Bios366
Advanced Statistical Computing at Vanderbilt University's Department of Biostatistics
Course covers numerical optimization, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), Metropolis-Hastings, Gibbs sampling, estimation-maximization (EM) algorithms, data augmentation algorithms with applications for model fitting and techniques for dealing with missing data.
Prerequisites: Bios 301 or permission of instructor. Students must be familiar with the Git version control system.