Final Meeting of the Term
It’s strange to think, but the next meeting of Bayes Club will be our last for the term. That’s right: the end of the term is approaching, and our next meeting will be during 10th week.
For our final meeting of the term, we’d like to do two things:
- Consolidate what we’ve learned by reading through some real journal articles or chapters, working together to capture some Bayesian analyses in the wild.
- Focus on any questions that you have — things that we’ve discussed that still don’t seem to make sense on even a conceptual level.
To those ends, Rose and I would like submissions for papers and/or topics and questions of discussion. If you have a Bayesian paper that you’ve been trying to figure out all term, send it in! And if any questions are burning in your mind just as much as an MCMC sampler*, send those in, as well!
If you have something in mind, please send it to Rose (rosem@uoregon.edu) and me (jleverni@uoregon.edu) by the end of this Tuesday, 2014-03-04. If you submit an idea, the three of us can meet sometime next week to try to figure it out a bit together in advance of the bigger meeting, and then you can talk in the bigger meeting for a few minutes about what headway you have made, and about what questions remain.
* (Get it? Like, an MCMC sampler “burns in”? lol.)