FYI..
Gary
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From: Patrick Lam <plam at fas.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:03 PM
Subject: Informal Bayesian Course
To: Gary King <king at harvard.edu>
Hi Gary,
If on the off chance that any of your Gov 2001 kids may be interested, could
you pass this along?
The Gov department traditionally offers a course on Bayesian Statistics (Gov
2003), which is used by a growing number of scholars in political science
and many other fields. However, the course is not being offered this year.
Therefore, a few Gov students are getting together for an informal course on
Bayesian statistics. This is an opportunity to learn the foundations of
Bayesian statistics in a less pressured environment. While the informal
course carries no grades, you will be expected to work as hard as a regular
methods course, and the material will likely be harder than what most people
have seen. The course will cover the materials from the old Gov 2003. We
meet on Tuesdays 4-6 in CGIS K354, beginning February 2. Familiarity with
maximum likelihood (basically the first half of Gov 2001) and basic
probability is ideal, but not a dealbreaker. If anybody is interested in
joining us, please email me for more information (plam at
fas.harvard.edu).
Thanks!
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Patrick Lam
Department of Government and Institute for Quantitative Social Science,
Harvard University
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~plam<http://www.people.fas.harvard.ed…