Date: Tuesday 1 June 2010 (11am-5pm).

Location: Information Technology Building, room 202, NUI Galway campus.

• Part 1 (Formulation of Bayesian models and fitting them with MCMC in WinBUGS; case study: measurement of physical constants): a Bayesian overview and lecture notes: part 1
• Lecture notes: part 2 (Fixed- and random-effects models in meta-analysis; case studies: effects of aspirin on mortality for heart attack patients, effects of teacher expectancy on student performance), and a third meta-analysis example: Adding art to the rigor of statistical science (Leonhardt D (2001), New York Times)
• Lecture notes: part 3 (Fixed- and random-effects additive, multiplicative and hierarchical regression models for count data; case study: effects of in-home geriatric assessment on hospitalization rates for elderly people living in the community)
• Part 4 (Random-effects logistic regression models for multilevel data sets with binary outcomes; case study: effects of socio-economic and other variables on type of prenatal care for Guatemalan women): A comparison of Bayesian and likelihood-based methods for fitting multilevel models (with discussion) (Browne W, Draper D (2006), Bayesian Analysis, 1, 473-550)
• Part 5 (Bayesian hierarchical modeling as an alternative to variable selection in generalized linear models; case study: prediction of body fat in humans): Bayesian model averaging: a tutorial (Hoeting JA, Madigan D, Raftery AE, Volinsky CT (1999), Statistical Science, 14, 382-417) (with comments by Merlise Clyde, David Draper, Ed George, and a rejoinder by the authors)