ST301 Bayesian Statistics and Decision Theory

Week 1

  • 1.1 Two Components of an Analysis

  • 1.2 Reversing Conditioning

  • 1.3 Idiot Bayes

  • 1.4 Bayes Learning

Week 2

  • 1.5 Bayes rule in court

  • 1.6 Decisions can change distributions!

  • 2.1 Decision trees

  • 2.2 Expected value of information

  • 2.3 Some Practical Issues

Week 3

  • 3.1 Utilities and Rewards

  • 3.2 Utility and the value of money to you

Week 4

  • 3.3 Utility Elicitation (1D)

  • 3.4 Decision Making with Continuous Variables

  • 4.1 Multiattribute Utility Theory

Week 5

  • 4.2 Value Independent Attributes

  • 4.3 Decision Conferencing and Utility Elicitation

  • 4.4 Real Time Support within Decision Processes

Week 6

  • 5.1 Calibration and probability prediction

  • 5.2 Normal form analysis

Week 7

  • 6.1 Relevance and Bayesian Networks

  • 6.2 Bayesian Networks & Graphs

Week 8/9

  • 6.3 Decomposable Graphs and Propagation

  • 6.4 An Example of Propagation

Week 10

  • 7.1 Updating Probabilities — Prior to Posterior Analyses

  • 7.2 Binomial Experiments

  • 7.3 Updating Multinomial Probabilities