STAT 625: Advanced Bayesian Inference

Syllabus Schedule Resource

Class on 1/26 will be on zoom (meeting ID: 946 8858 7326)

Tentative schedule below:

  • Lecture 0: Introduction & review on Bayesian basics.
  • Lecture 1: Introduction to Gaussian process. [Data: CanadianWages]
  • Lecture 2: Latent Gaussian process.
  • Lecture 3: Dirichlet Process and Dirichlet Process Mixtures.
  • Lecture 4: Consistency and Contraction rates.

  • Lecture 5: Scalable BNP: A Case Study.
  • Lecture 6: Basics of MCMC
  • Lecture 7: Importance Sampling.
  • Lecture 8: Distributional Approximation, EM algorithm, Variational Bayes.
  • Lecture 9: Trees (CART, bagging, random forests, Bayesian CART, BART)
  • Lecture 10: Symbolic regression: bridging nonparametrics and parametrics