Biostats 270

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Biostats 270 tentative schedule and handouts (expect frequent updates)

Week Class Dates Tentative Topic Posts Readings Assignments
1-3 4/2, 4/9, 4/16 Review: Monte Carlo and classical MCMC (Slides, Code) No class 4/4, 4/11 BIDA Ch. 6, Further reading: Geyer’s intro to MCMC, Tierney (1994)  
3-4 4/18,4/23 Brownian motion and SDEs (Slides, Code)   Applied SDEs  
4-5 4/25, 4/30 RKHS and Karhunen-Loeve (Slides)   RKHS, KL by Wang HW 1 due 4/25
5-6 5/2, 5/7 GP regression and classification (Slides, Code)   Rasmussen & Williams  
6-7 5/9, 5/14, 5/16 Poisson processes and Hawkes processes (Slides, Code)   Laub et al. 2015, Dassios and Zhao 2013, Reinhart 2018 HW 2 due 5/9; Proposal due 5/16
8-9 5/21, 5/23, 5/28 Determinantal point processes (Slides, Code)   Hough et al. 2006, Kulesza and Taskar 2013 HW 3 due 5/23
9-10 5/30, 6/4, 6/6 Student presentations     Final project due 6/13