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PhD courses and programmes 2005
NOVA 29-05
Likelihood-based inference for hierarchical/mixed
statistical models
Topic: Informatics in Agriculture
| Course period | August 7-18, 2005 |
| Location | Tune Landboskole, Greve, Denmark |
| Course credit | 6 ECTS |
| Deadline for application | May 31, 2005 |
| Course abstract | The course will provide an introduction to likelihood-based statistical analysis for mixed and hierarchical models. The course will focus on modelling issues, on how a statistical analysis can be carried out for a mixed model, and on interpretation of models and results. The background for the various existing software packages will be discussed as well as the potential and limitations of the different packages. The course will consider software packages based on both the "classical" (frequentist) and the Bayesian approach. So a theme of the summerschool will also be to discuss benefits and disadvantages of both the classical and Bayesian approachs to statistics for hierarchical models in relation to current scientific practice in the agricultural sciences and practical implementation. After participation in the course, the PhD students will be able to formulate a mixed model for a given data set and carry out an analysis of the data using one of the software packages considered in the course. They will also have an understanding of how to interpret parameter estimates or posterior distributions and how to present the results of the statistical analysis in their scientific papers. |
| Teachers | - |
| Link to course homepage | - |
| Language | English |
| The course is intended for | PhD students |
| Max no of participants | 25 |
| Special prerequisites | - |
| Course organization | The Dina Research School, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University |
| Course leader | Practical:
Anders Ringgaard Kristensen Scientific: Rasmus Waagepetersen |
| Postal address to course leader | Department
of Large Animal Sciences Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University Grønnegårdsvej 2 DK-1870 Frederiksberg C Denmark |
| Phone to course leader | +45 35 28 30 91 |
| Fax to course leader | +45 35 28 30 55 |
| E-mail to course leader | ark@dina.kvl.dk |
| Registration to | Use electronic form at http://www.dina.dk/phd/s/s8/ |
| Other courses in the course series | 1999: Computer
Intensive Statistical Methods with Biological Applications organized
by the Dina Research School (assisted by John Öhrvik from the
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) and held in Denmark.
2000: Differential Equations and Dynamic Systems in Agriculture organized by the Dina Research School and held in Denmark. 2001: Geograhical Information and Spatial Analysis in Agriculture organized by Gerhard Skagestein and held in Norway. 2002: Design of Data Generation - Experimental Design organized by Hannu Rita and held in Finland. 2003: Reasoning under Uncertainty in Agriculture: Bayesian networks and Graphical Models organized by the Dina Research School and held in Denmark 2004: Pattern recognition in high dimensional data and complex structures organized by Dietrich von Rosen & Hans Liljenström and held in Sweden. 2005: Likelihood-based inference for hierarchical/mixed statistical models to be held in Denmark. 2006: Object oriented models for agricultural applications to be held in Norway or Denmark. 2007: Baysian Statistics/Data Mining to be held in Finland. 2008: Re-sampling/permutations to be held in Sweden. |
