Abstract Brief description of the course.Information for EDMS Fall 2007, "Bayesian Inference in Measurement"
Abstract Brief description of the course.
Class News Last updated December 6, 2007.
Calendar Provisional calendar for the course,
with topics, readings, and assignments. May change if we go faster or slower,
or if there are closings due to snow, etc.
Last updated October 18, 2007. (CTT and IRT assignment due dates pushed back)
Syllabus Description of class, assignments,
grading policy, and topics.
Overheads For presentations and class discussions. Last updated December 6, 2007.
Last updated December 1: Information about the final project.
Reading list Reading list for the course (Programs, chapters, and reports to be downloaded from the web.)
Distributions Summaries of some distributions
that are useful in Bayesian analysis with measurement models. [pdf format
-- 6 pages].
Metropolis sampling "Metropolis
Sampling for a 2-Valued Random Variable." Heuristic arguments for why
Metropolis sampling works, and the rationale for "burn-in" cycles.
[pdf format -- 5 pages].