A short course on
Bayesian Nonparametric Mixture Modelling:
December 14th and 15th 2009
National University of Ireland, Galway
Presenter: Athanasios Kottas, University of California at Santa Cruz
Co-presenter: Milovan Krnjajić, National University of Ireland, Galway
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Venue: National University of Ireland, Galway
MRA201 Seminar Room
Annex to Martin Ryan Marine
Science Institute
10:30—11:00 registration
in MRA201
Contact: Mary Kelly (School
of Mathematics) 091 492332
Schedule:
Monday December 14, 11:00--13:00 (Morning Session I)
Motivation for Bayesian nonparametric modeling. General approaches for
construction of nonparametric priors. Dirichlet process (DP) priors and
mixtures of DP priors: definitions, properties, and methods. Applications
to Bayesian bio-assay (dose-response) modeling.
(Break)
Monday December 14, 14:00--17:00
-- (Afternoon Session I)
Dirichlet process mixture models: definitions, examples, methods for
posterior inference and prediction. Connections with finite mixture models.
(Break)
Tuesday December 15, 9:00--12:00
(Morning Session II)
Applications of DP mixture models: density estimation, nonparametric curve
fitting, quantile regression, survival analysis, multivariate ordinal data
analysis.
(Break)
Tuesday December 15, 14:00--17:00
(Afternoon Session II)
Applications of DP mixture models (continued): Receiver Operating
Characteristic (ROC) data analysis, inference for temporal and spatial
Poisson processes. Overview of extensions of DP priors and DP mixture
models: dependent DP priors, hierarchical DP mixtures, nested DP priors,
spatial DP prior models.
Registration:
To register please send an email to milovan [dot] krnjajic [at] nuigalway [dot] ie
with the subject line “Registration, Bayesian course 2009”
and the following information in the body of the message:
(1) Name
(2) Affiliation
(3) Department
(4) Address
(5) Email Address
(6) Indicate if you are
(a) PhD student
(b) postdoc
(c) lecturer
(d) other
Please make
every effort to register
(by e-mail) by 10-Dec-2009.
The registration fee is €40 for ISA Members and €50 for non members (tea/coffee included).
The fee is payable on the first day of the course. If paying cash please bring the correct amount.
If paying by a cheque please make it payable to the NUI Galway, School of Mathematics,
with the memo: Bayesian course 2009.
If you are a
student or a postdoc please read ISA Travel Grants for the Course
Here is the info on travel and accommodation
Organized by John Hinde and Milovan Krnjajić