Schedule

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Week	Date	Lesson	Reading	Slides	Labs	HW
WEEK 1	Tues, Aug 29	Lecture 0: Course Overview and Introduction
	Thur, Aug 31	Lecture 1: Basics of Bayesian Inference
	Fri, Sept 1	Lab 1: R and Monte Carlo Review
WEEK 2	Tues, Sept 5	Lecture 2: Loss Functions & Summaries				hw-01
	Thur, Sept 7	Lecture 3: Normal Model & Predictive Distributions
	Fri, Sept 8	Lab 2: Beta-Binomial Model and Introduction to stan
WEEK 3	Tues, Sept 12	Lecture 4: Predictive Checks				hw-02
	Thur, Sept 14	Lecture 5: Introduction to Hierarchical Models, EB & Metropolis
	Fri, Sept 15	Lab 3: Posterior Predictive Checks
WEEK 4	Tues, Sept 19	Lecture 6: Metropolis Algorithm & Stochastic Sampling				hw-03
	Thur, Sept 21	Lecture 7: Diagnostics and Adaptive Metropolis
	Fri, Sept 22	Lab 4: Metropolis Hastings
WEEK 5	Tues, Sept 26	Lecture 8: Metropolis-Hastings and Gibbs				hw-04
	Thur, Sept 28	Lecture 9: Data Augmentation
	Fri, Sept 29	Lab 5: Gibbs, DA and Adaptive Metropolis
WEEK 6	Tues, Oct 3	Lecture 10: Missing Data				hw-05
	Thu, Oct 5	Lecture 11: Bayes Linear Regression
	Fri, Oct 6	Lab 6: Q & A on HW 5 & Missing Data
WEEK 7	Tue, Oct 10	Lec 12: Choice of Priors in Regression
	Thu, Oct 12	Lec 13: Mixtures of Conjugate Priors				hw-06
	Fri, Oct 13	Lab : Review for Midterm I
WEEK 8	Tue, Oct 17	NO CLASS FALL BREAK
	Thur, Oct 19	Midterm 1
	Fri, Oct 20	Lab 6: Shrinkage Priors in Regression Comparison
WEEK 9	Tue, Oct 24	Lec 14: Basics of Bayesian Hypothesis Tests				hw-07
	Thur, Oct 26	Lec 15: Bayesian Multiple Testing and Hierachical Models
	Fri, Oct 27	Lab 7: Multiple Hypothesis Testing
WEEK 10	Tues, Oct 31	Lec 16: Bayesian Variable Selection and Model Averaging
	Thur, Nov 2	Lec 17: Bayesian Variable Selection and Model Averaging				hw-08
	Fri, Nov 3	Lab 8: Variable Selection
Week 11	Tues, Nov 7	Lec 18: Outliers
	Thurs, Nov 9	Lec 19: Random Effects				hw-09
	Fri, Nov 10	Lab 9: Review
Week 12	Tues, Nov 14	Midterm II
	Thurs, Nov 16	Lec 20: Mixed Effects Models				hw-10
	Fri, Nov 17	Lab 10: Random Effect Models in stan
Week 12	Tues, Nov 21	Lec 21: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
	Thurs, Nov 23	Thanksgiving Break - No Class
Week 13	Tues, Nov 28	Lec 22: Nonparametric Regression
	Thur, Nov 30	BARK: NonParametric Regression				hw-11
	Fri, Dec 1	Lab 11: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
Week 14		Reading Period
Finals Period	Sat, Dec 16 2pm-5pm (in classroom)