Description: Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Strongly recommended requisites: courses 200B, 201B. Designed for graduate students. Introduction to advanced topics in statistical modeling and inference, including Bayesian hierarchical models, missing data problems, mixture modeling, additive modeling, hidden Markov models, and Bayesian networks. Coverage of computational methods used and developed for these models and problems, such as EM algorithm, data augmentation, dynamic programming, and belief propagation. S/U or letter grading.

Units: 4.0