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.

Date Time Activity Topic
Before April 9th On your own time (2h to 4h) 👨‍💻 📝 ✅ Pre-requisites Refresher on
• Maximum Likelihood Estimations


April 9th (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 III: Bayesian computations (intro)
12pm-1pm 🥪 ⏸️ Lunch break
1pm-3pm 💻 👥 🧠 Practicals in break-out groups • Exercise 2: “Monte Carlo”
• Exercise 3: “Inverse transform sampling”


April 10th (Corine Baayen) 8am-10am 📽️ 👨‍🏫 🗣️ Interactive lecture Part II: Probability of Success in biomedical research
10am-10:15am ☕ ⏸️ Coffee break
10:15am-12pm 📽️ 👨‍🏫 🗣️ Interactive lecture Part II continued
12pm-1pm 🥪 ⏸️ Lunch break
1pm-3pm 📽️ 👨‍🏫 🗣️ Interactive lecture End of Part II


April 11th (Boris Hejblum) 8am-10am 📽️ 👨‍🏫 🗣️ Interactive lecture • Finish Part III: 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 IV intro: Goligher et al.


April 12th (Boris Hejblum) 8am-10am 💻 👥 🧠 Practicals in break-out groups Part IV: Bayesian applications in bimedical science
• Exercise 6: “Post-mortem Bayes”
10am-10:15am ☕ ⏸️ Coffee break
10:15am-12pm 💻 👥 🧠 Practicals in break-out groups • Exercise 7: “Bayesian meta-analysis”
12pm-1pm 🥪 ⏸️ Lunch break
1pm-3pm 💻 👥 🧠 Practicals in break-out groups • Exercise 8: “Bayesian regression”