Lawrence Joseph
Bayesian statistics


Please Note: Prof. Joseph has retired.
These pages are left up in case they prove
useful, but the pages and software will
no longer be updated. All material and
software is "as is" with no guarantees
of functionality or correctness.
Basic info
Course Outline
1 Mon Jan 7 The Zeros and Ones Tricks and Bayesian Conditional Logistic Regression
  Entering non-standard densities in WinBUGS
WinBUGS programming examples of zero and ones tricks
Paper by Mukherjee on Bayesian Conditional Logistic Regression
WinBUGS Program for Conditional Logistic Regression
2 Mon Jan 14 Clinical Trials I
  Lee and Chu 2012
Brophy and Joseph - Placing trials in context using Bayesian analysis
Speigelhalter et al 1994
Hughes 1993
Fayers et al 1997
Fisher 1999
3 Mon Jan 21 Clinical Trials II
4 Mon Jan 28 Sample size I
  Moore 1999
Joseph 1997 (Binomial)
Joseph 1997 (Normal)
Wang and Gelfand 2002
Zou and Normand 2001
Pallay 2000
Practical issues
Download and instructions for R program to calculate Gamma Parameters from Quantiles
5 Mon Feb 4 Sample size II
6 Mon Feb 11 Decision Analysis I
  Mazur 2012
Harrell 2001
Hornberger 2001
Chikhaoui et al 2002
Brophy 2005
McCarron 2012
7 Mon Feb 18 Decision Analysis II
8 Mon Feb 25 Adjusting for Unknown Confounding
  Greenland 2003
Steenland 2004
McCandless et al 2007
McCandless et al 2012
Greenland 2005
9 Mon Mar 4 No Class - Spring Break
10 Mon Mar 11 Diagnostic Testing I
  Joseph et al 1995
Dendukuri et al 2001
Ladouceur et al 2006
Dendukuri et al 2004
Weichenthal et al 2010
Program for one test
Program for two tests
An example of running the R program
WinBUGS program for fixed effects correlated model
WinBUGS program for random effects correlated model
11 Mon Mar 18 Diagnostic Testing II
12 Mon Mar 25 Bayesian Meta-Analysis I
  Smith 1994
Carlin 1992
WinBUGS blocker example
Joseph 2000
Brophy 2003
Download and instructions for R forest plot program
13 Mon Apr 1 No Class -- Easter Monday
14 Mon Apr 8 Bayesian Meta-Analysis II
15 Mon Apr 15 Summary and Conclusion
  Winkler 2001
Berger article
Top 10 reasons to be Bayesian