Winter 2018
Instructor: Richard McElreath
Location: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 4th floor seminar room
When: 10am-11am Mondays & Fridays (see calendar below)
Text: Statistical Rethinking, 1st ed and 2nd ed draft chapters http://xcelab.net/rm/statistical-rethinking/
Materials: Located in this repository
Dec 3/7: The Golem of Prague (Modeling and probability theory)
Dec 10/14: Geocentric Models (Regression 1)
Jan 7/11: Spurious Waffles & Causal Terror (Regression 2)
Jan 14/18: Ulysses Compass (Overfitting and information criteria)
Jan 21/25: Conditional Manatees (Interactions)
Jan 28/Feb 1: Markov chain Monte Carlo / Maximum entropy & GLMs
Feb 4/8: Generalized Linear Models
Feb 11/15: Models with Memory (Multilevel models 1)
Feb 18/22: Adventures in Covariance (Multilevel models 2)
Feb 25/Mar 1: Missing Values & Measurement Error / Generalized Linear Madness (models beyond the GLM(M) framework)