Bayesian Modeling in Biostatistics

University of Kentucky

BST 701, Spring 2013

Note that for all of the corrections below, the mistakes have been fixed on the online versions of the notes/assignments. I am just compiling a record here in case you printed off a hard copy prior to the correction.

Announcements:

4-23: 4-18 notes, slides 7 and 9. In the table, RSS should be R².

4-16: 3-19 notes, slide (22). This slide is incorrect and has been removed (the previous slide 23 is now slide 22).

3-22: 3-21 notes, slide 6. Equation for α_j was missing a u_j.

3-7: 3-5 notes, slide 21: ρ² should just be ρ.

2-8: 2-7 notes, throughout: Made μ, Ω bold throughout.

2-6: Slide 9, 1-31 notes: typo in definition of the odds ratio; θ₂ should be θ₁. Also removed superfluous bullet point on slide 37.

1-31: Fixed notation for slides 8 and 22 of the 1-24 notes to be consistent with previous slides, where ω is the precision

1-25: On Assignment 1, problem 4a), "weighted average of the prior and posterior means" should be "weighted average of the prior and sample means". (Thank you David for pointing this out)

1-8: Welcome to the website for BST 701, Bayesian Modeling in Biostatistics. Above are links to the syllabus and lecture notes. There are also a few data sets available in a tab-delimited format; more will come as the semester progresses. Soon, assignments will be posted as well.