David Spiegelhalter's Teaching Page
Statistics in Medical Practice
For february 4th, the readings are the following three files:
Instructions
Wound paper
Rugby paper
Applied Bayesian Statistics
I am giving Applied Bayesian Statistics in the Lent term: 11 lectures in MR14, 5 practicals in the CATAM room MR16: Mondays and Wednesday at 11. Practicals will be based on free Windows software First Bayes and WinBUGS. These will be installed for the practicals but if you want to you can download and install on your own machines. First Bayes is not very nice to install. You should also have R installed.
You will need a PWF login to participate in the practicals (unless you choose to use your own machine which will have to run off its battery - there are very few plugs - and not be connected to the network). All students should have a pwf account: to check, either simply try to use a PWF computer or type
ssh username@linux.pwf.cam.ac.uk
replacing "username" with your CRSid on any Linux system (or use a Windows SSH client such as PuTTy). If this works, you have a functional PWF password, which is always the same for Windows, Linux and Mac.
If you cannot log into the PWF, then you must apply for a password reset.
Lecture notes will be distributed at the lectures, and are available from the links below.
To intall WinBUGS and First Bayes and add desktop icons, run from the Run prompt;
X:\CATAM\spiegel\run-once.bat
Lecture Notes:
Lecture 1Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Example Sheets
Example Sheet 1Practical Notes:
Practical Notes 1Practical 1 datafile
Help:
Reference manual for BUGS language syntaxHints on using WinBUGS