A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Estimation

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

(UU)

This course introduces all the essential ingredients needed to start Bayesian estimation and inference. We discuss specifying priors, obtaining the posterior, prior/posterior predictive checking, sensitivity analyses, and the usefulness of a specific class of priors called shrinkage priors. We propose strategies for reproducibility and reporting standards, outlining the WAMBS-checklist (when to Worry and how to Avoid the Misuse of Bayesian Statistics). We have prepared many exercises to enable students to get hands-on experience.

•••••••••••••• course director Prof. dr. Rens van de Schoot level Master period 14 August 2023 - 18 August 2023 credits 1.5 ECTS course fee € 720 housing fee € 200

Advanced Survey Design

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (UU)

This course in ‘advanced survey design’ takes students beyond the introductory courses and discusses the state of the art in both the design and the analysis of modern survey data, with a focus on new types of data. We present new ways to analyse modern surveys, including non-probability survey designs, smartphone data collection, digital trace data and data collected via apps. Course participants must be proficient working with the statistical software package R at the level of at least knowing Tidy and multivariate regression in R.

•••••••••••••• course director Dr. Peter Lugtig level PhD period 28 August 2023 - 1 September 2023 credits 2 ECTS course fee € 720