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Bayesian statistics  

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This course introduces Bayesian Statistics, an intuitive approach to Statistics allowing for better accounting of uncertainty. Topics include: subjective probability, Bayes rule, prior and posterior distributions, conjugate and non-informative priors, point-wise estimation and credible intervals, hypothesis testing, introduction to Bayesian decision analysis, introduction to empirical Bayes analysis, introduction to Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques. The course will make use of R statistical programming language for the implementation of algorithms for extracting information from the posterior and for the application of the introduced methods in a range of Data Science problems. Outcome: Not Provided

Delivery mode

Presential
English

Name

Bayesian statistics
English

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

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