Fall 2015

AMS 241 (Bayesian Nonparametrics)

• 24 Sep, 2015» First BNP Class

• 29 Sep, 2015» Foundations for DP

• 1 Oct, 2015» Stochastic Processes

• 8 Oct, 2015» Sampling from DP

• 15 Oct, 2015» Project Ideas

• 5 Nov, 2015» Dirichlet Mixture Models

• 9 Dec, 2015» A Review of the Spatial Dirichlet Process (Course Project)

• 21 Mar, 2016» Pitman Yor Process & Resources

AMS 211 (Foundations of Applied Math)

• 25 Sep, 2015» First Applied Math Class

• 16 Oct, 2015» LU and SVD

• 20 Nov, 2015» Complex Analysis

AMS 268 (Advanced Bayesian Computation)

• 7 Jan, 2016» Advanced Bayesian Computing Resources

• 8 Jan, 2016» Shrinkage & Regularization

• 11 Jan, 2016» Shrinkage & Regularization

• 13 Jan, 2016» Shrinkage & Regularization

• 15 Jan, 2016» Nonegative Matrix Factorization (NMF)

• 15 Jan, 2016» Ideas / Things to Investigate

• 20 Jan, 2016» Stochastic Search Variable Selection

• 22 Jan, 2016» Stochastic Search Variable Selection (Cont’d)

• 25 Jan, 2016» Early Shrinkage Priors

• 29 Jan, 2016» Compresing Predictors

• 1 Feb, 2016» g-prior

• 3 Feb, 2016» Variable selection on BNP

• 5 Feb, 2016» Posterior Consistency

• 8 Feb, 2016» Sequential MCMC (2016)

• 10 Feb, 2016» Sequential Monte Carlo (fixed parameter settings)

• 12 Feb, 2016» Assumed Density Filtering

• 17 Feb, 2016» Expectation Propagation

• 19 Feb, 2016» GP based models for big N

• 22 Feb, 2016» Woodbury for GP

• 24 Feb, 2016» Sparsity Based Methods

• 26 Feb, 2016» Variational Inference

• 29 Feb, 2016» GP - Latent Variable Model with Variational Inference

• 9 Mar, 2016» Stochastic Gradient Descent (Bayesian)

AMS 206B (Bayesian Inference)

• 7 Jan, 2016» Bayesian Inference Glossary

• 7 Jan, 2016» Bayesian Inference Resources

• 14 Jan, 2016» Decision Theory

• 19 Jan, 2016» Admissibility

• 21 Jan, 2016» Admissibility (Continued)

• 29 Jan, 2016» Jeffreys Prior (included in midterm 1)

• 2 Feb, 2016» Bayesian Interval Estimation

• 4 Feb, 2016» Sampling Algorithms

• 4 Feb, 2016» MCMC Diagnostics

• 23 Feb, 2016» Hypothesis Testing

• 25 Feb, 2016» Model Comparison

• 1 Mar, 2016» More on Hypothesis Testing

• 10 Mar, 2016» Markov Chain Monte Carlo

AMS 205B (Classical Inference)

• 7 Jan, 2016» Classical Inference Glossary

• 7 Jan, 2016» Classical Inference Resources

• 8 Jan, 2016» Distributions

AMS 256 (Linear Models)

• 29 Mar, 2016» Resources

• 26 Apr, 2016» Prep Midterm 1

AMS 207 (Intermediate Bayesian Modeling)

• 29 Mar, 2016» Resources

AMS 250 (High Performance Computing)

• 29 Mar, 2016» Resources

AMS 274 (GLM)

• 27 Sep, 2016» Resources

AMS 276 (Bayesian Survival Analysis)

• 27 Sep, 2016» Resources

AMS 5 (Intro to Stats)

• 24 Feb, 2016» Normal Approximation

• 13 Apr, 2016» Quiz 3 - Normal Distribution

• 27 Apr, 2016» Quiz 4 - Correlation

• 28 Sep, 2016» Quiz 1 - Averages, Medians, and Standard Deviations

• 8 May, 2018» Cards and Envelops (AMS 131)