A course for the Health Data Research PhD Programme in Health Data Science.
Date: 2 November 2021 and 9 November 2021 from 12:00-13:00.
This is a two-hour masterclass that is split into two parts:
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The importance of priors. The first part of the course will briefly introduce Bayesian Statistics before we consider the role of prior distributions.
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Model misspecification. The second part of the course will examine the practical implications of model misspecification.
Prerequisites
If you have no formal experience in Bayesian Statistics, the following primer is a useful read to get started: