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Jack Baskin School of EngineeringUC Santa Cruz

AMS 206


Introduction to Bayesian statistical methods for inference and
prediction; exchangeability; prior, likelihood, posterior, and
predictive distributions; coherence and calibration; conjugate
analysis; Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for simulation-based
computation; hierarchical modeling; Bayesian model diagnostics, model
selection, and sensitivity analysis. (Formerly Engineering 206.)
Prerequisite(s): graduate standing or permission of instructor. H. Lee 

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