ABS09 - 2009 Applied Bayesian Statistics School

BAYESIAN METHODOLOGY FOR CLUSTERING, CLASSIFICATION AND CATEGORICAL DATA ANALYSIS

Accademia Cusano, Bressanone/Brixen (BZ), Italy

June, 15-18, 2009

PROGRAMME

Monday June 15

  • [08.00-         ] Registration
  • [09.00-10.30] Introduction to Bayesian Methods
  • [10.30-11.00] Break
  • [11.00-12.30] Review of Bayesian Statistical Inference

  • [14.30-16.00] Prior Elicitation
  • [16.00-16.30] Break
  • [16.30-18.00] PRACTICAL SESSION: Introduction to Bayesian computation

  • [20.00-22.00] Welcome buffet

    • Tuesday June 16

  • [09.00-10.30] Introduction to Clustering and Classification
  • [10.30-11.00] Break
  • [11.00-12.30] Model Based Clustering

  • [14.30-16.00] Bayesian Approaches to Clustering
  • [16.00-16.30] Break
  • [16.30-18.00] PRACTICAL SESSION: Clustering algorithms

    • Wednesday June 17

  • [09.00-10.30] Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis
  • [10.30-11.00] Break
  • [11.00-12.30] Link Functions in Binary and Ordinal Regression

  • [14.00-15.30] PRACTICAL SESSION: Bayesian computation for categorical data
  • [15.30-16.00] Break
  • [16.00-18.30] Participants' talks

  • [20.00-          ] Farewell dinner

    • Thursday June 18

  • [09.00-10.30] Flexible Skewed Link Functions
  • [10.30-11.00] Break
  • [11.00-13.00] Case Studies: (1) Bank Transaction Data, (2) Spatial Data