Computational Bayesian Statistics Journal Club

Friday Jul 31, 2020, 11:00 AM → 12:30 PM America/New_York

Zoom

DATE and TIME: FRIDAY 31 JULY, 2020 11am EDT

DISCUSSION LEADER: Bob Carpenter, CCM

TOPIC: I’m going to talk about two short case studies I’m working on, both of which are tutorial in nature and should be easy reads (feedback on that front more than welcome).  Both are available in html or pdf form

from GitHub:

For probabilistic prediction, full Bayes is better than point estimators
* https://github.com/bob-carpenter/case-studies/tree/master/bayes-versus

Maximum marginal likelihood and posterior approximations with Monte Carlo expectation maximization
* https://github.com/bob-carpenter/case-studies/tree/master/monte-carlo-em
 

Please email Sara Mejias Gonzalez at smgonzalez@flatironinstitute.org for Zoom information if you would like to participate.