I’m speaking in Germany today!

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Right between Mittagspause and Tagungsabschluss, just how I like it.

It’s a methods conference for the German Psychological Society in Jena. Here’s my title and abstract:

Applied Bayesian Statistics

Bayesian methods allow the smooth combination of information from multiple sources and are associated with open acknowledgement about uncertainty. We discuss modern applied Bayesian perspectives on various topics, including hypothesis testing and model comparisons, noninformative and informative priors, hierarchical models, model checking, and inference using Stan.

I’m planning to do a few of my favorite examples (birthdays, beauty-and-sex-ratio, and World Cup) and then just yap a bit about the above topics, using the examples as a starting point. Maybe answer some questions if that’s how they do things there.

All will be in English; sorry!

And I’ll do it through a Google hangout. Saves on jet fuel.

P.S. It turned out they wanted my Statistical Crisis in Science talk so I gave a version of that. It went well, there were even a couple places in the talk where I was able to work in some jokes about German politics.

8 thoughts on “I’m speaking in Germany today!

  1. > And I’ll do it through a Google hangout. Saves on jet fuel.

    Isn’t 14 CET something like 4AM in US? That’s hardly anywhere between Mittagspause and Tagesabschluss.

  2. Andrew, thanks for stopping by, even if just by video. I really enjoyed the talk, although I had to leave a bit earlier to catch my train. I think the talk was indeed being recorded; maybe you can ask if you could make the recording available in your blog.

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