? Credit Points : 5  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : MAT-P-BAE

Introduction to the Bayesian philosophy with prior distributions, likelihood and posterior distributions. Applications with beta and binomial distributions to sample size estimation for categorical data.

? Pre-requisites : PGs only

Home subject area

Operational Research, (School of Mathematics, Schedule P)

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 1 hour(s) per week for 10 weeks

Ability to construct posterior distributions given likelihood and prior distributions in some standard cases, and the use of these in practical inference.

Examination 100%

Exam times

Diet Diet Month Paper Code Paper Name Length 1ST May 1 - 1 hour(s) 30 minutes

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