Course contents

Daily schedule

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Day 1: Introduction, data simulation, discrete models

Course Syllabus

Monday night Stan installation session!

To use Stan in R, the rstan R package is needed. To install it, follow the steps in this vignette. Make sure you can run the example in the Verifying Installation

If you have not yet managed to install Stan and rstan, Andrew and Guillaume will be available on Monday evening. From Tuesday onwards we won’t have time to pause to fix installation issues!

DAY 2: Intro to Stan and Regression

Day 3: Hierarchical models

Day 4: Constrained models: Gaussian processes