻 👥 🧠 Practicals in break-out groups | • Exercise 7: “Bayesian meta-analysis” |
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| 12pm-1pm | 🥪 ⏸️ Lunch break | ||
| 1pm-3pm | 💻 👥 🧠 Practicals in break-out groups | • Exercise 8: “Bayesian regression” |