David Blei (Professor)
419 CS Building
blei@cs.princeton.edu
609-258-9907

Tuesdays 1:30PM-4:20PM, Computer Science Room 401

Course description (PDF)

Readings:

1. Prior and Posterior Predictive Checking
   • Box, 1980 (you can skim the discussion)
   • Gelman, 2004
   • Gelman et al., 1996 (optional)
2. Model Selection (I)
   • MacKay, 2003 (Ch 28)
   • Jaynes, 2003 (Ch 20) (on e-reserves)
   • Kass and Raftery, 1995
3. Posterior Predictive Checking
   • Gelman et al., 1996 (no longer optional)
   • Bayarri and Castellanos, 2007
   • Larsen and Lu discussion of Bayarri and Castellanos
4. Model Selection (II)
   • Claeskens and Hjort, 2008. (Ch. 2 AIC and Ch. 3 BIC) (on e-reserves)
5. Causality (I)
   • Pearl, 2009
6. Analyzing and Interpreting Roll Call Data
   • Jackman, 2001
   • Martin and Quinn, 2002
   • Clinton et al., 2004
7. David Freedman
   • Freedman, 2000
   • Freedman, 2002
   • Freedman and Stark., 2003
   • Freedman, 1994 (optional)
8. Gelman and Hill (2008) on Causality (e-reserves)
   • Chapter 9
   • Chapter 10
   • Chapter 23
9. Model Building (Santa Cruz-style)
   • Draper and Krnjajic, 2005
   • Krnajic et al., 2008
10. Reference priors
    • Bernardo and Smith (1992) pp 598-620.