This Thursday at 7pm Jake Hofman and Suresh Velagapundi will present a session at New York R Statistical Programming Meetup at NYU – Silver Center (100 Washington Square East, Room 401). Here’s the outline:
Background:
- Conditional probability & Bayes’ Rule
- Treating parameters as random variables & putting distributions on them
- Bayesian inference: from priors & likelihoods to posteriors
From Principles to Practice:
- Simple plan; difficult to execute (normalization)
- Resort to approximation methods (variational & MCMC)
- Model selection / complexity control a la Bayes