A workshop organised by the Business and Industrial Section
of the Royal Statistical Society
Practical Bayes using WinBUGS
Monday 22 October, RSS, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
10.00 Introduction (Phil Woodward – BIS)
10.15
Parallel Session 1. (led by David Spiegelhalter)
– Beginners introduction to WinBUGS: examples
Parallel Session 2. (Nicky Best and Andrew Thomas)
– New features in Version 1.4.
11.30 Coffee*
12.00 Case Study 1 – Peter Blood (Novartis Horsham Research Centre):
Using WinBUGS for some PK models.Powerpoint presentation
12.30 Lunch*
13.30 Case Study 2 – Dr van Dongen (University of Antwerp)
A latent variable model to estimate the unobservable process of developmental stability
and its relationship with reproductive success.: Powerpoint presentation
14.00 Open forum discussion: “How do I do …?”
(facilitated by David Spiegelhalter, Nicky Best & Andrew Thomas)
15.00 Case Study 3 – Dr Millard (University of Durham)
Logistic regression and missing data: estimating age
of human remains from toothwear.: pdf file of presentation
15.30 Tea*
16.00 WinBUGS – future plans (David Spiegelhalter)
16.30 General feedback and close